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The 2019–20
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season was the 24th season of the Spanish
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second league. It started on 25 September 2019 with the first round of the regular season and was curtailed on 25 May 2020 due to the
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.


Teams


Promotion and relegation (pre-season)

A total of 18 teams contested the league, including 13 sides from the 2018–19 season, two relegated from the 2018–19 ACB and three promoted from the 2018–19 LEB Plata. ;Teams relegated from Liga ACB * Delteco Gipuzkoa Basket * Leche Río Breogán ;Teams promoted from
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*
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* Afanion CB Almansa * Marín Ence PeixeGalego


Venues and locations


Personnel and sponsorship


Managerial changes


Season summary

On March 10, 2020, the
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decreed that all games would be played behind closed doors due to the
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. On March 12, 2020, the
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postponed all the games of the next two weeks. On March 18, 2020, the Spanish Basketball Federation extended the postponement of the games until March 29 due to the
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. On March 25, 2020, the Spanish Basketball Federation extended the postponement of the games until April 12 due to the extension of state of alarm. On April 15, 2020, the Spanish Basketball Federation started talks with the LEB Oro clubs to resolve the future of the league. On April 23, 2020, the Spanish Basketball Federation agreed with the LEB Oro clubs to revoke relegations to
LEB Plata The LEB Plata is the third basketball division of the Spanish basketball league system and the second basketball division organized by the Spanish Basketball Federation. Since 2019, three teams are promoted to LEB Oro and six teams are relegated to ...
and advance in the formula to define the promotions to Liga ACB. On May 8, 2020, the Spanish Basketball Federation finished prematurely the regular season due to force majeure with the following decisions: *Relegations to LEB Plata were revoked. *Promotions to Liga ACB remained. *Promotion playoffs would be played, as long as, on May 25, the Spanish Basketball Federation had the confirmation that it could be played before June 30, setting the health of the players as an absolute priority, and provided that it was certain that health authorities and clubs could comply with approved health protocols. *Promotion playoffs would be as follows: **The two top teams as of March 8 would play a game for decide the direct promotion. For this game, the game held in the regular season between the teams involved would be taken into consideration, and the winner of the basket average of both games would promote directly to Liga ACB. **Three matches would be played between the next six top teams as of March 8: 3rd vs. 8th, 4th vs. 7th, and 5th vs. 6th. The three winners, together with the losing team of the direct promotion game, would play a Final Four, whose winner would promote to Liga ACB. *If the sanitary conditions would make it impossible to play the promotion playoffs, the two top teams as of March 8 would promote to Liga ACB. On May 25, 2020, the Spanish Basketball Federation cancelled the promotion playoffs and approved the promotions to Liga ACB of the two top teams.


Regular season


League table


Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after completion of each round. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included in the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards.


Results


Copa Princesa de Asturias

The
Copa Princesa de Asturias The Copa Princesa de Asturias de Baloncesto (English: ''Princess of Asturias' Cup of Basketball'') is an annual 2nd-tier level national cup competition for Spanish professional basketball teams, that is organized by Spain's 2nd-tier level professi ...
was played on 5 February 2020, by the two first qualified teams after the end of the first half of the season (round 17). The champion of the cup would play the playoffs against the ninth qualified if it would finished the league between the second and the fifth qualified.


Teams qualified


Game


Awards

All official awards of the 2019–20 LEB Oro season.


Copa Princesa de Asturias MVP

Source:


Player of the round


Regular season


Notes


References


External links


Official website
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LEB Oro LEB or Leb may refer to: * Lausanne–Echallens–Bercher railway, Switzerland * Lebanon, UNDP country code * Lebanon Municipal Airport (New Hampshire) (FAA identifier) * Lexham English Bible * Life expectancy at birth * Liga Española de Balonc ...