One club. One city. One thread.

The Limerick Sport Eagles are the senior men's basketball team for the city of Limerick, and the latest name in a story that stretches back to the early 1990s.

The club has worn different names down the decades, but the thread has never broken: a senior men's side carrying Limerick's colours in the National League, built on the city's own players and powered by its own people. It began with Marathon in the early 1990s, became Burger King Limerick and won the city's first National Cup on a buzzer-beater in 2002, took the name Limerick Lions in 2004, then became the UL Eagles in 2009, the golden era that delivered a league-and-cup double in 2012 and back-to-back titles in 2013.

After relegation in 2017, the Eagles and the Limerick Lions junior club joined forces around a single pathway, and in 2019 a city-wide club was born: the Limerick Sport Eagles.

The 2025-26 double

In 2025-26 it all came together. The Eagles finished top of the Southern Conference, won the Men's Division 1 National Cup and the Division One title, and earned promotion to the Domino's Men's Super League, top-flight basketball back in Limerick for the first time in nine years. Head coach Niall McDermott was named Division One Coach of the Year, Alex Carlisle Player of the Year and Darragh Horkan Young Player of the Year.

One club, every age

We are more than the senior team. The Eagles sit at the top of a pathway that runs from the Sharks academy and the Limerick Lions juniors all the way to the Super League, one route, from a first bounce to the big stage. Today we play our home games at the UL Sport Arena, with our community right behind us.