HISTORY:

Reading can claim to be the success story of the last few years, having reached the 2003 Conference Championship Final only six seasons after first entering the League!

Reading only entered the NBL in 1997, won promotion at the first attempt, and in the reorganisation of 2000 they found themselves in Division One. They were there for just one season, finishing second, and beating Oxford in the Championship Final, thus winning promotion to the Conference after a mere four years in the league!

A creditable seventh place finish showed that they were not just there to make up the numbers, and the following seasons they continued their seemingly inexorable rise, finishing in third and then second place. Won the National Cup, and reached EBL1 Championship Final in 2005, and were League runners-up and Cup Finalists in '06, and went on to lift the Championship trophy.

Now firmly established among the elite teams of the EBL, Reading added to their silverware collection in 2007, with victory in the Final of the National Trophy, and retained the title in 2008.

Also in 2008 they came agonisingly close to snatching the League title, beating Manchester in the final game of the season, to draw level at the top, but losing out to the Magic on points difference in the head-to-head. They thus finished as runners-up for the third consecutive season.

ALL-TIME COMPETITION RECORD

2008-9 Roster:

Names in bold have re-signed for new season.

Names in green are new signings.

Names in red have departed.