Club Ourense Baloncesto

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Club Ourense Baloncesto
Founded 1979
Hall Pazo dos Deportes Paco Paz
(7,000 seats)
Homepage http://www.clubourensebaloncesto.com/
president Jorge Bermello
Trainer Rafa Sanz
league Liga Española de Baloncesto
Colours blue and white
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Club Ourense Baloncesto (also known as Aquas De Sousas Club Ourense Baloncesto ) is a Spanish basketball club based in Ourense .

history

The association was founded in 1979. He started in the fourth division and in 1986 fought his way to the second division. There succeeded in the 1988/89 season promotion to the ACB league , since the club won the championship. A total of ten seasons followed in the highest basketball league in Spain, nine of them in a row. In 1993 and 1994 Ourense reached the quarter-finals of the play-offs for the championship. They both failed against FC Barcelona and Club Baloncesto Estudiantes . Since relegation from the ACB League in 2001, the club has not made it back there. Instead, the team switched between the second and third division. In the 2012/13 season the club plays in the second division, Liga Española de Baloncesto.

The club took part in the FIBA EuroCup Challenge in the 2002/03 season and was eliminated in the second group stage.

Name story

Due to multiple changes of the main sponsor, the club name was changed several times:

  • Caixa (1989-91)
  • Coren (1992-95)
  • Xacobeo 99 (1995-99)
  • CB Ourense (1999-2008)
  • Ourense Grupo Juanes (2008-10)
  • Aquas De Sousas Club Ourense Baloncesto (since 2010)

Hall

The club plays its home games in the 7,000-seat Pazo Paco Paz .

successes

  • Winner of the Copa Príncipe de Asturias (2000)
  • Spanish second division champions (1989)

Well-known former players

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