RDS Stadium (formerly 105 Stadium ) is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment arena located in Rimini , Italy. The arena has a capacity of 4,703 (expandable to 5,001 people) in the basketball configuration and up to 7,500 for concerts.
20-571: The arena broke ground in April 2000. At the time, Basket Rimini was still playing in Serie A1, the highest-tier level of the Italian basketball league system . Nevertheless, the organizing body of the league ( Lega Basket ) was planning to remove the exemption that allowed clubs to play in sports halls with a capacity of less than 5,000 seats: this was one of the reasons that led to the construction of
40-506: A 10-year absence from the second tier. Over the years, due to sponsorship, the club has been known as: Serie A2 (basketball) Serie A2 , known for sponsorship reasons as Serie A2 Old Wild West , is a men's basketball league in Italy . It constitutes the second-tier of the Italian league pyramid , below the first division LBA and above the third division Serie B , with promotion/relegation occurring between these leagues. It
60-410: A double promotion brought them back to Serie A1 in just two years. Part of that roster featured young players who won the national junior title in 1989, including Carlton Myers , who would later be Italy's flag-bearer at the opening ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympics . In 1993, Basket Rimini was relegated again to Serie A2. It came close to returning to A1 three times before finally achieving this at
80-407: A new sports hall. It was inaugurated on December 14, 2002, with a concert by Biagio Antonacci . The first ever basketball game played in the facility was a friendly match between Basket Rimini Crabs and Montepaschi Siena on January 23, 2003, whereas the first official game was a victory against Scafati Basket on the following February 2. In those years the team was playing in the second-tier of
100-418: Is composed of 32 teams with a regional subdivision in two equal groups of sixteen, East and West. Each team plays the others in its subgroup twice, the first ranked team of each group then plays the eighth ranked team of the other group (e.g. East #1 against West #8), then the second best against the seventh, and so on, to form a promotion playoffs (for one place) of sixteen teams. Since the 2018–19 season
120-752: Is run by the Lega Nazionale Pallacanestro (LNP), itself regulated by the FIP , the Italian federation. The league was created in May 1974, by the Lega Basket , the organisation in charge of running the LBA (to this day), that decided to create a new second division with 10 clubs. The two that were relegated during that season, and 8 from the now-former second tier Serie B, chosen with an on and off
140-464: The Italian league pyramid , having been relegated at the end of the 2000–01 season. In April 2010, 105 Stadium hosted the Italian Women's Volleyball Cup Final Four. After the 2010–11 season, Basket Rimini Crabs was unable to participate in the second-tier of the Italian basketball league due to debts, moving to the fourth-tier. At the same time, the team left the 105 Stadium moving back to
160-526: The 1990–91 season (played in Serie B1 ). The team was officially established in 1947. As Polisportiva Libertas , they spent their first decades in the regional leagues. In 1972, the team was promoted for the first time to Serie B, the second highest league in Italy at the time. It was also renamed Basket Rimini . In 1974, Alberto Bucci was appointed as the new head coach. During his five-year stint, he led
180-454: The 2010–11 season, coming close to securing promotion to Serie A in 2006–07 but ultimately falling short. In 2011, the Crabs were unable to participate in the upcoming Legadue due to debts and instead found a place in the fourth division (DNB) with the intervention of Luciano Capicchioni , who had previously owned the team. At the end of the 2017–18 season, which concluded with the relegation of
200-401: The 2021 Final Eight of the domestic cup competition of Italian futsal . In February 2023, the arena was the venue of the domestic cup competition of both men's and women's Italian handball . In April 2022, it was announced that RDS Stadium would become the first Italian federal center for dancesport . The last concert took place on December 15, 2023: it was the last event organized here under
220-566: The court criteria. The 1975–76 season saw 12 clubs take part, after a complicated system had seen a transfer of clubs from the Serie A1 to the A2. In June 2001, the LegaDue was created to replace the Serie A2. Lega Basket now took part in running the league, though a system of promotion and relegation between the leagues remained. During the 2013 summer, another revamp was decided. The LegaDue
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#1732772030322240-474: The end of the 1996–97 season. Basket Rimini advanced to the Serie A1 quarter-finals in both the 1997–98 and 1998–99 seasons, qualifying for the following year's FIBA Korać Cup . With a last-place finish in the 2000–01 Serie A1, the club fell into Legadue, the new name for Serie A2. Simultaneously, Basket Rimini was renamed Basket Rimini Crabs . The team competed in the Legadue league from the 2001–02 season to
260-532: The first team to Serie C, Capicchioni decided to focus solely on the activities of the youth teams. This decision was also influenced by a protest staged by a segment of the Rimini public in February 2018 against the Crabs' management, which was criticized for lacking a long-term plan and for causing local fans to lose interest in the city’s team. As a result, a new organization named Rinascita Basket Rimini (RBR)
280-476: The league retake its Serie A2 moniker, keeping a similar but tweaked hybrid model, with the eight best Gold and the four best Silver teams taking part in the promotion playoffs (still for the one spot), whilst the last two Gold and the penultimate and ante-penultimate Silver squads play a relegation play out (the last ranked Silver team was relegated outright). For the 2015–16 season, the Serie A2 Basket
300-412: The old Palasport Flaminio . Although no longer being the home venue of the Crabs, 105 Stadium sporadically hosted basketball events such as the 2011 Tassoni Trophy, an international tournament between the national teams of Italy , Greece , Poland and Bosnia and Herzegovina , or the 2012 Italian Basketball Supercup . In February 2013, Italy women's national tennis team eliminated United States in
320-489: The quarterfinals of the 2013 Fed Cup . Sporting events thus became rarer, but the arena continued to host concerts by national and international artists, as well as conferences and conventions of important companies. In August 2017, it was announced that the naming rights to the 105 Stadium (which had until then belonged to Radio 105 ) had been acquired by a different Italian radio station, Radio Dimensione Suono , renaming it RDS Stadium . In April 2021, RDS Stadium hosted
340-408: The team from Serie D to its first historic Serie A2 participation in the 1978–79 season, which also brought the first American basketball players to Rimini. On April 8, 1984, the team was promoted to Serie A1 , the top tier of the Italian league system, where it played for the next three years, reaching the quarter-finals in 1985. After three years in Serie A2, the team was relegated to Serie B, but
360-621: The twenty-year management by the Stadium S.r.l. company, which organized a total of 1,400 events of various kinds. Conversion work began less than a month later. Basket Rimini Rinascita Basket Rimini ( RBR ), formerly known as Basket Rimini and Basket Rimini Crabs , is an Italian basketball team based in Rimini , Emilia-Romagna . From the 1978–79 to the 2010–11 season, the team continuously played in professional basketball between Serie A1 and Serie A2/Legadue , with one exception,
380-600: Was amalgamated with the third division DNA, to form a two-tiered league, the DNA (Divisione Nazionale A) Gold and DNA Silver. The two DNA's had separate season's, but the first ranked team in DNA Silver joined the seven best Gold teams to compete for the single promotion spot in the Serie A. The next best eight Silver squads fought for one spot in the next Gold season, whilst the three worst teams were relegated. The next season saw
400-440: Was established in the summer as a counter to the Crabs, who, as previously mentioned, ended their first team’s operations. The new team started its journey from Serie C, achieving promotion to Serie B on its first attempt. In May 2020, the club acquired the historic sports title of the Crabs, effectively incorporating the historic Basket Rimini organization as well. In the 2021–22 season, Rimini clinched promotion to Serie A2, ending
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