Club Básquet Coruña, more commonly referred by its sponsorship name of Leyma Básquet Coruña, is a professional basketball team based in A Coruña, Galicia. The team currently plays in the spanish first division, Liga Endesa.
| Leyma Básquet Coruña | |||
|---|---|---|---|
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| Leagues | Liga Endesa | ||
| Founded | 1996 | ||
| Arena | Coliseum da Coruña | ||
| Capacity | 11.000 | ||
| Location | A Coruña, Spain | ||
| Team colors | Orange and blue | ||
| President | Roberto Cibeira | ||
| Head coach | Diego Epifanio | ||
| Championships | 1 LEB Oro 1 Copa Galicia | ||
| Website | basquetcoruna.com | ||
History
CB Coruña was founded in 1996 as a merger of clubs CB Ventorrillo and CB Arteixo. This club would substitute former Baloncesto Coruña CAB, that played its last season in Liga EBA before being dissolved.
After playing some seasons at Liga EBA, the club joined LEB League, where it remained four years, known as Sondeos del Norte due to sponsorship reasons. In 2002, CB Coruña sold its LEB spot to a new club Basket Zaragoza. After that, the club could continue playing in Liga EBA, thanks to the promotion of its reserve team.
In 2004, Básquet Coruña did not participate in any competition due to financial reasons, but the club comes back in 2005 to Liga EBA. In 2007, the club was invited to the newly created fourth tier LEB Bronce as one of the participants of the Final Stage of the 2006–07 Liga EBA. In their debut season, the club clinched the promotion to LEB Plata where it finished in the relegation positions in their first season. However, the club was repechaged due to the existence of vacant berths.
Básquet Coruña consolidated in LEB Plata until 2012, when it achieved a vacant berth in LEB Oro, coming back to the Spanish second division ten years later.
Players
Current roster
Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.
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Depth chart
| Pos. | Starting 5 | Bench 1 | Bench 2 |
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| C | Atoumane Diagne | Javier Vega | |
| PF | Lotanna Nwogbo | Alejandro Galan | |
| SF | Yunio Barrueta | Djordje Simeunovic | Santiago Martinez |
| SG | Aleix Font | Karl Olle Lundqvist | Alejandro Hernandez |
| PG | Goran Filipovic | Ingus Jakovics | Pau Isern |
Colours: Blue = homegrown player; Red = non-FIBA Europe player
Season by season
| Season | Tier | Division | Pos. | W–L | Cup competitions | ||||
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| 1996–97 | 3 | Liga EBA | 1st | Copa EBA | RU | ||||
| 1997–98 | 3 | Liga EBA | 1st[a] | 23–3 | Copa EBA | SF | |||
| 1998–99 | 2 | LEB | 13th | 10–20 | |||||
| 1999–00 | 2 | LEB | 13th | 12–18 | |||||
| 2000–01 | 2 | LEB | 14th | 13–20 | |||||
| 2001–02 | 2 | LEB | 14th[b] | 12–22 | |||||
| 2002–03 | 4 | Liga EBA | 4th | 22–8 | |||||
| 2003–04 | 4 | Liga EBA | 3rd | 27–8 | |||||
| 2004–05 | Did not enter any competition | ||||||||
| 2005–06 | 4 | Liga EBA | 8th | 15–15 | |||||
| 2006–07 | 4 | Liga EBA | 2nd | 21–9 | |||||
| 2007–08 | 4 | LEB Bronce | 3rd | 21–15 | |||||
| 2008–09 | 3 | LEB Plata | 15th[c] | 9–21 | |||||
| 2009–10 | 3 | LEB Plata | 10th | 17–15 | |||||
| 2010–11 | 3 | LEB Plata | 11th | 9–19 | |||||
| 2011–12 | 3 | LEB Plata | 7th[d] | 13–13 | |||||
| 2012–13 | 2 | LEB Oro | 9th | 13–18 | |||||
| 2013–14 | 2 | LEB Oro | 6th | 14–14 | |||||
| 2014–15 | 2 | LEB Oro | 10th | 12–16 | |||||
| 2015–16 | 2 | LEB Oro | 5th | 22–18 | |||||
| 2016–17 | 2 | LEB Oro | 6th | 22–17 | |||||
| 2017–18 | 2 | LEB Oro | 8th | 18–21 | |||||
| 2018–19 | 2 | LEB Oro | 12th | 14–20 | |||||
| 2019–20 | 2 | LEB Oro | 3rd[e] | 16–8 | |||||
| 2020–21 | 2 | LEB Oro | 3rd | 21–10 | |||||
| 2021–22 | 2 | LEB Oro | 7th | 19–18 | |||||
| 2022–23 | 2 | LEB Oro | 6th | 24–12 | |||||
| 2023–24 | 2 | LEB Oro | 1st | 27–7 | Copa Princesa | RU | |||
Trophies and awards
Trophies
- LEB Oro: (1)
- Copa Galicia: (1)
- 1996
Individual awards
- Robert Joseph – 2009