Óbila Club de Basket, also known as Ávila Auténtica Carrefour "El Bulevar" is a Spanish professional

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team based in

Ávila Ávila (, , ) is a city of Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is the capital and most populated municipality of the Province of Ávila. It lies on the right bank of the Adaja river. Located more than 1,130 m abov ...

, Castilla y León and plays in the Multiusos Carlos Sastre, in

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. Óbila is the only basketball team in the city of Ávila. From 2011 to 2013, Óbila collaborated with

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as its farm team.

History

Óbila Club de Basket was born in Ávila in 2001. It was founded by a group of amateur players willing to enjoy basket in this city. In 2003 the club started playing at

Liga EBA Liga Española de Baloncesto Aficionado (EBA), commonly known as Liga EBA, is a Spanish basketball championship that is the fourth tier level in the Spanish basketball league system, after the Liga ACB, LEB Oro, and LEB Plata. It is administered ...

for the first time and finished in the 12th position. At the 2005–06 season the team finished in the third position and qualified for the promotion playoffs to the

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League but it was eliminated, as well as in the 2006–07 season, when it finished the regular season in the second position. In 2007 the

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decided to create a third LEB with 18 teams named

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and Óbila CB got a spot in this new division. In its first season LEB Bronce the club avoided the relegation to Liga EBA. After finishing the regular season as runner-up in their second season, the club promoted to LEB Plata by defeating the

CB Tíjola Club Baloncesto Tíjola, more commonly referred today by its sponsorship name Promobys Tíjola, is a professional Basketball team based in the town of Tíjola in Almería, Andalusia. On 2011, the club resigned to the berth in LEB Plata The LEB P ...

in the playoffs. Dreike Bouldin won the MVP award and Paul Williams was named the third best player of the season. Two years after promoting to LEB Plata, the club played its first promotion playoffs to LEB Oro, reaching the quarterfinals in 2010–11 and 2011–12. Due to economic issues, in July 2012, the club decided not to take part in the

2012–13 LEB Plata season The 2012–13 LEB Plata season is the 13th season of the LEB Plata, second league of the Liga Española de Baloncesto and third division of Spanish basketball. It is also known as Adecco Plata in its sponsored identity. Competition format Teams ...

.Inscripción Adecco Plata
obila.com. July 6, 2012 One week after this decision the club reached a sponsorship agreement with Grupo Eulen solving its economic problems and signed up for the

.El Club se inscribe en la Adecco Plata
obila.com. July 13, 2012 In the 2015–16 season, Óbila ended as runner-up of the

Copa LEB Plata The LEB Plata is the third basketball division of the Spanish basketball league system and the second basketball division organized by the Spanish Basketball Federation. Since 2019, three teams are promoted to LEB Oro and six teams are relegated t ...

and was defeated by Sáenz Horeca Araberri in the finals of the promotion playoffs to LEB Oro. Three years later, in 2019, the club was relegated to

after ten consecutive seasons in the third tier.

Current squad

Season by season

Notable players

:To appear in this section a player must have either: - Set a club record or won an individual award as a professional player.
- Played at least one official international match for his senior national team at any time. * Charles Ramsdell *

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* Brandon Sebirumbi

References

External links

Official website
* Spanish Wikipedia Article {{DEFAULTSORT:Obila Basketball teams in Castile and León LEB Plata teams Basketball teams established in 2001 Sport in Ávila, Spain