Tenerife Club de Baloncesto was a professional

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team based in

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, Canary Islands,

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History

Tenerife CB was founded in 1996 after the fusion of some teams of the islands and debuts in

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in the 1996–97 season, the first of this league. In the 2002–03 season, Tenerife plays the FIBA Champions' Cup and reaches the second stage. In the same year, Tenerife CB becomes champion of the Copa Príncipe and promotes to Liga ACB, where plays two seasons before being relegated to

. In summer of 2010, Tenerife CB renounces to its berth in

due to financial problems and is relegated to Liga EBA. In the next summer and after reaching the promotion playoffs, Tenerife CB achieved a vacant berth to play in

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, the Spanish basketball third division. In 2013, the club was not allowed to play the lowest regional category in the Canary Islands.El Tenerife Baloncesto no jugará en Primera Autonómica
; Marcha Deportiva, 7 October 2013

Season by season

Trophies and awards

Trophies

* Copa Príncipe: (1) **2003 * Trofeo Gobierno de Canarias: (2) **2002, 2005

Individual awards

LEB Oro MVP *Lawrence Lewis – 2002

Notable players

Jorge Racca Jorge Oscar Racca (born September 4, 1971 in General Pico, La Pampa, Argentina) is an Argentine-Italian retired male professional basketball player. At 6'6" (1.98 m) and 218 lbs. (99 kg), he played at the shooting guard and small forward posit ...

1 season: '04-'05 * José Ángel Antelo 1 season: '08-'09 * Nacho Yáñez 2 seasons: '02-'04 * Richi Guillén 1 season: '03-'04 *

Antwain Barbour Antwain La'Mar Barbour (born June 27, 1982) is an American former professional basketball player who last played for Hoops Club of the Lebanese Basketball League. Kentucky High School Sweet 16 State Champion 2000 (Elizabethtown). MVP Kentucky ...

3 seasons: '06-'09 *

Alpha Bangura Alpha Mohamed Bangura (born February 4, 1980) is a Libyan-Sierra Leonean former professional basketball player who competed as a member of the Libya national basketball team at the FIBA Africa Championship 2009. Amateur career Bangura is a gradua ...

1 season: '05-'06 *

Gustavo Ayón Gustavo Alfonso Ayón Aguirre (born April 1, 1985) is a Mexican former professional basketball player. His last team was Capitanes de Arecibo of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN). He also represents the senior Mexican national basketball te ...

1 season: '09-'10 * Sitapha Savané 3 seasons: '01-'04 * Christian Maråker 1 season: '08-'09 * Gimel Lewis 1 season: '07-'08 *

Ashraf Amaya Ashraf Omar Amaya (born November 23, 1971) is an American former professional basketball player. High school career Amaya attended Oak Park and River Forest High School for his freshman year, but he transferred to Walther Lutheran High School to ...

1 season: '04 *

Bernard Hopkins Bernard Hopkins Jr. (born January 15, 1965) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1988 to 2016. He is one of the most successful boxers of the past three decades, having held multiple world championships in two weight clas ...

2 seasons: '03-'05 * Chris Alexander 1 season: '07-'08 *

Kenny Miller Kenneth Miller (born 23 December 1979) is a Scottish professional football coach and former player. Miller, who played as a striker, is one of only five post-war players to have played for both Rangers and Celtic. Miller began his career at ...

1 season: '02-'03 * Lou Roe 1 season: '09-'10 *

Venson Hamilton Shad Venson Hamilton (born August 11, 1977) is an American former professional basketball player. College career A graduate of East Rutherford High School in Forest City, North Carolina, Hamilton played college basketball at the University of Ne ...

1 season: '02-'03

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tenerife Cb Defunct basketball teams in Spain Former LEB Oro teams Sport in Tenerife Basketball teams established in 1996 Former Liga ACB teams Former LEB Plata teams Basketball teams disestablished in 2013 Former Liga EBA teams Basketball teams in the Canary Islands 1996 establishments in Spain 2013 disestablishments in Spain