FC Barcelona Bàsquet

Barcelona Regal
	Barcelona Regal logo
Leagues	ACB; Euroleague
Founded	1926
History	F.C. Barcelona; (1926–present)
Arena	Palau Blaugrana; (capacity: 10,000)
Location	Barcelona, Spain
Team colors	Blue, maroon, gold;
President	Sandro Rosell
Head coach	Xavier Pascual
Championships	2 European Championships; 2 Korać Cups; 2 Saporta Cups; 16 Spanish Championships; 22 Spanish Cups; 4 Spanish Supercups
Website	fcbarcelona.cat
	Uniforms
Home	Away

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FC Barcelona Bàsquet, known as FC Barcelona Regal for sponsorship reasons, is a Spanish professional basketball club. It is part of the FC Barcelona sports club and was founded on August 24, 1926 which makes it the oldest club in Liga ACB. The club competes in the Asociación de Clubes de Baloncesto (ACB) and the Euroleague. It has won seven of the last thirteen ACB championships and in 2003 completed a Liga ACB, Cup and Euroleague treble. FC Barcelona Bàsquet has played in seven Euroleague finals, with the last being their 2010 win.

The team plays its home games at Palau Blaugrana, which was opened on October 23, 1971. They share the facilities with the roller hockey, futsal and handball teams.

Well-known players that have played with the team have included: Pau Gasol, Rony Seikaly, Marc Gasol, Anderson Varejão, Juan Carlos Navarro, Šarūnas Jasikevičius, Dejan Bodiroga, Gregor Fučka, Ricky Rubio and Tony Massenburg.

FC Barcelona also has a reserve team that plays in LEB Plata.

[edit] History

[edit] Early years

The club entered its first competition in 1927, playing in the Campionat de Catalunya de Basquetbol (Catalonian Basketball Championship). During these early years basketball in Catalonia was dominated by other clubs such as CE Europa, Laietà BC, CB Atlètic Gràcia and Société Patrie and it was not until the 1940s that FC Barcelona became established as a basketball team. During this decade they won six Copas del Generalísimo and were runners-up once. In 1956 they were founding members of the Spanish League and finished as runners-up. In 1959 they won Spanish basketball's first-ever league and cup double.^[1]

[edit] Decline in the 1960s

The 1960s and 1970s saw the team in decline. In 1961 the club president Enric Llaudet dissolved the team in spite of its popularity. However, in 1962, the club was reformed after a campaign by the fans. In 1964 the league's Primera División was cut from fourteen teams to eight and the club found themselves in the Segunda División. However they quickly returned to the top division after being crowned Segunda champions in 1965. During the 1970s the club was persistently overshadowed by its rivals Real Madrid and Joventut.

[edit] Revival in the 1980s

In the 1980s club president Josep Lluís Nuñez gave the team his full support with the aim of making the club the best in Spain and Europe. His support produced results and during the decade inspired by their coach Aíto García Reneses and players like Epi, Andrés Jiménez, Sibilio, Audie Norris and Solozábal, the club won six Spanish League titles, five Copas del Rey, two European Cup Winners Cups, the Korać Cup and the World Championship. However the European Cup remained elusive. They were, however, runners-up in 1984.

[edit] Champions of Europe

The club built on this success during the 1990s, winning a further four Spanish League titles and two Copas del Rey. They were still unable to win the European Cup despite playing in a further four finals in 1990, 1991, 1996 and 1997. They also made a record six Euroleague Final Four appearances. The star player during this era was Juan Antonio San Epifanio.

Their persistence eventually paid off and in 2003, inspired by Dejan Bodiroga, Gregor Fučka, Šarūnas Jasikevičius and Juan Carlos Navarro, they won the Euroleague, beating Benetton Treviso 76–65 in front of a packed Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona.

[edit] Sponsorship naming

From 2004 until 2007 the club was sponsored by the Winterthur Group, a Swiss insurance company with offices in Barcelona since 1910, which led to the team featuring the birthplace of Joan Gamper, the club's founder, on their shirts. In 2006 the Winterthur Group was taken over by AXA, leading to a change in the club name. In the 2008–09 season, the club's sponsorship changed to Spanish insurer Regal (a division of Liberty Seguros, the Spanish subsidiary of American insurer Liberty Mutual).

FC Barcelona Banca Catalana 1993–97
Winterthur FC Barcelona 2004–07
AXA FC Barcelona 2007–08
Regal FC Barcelona 2008–2011
FC Barcelona Regal^[2] 2011–Present

[edit] Home arenas

Sol de Baix Sports Complex (1926–40)
Les Corts Court (1940–71), located next to Les Corts football stadium
Palau Sant Jordi (1990–92), after 1992 occasionally used for home games
Palau Blaugrana (1971–90, 1992–present)

[edit] Players

[edit] Retired numbers

4 Andrés Jiménez, F, 1986–98
7 Nacho Solozábal, G, 1978–94
12 Roberto Dueñas, C, 1996–05
15 Juan Antonio San Epifanio, F, 1979–95

[edit] Roster

FC Barcelona Bàsquet roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	#	Nat.	Name	Ht.	Wt.	Age
2.5 !G/F	31	USA !	Eidson, Chuck	2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)	100 kg (220 lb)	&1000000000000003100000031
1.0 !PG	9	Brazil !	Huertas, Marcelinho	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)	84 kg (185 lb)	&1000000000000002800000028
3.0 !SF	20	AUS !	Ingles, Joe	2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)	98 kg (216 lb)	&1000000000000002400000024
4.5 !PF	25	SVN !	Lorbek, Erazem	2.10 m (6 ft 11 in)	111 kg (245 lb)	&1000000000000002700000027
3.0 !SF	33	USA !	Mickeal, Pete	1.99 m (6 ft 6 in)	102 kg (225 lb)	&1000000000000003300000033
2.0 !SG	11	ESP !	Navarro, Juan Carlos (C)	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)	90.5 kg (200 lb)	&1000000000000003100000031
6.0 !C	21	SEN !	N'Dong, Boniface	2.13 m (7 ft 0 in)	109 kg (240 lb)	&1000000000000003400000034
6.0 !C	13	SRB !	Perović, Kosta	2.18 m (7 ft 2 in)	111 kg (245 lb)	&1000000000000002600000026
3.0 !SF	22	ESP !	Rabaseda, Xavi	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)	93 kg (205 lb)	&1000000000000002200000022
1.0 !PG	8	ESP !	Sada, Víctor	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)	93 kg (205 lb)	&1000000000000002700000027
6.0 !C	17	ESP !	Vázquez, Fran	2.09 m (6 ft 10 in)	109 kg (240 lb)	&1000000000000002800000028
4.0 !F	18	USA !	Wallace, C.J.	2.06 m (6 ft 9 in)	109 kg (240 lb)	&1000000000000002900000029

Head coach

Xavier Pascual

Assistant coach(es)

Agustín Julbé
Iñigo Zorzano
David García

Legend

(C) Team captain
(*) Playing only in Euroleague

Injured

Roster
Updated: September 7, 2010

[edit] Depth Chart

Pos.	Starter	Bench	Bench
C	Fran Vázquez	Kosta Perović	Boniface N'Dong
PF	Erazem Lorbek	C.J. Wallace
SF	Chuck Eidson	Pete Mickeal	Joe Ingles
SG	Juan Carlos Navarro	Xavi Rabaseda
PG	Marcelinho Huertas	Victor Sada

[edit] Notable players

[edit] Head coaches

Managers since 1974:

Ranko Žeravica 1974–76
Eduardo Kucharski 1977–79
Antoni Serra 1979–85
Manolo Flores 1985, 2005
Aíto García Reneses 1985–90, 1992–97, 1998–02
Božidar Maljković 1990–92
José María Oleart 1997
Manel Comas 1997

Svetislav Pešić 2002–04
Joan Montes 2004–05
Duško Ivanović 2005–08
Xavier Pascual 2008–present

[edit] Honours

[edit] Domestic competitions

[edit] League

Liga ACB (16):
- 1958–59, 1980–81, 1982–83, 1986–87, 1987–88, 1988–89, 1989–90, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1998–99, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2008–09, 2010–11

[edit] Cups

Spanish King's Cup (22):
- 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1959, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1994, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2011.