Basket Zaragoza 2002
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 playoff 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, CAI Zaragoza 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 returned to Liga ACB on the next season after the arrival of homegrown coach José Luis Abós.
Under Abos, CAI Zaragoza established on the top Spanish basketball competition; in the 2012–13 season, they qualifying for the first time to the Copa del Rey and reached the ACB 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.
Nevertheless, after Abós's untimely death in 2014, the team struggled in the national competition, and went from reaching the play-offs to barely avoiding relegation. In 2016, after 14 years with CAI, the club changed the sponsorship naming to Tecnyconta Zaragoza.
In the 2018-19 ACB season, under Porfirio Fisac's coaching and after a profound change in their roster, Tecnyconta Zaragoza returned to the ACB play-off and reached the semifinals for the second time in their history.
On 15 June 2020, Basket Zaragoza created the women's team by integrating the professional team of Stadium Casablanca.
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 nationalities not displayed.
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Updated: August 29, 2024 |
Depth chart
Pos. | Starting 5 | Bench 1 | Bench 2 |
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C | Bojan Dubljević | Jilson Bango | |
PF | Yoanki Mencía * | Emir Sulejmanović | Jaime Fernández † |
SF | Santiago Yusta † | Miguel González † | |
SG | A. J. Slaughter | Joaquín Rodríguez | Lucas Langarita † |
PG | Marco Spissu | Trae Bell-Haynes |
Notes: Blue † – homegrown player; Red * – overseas player; Green ‡ – youth 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 | 6th | 18-16 | ||||||
2019–20 | 1 | Liga ACB | 6th | 17–11 | Quarterfinalist | 3 Champions League | 4th | 13–6 | ||
2020–21 | 1 | Liga ACB | 13th | 14–22 | 3 Champions League | 3rd | 11–3 | |||
2021–22 | 1 | Liga ACB | 16th | 12–22 | 4 FIBA Europe Cup | RS | 2–4 | |||
2022–23 | 1 | Liga ACB | 13th | 12–22 | ||||||
2023–24 | 1 | Liga ACB | 12th | 13–21 | 4 FIBA Europe Cup | QF | 9–5 |
Honours
National leagues
- 2nd division championships: (2)
- Copa Príncipe de Asturias: (1)
- 2004
- Copa Aragón: (2)
- 2018, 2019
European competition
- Basketball Champions League
- Third place: 2020–21
Individual awards
- Matías Lescano – 2004
Basketball Champions League Best Young Player
- Carlos Alocén – 2020
Players database
- Updated as of the end of the 2014–15 season
Coaches database
Nat. | Name | Season |
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José Luis Oliete Terraz | 2002–2003 | |
Ranko Žeravica | 2002–2003 | |
Alfred Julbe Bosch | 2002–2004 & 2005–2006 | |
Óscar Quintana Viar | 2004–2005 | |
Jesús Alfonso Mateo Díez | 2006–2007 | |
Francisco Segura Gómez | 2007–2009 | |
Alberto Angulo Espinosa | 2008–2009 | |
José Luis Abós García | 2009–2014 | |
Joaquín Ruiz Lorente | 2014–2015 | |
Andreu Casadevall Guinart | 2015–2017 | |
Luis Guil Torres | 2017 | |
Jota Cuspinera | 2017–2018 | |
Pep Cargol | 2018 | |
Porfirio Fisac | 2018–2020 | |
Sergio Hernández | 2020–2021 | |
Luis Casimiro | 2021 | |
Jaume Ponsarnau | 2021–2022 | |
Dragan Šakota | 2022 | |
Martin Schiller | 2022 | |
Porfirio Fisac | 2022–present |
Women's team
Since 2020, Basket Zaragoza has also a women's team. It was created after integrating Stadium Casablanca into the structure of the club. Basket Zaragoza joined to Liga Femenina, instead of Stadium Casablanca which joined to Liga Femenina 2 as a reserve team.
Season by season
Season | Tier | Division | Pos. | W–L | Copa de la Reina |
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2020–21 | 1 | Liga Femenina | 13 | 9–21 |
Notes
- ^ A homegrown player is a player that played for at least three years before the age of 20 on a Spanish team. In Liga ACB, the team must register at least four homegrown players in rosters of 10–12 players or at least three homegrown players in rosters of 8–9 players. In FIBA Europe Cup, the team must register at least five homegrown players in rosters of 11–12 players or at least four homegrown players in rosters of 10 players.
- ^ A overseas player is a player from outside EEA, FIBA Europe or ACP states. In Liga ACB, the team may register at most two overseas players. In FIBA Europe Cup, the team did not have any limitations regarding the number of overseas players.
- ^ In Liga ACB, the team may register under-22 players linked to the youth system.
References
- ^ "Relación de SAD — Portal del Consejo Superior de Deportes" (in Spanish). Consejo Superior de Deportes. Archived from the original on 2 April 2017. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
- ^ "Tecnyconta se incorpora como patrocinador principal del Basket Zaragoza" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 26 September 2016. Archived from the original on 13 November 2017. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
- ^ "El Basket Zaragoza absorbe al Stadium Casablanca y competirá en Liga Femenina Endesa" (in Spanish). Palco 23. 15 June 2020.
- ^ "Star Lineup revealed, Alocen Best Young Player". Basketball Champions League. 29 September 2020. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
- ^ "Casademont Zaragoza reafirma su apuesta por el baloncesto femenino | Basket Zaragoza". www.basketzaragoza.net (in European Spanish). Retrieved 22 July 2020.
External links
- Official website
- Basket Zaragoza at ACB.com (in Spanish)