highlights in the history of saturn köln for the european competitions came to late 80s in fiba european champions cup where they arrived till quarter final group stage in 1987–88 season and face the best european basketball clubs of the era as partizan, aris, tracer milano, maccabi elite, fc barcelona, orthez and nashua den bosch. the next season saturn eliminated in the round of 16 by the dutch nashua den bosch. also saturn after a significant qualification against monaco arrived till quarter final group stage in 1983–84 fiba european cup winners' cup where they made excellent performances and eliminated with a 3 wins-3 defeats record by simac milano and cibona.