Baloncesto Villa de Mieres 2012, also known as BVM2012, is a

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team based in

Mieres Mieres is a municipality of Asturias, northern Spain, with approximately 38,000 inhabitants. The municipality of Mieres is made up of the capital, Mieres del Camino and the villages of Baiña, Figaredo, Cenera, Loredo, La Peña, La Rebollada, ...

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, that currently plays in

Primera División de Baloncesto The Primera División de Baloncesto is the fifth level in the Spanish basketball league system. Current format The Primera División works similar to the Tercera División of Spanish football. It is divided into fourteen groups, corresponding t ...

History

Baloncesto Villa de Mieres was founded on January 2, 2012 with local support with the aim to recover the basketball experience in the municipality. In its first season, it only competed with junior and youth teams. The men's senior team started its way in the 2013–14 season, competing in the Asturian group of Primera División, after achieving a vacant berth in the league. BVM became the champion of the Regional group after winning all the twenty games it played, including the Final of the competition by 85–73 to Grupo Covadonga, and qualified to the promotion playoffs to Liga EBA. In this stage, played in

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, BVM successfully promoted by winning its three games. In June 2016, BVM2012 added to its structure a women's senior team and two

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teams by integrating the two local clubs in the city (Sena-Nautilus and Racing de Mieres). The new BVM2012-Sena will start playing in

Tercera División Tercera División ( en, Third Division) was the fourth tier of the Spanish football league system. Founded in 1929, it was below the ''Primera División'' (also known as La Liga), the '' Segunda División'', and the semi-professional '' Segunda ...

, the fourth in Spanish futsal. One year later, BVM2012 announced its resign to continue playing in Liga EBA.

Head coaches

*Ángel Fernández Juliá 2013 *Arturo Álvarez 2013–2014 *Javier Hernández Elizo 2014–2015 *José Alberto Rodríguez 2015 *Arturo Álvarez 2015–2016 *Guillermo Arenas 2016–2017 *Jorge García Lorenzo 2017 *Vicente Álvarez 2017–2019

Season by season

Honours

* Asturian Primera División: (1) **2013–14

Notable players

* Jacobo Odriozola

References

External links

Official website

Profile at Asturcesto
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mieres Basketball teams in Asturias Liga EBA teams Basketball teams established in 2012