Club Melilla Baloncesto is a professional basketball team based in Melilla that plays in the LEB league. This is the only team in Spain that played all LEB seasons.
The team's home arena is the Pabellón Javier Imbroda Ortiz (formerly known as Ciudad de Melilla), with a capacity of up to 3,800 spectators.
History Club Melilla Baloncesto was founded in 1991 as a merge of Baloncesto Melilla and CB Gran Tercio. In its first season, played in the second division with the name of Unicaja Melilla as an affiliated team of Liga ACB club Unicaja. Despite being relegated, remained in the league after its expansion to 31 teams, that allowed the club to continue playing in the second division, indeed when the Liga EBA was created.
In 1996, Melilla became one of the founding clubs of the Liga LEB. In 1999, the club achieved their first title by winning the Copa Príncipe de Asturias after defeating Menorca Bàsquet in the final, and is close to promote to the Liga ACB, but was eliminated in the last round of the playoffs by Breogán Universidade.
In 2001, Melilla clinched their segund Copa Príncipe de Asturias, this time beating Bàsquet Manresa in the Final Four played at home. After several years of consolidation in the league, in 2008 the club reached again the last round of the promotion playoffs but lost to Lucentum Alicante in the last round. One year later, despite winning their third Cup and despite being the top seeded team, was eliminated in the semifinals of the promotion playoffs to Ford Burgos.
In 2013 the club suffered their first relegation ever from the LEB Oro, but remained in the league after achieving a vacant place. Three years later, in 2016, the club clinched the promotion to Liga ACB, but resigned to join the league resigned to promote due to the impossibility to fulfill the requirements.
Players
Current roster
Depth chart
Season by season SeasonTierDivisionPos.Cup competitions1991–92 2 1ª División14th 11–291992–93 2 1ª División 25th 17–191993–94 2 1ª División 23rd 17–131994–95 2 Liga EBA 15–111995–96 2 Liga EBA 1996–97 2 LEB 7th 20–131997–98 2 LEB 10th 11–17Copa Príncipe QF1998–99 2 LEB 3rd 22–12Copa Príncipe C1999–00 2 LEB 5th 20–13Copa Príncipe SF2000–01 2 LEB 12th 11–19Copa Príncipe C2001–02 2 LEB 7th 17–182002–03 2 LEB 11th 13–172003–04 2 LEB 10th 16–182004–05 2 LEB 12th 14–202005–06 2 LEB 15th 14–202006–07 2 LEB 13th 15–19Copa Príncipe SF2007–08 2 LEB 10th 15–192008–09 2 LEB Oro 3rd 26–12Copa Príncipe RU2009–10 2 LEB Oro 4th 29–14Copa Príncipe C2010–11 2 LEB Oro 11th 14–202011–12 2 LEB Oro 3rd 27–212012–13 2 LEB Oro14th 6–202013–14 2 LEB Oro 11th 10–162014–15 2 LEB Oro 9th 13–172015–16 2 LEB Oro2nd 31–10Copa Princesa RU2016–17 2 LEB Oro 7th 19–182017–18 2 LEB Oro 3rd 29–192018–19 2 LEB Oro 4th 24–162019–20 2 LEB Oro 6th 15–92020–21 2 LEB Oro 15th 11-152021–22 2 LEB Oro 13th 14–202022–23 2 LEB Oro16th 8–262023–24 2 LEB Oro16th 10–242024–25 3Segunda FEB 15–11Spain Cup 2025–26 2 Primera FEB17th 7–25Spain Cup
Trophies and awards Trophies Copa Príncipe de Asturias: (3) 1999, 2001, 2010 Individual awards All-LEB Oro Team Eduardo Hernández-Sonseca – 2016
References
External links Federación Española de Baloncesto Melilla Baloncesto Official Site