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SPECIAL OLYMPICS BASKETBALL and the road to the NBA

Glasgow City Basketball Club has been focused upon making basketball accessible for all regardless of age, ability or circumstance since its inception in 1982 by James ‘Mick’ McKechnie and Willie Cameron (current Glasgow City Club President). Read more

National League Roundup

With all our national league program's in action this weekend, all games where key in climbing the league standings in their respective competitions towards a better playoff berth. Read more

Glasgow East Primary Schools Mini League's Go From Strength to Strength

Our latest league days for our Glasgow East Primary Schools Mini Basketball League took place last week with fast paced action across all groups. Read more

New Cashback School of Basketball

“CashBack for Communities is a unique Scottish Government programme which takes money seized from criminals under the proceeds of crime legislation and invests them in our future – our young people. The CashBack for Communities programme funds partner organisations to deliver activities and opportunities for young people across all 32 local authority areas in Scotland. Basketball in Scotland has netted continued investment from CashBack for Communities, CashBack funding enables basketballscotland to deliver ‘Schools of Basketball’ across Scotland.” Read more

Summer Basketball Camp

5 Day Basketball Skill Development Camp,10am -3pm.
Monday 30th July - Friday 03rd August. Cost is £5:00 per day. On Thursday afternoon the European Championship Roadshow will take place on-site. Basketball will still be available, but there will be the opportunity to try other sports.
Check our Camp Section on the website for Guidelines and to Meet our Coaches.
Registering before Camp will confirm your space.

Impressive weekend had by all

Both our u16 men and women as well as our u18 men's squad saw action this weekend in their respective national league campaigns across the country. Our u16 and u18 men made the trip through to the crags in Edinburgh for a match up against Boroughmuir Blaze and our 16 women traveled north to Dunfermline to take on Boroughmuir Blaze and West Lothian wolves. Our u18 men also saw SLBA action this week against Glasgow Storm as did our u16 women and Senior men's squads who took on South Lanarkshire Colliers and Glasgow Devils respectively. Read more

Junior men pick up the win in SLBA action

Our u18 men took to the court at Eastbank Academy last night in SLBA action where they took on Ayr Storm. Following on from the cadet men's overtime thriller the previous week, our junior men were keen to get out on court and put into action the lessons they learned through in Edinburgh at the weekend. Read more

More great lessons learned in the National League

This weekend saw yet another fantastic display of development across three separate competitions as our u18 men took to the court against City Of Edinburgh Kings away at Portobello High School, the u16 men took on Ayrshire Tornadoes at Dalry primary school and the u16 women faced both Glasgow Fever and Dunfermline Reign at Clydebank Leisure center as their national league campaigns continued.
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Shoot 4 Success Basketball Camps

We will be hosting 3 camps for under 18s in 2017. To book or for more information see below. Read more

Shoot 4 Success

Glasgow City Basketball Club is proud to be a partner of Shoot For Success - a basketball coaching charity. Read more

Glasgow City continues its commitment to Special Olympics

The Glasgow City Basketball have supported the Special Olympics Scotland West Basketball team since 2004 by providing coaches referees and volunteers, former members Steven Turner and Brendan Pettit coached successful teams in the Summer Games and both where coaches for the GB squads in both China and Greece. Read more

Special Olympics GB National Games Sheffield

Scotland West Mens and Ladies teams returned from Sheffield after a very Success games with the men winning gold in the 5v5 division 1 undefeated in 10 games. Read more