The 2019–20
Liga EBA season was the 26th season of the Spanish
basketball
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fourth league. It started on 21 September 2019 with the first round of the regular season and was curtailed on 8 May 2020 due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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.
Season summary
On March 10, 2020, the
Government of Spain
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The Government consists of the Prime Minister and the Ministers; the prime minister has the ...
decreed that all games would be played
behind closed doors due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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. On March 12, 2020, the
Spanish Basketball Federation 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
state of alarm. 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 May 8, 2020, the Spanish Basketball Federation finished prematurely the regular season due to
force majeure with the following decisions:
*Relegations to
Primera División were revoked.
*Six promotions to
LEB Plata were agreed as follows:
**The top team in each of the five conferences as of March 8 promoted directly to LEB Plata.
**The 6th promotion were determined under a ranking among the next best qualified team of the five conferences as of March 8, using as criteria the number of years of participation in FEB competitions during the last five seasons. In case of a tie, the number of participations in higher competitions during the last five seasons would be valued differently.
On June 22, 2020, the Spanish Basketball Federation announced the six teams that promoted to LEB Plata.
Before this announcement,
Universitat de Vic CB Vic, best team of the Group C, resigned to promotion.
Conference A
The Conference A consisted of 2 groups of 15 and 14 teams from
Galicia,
Asturias
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It is coextensive with the provinces of Spain, province of Asturias and contains some of the territory t ...
,
Cantabria
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,
Castile and León
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,
Navarre
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,
La Rioja
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and
Basque Country.
Teams
Regular season
Group A–A
Group A–B
Conference B
The Conference B consisted of 16 teams from
Canary Islands
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,
Castilla–La Mancha
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and
Community of Madrid
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.
Teams
Regular season
League table
Conference C
The Conference C consisted of 2 groups of 14 teams from
Aragon
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,
Catalonia
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and
Balearic Islands
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.
Teams
Regular season
Group C–A
Group C–B
Conference D
The Conference D consisted of 2 groups of 10 and 9 teams from
Andalusia
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,
Extremadura
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,
Ceuta
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and
Melilla
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.
Teams
Regular season
Group D–A
Group D–B
Second stage
Promotion group
Relegation group
Conference E
The Conference E consisted of 2 groups of eight and nine teams from
Valencian Community
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and
Murcia
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.
Teams
Regular season
Group E–A
Group E–B
Second stage
Promotion group
Relegation group
References
External links
Liga EBA at FEB.es
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