Nueva Era Basket Club (in English: New Era Basketball Club) is an Equatorial Guinean basketball team based in
Malabo. The team was founded in 2021 by a group of basketball enthusiast, led by Jules Cesar Micha Nfono. The establishment of the
Basketball Africa League
The Basketball Africa League (BAL) is Africa's premier men's basketball league. The league consists of twelve teams, each qualified through their domestic competition, similar to the format of the UEFA Champions League. The league is a joint eff ...
(BAL) in the same year inspired them to provide a club for the youth of national basketball.
In 2021, the team signed Spanish coach Ignacio Duran and two foreign players in David Stachoskij and Daniel Saunders. Nueva Era won the national championship in 2022.
Nueva Era played in the
2023 BAL qualification
The qualification for the 2023 BAL season, also known as Road to BAL 2023, was the 3rd edition of the Road to BAL, qualifying tournaments for the Basketball Africa League. The tournaments were organised by FIBA Africa and are held from 10 Octobe ...
,
and won one game in the first round against
Espoir, becoming the first Equatoguinean team to win a BAL qualification game and to advance past the first round.
Honours
National Basketball League
* Champions (2): 2020–21, 2021–22
June 5 Basketball Tournament
* Winners (1): 2021
Players
2022 roster
References
Basketball teams established in 2021
Basketball teams in Equatorial Guinea
Road to BAL teams
Sport in Malabo
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