Valencia Basket Club

Valencia Basket Club
Founded	1986
Hall	Pabellón Fuente de San Luis (9,000 seats)
Homepage	www.valenciabasket.com
president	Vicent Solá
Trainer	Txus Vidorreta
league	League ACB
	Eurocup
Colours	orange
home Away
successes
EuroCup (4): 2002/03 , 2009/10 , 2013/14 , 2018/19 Spanish Champion (1): 2016/17 Spanish Cup Winner (1): 1997/98 Spanish Supercup Winner (1): 2017

The Valencia Basket Club is a Spanish basketball club from Valencia , which plays in the Spanish ACB league. The club plays its home games in the Pabellón Fuente de San Luis with 9,000 seats.

history

The basketball club Valencia Basket Club broke away in 1986 from the football club Valencia CF , which they served as the basketball section until then, and registered as an independent club. The first team then played in the second division. In the 1987/88 season already succeeded in promotion to the ACB league, from which the team is no longer relegated except for the 1995/96 season, which was again spent in the second division.

The club achieved its first major successes in the late 1990s. In the 1997/98 season, the team qualified for the first time in the club's history for the Spanish Cup and was able to win it completely surprising. After victories against TAU Vitoria and Fórum Valladolid in the quarter-finals and semi-finals, the Valencians prevailed in the final with 89:75 against Festina Joventut . The title success also entitled for the first time to participate in an international competition, the Saporta Cup 1998/99. Here Pamesa Valencia , as the club was called at the time, reached the final, but lost to Benetton Treviso with 60:64.

After further finals in the Spanish Cup 1999/2000 and the Saporta Cup 2001/02, the next big success followed in the 2002/03 season. In the first edition of the newly created ULEB Cup , the second highest European competition for club teams, the team prevailed in the knockout phase against RheinEnergie Cologne , KK Zadar and CB Estudiantes and reached the final, where the Spaniards defeated KK Krka Novo mesto and theirs conquered the first international trophy. The club also reached the final play-off in the Spanish championship, but lost to FC Barcelona there .

The next big success should follow again on the international stage in 2009/10. At the Eurocup , Valencia reached the final round again, prevailed there in the quarter and semi-finals against Aris Thessaloniki and Bizkaia Bilbao Basket and met Alba Berlin in the final . With a clear 67:44 win against the German representative, Valencia captured its second international title. In the 2011/12 season, Valencia Basket Club reached the final of a European competition for the fifth time, but at the Eurocup they lost 68:77 to the Russian team BK Chimki . In the 2013/14 season , Valencia BC won the EuroCup for the third time and has been the record winner of this competition ever since. Due to the success, the team will start in the EuroLeague in the 2014/15 season .

In 2019 the club won the EuroCup for the fourth time. In the final they defeated Alba Berlin after three finals.

Names

Valencia BC is the record winner of the Eurocup

The team has had several names throughout history due to different sponsors, the most famous being Pamesa Valencia , which the team led for 22 years.

• Valencia-Hoja del Lunes: 1986-1987
• Pamesa Valencia: 1987-2009
• Power Electronics Valencia: 2009-2011
• Valencia Basket Club: since 2011

Venues

The club has played its games since 1987 in Pabellón Fuente de San Luis, inaugurated in 1983. Initially with 5,000 seats, the arena was expanded to 9,000 in 1994. A new multi-purpose hall called Valencia Arena , next to the current hall, is being planned. It should cost 220 million euros, offer a maximum of 18,600 seats, making it the country's largest multi-purpose arena. A capacity of 15,600 spectators is planned for basketball. The club's patron, Juan Roig, takes over the financing . Construction work is scheduled to begin in summer 2020 and be completed by 2023.

successes

EuroLeague 2017/18

• 4 × ULEB Cup / EuroCup winners : 2002/03 , 2009/10 , 2013/14 , 2018/19
  • 2 × finalist: 2011/12 , 2016/17
• 1 × Spanish cup winner : 1997/98
  • 4 × finalist: 1999/2000, 2005/06, 2012/13, 2016/17
• 1 × Spanish champion : 2016/17
  • 1 × runner-up: 2002/03
• Saporta Cup :
  • 2 × finalist: 1999, 2002

Current squad

Valencia Basket Club's squad for the 2019/20 season (as of October 15, 2019)

player No. Nat. Surname position birth size info Last club 1 Quino Colom Point guard 11/01/1988 188 cm Bahçeşehir Koleji 2 Vanja Marinković Small forward 01/09/1997 198 cm KK Partizan Belgrade 3 Jordan Loyd Shooting Guard 07/17/1993 193 cm Toronto Raptors 5 Maurice Ndour Power forward 06/18/1992 206 cm New York Knicks 6th Alberto Abalde Díaz Small forward 12/15/1995 202 cm Divina Seguros Joventut 7th Louis Labeyrie Power Forward / Center 02/11/1992 209 cm Strasbourg IG 9 Sam Van Rossom Point guard 06/03/1986 188 cm CAI Saragossa 10 Mike Tobey center 10/10/1994 213 cm Iberostar Tenerife 12 Brock Motum center October 16, 1990 208 cm Anadolu Efes SK 14th Bojan Dubljević center October 24, 1991 205 cm C. KK Budućnost Podgorica 16 Guillem Vives Point guard 06/16/1993 193 cm Divina Seguros Joventut 19th Fernando San Emeterio Small forward 01/01/1984 1993 cm Caja Laboral 30th Joan Sastre Small forward 12/10/1991 201 cm Tecnyconta Zaragoza 42 Aaron Doornekamp Small forward 05.12.1985 198 cm Iberostar Tenerife

Trainer Nat. Surname position Jaume Ponsarnau Head coach Legend Abbr. meaning No. Jersey number Nat. nationality C. Team captain R. Rookie

Jersey numbers that can no longer be assigned

• 11 : Nacho Rodilla - Point Guard - 1994-2003
• 15 : Víctor Luengo - Shooting Guard / Small Forward - 1992-2007

Known players

Vule Avdalović Andrew Betts Nik Caner Medley Brian Cardinal Víctor Claver Nando de Colo Omar Cook Francisco Elson Robertas Javtokas Thomas Kelati

Marko Kešelj Rawle Marshall Darryl Middleton Matthew Nielsen Fabricio Oberto Ademola Okulaja Florent Pietrus Marko Popović Igor Rakočević Željko Rebrača

Jeremy Richardson Antoine Rigaudeau Nacho Rodilla Johnny Rogers Duško Savanović Tornike Schengelia Tiago splinters Jón Arnór Stefánsson Dejan Tomašević Shammond Williams

Web links

Commons : Valencia Basket Club  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website (Valencian, Spanish, English)
• www.acb.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Spain’s largest arena planned in Valencia. In: stadionwelt.de. October 14, 2019, accessed October 14, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Current squad of the Valencia Basket Club. In: valenciabasket.com. Valencia Basket Club, accessed October 15, 2019 (Spanish).