Club Melilla Baloncesto is a professional
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 ...
team based in
Melilla that plays in the
LEB league. This is the only team in
Spain
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, national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
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that played all
LEB seasons.
The team's home arena is the Pabellón Javier Imbroda Ortiz (formerly known as Ciudad de Melilla), with a capacity of up to 3,800 spectators.
History
Club Melilla Baloncesto was founded in 1991 as a merge of Baloncesto Melilla and CB Gran Tercio. In its first season, played in the second division with the name of ''Unicaja Melilla'' as an affiliated team of
Liga ACB club
Unicaja
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. Despite being relegated, remained in the league after its expansion to 31 teams, that allowed the club to continue playing in the second division, indeed when the
Liga EBA was created.
In 1996, Melilla became one of the founding clubs of the
Liga LEB. In 1999, the club achieved their first title by winning the
Copa Príncipe de Asturias after defeating
Menorca Bàsquet
Menorca Bàsquet, S.A.D. was a professional basketball team based in Menorca, Balearic Islands.
On July 5, 2012 the club announced its dissolution after it was forced to renounce to its third promotion to Liga ACB
The Liga ACB, known as Liga ...
in the final, and is close to promote to the Liga ACB, but was eliminated in the last round of the playoffs by
Breogán Universidade.
In 2001, Melilla clinched their segund Copa Príncipe de Asturias, this time beating
Bàsquet Manresa
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in the Final Four played at home. After several years of consolidation in the league, in 2008 the club reached again the last round of the promotion playoffs but lost to
Lucentum Alicante in the last round. One year later, despite winning their third Cup and despite being the top seeded team, was eliminated in the semifinals of the promotion playoffs to
Ford Burgos.
In 2013 the club suffered their first relegation ever from the LEB Oro, but remained in the league after achieving a vacant place. Three years later, in 2016, the club clinched the promotion to
Liga ACB, but resigned to join the league resigned to promote due to the impossibility to fulfill the requirements.
Players
Current roster
Depth chart
Season by season
Trophies and awards
Trophies
*
Copa Príncipe de Asturias: (3)
**1999, 2001, 2010
Individual awards
All-LEB Oro Team
*
Eduardo Hernández-Sonseca – 2016
References
External links
Federación Española de BaloncestoMelilla Baloncesto Official Site
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