Valencia Basket

Valencia Basket Club S.A.D., commonly known as Valencia Basket, is a professional basketball team based in Valencia, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB and the EuroCup, with home games played at the Font de Sant Lluís. The club is owned by retail tycoon Juan Roig.

1986–1997
Valencia Basket was founded on 27 September 1986, after Valencia CF decided to fold its basketball section.

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, 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.

1998–2014
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. Three 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 on with some of 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 games 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 Tel Aviv, adducing security issues in Israel.

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. 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.

2015–present
On 5 June 2017, Valencia Basket qualified for its second Spanish Liga ACB Finals series, after defeating Baskonia in the semifinals of the 2017 national league playoffs. This time, the club won its first ever Spanish national domestic league championship, on 16 June 2017, by defeating Real Madrid with a 3–1 series score in the ACB league's finals. In the same season, the club also reached the finals of both the Copa del Rey (Spanish Cup), and the EuroCup, but they lost those finals to Real Madrid, and fellow Spanish side, Unicaja, respectively. By winning the Spanish League championship, Valencia also sealed their return to the next season's top-tier level EuroLeague competition, for the 2017–18 season.

The club's fourth European-wide 2nd-tier level EuroCup title arrived on 16 April 2019, when Valencia beat Alba Berlin, in the double-legged finals.

Arena
During its first season of existence, the team played its home games at the La Canaleta Sports Complex in the municipality of Mislata.

Since 1987 Valencia Basket plays its home games at the 8,500 seat Font de Sant Lluís arena. The arena is better known as La Fonteta.

The club is expected to move to a new 15,600 seat arena called Roig Arena (previously proposed as Casal España Arena), with the inauguration scheduled for 2024.

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

Depth chart
† indicates an overseas player.

* indicates a "cupo" player.

In compliance with ACB's homegrown player policy, only 2 overseas players can be in the roster for every given match, with the exception of those holding a European citizenship, or from any country with an association treaty, such as the Cotonou Agreement. In addition to that, at least 4 of the players in a 12 or more player roster must "cupo" players (i.e., they are Spanish, or must have been in the youth systems of a Spanish club for at least 3 years).[9][10] Euroleague Basketball does not have any policy in regards of players' origin, so it is possible for teams to call more than two overseas players for a match in Euroleague competitions.

Head 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, 2024–present
 * Txus Vidorreta: 2017–2018
 * Jaume Ponsarnau: 2018–2021
 * Joan Peñarroya: 2021–2022
 * Álex Mumbrú: 2022–2024
 * Xavi Albert: 2024

Trophies and awards

 * Liga ACB: (1)
 * 2017
 * Runners-up (1): 2003


 * Copa del Rey: (1)
 * 1998
 * Runners-up (4): 2000, 2006, 2013, 2017


 * Supercopa: (1)
 * 2017


 * Saporta Cup:
 * Runners-up (2): 1999, 2002


 * EuroCup Basketball: (4)
 * 2003, 2010, 2014, 2019
 * Runners-up (2): 2012, 2017

Friendly trophies

 * Torneo de Lleida Stagepro: (1)
 * 2009


 * Valencia, Spain Invitational Game: (1)
 * 2009


 * Trofeo Costa de Sol: (1)
 * 2014


 * Trofeo Feria de Albacete: (1)
 * 2019


 * Castello, Spain Invitational Game: (1)
 * 2019


 * Salou, Spain Invitational Game: (1)
 * 2020

Individual awards
ACB Most Valuable Player ACB Finals MVP Spanish Cup MVP Spanish Supercup MVP All-ACB First Team All-ACB Second Team ACB Slam Dunk Champion
 * Justin Doellman – 2014
 * Bojan Dubljević – 2017
 * Nacho Rodilla – 1998
 * Erick Green – 2017
 * Justin Doellman – 2014
 * Romain Sato – 2014
 * Pau Ribas – 2015
 * Justin Hamilton – 2016
 * Bojan Dubljević – 2017, 2019
 * Bojan Dubljević – 2018
 * Alberto Abalde – 2020
 * Víctor Claver – 2007

EuroCup Finals MVP EuroCup Rising Star Award EuroCup Coach of the Year All-EuroLeague Second Team All-EuroCup First Team All-EuroCup Second Team
 * Dejan Tomašević – 2003
 * Matt Nielsen – 2010
 * Justin Doellman – 2014
 * Will Thomas - 2019
 * Víctor Claver – 2010
 * Bojan Dubljević – 2013, 2014
 * Pedro Martínez – 2017
 * Duško Savanović – 2011
 * Nando De Colo – 2010
 * Matt Nielsen – 2010
 * Nik Caner-Medley – 2012
 * Justin Doellman – 2013, 2014
 * Bojan Dubljević – 2017, 2019
 * Matt Nielsen – 2009
 * Bojan Dubljević – 2014, 2022
 * Fernando San Emeterio – 2017
 * Sam Van Rossom – 2019

Notable players

 * 🇪🇸 Salva Díez
 * 🇪🇸 Víctor Luengo
 * 🇪🇸 Nacho Rodilla
 * 🇪🇸 Berni Álvarez
 * 🇪🇸 Víctor Claver
 * 🇪🇸 Rafa Martinez
 * 🇪🇸 Pau Ribas
 * 🇪🇸 Guillem Vives
 * 🇪🇸 Fernando San Emeterio
 * 🇪🇸 Alberto Abalde
 * 🇦🇷 Alejandro Montecchia
 * 🇦🇷 Federico Kammerichs
 * 🇦🇷 Fabricio Oberto
 * 🇦🇺 Matt Nielsen
 * 🇧🇷 Tiago Splitter
 * 🇧🇷 Vítor Faverani
 * 🇨🇦 Kyle Alexander
 * 🇨🇺 Jasiel Rivero
 * 🇫🇷 Antoine Rigaudeau
 * 🇫🇷 Florent Piétrus
 * 🇫🇷 Damien Inglis
 * 🇫🇷 Nando de Colo
 * 🇫🇷 Mickaël Gelabale
 * 🇧🇪 Sam Van Rossom
 * Dimos Dikoudis
 * 🇱🇹 Robertas Javtokas
 * 🇱🇹 Mindaugas Timinskas
 * 🇲🇪 Bojan Dubljević
 * 🇸🇳 Maurice Ndour
 * Romain Sato
 * 🇷🇸 Dejan Tomašević
 * 🇷🇸 Igor Rakočević
 * 🇷🇸 Kosta Perović
 * 🇷🇸 Duško Savanović
 * 🇷🇸 Nikola Kalinić
 * 🇸🇮 Klemen Prepelič
 * Tornike Shengelia
 * 🇺🇦 Viacheslav Kravtsov
 * 🇺🇦 Serhiy Lishchuk
 * 🇺🇸 Tanoka Beard
 * 🇺🇸 Brad Branson
 * 🇺🇸 Brian Cardinal
 * 🇺🇸 / 🇺🇬 Brandon Davies
 * 🇺🇸 / Justin Doellman
 * 🇺🇸 Erick Green
 * 🇺🇸 Bernard Hopkins
 * 🇺🇸 / 🇳🇬 Semi Ojeleye
 * 🇺🇸 / 🇪🇸 Johnny Rogers
 * 🇺🇸 James Webb III
 * 🇺🇸 Derrick Williams
 * 🇺🇸 / Shammond Williams

Women's team
The women's team of Valencia Basket was created in 2014 and promoted to Liga Femenina in 2018, winning the final game against Real Club Celta de Vigo in Valencia. This access to the first division and the relegation of CB Estudiantes made Valencia Basket the only club with masculine and feminine representation in the first division in the 2018-2019 season.

In the first season competing on the first division, Valencia Basket achieved a ticket to their first Copa de la Reina de baloncesto, celebrated in Vitoria between the 28th of February and the 3 of June. Also, they achieve a spot to participate in the playoffs, losing against Perfumerías Avenida on the semifinals, but achieving the opportunity to play his first European tournament the next season.