Cáceres Ciudad del Baloncesto, also named as Cáceres Patrimonio de la Humanidad for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball team based in Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain. It plays in the LEB Oro, the second in importance in Spain after ACB League.
The club is distinct from Cáceres Club Baloncesto, the former elite team in the city, which was dissolved in 2005.
History Cáceres Ciudad del Baloncesto was founded in 2007 as a merger of two teams from Cáceres city: San Antonio Ciudad de Cáceres
Cáceres played the first season in its history (2007–08) in LEB Plata after buying the berth to CEB Llíria. In this first year, playing as Cáceres 2016, the team achieved the promotion semifinals but, after beating CajaRioja in the quarterfinalist series, lost against CB Illescas in the semifinal played at Cáceres.
After this season, the team joined the second tier, the LEB Oro, after achieving the vacant of Palma Aqua Màgica. Cáceres continues playing in LEB Oro until nowadays, where reached two times in a row the promotion playoffs but failed in the quarterfinals: in 2010 versus Ford Burgos and in 2011 versus Blu:sens Monbús, both times by 3–1.
In 2012 the club won for the first time a LEB Oro quarterfinal serie, 3–2 to Ford Burgos, but failed in the semifinal against Club Melilla Baloncesto after five games. Same happened in 2013, when the club advanced to semifinals after defeating CB Breogán by 2–3 in the quarterfinals and failing 3–1 against River Andorra.
In 2013 the club opted by joining the LEB Plata again due to economic issues. On April 25, 2015, two years after its resign to play in LEB Oro, Cáceres came back to the league after winning the 2014–15 LEB Plata, by defeating CEBA Guadalajara 67–63 in the last game of the regular season.
The 2019–20 season is its fifth straight season in LEB Oro and tenth overall.
Sponsorship naming Cáceres 2016: 2007–11 Cáceres Creativa: 2011 Cáceres Patrimonio de la Humanidad: 2011–
Head coaches
Fede Pozuelo: 2007 Piti Hurtado: 2007–2009 Gustavo Aranzana: 2009–2012 Carlos Frade: 2012–2013 Ñete Bohígas: 2013–2019 Roberto Blanco: 2019–present
Players
Current roster
Depth chart
Season by season
SeasonTierDivisionPos.2007–08 3LEB Plata 5th 22–152008–09 2LEB Oro 11th 15–192009–10 2LEB Oro 6th 21–172010–11 2LEB Oro 9th 19–192011–12 2LEB Oro 5th 23–212012–13 2LEB Oro 5th 16–192013–14 3LEB Plata 4th 18–142014–15 3 LEB Plata1st 23–52015–16 2LEB Oro 9th 14–172016–17 2LEB Oro 11th 14–202017–18 2LEB Oro 10th 15–192018–19 2 LEB Oro 14th 11–232019–20 2 LEB Oro 9th 14–102020–21 2 LEB Oro 12th 11–152021–22 2 LEB Oro 8th 21–182022–23 2 LEB Oro 15th 10–242023–24 2 LEB Oro17th 6–28
Notable players Dardan Berisha Devin Schmidt Lucio Angulo José Ángel Antelo José María Panadero Carlos Cherry Juan Sanguino Remu Raitanen Jeff Xavier Randy Holcomb Jelani McCoy Drew Naymick Wayne Simien Harper Williams Luis Parejo Mansour Kasse Sergio Pérez Georgios Dedas Ragnar Nathanaelsson Warren Ward Angelo Chol Javier Carter Ricardo Úriz
Trophies and awards Trophies LEB Plata: (1) 2015 Copa Extremadura: (2) 2008, 2011
See also Cáceres Club Baloncesto
References
External links Official website