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

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team that is based in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain. 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 FIBA's Basketball Champions League (BCL). Their home arena is the Santiago Martín.

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 LEB Oro. 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 head coach 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. On 29 March 2017, Canarias qualified for the 2017 Final Four of FIBA's Basketball Champions League (BCL), which happened 36 years after the club's first league promotion up to Spain's previous top level competition, the

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, in

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. The 2017 Champions League Final Four was played at Canaria's home arena, the Pabellón Insular Santiago Martín. Canarias won the BCL championship, after beating the Turkish Super League club Banvit 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 FIBA Intercontinental Cup title, after beating the defending champions of the FIBA Americas League, the Venezuelan club

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, by a score of 76–71. CB Canarias 1939 also won the

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title, after they defeated the defending champions of the Basketball Champions League, the Italian club Virtus Bologna, by a score of 80–72. In March 2020, the club stopped the season due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain.

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 Pabellón Insular Santiago Martín arena, which is located in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, on the

of Tenerife. The arena was opened in 1999, and it has a seating capacity 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

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, 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

National: *2nd division championships: (1) ** LEB Oro: (1)

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: (1) **

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

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* Intercontinental Cup: (2) **

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Other competitions: *Las Palmas, Spain Invitational Game **2018

Individual awards

LEB Oro MVP * Jakim Donaldson – 2009, 2010 * Ricardo Guillén – 2011 All LEB Oro First Team * Ricardo Guillén – 2011

References

External links

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