Força Lleida CE

Força Lleida
Força Lleida
Leagues	LEB Oro
Founded	2012; 12 years ago
Arena	Barris Nord
Location	Lleida, Catalonia
Team colors	Bordeaux, Black and Turquoise ;
President	Albert Aliaga
Head coach	Gerard Encuentra
Website	flleida.cat
Home	Away

Força Lleida Club Esportiu, also known as ICG Força Lleida for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball team based in Lleida, Catalonia, Spain and plays in the Barris Nord, in LEB Oro league.

History

The club born in the summer of 2012 with the aim to substitute existent CE Lleida Bàsquet, which had several economic problems.^[1]

In its first season, Força Lleida qualified for the playoffs, after finalizing 7th in Regular Season, but was eliminated in the quarterfinals against Palencia. The next season, the team got the same number of victories than the past year (11), but this time just could get the 10th position.

In 2015 the club achieved its best performance after reaching to the semifinals of the playoffs, but just one season later, Força Lleida finished in the last position becoming relegated to LEB Plata. But a few months later, the club achieved a vacant berth in the same league, so they could avoid the descent and play in LEB Oro the next season.

In 2017, despite the team could finish the competition with more victories than lost games, they just could get the tenth position at the table, thus not qualifying for the postseason.

Now, Força Lleida is playing in the same league with the goal of qualifying for the playoffs after the regular season.

Season by season

Season	Tier	Division	Pos.	W–L
2012–13	2	LEB Oro	7th	13–18
2013–14	2	LEB Oro	10th	11–15
2014–15	2	LEB Oro	5th	18–15
2015–16	2	LEB Oro	16th^[a]	9–21
2016–17	2	LEB Oro	10th	18–16
2017–18	2	LEB Oro	16th	12–22
2018–19	2	LEB Oro	11th	16–18
2019–20	2	LEB Oro	15th^[b]	9–15
2020–21	2	LEB Oro	17th^[c]	12–14
2021–22	2	LEB Oro	4th	25–15

^ Remained in the league after achieving a vacant berth.
^ Season curtailed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
^ Remained in the league after achieving a vacant berth.

Players

Current roster

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ICG Força Lleida roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	No.	Name	Ht.	Age
SF	0	Brito, Diogo	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	27 – (1997-04-24)24 April 1997
PF	24	Carrera, Michael	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)	31 – (1993-01-07)7 January 1993
SG	6	Cuéllar, David	1.97 m (6 ft 6 in)	26 – (1997-09-08)8 September 1997
SF	7	González, Miguel	2.02 m (6 ft 8 in)	25 – (1999-03-20)20 March 1999
SG	13	Lobo, Jaume	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	27 – (1997-07-31)31 July 1997
PG	10	Marcos, Juani	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)	24 – (2000-04-06)6 April 2000
PF	2	Nze, Bryce	2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)	26 – (1998-03-02)2 March 1998
PG	9	Santana, Fabio	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)	32 – (1992-06-09)9 June 1992
C	92	Tew, Alioune	2.06 m (6 ft 9 in)	32 – (1992-04-07)7 April 1992
SG	3	Urtasun, Álex	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)	40 – (1984-04-30)30 April 1984
C	33	Vučetić, Vasilije	2.07 m (6 ft 9 in)	28 – (1996-05-04)4 May 1996

Head coach

Gerard Encuentra

Legend

(C) Team captain
Injured

Depth chart

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench 1	Bench 2	Inactive
C	Vasilije Vučetić	Alioune Tew
PF	Michael Carrera			Bryce Nze
SF	Miguel González	Diogo Brito
SG	Álex Urtasun	Jaume Lobo	David Cuéllar
PG	Juani Marcos	Fabio Santana