Basket Zaragoza
Tecnyconta Zaragoza | |||
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Leagues | Liga ACB | ||
Founded | 2002 | ||
Arena | Pabellón Príncipe Felipe | ||
Capacity | 10,744 | ||
Location | Zaragoza, Spain | ||
Team colors | Red, White, Black | ||
President | Reynaldo Benito | ||
Head coach | Porfirio Fisac | ||
Championships | 2 LEB championship 1 Copa Príncipe | ||
Website | Official website | ||
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Basket Zaragoza 2002 S.A.D.,[1] officially known as Tecnyconta Zaragoza by sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball club based in Zaragoza, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB. Their home arena is the Pabellón Príncipe Felipe.
History
Basket Zaragoza was founded in 2002 with the aim of giving the city of Zaragoza back to the Spanish basketball elite league, after old CB Zaragoza left the Liga ACB on 1996. It started playing on LEB, after taking the place belonging to CB Coruña.
CAI Zaragoza spent five hard years on LEB league before reaching Liga ACB for the first time. The team had to overcome a relegation playoffs in its first season against CB Ciudad de Huelva, and four consecutive failed promotion playoffs against CB Granada, CB Murcia and Baloncesto León twice.
Finally, the "red tide" got promoted to Liga ACB after winning the title of the 2007–08 season, but its first participation on it was a total failure. CAI Zaragoza got immediately relegated, after being defeated in the last day by CB Murcia. Nevertheless, the team arranged again the highest competition at the first attempt.
Important changes inside the club made the team improve and get healthy. Thanks to these changes, CAI Zaragoza has established on the highest basketball league of Spain, specially in the 2012–13 season by qualifying for the first time to the Copa del Rey and reaching the semifinals in their first participation in the play-offs for the title. This success allowed CAI Zaragoza to make their debut in European competitions by playing the EuroCup Basketball during three consecutive seasons, reaching the Last 16 stage in the 2015–16 season.
In 2016, after 14 years with CAI, the club changed the sponsorship naming to Tecnyconta Zaragoza.[2] However, the 2016–17 season was a step back in the club's path as they avoided the relegation in the last round.
Logos
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Non-commercial logo until 2017.
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Logo under the sponsorship of CAI.
Players
Current roster
Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.
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Updated: August 18, 2018 |
Depth chart
Pos. | Starting 5 | Bench 1 | Bench 2 |
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C | Fran Vázquez | Javier Justiz | Marc Martí |
PF | Nemanja Radović | Nacho Martín | |
SF | Stan Okoye | Jonathan Barreiro | |
SG | Renaldas Seibutis | Johnny Berhanemeskel | |
PG | Bo McCalebb | Fabio Santana | Carlos Alocén |
Colours: Blue = homegrown player; Red = non–FIBA Europe player
Season by season
Season | Tier | Division | Pos. | W–L | Copa del Rey | Other cups | European competitions | |||
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2002–03 | 2 | LEB | 14th | 15–20 | ||||||
2003–04 | 2 | LEB | 4th | 25–19 | Copa Príncipe | C | ||||
2004–05 | 2 | LEB | 6th | 19–18 | Copa Príncipe | SF | ||||
2005–06 | 2 | LEB | 4th | 30–12 | ||||||
2006–07 | 2 | LEB | 3rd | 26–16 | ||||||
2007–08 | 2 | LEB Oro | 1st | 28–6 | Copa Príncipe | SF | ||||
2008–09 | 1 | Liga ACB | 17th | 8–24 | Supercopa | RU | ||||
2009–10 | 2 | LEB Oro | 1st | 27–7 | ||||||
2010–11 | 1 | Liga ACB | 10th | 16–18 | ||||||
2011–12 | 1 | Liga ACB | 10th | 16–18 | ||||||
2012–13 | 1 | Liga ACB | 3rd | 23–17 | Quarterfinalist | Supercopa | SF | |||
2013–14 | 1 | Liga ACB | 8th | 18–18 | Semifinalist | 2 Eurocup | L32 | 8–8 | ||
2014–15 | 1 | Liga ACB | 9th | 18–16 | Quarterfinalist | 2 Eurocup | L32 | 6–10 | ||
2015–16 | 1 | Liga ACB | 12th | 13–21 | 2 Eurocup | EF | 12–6 | |||
2016–17 | 1 | Liga ACB | 15th | 9–23 | ||||||
2017–18 | 1 | Liga ACB | 16th | 10–24 | ||||||
2018–19 | 1 | Liga ACB |
Honours
Trophies
- 2nd division championships: (2)
- Copa Príncipe de Asturias: (1)
- 2004
Individual awards
- Matías Lescano – 2004
Players database
- Updated as of the end of the 2014–15 season
Coaches database
Nationality | Name | Season |
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José Luis Abós García | 2009–2014 | |
Alberto Angulo Espinosa | 2008–2009 | |
Andreu Casadevall Guinart | 2015–2017 | |
Jota Cuspinera | 2017–present | |
Luis Guil Torres | 2017 | |
Alfred Julbe Bosch | 2002–2004 & 2005–2006 | |
Jesús Alfonso Mateo Díez | 2006–2007 | |
José Luis Oliete Terraz | 2002–2003 | |
Óscar Quintana Viar | 2004–2005 | |
Joaquín Ruiz Lorente | 2014–2015 | |
Francisco Segura Gómez | 2007–2009 | |
Ranko Žeravica | 2002–2003 |
References
- ^ "Relación de SAD — Portal del Consejo Superior de Deportes" (in Spanish). Consejo Superior de Deportes. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
- ^ "Tecnyconta se incorpora como patrocinador principal del Basket Zaragoza" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 26 September 2016. Retrieved 26 September 2016.