Club Baloncesto Collado Villalba was a professional

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club based in

Collado Villalba Collado Villalba () is a municipality of the Community of Madrid, in central Spain. It is located 40.3 kilometres north-west of the city of Madrid, at an altitude of 917 meters above sea level. It has a population of 63,679 (2019), with a popula ...

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History

CB Collado Villalba was founded in 1922. During its first years in Liga ACB, the club had the sponsorship of the actual

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bank, in that years known as ''Bancobao'' and later as ''BBV''. In the

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acquires the team and converts it in the basketball section of Atlético de Madrid, but it ceased the next season. After the 1991–92 ACB season, where the team avoided the relegation to Primera B, CB Collado Villalba was dissolved due to its financial trouble.

Season by season

Notable players

* Juan Antonio Orenga * Walter Berry *

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External links

Profile at ACB.com
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