Club Gijón Basket 2015 Corpi, better known as Gijón Basket or Huniko GB2015 for sponsorship reasons, is a basketball club based in Gijón, Asturias that currently plays in Liga EBA, the fourth tier of Spanish basketball.
History
Gijón Basket was founded in 2015 as a merge of men's basketball club CB Corpi and women's basketball Formabasket. It has the aim to replace Gijón Baloncesto, that was dissolved in 2009, as the main club of the city.
On 8 May 2016, Gijón Basket completed its first competitive season promoting to Liga EBA, fourth tier, after finishing the 2015–16 season as champion of the Asturian group of Primera División. It defeated CB Castrillón in the final by 77–50.
On 9 October 2016, Gijón Basket made its debut in Liga EBA in Vigo, earning a 43–68 win against Seis do Nadal, but finally could not avoid the relegation to Primera División. However, they remained in the league due to the existence of vacant spots.
In their second season in the fourth tier, Gijón Basket performed successfully and qualified to the second stage of the league, where they were eliminated in the semifinals.
Head coaches Chus Poves 2015–2017 Fran Sánchez 2017–
Season by season SeasonTierDivisionPos.2015–16 5 1ª División1st 22–22016–17 4 Liga EBA 9–172017–18 4 Liga EBA 22–92018–19 4Liga EBA 17–92019–20 4Liga EBA 11–9
Current squad
Individual records Top performers of Gijón Basket, as of the end of the 2019–20 season.
Most capped players # PlayerClub careerMatchesPoints 1 Carlos Suárez 2017– 77 569 2 Malik Wineglass 2017–2019 53 703 3 Diego Sánchez 2016– 51 508 4 Ángel Moro 2015–2017 49 547 5 Alejandro Rubiera 2016–20172019–2020 48 720 6 José Soto 2016–2018 45 2087 Jorge Escapa 2016–20172019– 44 348 Dani González 2015–2017 44 622 Kenny Hatch 2017–2019 44 675 10 Pablo Bretón 2018– 39 209
Top scorers # PlayerClub careerPointsMatchesAverage 1 Alejandro Rubiera 2017–20182019–2020 720 48 15.0 2 Malik Wineglass 2017–2019 703 53 13.3 3 Kenny Hatch 2017–2019 675 44 15.3 4 Dani González 2015–2017 622 44 14.1 5 Carlos Suárez 2017– 569 77 7.4 6 Ángel Moro 2015–2017 547 49 11.2 7 Diego Sánchez 2006– 508 51 10.0 8 James Pegues 2017–2018 462 28 16.5 9 Ryan Ejim 2018–2019 450 25 18.0 10 Kenny Ejim 2018–2019 447 22 20.3
Presidents Carmen Puente 2015–2019 Iván Petrovich 2019–present
References
External links
Profile at Asturcesto