Cáceres Ciudad del Baloncesto, also named as Cáceres Patrimonio de la Humanidad for sponsorship reasons, is a professional

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team based in Cáceres,

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. It plays in the LEB Oro, the second in importance in Spain after

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. The club is distinct from Cáceres Club Baloncesto, the former elite team in the city, which was dissolved in 2005.

History

Cáceres Ciudad del Baloncesto was founded in 2007 as a merger of two teams from Cáceres city: *''San Antonio'' *''Ciudad de Cáceres'' Cáceres played the first season in its history ( 2007–08) in

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after buying the berth to CEB Llíria. In this first year, playing as Cáceres 2016, the team achieved the promotion semifinals but, after beating CajaRioja in the quarterfinalist series, lost against CB Illescas in the semifinal played at Cáceres. After this season, the team joined the second tier, the LEB Oro, after achieving the vacant of Palma Aqua Màgica. Cáceres continues playing in LEB Oro until nowadays, where reached two times in a row the promotion playoffs but failed in the quarterfinals: in 2010 versus Ford Burgos and in 2011 versus Blu:sens Monbús, both times by 3–1. In 2012 the club won for the first time a LEB Oro quarterfinal serie, 3–2 to Ford Burgos, but failed in the semifinal against Club Melilla Baloncesto after five games. Same happened in 2013, when the club advanced to semifinals after defeating

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by 2–3 in the quarterfinals and failing 3–1 against River Andorra. In 2013 the club opted by joining the

again due to economic issues. On April 25, 2015, two years after its resign to play in LEB Oro, Cáceres came back to the league after winning the 2014–15 LEB Plata, by defeating CEBA Guadalajara 67–63 in the last game of the regular season. The 2019–20 season is its fifth straight season in LEB Oro and tenth overall.

Sponsorship naming

*Cáceres 2016: 2007–11 *Cáceres Creativa: 2011 *Cáceres Patrimonio de la Humanidad: 2011–

Head coaches

* Fede Pozuelo: 2007 * Piti Hurtado: 2007–2009 * Gustavo Aranzana: 2009–2012 * Carlos Frade: 2012–2013 * Ñete Bohígas: 2013–2019 * Roberto Blanco: 2019–present

Players

Current roster

Depth chart

Season by season

Notable players

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* Devin Schmidt *

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* José Ángel Antelo * José María Panadero * Carlos Cherry * Juan Sanguino * Remu Raitanen * Jeff Xavier * Randy Holcomb * Jelani McCoy * Drew Naymick * Wayne Simien * Harper Williams * Luis Parejo * Mansour Kasse *

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* Georgios Dedas * Ragnar Nathanaelsson * Warren Ward * Angelo Chol * Javier Carter * Ricardo Úriz

Trophies and awards

Trophies

: (1) **

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* Copa Extremadura: (2) **2008, 2011

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Caceres 2007 establishments in Spain Basketball teams established in 2007 Basketball teams in Extremadura LEB Oro teams Former LEB Plata teams Sport in Cáceres, Spain