Gijón Baloncesto was a basketball team based in Gijón, Asturias, Spain.
History Gijón Baloncesto was established in 1982, after taking over the franchise of another local team, Real Grupo de Cultura Covadonga, who was undergoing financial difficulties. In its first year, the club played in the third tier and immediately promoted to Primera División B, the second division in the Spanish league system.
GB continued playing in the second tier from 1984 to 1995, when the club achieves promotion to Liga ACB after finishing runner-up of the 1994–95 Liga EBA and beating Lucentum in the semifinal game. The club only remained one season and could not avoid relegation by losing the relegation playoffs against Ourense by 1–3.
From 1996 to 1999, Gijón Baloncesto played in the new second league: LEB. It came back to ACB in 1999 by beating Menorca 3–0 in the semifinal of the promotion playoffs. In this second era in ACB, Gijón Baloncesto remained for three seasons until the relegation in 2002. After the relegation, the club started its decline until being relegated to the third tier in 2007 and finally being dissolved in 2009.
Sponsorship
Iveco: 1983–1984 Trébol: 1984–1985 Lagisa: 1985–1992 CLAS: 1992–1993 Trébol: 1993–1995 Cabitel: 1998–2000 Isastur: 2002–2003 Calefacciones Farho: 2003–2008 Viopisa: 2008–2009
Head coaches
Pedro Zorrozúa 1982–1983 José Antonio Figueroa 1983–1984 Ed Johnson 1984–1985, 1988–1989, 1991 Ricardo Hevia 1985–1987 Emilio de Diego 1987 Trifón Poch 1987–1988 Eduardo Ayuso 1988 Antonio Garrido 1990–1991, 1992 Víctor Lago 1989, 1991–1992, 1992 Ángel Martín-Benito 1993 Bill McCammon 1993–1995 Iñaki Iriarte 1995–1996 Luis Casimiro 1996–1997 Vicente Charro 1997 Pepe Rodríguez 1997–1998 Moncho López 1998–2002 Moncho Fernández 2002–2005 Diego Tobalina 2005–2006 Joaquín Prado 2006–2007 Jorge Elorduy 2007–2008 Jenaro Díaz 2008–2009 Guillermo Arenas 2021-2022
Season by season SeasonTierDivisionPos.Cup competitionsRoster1982–83 32ª División 27–21983–84 21ª División B 6th 13–131984–85 21ª División B 10th 12–141985–86 21ª División B 11th 15–161986–87 21ª División B 14th 18–161987–88 21ª División B 12th 17–231988–89 21ª División 5th 20–131989–90 21ª División 12th 14–201990–91 21ª División 8th 20–191991–92 21ª División 7th 22–191992–93 21ª División 18th 15–191993–94 21ª División 7th 19–181994–95 2Liga EBA 29–101995–96 1Liga ACB20th 9–331996–97 2LEB 5th 20–11Copa Príncipe RU1997–98 2LEB 9th 13–151998–99 2LEB2nd 26–13Copa Príncipe QF1999–00 1Liga ACB 16th 11–232000–01 1Liga ACB 15th 11–232001–02 1Liga ACB18th 6–282002–03 2LEB 8th 16–182003–04 2LEB 12th 15–192004–05 2LEB 10th 15–192005–06 2LEB 12th 15–192006–07 2LEB17th 15–242007–08 3LEB Plata 3rd 26–12Copa LEB Plata SF2008–09 3LEB Plata 13th 10–20
Notable players
Carles Marco Tomàs Jofresa Óscar Yebra Saúl Blanco Javi Rodríguez Xavi Vallmajó Luis Scola Hernán Jasen Bob Harstad James Blackwell Etdrick Bohannon Glen Whisby Michael Smith Brad Sellers Linton Townes Terquin Mott Lou Roe Eric Johnson Ryan Stack Etdrick Bohannon Stephen Howard Todd Fuller Thierry Zig Miroslav Pecarski Guilherme Giovannoni Larry Moffett
Individual awards ACB Most Valuable Player Lou Roe – 2001
External links Non official website