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Spanish ACB League
The Liga ACB, known as Liga Endesa for sponsorship reasons, is the top professional basketball division of the Spanish basketball league system. Administrated by the Asociación de Clubs de Baloncesto (ACB), Liga ACB is contested by 18 teams, with the two lowest-placed teams relegated to the LEB Oro and replaced by the top team in that division plus the winner of the promotion playoffs. The competition was founded as the ACB Primera División on 1983 following the decision of clubs in the Liga Nacional, founded in 1957, to break away from the Spanish Basketball Federation and professionalize the league. The league's accumulated revenues were worth around €30 million in 2020, with Endesa and Movistar Plus+ contributing 50% of the revenues of the league. The league is a corporation where president Antonio Martín is responsible for its management, whilst the member clubs act as shareholders. Clubs were apportioned central payment revenues of €12 million in 2019–20. A t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spain
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Spanish Basketball League System
The Spanish basketball league system is a series of connected competitions for professional basketball clubs in Spain. The system has a hierarchical format with a promotion and relegation system between competitions at different levels. Men There are currently four different nation-wide leagues in the system - the 1st tier Liga ACB, the 2nd tier LEB Oro, the 3rd tier LEB Plata and the 4th tier Liga EBA. Liga ACB is organized by the ''Asociación de Clubs de Baloncesto'' (Basketball Clubs Association), which is a private organization. LEB leagues and Liga EBA are organized by the Spanish Basketball Federation while the lower tiers are organized by the regional federations. Levels For the 2018–19 season, the Spanish basketball league system is as follows: Lower divisions For the 2015–16 season, the lower divisions for each of the Autonomous Communities is as follows: Evolution of the Spanish basketball league system Other competitions * Spanish King's Cup *Spani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Attendance Figures At Domestic Professional Sports Leagues
The table below lists domestic professional sports from around the world by total attendances for the last completed season for which data is available. The following points should be considered: * In some cases the figures listed are for main season games only. * In some sports (mainly North American centered sports leagues) the main league competition provides each club or franchise with virtually the whole of its attendance and revenue. In others, there are multiple competitions, for example leading English football clubs compete in four competitions each season, but only the league competition is listed below. * In some sports, for example cricket and rugby union, international competitions and transnational club competitions provide a significant part of total attendances and revenue. * Free or heavily discounted seats may be counted by some leagues. No-shows for paid seats may be included in some cases, but not in others. * Not all leagues publish official attendance figur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valencia Basket
Valencia Basket Club S.A.D., commonly known as Valencia Basket (), is a professional basketball team based in Valencia, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB and the EuroLeague, with home games played at the Fuente de San Luis. The club is sponsored by the Spanish billionaire Juan Roig. History 1986–1997 Valencia Basket was founded on 27 September 1986, after Valencia CF decided to fold its basketball section. On 4 May 1988, while in its second season in the Primera División B, which was the second tier league of Spanish basketball at that time, the team won its first promotion to the Spanish top-tier level ACB, where the team remained until the 1994–95 season. In 1995, Valencia was relegated to the Spanish 2nd-tier level EBA League, after falling in the league's relegation playoff against Somontano Huesca. In the next season, after being the runner-up in Liga EBA, in a non-promoting season, Valencia BC bought Amway Zaragoza's ACB place to join the top league, whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baloncesto Málaga
Baloncesto Málaga, S.A.D., for sponsorship reasons named Unicaja, is a Spanish professional basketball team that is based in Málaga, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB and the Basketball Champions League. The team is sponsored by the Spanish bank Unicaja. History Unicaja was originally founded in 1977, as CB Caja de Ronda. In 1992, the club merged another ACB team in the city of Málaga, CB Maristas de Málaga, which was originally founded in 1953 as Ademar Basket Club. Over the years, the club has featured players like: Nacho Rodríguez, Berni Rodríguez, Carlos Cabezas, Jorge Garbajosa, Marcus Brown, Sergei Babkov, Michael Ansley, Louis Bullock, and Kenny Miller, as well as numerous other well-known players. The club won its first title, when it won the European-wide third tier level FIBA Korać Cup in the 2000–01 season. They then won the Spanish King's Cup title in 2005. The next year, in the 2005–06 season, Unicaja won its first-ever Spanish League cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bàsquet Manresa
Bàsquet Manresa, S.A.D., also known as Baxi Manresa for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball club based in Manresa, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB and Basketball Champions League. Their home arena is the Pavelló Nou Congost. Bàsquet Manresa has won the Spanish Championship once, in 1998. Joan "Chichi" Creus is the team's most decorated player; he was the Spanish Cup Most Valuable Player in 1996, and the ACB Finals MVP two years later. Some others well known players that had played for Bàsquet Manresa are Juan Domingo de la Cruz, Roger Esteller, Derrick Alston, Serge Ibaka, Andrés Nocioni, Rolando Frazer, and the Basketball Hall of Famer George Gervin, that at the age of 38 spent one year in the team, averaging 23.1 points and helping them to avoid the relegation from the Spanish top division. History Bàsquet Manresa was founded in 1931 with the name of Manresa Bàsquetbol Club and merged in 1934 with Club Bàsquet Bages for becoming Unió Manresa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Club Joventut Badalona
Club Joventut Badalona, S.A.D. () is a Spanish professional basketball club based in Badalona, Catalonia, Spain, playing in the Liga ACB and the EuroCup. Known to their fans as ''La Penya'' (in English, ''The Club''), it is one of only two teams that have never been relegated from the top division of the Spanish League. The only other is Real Madrid. In 1994, Joventut de Badalona was the champion of the FIBA European Champions' Cup (today known as the EuroLeague), the first Catalan basketball club to accomplish such a grandiose achievement and the first Spanish team to do so in the ''Final Four'' format. Well-known players have included the Margall brothers (with Josep Maria Margall), Zoran Slavnić, Jordi Villacampa, Rafael Jofresa, Raül López, Rudy Fernández, Ricky Rubio and Joe Galvin. History Badalona has had a basketball team since 30 March 1930, when Joventut was founded as ''Penya Spirit of Badalona''. Apart from basketball, the club initially had teams invol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saski Baskonia
Club Deportivo Saski-Baskonia, S.A.D., commonly known as Saski Baskonia (), also known as Cazoo Baskonia for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball team that is based in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB and the EuroLeague. History 1959–1969: start in the provincial basketball In 1951, the Club Deportivo Vasconia organized its own basketball section but without enough support to survive in the competition. It was already in the 1959–60 season when the club founded the basketball section after disappointment with the football team, under the presidency of Félix Ullivarriarrazua. Vicente Elejalde was appointed as head coach. In its first season, the team occupied the second position of the provincial championship behind Corazonistas. In the 1963–64 season, the team achieved its first provincial titles, proclaiming itself champion of league and cup. The team became strong in the provincial championship winning five of the ten editions pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Martín Espina
Antonio Martín Espina (born June 18, 1966) is a Spanish retired professional basketball player. At a height of 2.10 m (6 ft 10 in), and a weight of 104 kg (230 lbs.), he played at the center position. He is the current president of the Spanish ACB. College career Martín played college basketball at Pepperdine University, with the Pepperdine Waves, during the 1986–87 season. Professional career After playing with Estudiantes, in the 1982–83 season, Martín moved to Real Madrid. He played with Real Madrid, for twelve years, from 1983, until 1995. He was a member of the FIBA European Selection team, in 1991. National team career Martín was a member of the senior Spain men's national team. With Spain, he won the bronze medal at the 1991 EuroBasket, where he was also voted to the EuroBasket All-Tournament Team. After retirement In July 2018, Martín was named the President of the Spanish ACB. Personal life His brother, Fernando Martín Espina, also played ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endesa
Endesa, S.A. (, originally an initialism for ''Empresa Nacional de Electricidad, S.A''.) is a Spanish multinational electric utility company, the largest in the country. The firm, a majority-owned subsidiary of the Italian utility company Enel, has 10 million customers in Spain, with domestic annual generation of over 97,600 GWh from nuclear, fossil-fueled, hydroelectric, and renewable resource power plants. Internationally, it serves another 10 million customers and provides over 80,100 GWh annually. Total customers numbered 22.2 million as of December 31, 2004. It also markets energy in Europe. The company has additional interests in Spanish natural gas and telecommunications companies. Endesa is one of the three large companies in the electricity sector in Spain, which together with Iberdrola and Naturgy, dominate around 90% of the national electricity market. Endesa carries out activities of generation, distribution and commercialization of electricity, natural gas and rene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Basketball Federation
The Spanish Basketball Federation ( es, Federación Española de Baloncesto; FEB) is the governing body of basketball in Spain. It is based in Madrid, Spain. It was founded on 31 July 1923 as ''Federación Española de Basketball'' in Barcelona, Spain. It oversees the Spanish top professional basketball league: the Liga ACB, even though it is organized by Asociación de Clubs de Baloncesto (ACB). It organizes the LEB Oro, the LEB Plata and the Liga EBA. It is also responsible for appointing the management of the men's, women's, and youth national basketball teams. As of 2020, the federation has 3,361 registered clubs and 376,352 federated basketball players, being the second biggest federation after the Football Federation. Competitions The FEB also organizes several competitions: * Men's competitions: ** LEB Oro ** LEB Plata ** Liga EBA ** Copa Princesa de Asturias ** Copa LEB Plata * Women's competitions: ** Liga Femenina ** Liga Femenina 2 ** Copa de la Reina ** Supercopa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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