Agrupación Deportiva Cantbasket 04, also known as Cantbasket, is a
basketball team based in
Santander
Santander may refer to:
Places
* Santander, Spain, a port city and capital of the autonomous community of Cantabria, Spain
* Santander Department, a department of Colombia
* Santander State, former state of Colombia
* Santander de Quilichao, a m ...
,
Cantabria,
Spain, who currently plays in
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 ...
.
History
AD Cantbasket 04, registered in the Sports Entities Registry of the
Government of Cantabria
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, was founded in 2004 by two co-founders who began as basketball coaches at Colegio Altamira, located in Revilla,
Camargo.
Step by step, Cantbasket was growing thanks to agreement with different schools of the city of
Santander
Santander may refer to:
Places
* Santander, Spain, a port city and capital of the autonomous community of Cantabria, Spain
* Santander Department, a department of Colombia
* Santander State, former state of Colombia
* Santander de Quilichao, a m ...
. After conducting an extraordinary groundwork for a decade, the board of directors decided to take a step further in its strong growth, and enrolls its first team in
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 ...
, fourth tier, taking advantage of the tenth anniversary of the club's foundation.
Cantbasket made its debut in the fourth tier on 19 October 2014, with a win in
Logroño over the reserve team of
CB Clavijo
Club Baloncesto Clavijo is a professional Basketball team based in Logroño, La Rioja. The team currently plays in league LEB Oro.
History
Founded in 1967, CB Clavijo started their first years playing in the provincial league and after achieving ...
by 77–87. The team, managed by Benjamín Santos, started the season in the best way possible with seven consecutive wins that allowed them to lead the league table, earning possilities to play the promotion playoffs to
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 ...
. However, Cantbasket finished the season in the third position of the grupo A-A.
In the
2015–16 season, an injury of franchise player DeAngelo Hailey, during the pre-season, weakened the team in the first months and finished its second participation in Liga EBA in the seventh position of the group. In the third campaign in this league, the board of directors and coach staff carried out a deep renovation of the squad,
creating a reserve team, whose average age was 22 years old, where the youth squad and players from Cantabria were protagonists.
Currently, Cantbasket is one of the largest sports entities in
Cantabria, has men's teams in all school and federated categories. In 2009, Cantbasket 04 decided to create a new project, separating its masculine section from the feminine one, thus the CB Némesis was born, with the firm purpose of being a future academy for Cantabrian female players.
Season by season
References
External links
Official website
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Basketball teams in Cantabria
Liga EBA teams
Sport in Santander, Spain