Basket Zaragoza

Basket Zaragoza 2002 S.A.D.,[1] more commonly referred to as Basket Zaragoza and as Casademont Zaragoza for 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.

Casademont Zaragoza
LeaguesLiga ACB
Champions League
Founded2002 (2002)
ArenaPabellón Príncipe Felipe
Capacity10,744
LocationZaragoza, Spain
Team colorsRed, White, Black
              
PresidentPredrag Savović
Head coachPorfirio Fisac
Championships2 LEB championship
1 Copa Príncipe
WebsiteOfficial website

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.[2]

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.

Logos

Players

Current roster

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

Casademont Zaragoza roster
PlayersCoaches
Pos.No.Nat.NameHt.Age
PG 12 Alocén, Carlos (C) 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) 19 – (2000-12-30)30 December 2000
SF 7 Barreiro, Jonathan 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) 23 – (1997-01-16)16 January 1997
PF 19 Benzing, Robin 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) 31 – (1989-01-25)25 January 1989
SF 9 Brussino, Nicolás 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 27 – (1993-03-02)2 March 1993
SG 31 Ennis, Dylan 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 28 – (1991-12-26)26 December 1991
C 16 Etxeguren, Aitor 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 17 – (2002-11-26)26 November 2002
PG 44 García, Javier 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) 19 – (2001-04-06)6 April 2001
C 32 Hlinason, Tryggvi 2.16 m (7 ft 1 in) 22 – (1997-10-28)28 October 1997
C 00 Justiz, Javier 2.10 m (6 ft 11 in) 27 – (1992-09-18)18 September 1992
SG 27 Krejčí, Vít 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 20 – (2000-06-19)19 June 2000
PF 11 Radović, Nemanja 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) 28 – (1991-11-11)11 November 1991
PG 21 San Miguel, Rodrigo 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) 35 – (1985-01-21)21 January 1985
SG 10 Seibutis, Renaldas 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 34 – (1985-07-27)27 July 1985
C 17 Vázquez, Fran 2.09 m (6 ft 10 in) 37 – (1983-05-01)1 May 1983
Head coach

Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • Injured

Updated: February 21, 2020

Depth chart

Pos. Starting 5 Bench 1 Bench 2 Bench 3
C Javier Justiz Fran Vázquez Tryggvi Hlinason Aitor Etxeguren
PF Nemanja Radović Robin Benzing
SF Nicolás Brussino Jonathan Barreiro
SG Dylan Ennis Renaldas Seibutis Vít Krejčí
PG Carlos Alocén Rodrigo San Miguel Javier García

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
2002–03 2LEB 14th 15–20
2003–04 2LEB 4th 25–19 Copa PríncipeC
2004–05 2LEB 6th 19–18 Copa PríncipeSF
2005–06 2LEB 4th 30–12
2006–07 2LEB 3rd 26–16
2007–08 2LEB Oro 1st 28–6 Copa PríncipeSF
2008–09 1Liga ACB 17th 8–24 SupercopaRU
2009–10 2LEB Oro 1st 27–7
2010–11 1Liga ACB 10th 16–18
2011–12 1Liga ACB 10th 16–18
2012–13 1Liga ACB 3rd 23–17 Quarterfinalist SupercopaSF
2013–14 1Liga ACB 8th 18–18 Semifinalist 2 EurocupL328–8
2014–15 1 Liga ACB 9th 18–16 Quarterfinalist 2 EurocupL326–10
2015–16 1Liga ACB 12th 13–21 2 EurocupEF12–6
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 Quarterfinalist 3 Champions League

Honours

Trophies

Individual awards

Copa Príncipe de Asturias MVP

  • Matías Lescano – 2004

Players database

Updated as of the end of the 2014–15 season

Coaches database

Nationality Name Season
José Luis Abós García 2009–2014
Alberto Angulo Espinosa 2008–2009
Pep Cargol 2018
Andreu Casadevall Guinart 2015–2017
Jota Cuspinera 2017–2018
Porfirio Fisac 2018–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

  1. "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.
  2. "Tecnyconta se incorpora como patrocinador principal del Basket Zaragoza" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 26 September 2016. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
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