Club Gijón Basket 2015 Corpi, better known as Gijón Basket or Huniko GB2015 for sponsorship reasons, is a
basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...
club based in
Gijón
Gijón () or () is a city and municipality in north-western Spain. It is the largest city and municipality by population in the autonomous community of Asturias. It is located on the coast of the Cantabrian Sea in the Bay of Biscay, in the cent ...
,
Asturias
Asturias (, ; ast, Asturies ), officially the Principality of Asturias ( es, Principado de Asturias; ast, Principáu d'Asturies; Galician-Asturian: ''Principao d'Asturias''), is an autonomous community in northwest Spain.
It is coextensiv ...
that currently plays in
Liga EBA, the
fourth tier of Spanish basketball.
History
Gijón Basket was founded in 2015 as a merge of men's basketball club ''CB Corpi'' and women's basketball ''Formabasket''. It has the aim to replace
Gijón Baloncesto
Gijón Baloncesto was a basketball team based in Gijón, Asturias, Spain.
History
Gijón Baloncesto was established in 1982, after taking over the franchise of another local team, Real Grupo de Cultura Covadonga, who was undergoing financial di ...
, that was dissolved in 2009, as the main club of the city.
On 8 May 2016, Gijón Basket completed its first competitive season promoting to
Liga EBA, fourth tier, after finishing the 2015–16 season as champion of the Asturian group of
Primera División. It defeated CB Castrillón in the final by 77–50.
On 9 October 2016, Gijón Basket made its debut in Liga EBA in
Vigo
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, earning a 43–68 win against Seis do Nadal, but finally could not avoid the relegation to Primera División. However, they remained in the league due to the existence of vacant spots.
In their second season in the fourth tier, Gijón Basket performed successfully and qualified to the second stage of the league, where they were eliminated in the semifinals.
Head coaches
*Chus Poves 2015–2017
*Fran Sánchez 2017–
Season by season
Current squad
Individual records
Top performers of Gijón Basket, as of the end of the 2019–20 season.
Most capped players
Top scorers
Presidents
*Carmen Puente 2015–2019
*Iván Petrovich 2019–present
References
External links
*
Profile at Asturcesto
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Basketball teams in Asturias
Sport in Gijón
Basketball teams established in 2015
Liga EBA teams