CB Gran Canaria

	CB Gran Canaria
Nickname	Granca
Founded	1963
Hall	Gran Canaria Arena ; (11500 seats)
Homepage	www.cbgrancanaria.net
president	Miguelo Betancor
Trainer	Luis Casimiro
league	League ACB ; 2015/16: 5th place
Colours	yellow / dark blue
home	Away
	successes
	Spanish Supercup (1): 2016

Club Baloncesto Gran Canaria is a Spanish basketball club from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands , which plays in the ACB league. The first team plays its home games in the Gran Canaria Arena .

history

The basketball club Club Baloncesto Gran Canaria was founded in 1963 as Colegio Claret , a sports club of the Claretian School in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria . He played from 1962/63 to 1983/84, first in the Segunda Division, the Spanish second division, as well as in other lower class divisions. In the 1984/85 season, the first team was promoted to the ACB league , the highest Spanish division. The association then passed a new statute on August 22, 1985 and set up its own business under the name Claret Club Baloncesto . As a result, the Canary Islands established themselves for some time as an elevator team that could never stay in the ACB league for more than two seasons in a row, but mostly quickly rose again. In 1988 the name was changed to CB Gran Canaria.

The 1994/95 season ended CB Gran Canaria as champions of the second division and rose for the fourth time in the ACB league , from which they have not been relegated so far. In the 2000/01 season CB Gran Canaria took part in an international competition for the first time, at the Korać Cup the team was eliminated in the second round. In 2003/04 the club was eligible to start the ULEB Cup for the first time , with eight participations in the second highest European club competition so far, the Canaries achieved the best result in 2009/10 , when the team only failed in the quarter-finals at Panellinios Athens .

In the 2012/13 season, in which the team finished the basic round in seventh place, a surprising 2-1 win against Laboral Kutxa made it into the semi-finals of the Spanish championship for the first time in the club's history. There the Canaries failed 3-0 at FC Barcelona . For financial reasons, the club decided not to take part in the Eurocup 2013/14 , for which the team would have been eligible.

In the 2014/15 season , on the other hand, they took part in the Eurocup and advanced to the final, where they were defeated by the Russians from BK Chimki .

Current squad

Squad CB Gran Canaria in the 2014/2015 season

Attention: The squad information is out of date!
(current season: 2020/2021)

player
No.	Nat.	Surname	birth	size	info	Last club
		Guards ( PG , SG )
0	Spain	Fabio Santana	06/09/1992	188
4th	Spain	Albert Oliver	06/04/1978	187		FIATC Joventut
10	Spain	Txemi Urtasun	04/30/1984	193		CB Málaga
11	Spain	Tomás Bellas	06/24/1984	185		Real Madrid II
21st	Spain	Oriol Paulí	05/20/1994	201		FC Barcelona II
24	United States	Kyle Kuric	08/25/1989	193		CB Estudiantes
		Forwards ( SF , PF )
5	Senegal	Mouhamed Barro	05/10/1995	204
8th	Australia	Brad Newley	02/18/1985	199	A-Nat	Valencia Basket Club
13	Dominican Republic	Eulis Báez	03/18/1982	201	A-Nat	FIATC Joventut
25th	United States/Ireland	Ian O'Leary	10/20/1986	201		CB Valladolid
35	United States	DaJuan Summers	01/24/1988	203		BK Budiwelnyk Kiev
		Center ( C )
14th	Canada/Ireland	Levon Kendall	07/04/1984	209	A-Nat	ALBA Berlin
22nd	Cape Verde/Spain	Walter Tavares	03/22/1992	220	A-Nat	UB La Palma