Real Estelí Baloncesto is a Nicaraguan

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. Founded in 2018, it is the basketball section of the Real Estelí FC football club, which was founded in 1959. The team entered the Liga Superior de Baloncesto (LSB) for its debut season in 2018 season. Real Estelí's home arena is the Alexis Arguello Sports Complex, which was opened in 2017 and has a capacity of 8,057 people.

History

The first game of the team in the LSB was played on 9 February 2018 against Leones de Managua. In 2019, head coach David Rosario took over the team. Before he joined Estelí, Rosario had been the three-time Baloncesto Superior Nacional champion with Capitanes de Arecibo.Real Estelí lleva su sabor boricua a la Basketball Champions League
Giovanny Vega ( El Vocero), 12 September 2021. Accessed 3 January 2022. In the same year, Real Estelí played in the inaugural season of the newly founded, Basketball Champions League Americas. Real reached the quarterfinals. A year later, the team won its first LSB championship after defeating Brumas de Jinotega in the playoff finals. In April 2021, Real Estelí played in the Final Eight of the 2020–21 BCL Americas and hosted the tournament in Managua. The team managed to reach the final for the first time in club history, where it narrowly lost to Flamengo 80–84. Real Estelí qualified for the 2021–22 BCL Americas season, which was its fourth in a row. El Tren del Norte was allotted into Group A alongside Cangrejeros de Santurce and the Edmonton Stingers. On 3 December 2021, the club repeated as LSB champions after beating Brunas de Jinotega in the final. The following 2022 season, Real Estelí captured their fourth title.

Honours

National

Liga Superior de Baloncesto *Champions (6): 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024 Carlos Ulloa Tournament *Champions (1): 2022

International

BCL Americas The Basketball Champions League Americas (BCLA) (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Liga de Campeones de Baloncesto de las Américas'', Portuguese language, Portuguese: ''Liga dos Campeões de Basquetebol das Américas'') is Americas, Pan-America's pr ...

*Runner-up (1): 2020–21 Liga Centroamericana *Winners (1): 2018

Players

Current roster

Performance in international competitions

Champions Runners-up Third place Fourth place

Basketball Champions League Americas

Below are all the seasons of Real Estelí in the

competition. Champions Runners-up

Notable players

- Set a club record or won an individual award as a professional player.
- Played at least one official international match for his senior national team at any time.
* Delroy James * Renaldo Balkman * Alex Franklin * Javier Mojica * Melsahn Basabe * D'or Fischer

References

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External links

REAL ESTELI profile
- Champions League Americas
Real Estelí Baloncesto
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