Basket Zaragoza 2002 S.A.D., more commonly referred to as Basket Zaragoza and as Casademont Zaragoza for sponsorship reasons, is a professional

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club based in

Zaragoza Zaragoza, also known in English as Saragossa,''Encyclopædia Britannica'"Zaragoza (conventional Saragossa)" is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It lies by the Ebro river and its tributari ...

, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB. Their home arena is the

Pabellón Príncipe Felipe Pabellón Príncipe Felipe is an arena in Zaragoza, Spain. Opened on 17 April 1990, the arena holds 10,744 people. It is primarily used for basketball (home of Basket Zaragoza) and handball (home of Caja3 Aragón). Events hosted The arena host ...

History

Basket Zaragoza was founded in 2002 with the aim of giving the city of Zaragoza back to the Spanish basketball elite league, after old

CB Zaragoza Club Baloncesto Zaragoza is a basketball team based in Zaragoza, Aragón, who played from 1981 to 1996 in the top Spanish league (Liga ACB since 1983) and now plays in the 1ª División, the fifth tier. Most of the years in which the team played ...

left the Liga ACB on 1996. It started playing on LEB, after taking the place belonging to

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. CAI Zaragoza spent five hard years on LEB league before reaching Liga ACB for the first time. The team had to overcome a relegation playoff in its first season against CB Ciudad de Huelva, and four consecutive failed promotion playoffs against

CB Granada Club Baloncesto Granada, S.A.D. was a professional basketball team based in Granada, Andalusia. The team was founded in 1994 and has had notable players during its history, including Curtis Borchardt, Darvin Ham, Giorgos Sigalas, Scott Padgett, P ...

CB Murcia UCAM Universidad Católica de Murcia Club de Baloncesto, S.A.D., more commonly referred to as UCAM Murcia, is a professional basketball team based in Murcia, Spain. It plays their home games at Palacio de Deportes. History Founded in 1985 u ...

and

Baloncesto León Club Baloncesto León was a basketball team, based in León, Spain. History Early years (1981-1988) Baloncesto León was founded by José Antonio Moirón García, Enrique Emperador Marcos, Juan Carlos Rodríguez Villanueva, Lisardo Mourelo Gonz� ...

twice. Finally, CAI Zaragoza got promoted to Liga ACB after winning the title of the 2007–08 season, but its first participation on it was a total failure. CAI Zaragoza got immediately relegated, after being defeated in the last day by

. Nevertheless, the team arranged returned to Liga ACB on the next season after the arrival of homegrown coach José Luis Abós. Under Abos, CAI Zaragoza established on the top Spanish basketball competition; in the 2012–13 season, they qualifying for the first time to the

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and reached the ACB semifinals in their first participation in the play-offs for the title. This success allowed CAI Zaragoza to make their debut in European competitions by playing the EuroCup Basketball during three consecutive seasons, reaching the Last 16 stage in the 2015–16 season. Nevertheless, after Abós's untimely death in 2014, the team struggled in the national competition, and went from reaching the play-offs to barely avoiding relegation. In 2016, after 14 years with CAI, the club changed the sponsorship naming to ''Tecnyconta Zaragoza''. In the 2018-19 ACB season, under

Porfirio Fisac Porfirio Fisac de Diego (born January 24, 1965) is a Spanish basketball coach for Casademont Zaragoza of the Liga ACB. He was the head coach of the Senegalese national team, participant at the AfroBasket 2017. Coaching career Born in Fuente ...

's coaching and after a profound change in their roster, Tecnyconta Zaragoza returned to the ACB play-off and reached the semifinals for the second time in their history. On 15 June 2020, Basket Zaragoza created the women's team by integrating the professional team of

Stadium Casablanca Stadium Casablanca (also known as Mann-Filter for sponsorship reasons), was a sports club based in Zaragoza. The women's basketball section played in the Liga Femenina de Baloncesto until 2020 when the structure of the club was integrare into the ...

Logos

File:Basket Zaragoza logo.png, Non-commercial logo until 2017. File:Basket Zaragoza 2002.png, Logo under the sponsorship of CAI.

Players

Current roster

Depth chart

Season by season

Honours

National leagues

*2nd division championships: (2) ** LEB: (2)

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, 2010 * Copa Príncipe de Asturias: (1) **2004 *Copa Aragón: (2) **2018, 2019

European competition

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**Third place: 2020–21

Individual awards

Copa Príncipe de Asturias MVP * Matías Lescano – 2004

Basketball Champions League Best Young Player The Basketball Champions League (BCL) Best Young Player in an annual award of the Basketball Champions League, which is the third-tier level European-wide professional club basketball league, that is given to the player the Basketball Champions Le ...

* Carlos Alocén – 2020

Players database

::''Updated as of the end of the 2014–15 season''

Coaches database

Women's team

Since 2020, Basket Zaragoza has also a women's team. It was created after integrating

into the structure of the club. Basket Zaragoza joined to Liga Femenina, instead of Stadium Casablanca which joined to Liga Femenina 2 as a

reserve team In sports, a reserve team is a team composed of players under contract to a club but who do not normally play in matches for the first team. Reserve teams often include back-up players from the first team, young players who need playing time to i ...

Season by season

References

External links

Official website

Basket Zaragoza
at ACB.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Zaragoza Basketball teams in Aragon Sport in Zaragoza Basketball teams established in 2002 Liga ACB teams