Força Lleida CE

Força Lleida
Força Lleida
Leagues	LEB Oro
Founded	2012; 12 years ago
Arena	Barris Nord
Location	Lleida, Catalonia
Team colors	Black, White and Orange;
President	Albert Aliaga
Head coach	Gustavo Aranzana
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

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

Players

Current roster

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.

ICG Força Lleida roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	No.	Name	Ht.	Age
C	44	Buchanan, Michael	2.13 m (7 ft 0 in)	30 – (1994-03-25)25 March 1994
PF	77	Bulić, Mirza	2.07 m (6 ft 9 in)	31 – (1992-06-27)27 June 1992
PF	24	Carrera, Michael	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)	31 – (1993-01-07)7 January 1993
PG	8	Chapela, Adrián	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)	30 – (1994-04-16)16 April 1994
SF	10	Feliu, Miquel (C)	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	39 – (1985-05-17)17 May 1985
SG		Manuel, Kendal	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)	26 – (1997-09-13)13 September 1997
C	5	N'Guessan, Lucas	2.13 m (7 ft 0 in)	26 – (1997-11-06)6 November 1997
SG	4	Polanco, Eddy	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)	29 – (1994-08-05)5 August 1994
PG	22	Sans, Agustí	1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)	29 – (1995-02-27)27 February 1995
PF	13	Toledo, Marcus Vinicius	2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)	37 – (1986-07-10)10 July 1986
PG	20	Vecvagars, Kaspars	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)	30 – (1993-08-03)3 August 1993

Head coach

Gustavo Aranzana

Legend

(C) Team captain
Injured

Depth chart

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench 1	Bench 2	Inactive
C	Michael Buchanan	Lucas N'Guessan
PF	Mirza Bulić	Michael Carrera	Marcus Vinicius
SF	Miki Feliu
SG	Kaspars Vecvagars	Eddy Polanco		Kendal Manuel
PG	Adrián Chapela	Agustí Sans