Club Bàsquet L'Hospitalet, also known as Torrons Vicens L'Hospitalet for sponsorship reasons, is a professional

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team based in

L'Hospitalet de Llobregat L'Hospitalet de Llobregat (; es, Hospitalet de Llobregat), often shortened to L'Hospitalet or just L'H, is a municipality of Spain, located to the immediate southwest of Barcelona, in the autonomous community of Catalonia. It is part of the Bar ...

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and plays in the Complex Esportiu L'Hospitalet Nord, in

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league. CB L'Hospitalet organises annually the under-18 ''City of L'Hospitalet Tournament'', integrated in the

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History

Founded in 1929, CB L'Hospitalet is one of the oldest basketball clubs in Spain. In their first years, the club achieved one

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in 1940, became runner-up in the next year and in both seasons, it won two Catalan championships. In 1974, CB L'Hospitalet achieved their first promotion ever to the

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, where it played until 1978. In 1983, after promoting again, L'Hospitalet became one of the founding clubs of the

Liga ACB The Liga ACB, known as Liga Endesa for sponsorship reasons, is the top professional basketball division of the Spanish basketball league system. Administrated by the Asociación de Clubs de Baloncesto (ACB), Liga ACB is contested by 18 teams, wi ...

, but they only played the first season, as the club finished in the last position. After several relegations, L'Hospitalet comes back to

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, third tier in that time, in 1999 and it becomes champion in the 2003–04 season, thus promoting to

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, the new third division later renamed as ''LEB Plata''. The club achieves the league title in their debut season in the league, and promoted to

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, where they played three seasons until its relegation in 2008, achieving the qualification to the promotion playoffs to Liga ACB in 2006. In 2010, L'Hospitalet could not register in LEB Plata due to the inability to meet the financial requirements and was dropped to the fifth tier, but came back to Liga EBA by achieving a vacant berth in the Group C. In the 2015–16 season, L'Hospitalet registered a 30–2 record for promoting to LEB Plata, six years after the last time they played. The club was relegated again to Liga EBA. However, it remained in the league due to the existence of vacant places in it.

Season by season

Trophies and awards

Trophies

* Spanish Cups: (1) **1940 *2nd division Championships: (1) **2ª División: (1) 1974 *

: (1) **2005 * Catalan Championship: (2) **1940, 1941

Individual awards

LEB Oro MVP *Thomas Terrell – 2006 LEB Plata MVP *Thomas Terrell – 2005

Notable players

* José Ángel Antelo *

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* Roger Grimau * Edgar San Epifanio * Thomas Terrell *

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References

External links

Official CB L'Hospitalet page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hospitalet Basketball teams established in 1929 L'Hspitalet Former LEB Oro teams Liga EBA teams Former LEB Plata teams Former Liga ACB teams Sport in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat