Palencia Baloncesto, officially named as CD Zunder Palencia, is a professional

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team based in

Palencia Palencia () is a city of Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is the capital and most populated municipality of the province of Palencia. Located in the Northwest of the Iberian Peninsula, in the northern half o ...

, Castile and León. The team currently plays in league

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History

The club was founded in 1979 at Colegio Marista of Palencia, with the aim to support farm teams competing at provincial and regional tournaments. The professional basketball team was created on 1997 and played during five years at Liga EBA before being invited to join the

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. On the 2008–09, Palencia Baloncesto won the

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and was champion of this league, promoting for the first time in their history to

, the Spanish second division. In 2014 Palencia Baloncesto was defeated by

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in the promotion playoffs finals to Liga ACB by 1–3. Two years later, the club achieved the promotion by finishing as champion of the 2015–16 LEB Oro season and the Copa Princesa de Asturias, but resigned to promote due to the impossibility to fulfill the requirements.

Naming

CD Maristas Palencia had several denominations through the years: *Maristas Palencia: 1979–2002 *Hormigones Saldaña Palencia: 2002–2005 * Provincia de Palencia: 2005–2006 *Alimentos de Palencia: 2006–2008 *Faymasa Palencia: 2008–2009 *Palencia Baloncesto: 2009–2013 *Quesos Cerrato Palencia: 2013–2017 *Chocolates Trapa Palencia: 2017–present

Players

Current roster

Depth chart

Head coaches

*Natxo Lezkano 2008–2015 *

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2015 *Sergio García 2015–2017 *Joaquín Pardo 2017–2018 *Alejandro Martínez 2018–2019 * Carles Marco 2019–2022 *Pedro Rivero 2022–

Season by season

Trophies and awards

Trophies

: (1) **

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* Copa Princesa de Asturias: (3) ** 2015,

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: (1) ** 2009 *

: (1) ** 2009 * Copa Castilla y León: (2) **2012, 2015

Individual awards

All-LEB Oro Team *Urko Otegui – 2013 *Marc Blanch – 2016

Notable players

* Charles Abouo * Mike Hansen * Nikola Mirotić *

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* Jeff Xavier * Gabrielius Maldūnas *

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References

External links

Official websiteNon official website
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