Tenerife Amigos del Baloncesto, more commonly known by its sponsorship name Tenerife Nº1 was a professional

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club based in

Santa Cruz de Tenerife Santa Cruz de Tenerife, commonly abbreviated as Santa Cruz (), is a city, the capital of the island of Tenerife, Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and capital of the Canary Islands. Santa Cruz has a population of 206,593 (2013) within its admi ...

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History

Tenerife AB was founded on 1986 with the aim to professionalize the basketball section of the classic team RC Náutico de Tenerife. In the 1987–88 season, the club promoted to

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 ...

where it played two seasons until its relegation. The club was folded in 1994 when it merged with the old

CB Canarias Club Cantera Base 1939 Canarias S.A.D., commonly known as CB Canarias and known as Lenovo Tenerife for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball team that is based in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain. Domestically, the team pl ...

to create the CB Tenerife Canarias, which it only played two seasons in the new-creation Liga EBA.

Season by season

Notable players

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* Bobby Lee Hurt

References

Profile at Eskudoteka
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tenerife AB Defunct basketball teams in Spain Former Liga ACB teams Basketball teams established in 1986 Basketball teams disestablished in 1994 Basketball teams in the Canary Islands Sport in Santa Cruz de Tenerife