Basket Zaragoza
| CAI Zaragoza | |||
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| CAI Zaragoza logo | |||
| Leagues | Liga ACB Eurocup | ||
| Founded | 2002 | ||
| Arena | Pabellón José Luis Abós | ||
| Capacity | 10,744 | ||
| Location | Zaragoza, Spain | ||
| Team colors | Red, White, Black | ||
| President | Reynaldo Benito | ||
| Head coach | Joaquín Ruiz Lorente | ||
| Championships | 2 LEB championship 1 Copa Príncipe | ||
| Website | www.basketzaragoza.net | ||
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Basket Zaragoza 2002, S. A. D., more commonly known as CAI Zaragoza by sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball team based in Zaragoza, Spain, who currently plays in Liga ACB and Eurocup. Their home arena is the Pabellón José Luis Abós.
History
Basket Zaragoza 2002, S. A. D. 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 post 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 (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 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.
Players
Current roster
Template:Basket Zaragoza 2002 roster
Depth chart
| Pos. | Starting 5 | Bench 1 | Bench 2 |
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| C | Henk Norel | Viacheslav Kravtsov | Pedro Romera |
| PF | Stevan Jelovac | Isaac Fotu | |
| SF | Robin Benzing | Nate Linhart | Pere Tomàs |
| SG | Drake Diener | Joan Sastre | |
| PG | Tomás Bellas | Sek Henry | Sergi García |
Season by season
| Season | Tier | Division | Pos. | Postseason | RS | PO | Copa del Rey | Other cups | European competitions | |||
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| 2002–03 | 2 | LEB | 14 | Relegation playoffs | 12–18 | 3–2 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2003–04 | 2 | LEB | 4 | Semifinalist | 20–14 | 5–5 | – | Copa Príncipe | C | – | – | – |
| 2004–05 | 2 | LEB | 6 | Quarterfinalist | 19–15 | 0–3 | – | Copa Príncipe | SF | – | – | – |
| 2005–06 | 2 | LEB | 4 | Semifinalist | 25–9 | 5–3 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2006–07 | 2 | LEB | 3 | Semifinalist | 21–13 | 5–3 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2007–08 | 2 | LEB | 1 | Promoted | 28–6 | – | – | Copa Príncipe | SF | – | – | – |
| 2008–09 | 1 | Liga ACB | 17 | Relegated | 8–24 | – | – | Supercopa | RU | – | – | – |
| 2009–10 | 2 | LEB | 1 | Promoted | 27–7 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2010–11 | 1 | Liga ACB | 10 | – | 16–18 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2011–12 | 1 | Liga ACB | 10 | – | 16–18 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2012–13 | 1 | Liga ACB | 3 | Semifinalist | 21–13 | 2–4 | Quarterfinalist | Supercopa | SF | – | – | – |
| 2013–14 | 1 | Liga ACB | 8 | Quarterfinalist | 18–16 | 0–2 | Semifinalist | – | – | 2 Eurocup | L32 | 8–8 |
| 2014–15 | 1 | Liga ACB | 9 | – | 18–16 | – | Quarterfinalist | – | – | 2 Eurocup | L32 | 6–10 |
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
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José Luis Abós García | 2009–2014 |
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Alberto Angulo Espinosa | 2008–2009 |
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Alfred Julbe Bosch | 2002–2004 & 2005–2006 |
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Jesús Alfonso Mateo Díez | 2006–2007 |
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José Luis Oliete Terraz | 2002–2003 |
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Óscar Quintana Viar | 2004–2005 |
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Joaquín Ruiz Lorente | 2014–present |
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Francisco Segura Gómez | 2007–2009 |
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Ranko Žeravica | 2002–2003 |