Club Cantera Base 1939 Canarias S.A.D., commonly known as CB Canarias and known as Lenovo Tenerife for sponsorship reasons, is a professional

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team that is based in

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. Domestically, the team plays in the top level league in Spain, the

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and in European-wide competitions, the team plays in

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(BCL). Their home arena is the Santiago Martín. Canarias became a prominent club on the national scene during the 2010s, after securing promotion to the Liga ACB in 2014. Under the

system, Canarias won two BCL championships (in 2017 and 2023) as well as three FIBA Intercontinental Cups (2017, 2020, 2023).

History

The team was founded in 1994, after the old CB Canarias club, that huge financial problems at that time, merged with other teams of the

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of Tenerife, to create the new Tenerife Canarias club, which only played two seasons in the

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competition, at the time when that league was the second tier level of Spanish club basketball. People who were in disagreement with that merger then created the new CB 1939 Canarias club, which inherited the colors and the logo of the club. In

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, Iberostar Canarias was

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to Spain's top-tier level

competition, after the team won the championship of the

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. However, the club couldn't actually promote, due to the club's inability to fulfill the requirements needed to join the league that are requested by the league's organizer, the ACB. One month later, on 20 July 2012, CB 1939 Canarias finally achieved the league promotion, after Lucentum Alicante's vacated place in the league was granted to CB 1939 Canarias. Alejandro Martínez, became the team's

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in 2003, and he managed to lead the team to multiple league promotions, going up from the

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(Spanish third tier), to the top-tier level

. He resigned from the team's head coaching position in 2015.

Golden era and international championships

In the 2016–17 season, Canarias returned to the European scene after 28 years. On 29 March 2017, Canarias qualified for the 2017 Final Four of

(BCL), which happened 36 years after the club's first league promotion up to Spain's previous top level competition, the Liga Nacional, in

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. The 2017 Champions League Final Four was played at Canaria's home arena, the

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. Canarias won the BCL championship, after beating the

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club

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in the Final. The championship marked the first major title in the club's history. On 24 September 2017, Canarias participated in the

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, as the defending champions of the Basketball Champions League. The club won the

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title, after beating the defending champions of the

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, the Venezuelan club

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, by a score of 76–71. Three years later, Canarias also won the

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title, after they defeated the defending champions of the Basketball Champions League, the Italian club

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, by a score of 80–72. In March 2020, the club stopped the 2019–20 season due to the

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. The following season, the 2020–21 season, was the most successful season in the ACB in the team's history. After finishing third in the regular season, Canarias beat San Pablo Burgos before being eliminated in the semi-finals by

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. In the 2021–22 season, Canarias won their second BCL championship after defeating fellow Spanish team

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in the final in

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Sponsorship naming

Partly due to sponsorship reasons, the team has been known by several names over the years:

Arena

CB Canarias 1939 plays its home games at the

arena, which is located in

, on the

. The arena was opened in 1999, and it has a

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of 5,100 people for basketball games. CB Canarias 1939 has used Pabellón Insular Santiago Martín as its home arena, since 2010. It has hosted major sporting events, such as the

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, the

, the 2018 FIBA Women's World Cup, and the

Players

Current roster

Depth chart

Head coaches

*Alejandro Martínez: 2003–2015 *

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: 2015–2017, 2018–present *

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: 2017 *

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: 2017–2018

Season by season

Honours and awards

Honours

Total titles: 9

National competitions

* Champions (1): 2011–12

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: *Champions (1):

Trofeo Gobierno de Canarias *Champions (2): 2009, 2011

International competitions

*Champions (2): 2016–17, 2021–22 **''Runners-up (1):'' 2018–19 **Third place (1):

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*Champions (3):

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Friendly competitions

*Las Palmas, Spain Invitational Game **2018

Individual awards

Liga ACB MVP *

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– 2021 All-Liga ACB First Team *

– 2020, 2021, 2022 *

Marcelo Huertas Marcelo "Marcelinho" Tieppo Huertas (born 25 May 1983) is a Brazilian professional basketball player for Iberostar Tenerife of the Spanish Liga ACB. He is also a member of the senior men's Brazilian national basketball team, and holds Italian ...

– 2021, 2022 All-Liga ACB Second Team *

– 2020 *

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– 2019 LEB Oro MVP *

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– 2009, 2010 *

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– 2011 All LEB Oro First Team *

– 2011

References

External links

Iberostar Tenerife official website
at CBCanarias.net
Iberostar Tenerife
at ChampionsLeague.Basketball
Iberostar Tenerife
at

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