Silvia Domínguez Fernández (born 31 January 1987) is a Spanish

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player for

Perfumerías Avenida Perfumerías Avenida Baloncesto formerly C.B. Halcón Viajes, is a women's professional basketball team based in Salamanca, Spain. The team currently plays in the Liga Femenina de Baloncesto. In 2011 Perfumerías Avenida won the Euroleague, and w ...

and the

Spain women's national basketball team The Spain women's national basketball team () represents Spain in international women's basketball competition and are regulated by the Spanish Basketball Federation, the governing body for basketball in Spain. Spain has one of the most succes ...

. She won three EuroLeague Women and multiple medals for Spain.

Club career

Domínguez played basketball from a very young age in school clubs in or around

Barcelona Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ...

and

Badalona Badalona (, , , ) is a municipality in Barcelonès county, in Catalonia (Spain). It is located to the north east of Barcelona, on the left bank of the Besòs River and on the Mediterranean Sea, in the Barcelona metropolitan area. By population, ...

. She moved to

Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...

to play for

CB Estudiantes Club Baloncesto Estudiantes, S.A.D., (English: Club Basketball Students) known simply as Estu and as Movistar Estudiantes for sponsorship reasons, is a basketball team based in the city of Madrid, Spain. It is a member of the Liga ACB, Asociación ...

at 17, before being transferred to

CB Avenida Perfumerías Avenida Baloncesto formerly C.B. Halcón Viajes, is a women's professional basketball team based in Salamanca, Spain. The team currently plays in the Liga Femenina de Baloncesto. In 2011 Perfumerías Avenida won the Euroleague Women, ...

in 2006, becoming a key figure of the team as well as captain, winning the

2010–11 EuroLeague The 2010–11 Turkish Airlines Euroleague was the 11th season of the modern era of professional Euroleague Basketball, and the first under the title sponsorship of Turkish Airlines. Including the competition's previous incarnation as the FIBA Eu ...

. She spent her next season at the other top Spanish of the moment,

Ros Casares Valencia Ros Casares Godella was a professional women's basketball team based in Godella, Spain. It played in the Liga Femenina de Baloncesto between 1996 and 2012, when it resigned to play in EuroLeague and Spanish League. It continued playing in Primer ...

, winning the

2011–12 EuroLeague The 2011–12 Turkish Airlines Euroleague was the 12th season of the modern era of Euroleague and the second under the title sponsorship of Turkish Airlines. Including the competition's previous incarnation as the FIBA Europe Champions Cup, th ...

. She made history one season later, when playing for

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n club

UMMC Ekaterinburg BC Ekaterinburg () is a Russian professional women's basketball team based in Yekaterinburg competing in the Russian Premier League, and until February 2022 in FIBA Europe's EuroLeague Women. Founded in 1938 as Zenit Sverdlovsk, the club had its ...

she won the

2012–13 EuroLeague The 2012–13 Euroleague was the 13th season of the modern era of Euroleague Basketball and the third under the title sponsorship of the Turkish Airlines. Including the competition's previous incarnation as the FIBA Europe Champions Cup, this was ...

, making it three in a row with three clubs. She is back to play in Spain for

since 2015.

EuroLeague and EuroCup statistics

National team

She played in Spain's youth teams from 2003 to 2007, making her debut with the senior team at 19 in 2006. In November 2021 she became the captain of the team, with 197 caps and 4.0 PPG: * 4th

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(''youth'') * Silver medal icon

2004 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship for Women (''youth'') * 5th

2005 FIBA Under-19 World Championship for Women The 2005 FIBA Under-19 World Championship for Women(Arabic: 2005 بطولة العالم لكرة السلة للسيدات تحت 19 سنة) took place in Tunisia from 15 to 24 July 2005. It was co-organised by the International Basketball Feder ...

(''youth'') * Silver medal icon

2005 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship for Women The 2005 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship for Women was an international basketball competition held in Hungary. Final ranking 1. Serbia and Montenegro 2. Spain 3. France 4. Czech Republic 5. Russia 6. Hungary 7. Lithuania 8. Sl ...

(''youth'') * 4th 2006 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship for Women (''youth'') * Gold medal icon

2007 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship for Women The 2007 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship for Women was the sixth edition of the Women's European basketball championship for national under-20 teams. It was held in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 13 to 22 July 2007.2006 World Championship * Bronze medal europe

2009 Eurobasket The 2009 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 2009, was the 36th FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship held by FIBA Europe. The tournament, which was hosted by Poland, began on 7 September and concluded with the ...

* 9th 2011 Eurobasket * Gold medal europe

2013 Eurobasket * Silver medal world centered-2

2014 World Championship * Bronze medal europe

2015 Eurobasket EuroBasket 2015 was the 39th edition of the EuroBasket championship that was organized by FIBA Europe. It was co-hosted by Croatia, France, Germany, and Latvia, making it the first EuroBasket held in more than one country. It started on 5 Sept ...

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events i ...

2017 Eurobasket * Bronze medal world centered-2

2018 World Championship * Gold medal europe

2019 Eurobasket * 7th 2021 Eurobasket * 6th

2020 Summer Olympics The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ...

2023 Eurobasket

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* * * * * 1987 births Living people People from Maresme Basketball players from the Province of Barcelona Point guards Spanish women's basketball players Basketball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Basketball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic basketball players for Spain Olympic medalists in basketball Olympic silver medalists for Spain Ros Casares Valencia players Spanish expatriate basketball people in Russia 21st-century Spanish sportswomen {{Spain-basketball-bio-stub