Valencia Basket

Nickname

Taronjas (Oranges)

Leagues

Liga ACB
EuroLeague

Founded

27 September 1986

History

Valencia Basket
(1986–Present)

Arena

Fuente de San Luis

Capacity

8,500

Location

Valencia, Spain

Team colors

Orange, Black, White

President

Vicent J. Solá

Head coach

Txus Vidorreta

Team captain

Rafa Martínez

Championships

1 Spanish League
1 Spanish Cup
3 EuroCup

Retired numbers

2 (11, 15)

Website

valenciabasket.com

Uniforms

Home

Away

EuroLeague

Valencia Basket Club S.A.D.,^[1] commonly known as Valencia Basket (pronounced [baˈlenθja basˈket]), is a professional basketball team that is based in Valencia, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB and the EuroLeague, with home games played at the Fuente de San Luis.

History

Valencia Basket was founded on 27 September 1986, after Valencia CF decided to fold its basketball section.^[2]

On 4 May 1988, while in its second season in the Primera División B, which was the second tier league of Spanish basketball at that time, the team won its first promotion to the Spanish top-tier level ACB,^[3] where the team remained until the 1994–95 season. In 1995, Valencia was relegated to the Spanish 2nd-tier level EBA League, after falling in the league's relegation playoff against Somontano Huesca. In the next season, after being the runner-up in Liga EBA, in a non-promoting season, Valencia BC bought Amway Zaragoza's ACB place to join the top league, where it has remained until nowadays.

On 2 February 1998, Pamesa Valencia won its first Spanish national title, after beating Pinturas Bruguer Badalona, by a score of 89–75, in the final of the 1998 Copa del Rey, which was played in Valladolid. One year later, on 13 April 1999, the club played in the final of the 1998–99 FIBA Saporta Cup, but was defeated by Benetton Treviso, 64–60, in the final played in Zaragoza. The years later, the club repeated the same success, but Montepaschi Siena won the final of the 2001–02 FIBA Saporta Cup, by a score of 81–71, in Lyon, France.

Continuing the club's best years, the 2001–02 ACB season was historic for the club, as it reached the Spanish ACB League finals, where they could not win any game in their series against FC Barcelona. Before this first success in reaching the finals of the Spanish league's playoffs, Pamesa Valencia won its first European-wide title, by defeating Krka Novo Mesto in the 2002–03 ULEB Cup, which would then also allow the club to make its debut in the European top-tier level EuroLeague.

In its first EuroLeague participation, Pamesa Valencia qualified for the Top 16, but was eliminated there, after not contesting its game at Nokia Arena against Maccabi Elite, adducing security issues in Israel.^[4]

On 18 April 2010, Power Electronics Valencia won its second European title, by beating Alba Berlin, 67–44, in the 2010 Eurocup Finals, which was played in Vitoria-Gasteiz.^[5] This allowed the club to come back to the top level EuroLeague, seven years after its first participation in the tournament. This time, Valencia reached the EuroLeague quarterfinals, where it was eliminated by Real Madrid, who won the playoff series by a 3–2 margin.

The club's third European-wide 2nd-tier level EuroCup title arrived on 7 May 2014, when Valencia beat UNICS Kazan in the double-legged finals.

On 5 June 2017, Valencia Basket qualified for its second Liga ACB after defeating in Baskonia in the semifinals of the playoffs. This time, they would win its first league ever on 16 June 2017 by defeating Real Madrid 3–1 in the finals.^[6] In the same season they reached the finals of both Copa del Rey and the EuroCup, but lost to Real Madrid and fellow Spanish side Unicaja, respectively. By winning the championship, Valencia also sealed their return to top-tier EuroLeague for the 2017–18 season.

Arena

External and internal view of La Fonteta

Valencia Basket plays its home games at the 8,500 seat^[7] Fuente de San Luis arena, however the arena is better known as La Fonteta.

Sponsorship naming

Valencia Basket has had several sponsorship names over the years:

Valencia-Hoja del Lunes: 1986–1987
Pamesa Valencia: 1987–2009
Power Electronics Valencia: 2009–2011

Logos

1987–2009 (The logo during the Pamesa era).
2009–present (Original non commercial logo).
2016–2017 (30 year anniversary logo).

Players

Retired numbers

N°	Player	Position	Tenure
Valencia Basket retired numbers
11	Nacho Rodilla	G	1994–2003
15	Víctor Luengo	G	1992–2007

Current roster

Valencia Basket roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	#	Nat.	Name	Ht.	Wt.	Age
2.5 !G/F	7000600000000000000♠6	ESP !	Abalde, Alberto	7000202000000000000♠2.02 m (6 ft 8 in)	7001930000000000000♠93 kg (205 lb)	7001210000000000000♠21 – (1995-12-15)15 December 1995
1.5 !G	7000800000000000000♠8	FRA !	Diot, Antoine	7000193000000000000♠1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)	7001860000000000000♠86 kg (190 lb)	7001280000000000000♠28 – (1989-01-17)17 January 1989
3.5 !F		CAN !	Doornekamp, Aaron	7000200999999999999♠2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)	7001960000000000000♠96 kg (212 lb)	7001310000000000000♠31 – (1985-12-05)5 December 1985
4.5 !F/C	7001140000000000000♠14	MNE !	Dubljević, Bojan	7000204999999999999♠2.05 m (6 ft 9 in)	7002111000000000000♠111 kg (245 lb)	7001250000000000000♠25 – (1991-10-24)24 October 1991
1.5 !G		USA !	Green, Erick	7000193000000000000♠1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)	7001840000000000000♠84 kg (185 lb)	7001250000000000000♠25 – (1992-05-09)9 May 1992
5.0 !C		ISL !	Hlinason, Tryggvi (EBA)	7000216000000000000♠2.16 m (7 ft 1 in)	7001980000000000000♠98 kg (216 lb)	7001190000000000000♠19 – (1997-10-28)28 October 1997
2.0 !SG	7001170000000000000♠17	ESP !	Martínez, Rafa (C)	7000190000000000000♠1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)	7001820000000000000♠82 kg (181 lb)	7001350000000000000♠35 – (1982-03-03)3 March 1982
5.0 !C		GER !	Pleiß, Tibor	7000221000000000000♠2.21 m (7 ft 3 in)	7002116000000000000♠116 kg (256 lb)	7001270000000000000♠27 – (1989-11-02)2 November 1989
1.5 !G		ESP !	Rico, Andrés (EBA)	7000191000000000000♠1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)	7001710000000000000♠71 kg (157 lb)	7001200000000000000♠20 – (1997-04-13)13 April 1997
3.0 !SF	7001190000000000000♠19	ESP !	San Emeterio, Fernando	7000199000000000000♠1.99 m (6 ft 6 in)	7002105000000000000♠105 kg (231 lb)	7001330000000000000♠33 – (1984-01-01)1 January 1984
3.0 !SF	7001300000000000000♠30	ESP !	Sastre, Joan	7000200999999999999♠2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)	7001860000000000000♠86 kg (190 lb)	7001250000000000000♠25 – (1991-12-10)10 December 1991
2.5 !G/F	7001100000000000000♠10	CAF !	Sato, Romain	7000195000000000000♠1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)	7002101000000000000♠101 kg (223 lb)	7001360000000000000♠36 – (1981-03-02)2 March 1981
4.0 !PF	5000000000000000000♠0	USA !	Thomas, Will	7000202999999999999♠2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)	7002104000000000000♠104 kg (229 lb)	7001310000000000000♠31 – (1986-07-01)1 July 1986
1.0 !PG	7001160000000000000♠16	ESP !	Vives, Guillem	7000191000000000000♠1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)	7001860000000000000♠86 kg (190 lb)	7001230000000000000♠23 – (1993-09-16)16 September 1993
4.5 !F/C		USA !	Williams, Latavious	7000202999999999999♠2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)	7002104000000000000♠104 kg (229 lb)	7001280000000000000♠28 – (1989-03-29)29 March 1989

Head coach

Txus Vidorreta

Assistant coach(es)

Jaume Ponsarnau
Juan Maroto

Legend

(C) Team captain
(EBA) On assignment to Liga EBA affiliate
Injured

Updated: July 28, 2017

Depth chart

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench 1	Bench 2	Bench 3
C	Latavious Williams	Tibor Pleiß		Tryggvi Hlinason
PF	Bojan Dubljević	Will Thomas	Aaron Doornekamp
SF	Fernando San Emeterio	Joan Sastre	Romain Sato
SG	Erick Green	Rafa Martínez	Alberto Abalde
PG	Guillem Vives	Antoine Diot		Andrés Rico

Coaches

Toni Ferrer: 1986–1987, 1989
Antoni Serra: 1987–1989
José Antonio Figueroa: 1989–1991
Fernando Jiménez: 1991
Manu Moreno: 1992–1995
Herb Brown: 1995
Mihajlo Vuković: 1995–2000
Luis Casimiro: 2000–2002
Paco Olmos: 2002–2004, 2011–2012
Pablo Laso: 2004–2005
Chechu Mulero: 2005, 2006
Ricard Casas: 2005–2006
Fotios Katsikaris: 2006–2008
Neven Spahija: 2008–2010
Manolo Hussein: 2010
Svetislav Pešić: 2010–2011
Velimir Perasović: 2012–2015
Carles Duran: 2015
Pedro Martínez: 2015–2017
Txus Vidorreta: 2017–present

Season by season

Season	Tier	Division	Pos.	W–L	Copa del Rey	Other cups		European competitions
1986–87	2	1ª División B	19th	14–20
1987–88	2	1ª División B	8th	24–19
1988–89	1	Liga ACB	16th	12–27	First round
1989–90	1	Liga ACB	10th	27–12	Round of 16
1990–91	1	Liga ACB	9th	18–22	Second round
1991–92	1	Liga ACB	9th	21–19	Second round
1992–93	1	Liga ACB	10th	19–15	Second round
1993–94	1	Liga ACB	12th	15–17	First round
1994–95	1	Liga ACB	19th	16–26	First round
1995–96	2	Liga EBA	2nd^{[lower-alpha 1]}	28–10
1996–97	1	Liga ACB	11th	17–17
1997–98	1	Liga ACB	7th	21–17	Champion
1998–99	1	Liga ACB	6th	20–19	Quarterfinalist			2 Saporta Cup	RU	17–2
1999–00	1	Liga ACB	6th	20–17	Runner-up			2 Saporta Cup	QF	13–3
2000–01	1	Liga ACB	5th	23–15	Semifinalist			2 Saporta Cup	SF	11–5
2001–02	1	Liga ACB	6th	22–16	Quarterfinalist			2 Saporta Cup	RU	13–4
2002–03	1	Liga ACB	2nd	32–13	Semifinalist			2 ULEB Cup	C	14–4
2003–04	1	Liga ACB	5th	24–14	Quarterfinalist			1 Euroleague	T16	13–7
2004–05	1	Liga ACB	9th	18–16	Semifinalist			2 ULEB Cup	SF	11–1–4
2005–06	1	Liga ACB	9th	16–18	Runner-up
2006–07	1	Liga ACB	7th	20–18
2007–08	1	Liga ACB	5th	23–14	Quarterfinalist			2 ULEB Cup	QF	10–5
2008–09	1	Liga ACB	7th	16–18	Quarterfinalist			2 Eurocup	QF	10–3
2009–10	1	Liga ACB	5th	23–13	Semifinalist			2 Eurocup	C	14–2
2010–11	1	Liga ACB	5th	24–12	Semifinalist	Supercopa	RU	1 Euroleague	QF	10–11
2011–12	1	Liga ACB	4th	23–18				2 Eurocup	RU	12–4
2012–13	1	Liga ACB	6th	23–14	Runner-up	Supercopa	SF	2 Eurocup	SF	11–5
2013–14	1	Liga ACB	3rd	34–8	Semifinalist			2 Eurocup	C	15–9
2014–15	1	Liga ACB	4th	23–18	Quarterfinalist	Supercopa	SF	1 Euroleague	RS	3–7
2014–15	1	Liga ACB	4th	23–18	Quarterfinalist	Supercopa	SF	2 Eurocup	QF	5–5
2015–16	1	Liga ACB	3rd	31–9	Quarterfinalist			2 Eurocup	L32	13–3
2016–17	1	Liga ACB	1st	31–12	Runner-up			2 EuroCup	RU	18–5
2017–18	1	Liga ACB				Supercopa		1 EuroLeague

↑ Bought the ACB berth to Amway Zaragoza.

Trophies and awards

The Copa del Rey and the three EuroCups conquered by the club.

Trophies

Liga ACB: (1)

2017

Runners-up (1): 2003

Copa del Rey: (1)

1998

Runners-up (4): 2000, 2006, 2013, 2017

Saporta Cup:

Runners-up (2): 1999, 2002

EuroCup Basketball: (3)

2003, 2010, 2014

Runners-up (2): 2012, 2017

Individual awards

ACB Most Valuable Player

Justin Doellman – 2014

ACB Finals MVP

Bojan Dubljević – 2017

Spanish Cup MVP

Nacho Rodilla – 1998

All-ACB First Team

Justin Doellman – 2014
Romain Sato – 2014
Pau Ribas – 2015
Justin Hamilton – 2016
Bojan Dubljević – 2017

ACB Slam Dunk Champion

Víctor Claver – 2007

EuroCup Finals MVP

Dejan Tomašević – 2003
Matt Nielsen – 2010
Justin Doellman – 2014

EuroCup Rising Star Award

Víctor Claver – 2010
Bojan Dubljević – 2013, 2014

EuroCup Coach of the Year

Pedro Martínez – 2017

All-EuroLeague Second Team

Duško Savanović – 2011

All-EuroCup First Team

Nando De Colo – 2010
Matt Nielsen – 2010
Nik Caner-Medley – 2012
Justin Doellman – 2013, 2014
Bojan Dubljević – 2017

All-EuroCup Second Team

Notable players

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.

Criteria
To appear in this section a player must have either: Played at least one season for the club. Set a club record or won an individual award while at the club. Played at least one official international match for their national team at any time.

Women's team

Since 2014, Valencia BC has also a women's team. It was created after integrating the youth system of Ros Casares Valencia, former EuroLeague Women champion club which dissolved its senior squad in 2012.^[8]

In its first season, Valencia BC plays in Primera División, the third tier of Spanish women's basketball.^[9]

Season by season

Season	Tier	Division	Pos.	Postseason
2014–15	3	1ª División	2	Promotion playoffs
2015–16	3	1ª División	1	Promoted
2016–17	2	Liga Femenina 2	10

References

↑ "Relación de SAD — Portal del Consejo Superior de Deportes" (in Spanish). Consejo Superior de Deportes. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
↑ "Valencia Basket cumple 30 años" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 27 September 2016. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
↑ 23 years from the promotion of Valencia Basket ACB.com May 4, 2011
↑ "El Pamesa no viaja a Tel Aviv y perderá (20-0) el partido" (in Spanish). El País. 25 March 2004. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
↑ "Power Electronic Valencia Champ!". Eurocup Basketball. 18 April 2010. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
↑ "Valencia Basket reescribe su historia (87-76)" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 16 June 2017. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
↑ MUNICIPAL COURT FUENTE DE SAN LUIS CAPACITY: 8.500 spectators
↑ Ros Casares se integra en la Escuela del Valencia Basket; Superdeporte, 18 May 2014 (in Spanish)
↑ Valencia Basket Femenino, un club de cantera; enCancha, 11 October 2014 (in Spanish)

External links

Valencia Basket – current roster
0 Thomas 6 Abalde 8 Diot 10 Sato 14 Dubljević 16 Vives 17 Martínez 19 San Emeterio 30 Sastre Doornekamp Green Hlinason Pleiß Rico Williams
Head coach: Vidorreta Assistant coaches: Ponsarnau Maroto

EuroCup champions squads

Pamesa Valencia 2002–03 ULEB Cup champions
4 Hopkins 5 Cardinal 6 Monetcchia 9 Robles 10 Kammerichs 11 Rodilla 12 Paraíso 13 García 14 Oberto 15 Luengo 18 Tomašević
Head coach: Olmos

Power Electronics Valencia 2009–10 Eurocup champions
7 Perovic 9 Claver 10 Simeon 12 Lishchuk 14 Marinovic 16 Garcia 17 Martinez 20 Pietrus 22 De Colo 23 Shengelia 24 Kelati 44 Nielsen
Head coach: Spahija

Valencia Basket 2013–14 Eurocup champions
4 Triguero 5 Ribas 7 Doellman 9 Van Rossom 10 Sato 12 Lishchuk 13 Lučić 14 Dubljević 17 Martínez 20 Lafayette 24 Abia 34 Aguilar
Head coach: Perasović

Liga ACB
ACB Pyramid ACB MVP ACB Finals MVP All-ACB Team ACB Most Spectacular Player ACB Best Young Player ACB Player of the Month Best Coach AEEB Coach of the Year ACB statistical leaders ACB contests ACB clubs in international competitions
2017–18 Liga ACB teams	Baskonia Divina Seguros Joventut FC Barcelona Lassa Gipuzkoa Basket Herbalife Gran Canaria Iberostar Tenerife Monbus Obradoiro Montakit Fuenlabrada MoraBanc Andorra Movistar Estudiantes Real Madrid RETAbet Bilbao Basket San Pablo Burgos Tecnyconta Zaragoza UCAM Murcia Unicaja Valencia Basket
Liga ACB seasons	1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18
Liga ACB playoffs	1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Finals 2016 2017 2018
Other competitions	Copa del Rey Supercopa

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