title: Valencia Basket
text: 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 EuroLeague, with home games played at the Font de Sant Lluís. The club is owned by retail tycoon Juan Roig.
  
  History
  
  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
  
  Logos
  
  Players
  
  Retired numbers
  
  Current roster
  
  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.
  
  FIBA Hall of Famers
  
  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
  Txus Vidorreta: 2017–2018
  Jaume Ponsarnau: 2018–2021
  Joan Peñarroya: 2021–2022
  Álex Mumbrú: 2022–present
  
  Season by season
  
  Honours
  
  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
  Justin Doellman – 2014
  ACB Finals MVP
  Bojan Dubljević – 2017
  Spanish Cup MVP
  Nacho Rodilla – 1998
  Spanish Supercup MVP
  Erick Green – 2017
  All-ACB First Team
  Justin Doellman – 2014
  Romain Sato – 2014
  Pau Ribas – 2015
  Justin Hamilton – 2016
  Bojan Dubljević – 2017, 2019
  All-ACB Second Team
  Bojan Dubljević – 2018
  Alberto Abalde – 2020
  ACB Slam Dunk Champion
  Víctor Claver – 2007
  
  EuroCup Finals MVP
  Dejan Tomašević – 2003
  Matt Nielsen – 2010
  Justin Doellman – 2014
  Will Thomas - 2019
  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, 2019
  All-EuroCup Second Team
  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
   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
   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.
  
  References
  
  External links 
   Official website
   Valencia Basket at ACB.com 
   Valencia Basket at the EuroLeague
  
   
  Basketball teams in the Valencian Community
  Basketball teams established in 1986
  Liga ACB teams
  Sport in Valencia