Real Betis Real Betis Balompié, known as Real Betis () or just Betis, is a Spanish professional football club based in Seville in the autonomous community of Andalusia. Founded in 1907, it plays in La Liga. It holds home games at the Estadio Benito Vill ...

Baloncesto S.A.D., simply known as Real Betis, is a professional

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team based in

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, Spain. The team plays in the

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. It plays its home games at San Pablo.

History

Club Deportivo de Baloncesto Sevilla was founded in 1987 when the team bought the seat of Dribling de Madrid in the second division, in that time called Primera División B. In 1989, the team promoted to

for the first time ever. In 1996 and 1999 the club finished the league as runner-up being defeated both times in the finals 0–3 by

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. In 2011, Sevilla lost the 2010–11 Eurocup final, played in

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, against

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. On 21 July 2016, Baloncesto Sevilla and

agreed a collaboration agreement for helping the football squad to solve the financial problems of the basketball team. The team would be called ''Real Betis Energía Plus'' as a result of the agreement and a new sponsor. On 31 December 2016, Real Betis agreed the buy of the 99.99% of the shares of the club and implemented it on 12 January 2017. In 2017 the club relegated from Liga ACB for the first time in its history, but remained in the league in application of the precautionary measures issued by the judicial demand of the Andalusian club after the change of the requirements to join the ACB during the pre-season. However, the club was relegated again in the next season after a very poor performance with only seven wins in 34 matches, finishing in the last position of the league table. On 6 September 2018, the club unanimously approved to take the necessary steps to obtain the pertinent authorization from the Spanish royal house to change its name to Real Betis Baloncesto S.A.D. This change was finally approved on 15 December 2018. During the 2018–19 season, their first ever in

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, Real Betis beat the record of biggest winning streak with 17, thus meaning they beat all their league opponents consecutively. The club quickly came back to the top tier after winning the championship with four rounds left.

Sponsorship naming

From 1987 to 2014, the club was sponsored by Caja San Fernando, renamed in 2007 as Cajasol and merged in

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years later. * Caja San Fernando (1987–2007) * Cajasol (2007–10) * Cajasol

(2010–2011) *

(2011–2012) * Cajasol (2012–2014) * Baloncesto Sevilla (2014–2016) *

Energía Plus (2016–2019) * Coosur Real Betis (2019–2022)

Logos

Cajasol Sevilla.png, 2007–2010 Logo of CB Sevilla.png, 2014–2016 Real Betis Energía Plus.png, 2016–2019

Players

Retired numbers

Current roster

Depth chart

Head coaches

* José Alberto Pesquera 1990–1995, 1998 * Aleksandar Petrović 1995–1997 * Salva Maldonado 1997–1998 * Javier Imbroda 1998–2001 * Javier Fijo 2001, 2005 *

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2001–2002 * Gustavo Aranzana 2002–2004 *

Velimir Perasović Velimir Perasović (; born 9 February 1965) is a Croatian professional basketball coach and former player. He is serving as the head coach for the Russian team UNICS Kazan of the VTB United League and the EuroLeague. Early life Perasović was bo ...

2004–2005 * Óscar Quintana 2005 * Manel Comas 2005–2007, 2008 * Moncho López 2007 * Rubén Magnano 2007–2008 * Ángel Jareño 2008 *

Pedro Martínez Pedro Jaime Martínez (born October 25, 1971) is a Dominican-American former professional baseball starting pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from to , for five teams—most notably the Boston Red Sox from to . At the time o ...

2008–2009 *

Joan Plaza Joan Plaza Durán (born 26 December 1963) is a Spanish professional basketball coach, who was most recently worked for Coosur Real Betis of the Liga ACB. He trained Real Madrid Baloncesto for three years, winning one Liga ACB championship, an ...

2009–2012 *

Aíto García Reneses Alejandro 'Aíto' García Reneses (born 20 December 1946 in Madrid, Spain), usually known as just Aíto, is a Spanish former professional basketball coach and former player. As a head coach, as well as leading Spain's national team to Olympic si ...

2012–2014 *

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2014–2015 *

Luis Casimiro Luis Casimiro Palomo Cárdenas, more known as simply Luis Casimiro, is a Spanish professional basketball basketball coach, coach, who is currently a basketball coach, coach for Real Betis Baloncesto, Coosur Real Betis of the Liga ACB. Early years ...

2015–2016 *

Žan Tabak Žan Tabak (born 15 June 1970) is a Croatian professional basketball coach and former player who last served as the head coach for San Pablo Burgos of the Liga ACB. His basketball career, spanning twenty years, was marked by several notable achie ...

2016–2017 * Alejandro Martínez 2017 * Óscar Quintana 2017–2018 * Javier Carrasco 2018 * Curro Segura 2018–2020 * Joan Plaza 2020–present

Season by season

Records and awards

Records

* 29 seasons in ''ACB'' * 3 seasons in the second tier: ** 2 in ''Primera División B'' ** 1 in ''LEB Oro''

Trophies

: (1) **2018–19 *

Copa Princesa de Asturias The Copa Princesa de Asturias de Baloncesto (English: ''Princess of Asturias' Cup of Basketball'') is an annual 2nd-tier level national cup competition for Spanish professional basketball teams, that is organized by Spain's 2nd-tier level professi ...

: (1) **2019 * Andalusia Cup: (5) **1998, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2009

Individual awards

ACB Most Valuable Player * Michael Anderson – 1996 ACB Three Point Shootout Champion * Raúl Pérez – 2003 ACB Slam Dunk Champion *

Tomáš Satoranský Tomáš Satoranský (born 30 October 1991) is a Czech professional basketball player for FC Barcelona of the Spanish Liga ACB and the EuroLeague. Standing at , he primarily plays at the point guard position, but he can also play as a shooting ...

– 2010 EuroCup Rising Star Award *

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– 2015 All-EuroCup First Team *

Tariq Kirksay Tariq Kinte Kirksay (born September 7, 1979) is a French American professional basketball player for Fos Provence Basket of the French LNB Pro A. He was born in the Bronx, New York, where he grew up. High school Kirksay played basketball at Ric ...

– 2011 All-EuroCup Second Team * Paul Davis – 2011

Notable players

References

External links

Official website

CB Sevilla
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