CB_Bilbao_Berri
Bilbao Basket
Basketball team in Bilbao, Spain
Club Basket Bilbao Berri S.A.D.,[1] commonly known as Bilbao Basket (pronounced [bilˈβao βasˈket]), also known as Surne Bilbao Basket for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball club based in Bilbao, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB. Their home arena is the Bilbao Arena, Spain.
| Surne Bilbao Basket | |||
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| Nickname | Beltzezko gizonak
Hombres de negro (Men in Black) | ||
| Leagues | Liga ACB | ||
| Founded | 7 March 2000; 24 years ago (2000-03-07) | ||
| History | Club Basket Bilbao Berri (2000–present) | ||
| Arena | Bilbao Arena | ||
| Capacity | 10,014 | ||
| Location | Bilbao, Spain | ||
| Team colors | Black, Silver | ||
| President | Isabel Iturbe | ||
| Head coach | Jaume Ponsarnau | ||
| Retired numbers | 2 (14, 15) | ||
| Website | Official website | ||
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The club was founded in 2000 after replacing the former city clubs: Cajabilbao and SD Patronato. After four seasons between LEB and LEB 2, Bilbao promoted to Liga ACB in 2004 by winning by 3–1 to Baloncesto León in the LEB semifinals.
Bilbao spent ten seasons in the top tier of the Spanish basketball becoming finalist of the league in the 2010–11 season, where it lost in the finals to FC Barcelona by 3–0. In 2012, Bilbao played the EuroLeague and it was eliminated in the quarterfinals by CSKA Moscow, who won the series by 3–1.
The best era of the club finished in 2013, when it lost the 2013 Eurocup Final at Charleroi against Lokomotiv Kuban.
On 17 July 2014, the ACB excluded Bilbao Basket from the Liga ACB due to its financial trouble,[2] but on 8 August, the Association was forced to retire the exclusion and finally Bilbao Basket remained in the Spanish top league.[3]
The club played four more seasons in Liga ACB until their relegation on 13 May 2018, after losing against Baskonia the Basque derby by 74–78.
Bilbao Basket has had several denominations through the years due to its sponsorship:
- Non-commercial logo since 2009
- 2007–2009
- 2015–2016
- Pabellón La Casilla: (2000–09)
- Bizkaia Arena: (2009–10), occasionally used for home games in 2007 and 2008
- Bilbao Arena: (2010–present)
Retired numbers
| Bilbao Basket retired numbers | ||||
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| No. | Nat. | Player | Position | Tenure |
| 14 |  | Javi Salgado | PG | 2001–2010, 2016–2019 |
| 15 | | Álex Mumbrú | SF | 2009-2018 |
Current roster
Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.
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Depth chart
| Pos. | Starting 5 | Bench 1 | Bench 2 | ||
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| C | Sacha Killeya-Jones | Tryggvi Hlinason | |||
| PF | Denzel Andersson | Thijs de Ridder | Georgios Tsalmpouris | ||
| SF | Xavi Rabaseda | Álex Reyes | Unai Barandalla | ||
| SG | Adam Smith | Kristian Kullumäe | Tomeu Rigo | ||
| PG | Alex Renfroe | Melwin Pantzar |
Colours: Blue - homegrown player; Red - non–FIBA Europe player
- Txutxo Sanz: 2000–2001
- Pedro Zorrozua: 2001
- Txus Vidorreta: 2001–2010
- Rafa Pueyo: 2010, 2013–2014
- Fotis Katsikaris: 2010–2013
- Sito Alonso: 2014–2016
- Carles Duran: 2016–2017
- Veljko Mršić: 2017–2018
- Jaka Lakovič: 2018
- Álex Mumbrú: 2018–2022
- Jaume Ponsarnau: 2022–present
Trophies
- Liga ACB:
- Runners-up (1): 2011
- Supercopa de España:
- Runners-up (1): 2007
- EuroCup Basketball:
- Runners-up (1): 2013
- LEB Oro: (1)
- Copa Princesa de Asturias:
- Runners-up (2): 2002, 2019
- LEB Plata: (1)
- 2002
- Copa LEB Plata: (1)
- 2002
Individual awards
- Marcelo Huertas – 2008
- Marko Todorović – 2015
- Álex Mumbrú – 2016
- Marko Banić – 2010
- Marko Banić – 2009, 2010
- Kostas Vasileiadis – 2013
- Lamont Hamilton – 2013
- Fotios Katsikaris – 2013
Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.
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To appear in this section a player must have either:
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Quino Colom- Alberto Díaz
- Germán Gabriel
- Roger Grimau
- Eduardo Hernández-Sonseca
- Raül López
- Rafa Martínez
- Álex Mumbrú
- Javi Salgado
- Fran Vázquez
Axel Hervelle
Marcelinho Huertas- Rafa Luz
- Tiago Splitter
Marko Banić- Damir Markota
Ondřej Balvín
Ángel Delgado
Damien Inglis- Adrien Moerman
- Jérôme Moïso
- Frédéric Weis
Jaylon Brown
D'or Fischer- Andrew Goudelock
- Lamont Hamilton
- Aaron Jackson
- John Jenkins
- Quincy Lewis
- Khyri Thomas
- Jeff Withey
Dairis Bertāns- Jānis Blūms
Antanas Kavaliauskas- Arnoldas Kulboka
- Renaldas Seibutis
- Gytis Masiulis
Predrag Savović- Marko Todorović
Micheal Eric
Georgios Bogris- Dimitrios Mavroeidis
- Kostas Vasileiadis
- Nikos Zisis
Martin Rančík
Ludvig Håkanson
Bilbao Basket has a strong rivalry with Saski Baskonia. Their games together are called the Basque basketball derby.
Fundación Bilbao Basket is the reserve team of Bilbao Basket. It currently plays in Primera División, the fifth tier of Spanish basketball.
Season by season
| Season | Tier | Division | Pos. | W–L |
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| 2019–20 | 5 | 1ª División | 12th[lower-alpha 1] | 5–13 |
| 2020–21 | 5 | 1ª División | 3rd | 10–1–6 |
- Season curtailed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- "Relación de SAD — Portal del Consejo Superior de Deportes" (in Spanish). Consejo Superior de Deportes. Archived from the original on 2 April 2017. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
- "Bilbao Basket no completa el proceso de inscripción para la Liga Endesa 14-15" (in Spanish). ACB.com. July 17, 2014. Archived from the original on October 27, 2014. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
- "Comunicado Oficial de la ACB" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 8 August 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-10-27. Retrieved 2014-08-08.
- "El Gescrap Bizkaia ya es una realidad" (in Spanish). ACB.com. November 11, 2011. Archived from the original on May 7, 2012. Retrieved November 14, 2011.
- "Nace el Uxúe Bilbao Basket" (in Spanish). ACB.com. December 21, 2012. Archived from the original on August 11, 2013. Retrieved December 21, 2012.
- "Dominion, nuevo patrocinador principal del Bilbao Basket" (in Spanish). ACB.com. March 24, 2015. Archived from the original on October 6, 2015. Retrieved March 24, 2015.
- "Nace RETAbet Bilbao Basket" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 27 October 2016. Archived from the original on 20 June 2017. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
- "Surne se convierte en patrocinador nominal del Bilbao Basket" (in Spanish). bilbaobasket.biz. 17 September 2021. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
- Official website (in Spanish)
- Bilbao Basket at ACB.com (in Spanish)