Club Baloncesto Tizona S.A.D., more commonly known as UBU Tizona by sponsorship reasons, is a Spanish professional basketball team based in Burgos, Castilla y León. The team plays their home games in the Polideportivo El Plantío, and currently competes in the Primera FEB, the second division of Spain.
History The club started in 2013 as the successor of CB Atapuerca, dissolved after failing to promote to Liga ACB, due to not fulfilling all the requirements.El Tizona vuelve a competir Diario de Burgos, 6 August 2013
The name is a homage to former CB Espada Tizona, the main club in Burgos during the 1970s and the 1980s, and was created as a Sociedad Anónima Deportiva with the aim to make easier a future promotion to ACB,History of CB Tizona Official website goal achieved in its first season. Named Ford Burgos like its predecessor, the club promoted to Liga ACB in the 2013–14 season and did not fulfill all the necessary requirements to enter in the top flight, joining again the LEB Oro league.Comunicado oficial sobre la inscripción del Club Baloncesto Tizona SAD; ACB.com, 16 June 2014
In its second season, Tizona promoted again to Liga ACB, this time as LEB Oro champion, after winning its last 13 games in a row.Autocid de récord; Diario de Burgos, 11 April 2015 Despite it was the third time in a row Burgos had a team which promoted to the top league, it could not fulfill the requirements to join it.
After failing in its second attempt, the club sued the ACB for not admitting it in the league and decided not entering any competition with the professional LEB Oro team. and continued its activity with the youth teams. The team that acted as reserve teams in the previous seasons, became the main senior team and played in Primera División. Tizona also changed its traditional blue uniform to a red-and-white one for the 2015–16 season, but came back to the blue in the next one for playing in Liga EBA, after its promotion as champions of the Regional group of Primera División.
In July 2017, thanks to the denounce of CB Tizona, local team San Pablo Burgos and Gipuzkoa Basket could promote to Liga ACB.
On 18 May 2019, Tizona came back to professional basketball by achieving promotion to LEB Plata, after winning one of the four groups of the final stage. Just one season later, the club came back to LEB Oro five years later, after the 2019–20 LEB Plata season was curtailed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Tizona was qualified in the third position when the league was suspended.
Sponsorship naming (Autocid) Ford Burgos 2013–2015 Universidad de Burgos 2015–2018 UBU Tizona 2018–present
Players Current roster
Depth chart
Season by season SeasonTierDivisionPos.Cup competitions2013–14 2 LEB Oro2nd 27–82014–15 2 LEB Oro1st 22–62015–16 5 1ª División1st 14–22016–17 4 Liga EBA 8–182017–18 4Liga EBA 16–142018–19 4Liga EBA 25–42019–20 3 LEB Plata3rd 16–92020–21 2LEB Oro9th 5–112021–22 3LEB Plata 4th 16–102022–23 3LEB Plata1st 25–3Copa LEB Plata C2023–24 2LEB Oro 5th 28–122024–25 2 Primera FEB 9th 15–22Spain Cup GS2025–26 2 Primera FEB 13th 10–22Spain Cup QF
Head coaches Andreu Casadevall 2013–2015 José Luis Cubillo 2015–2017, 2018–2020 Juan Carlos García 2017–2018 José Manuel Naveira 2018 Jorge Elorduy 2020 Lluís Riera 2020–present
Honors Trophies LEB Oro: (1) 2014–15 Copa Castilla y León: (2) 2013, 2014
Individual awards All LEB Oro Team Pep Ortega – 2014 Taylor Coppenrath – 2015
References and notes
External links Federación Española de Baloncesto CB Tizona Official Page