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Valencia Basket Club S.A.D., commonly known as Valencia Basket or Valencia (), is a professional team based in , Spain. The team plays in the and the , and his women's team was created in 2014 and promoted to Liga Femenina Endesa in 2018. From 1987 to 2025, they played their home games at the Font de Sant Lluís. Since 2025, they have played their games at the , with a of up to 20,000 spectators.

The orange club has a total of thirteen official titles in the men's section and ten in the women's section. Valencia is the only Spanish club to win the top basketball category in Spain in both sections: the 2016-17 ACB (in addition to two runner-up finishes) and the 2022–23, 2023–24 and 2024–25 Women's League, as well as the EuroCup (ULEB Cup) on four occasions, where it is the most successful club in the competition, and the 2020–21 EuroCup Women.

In the historical classification of the ACB has the 6th place, having played 37 editions in the top category. In 2024, the men's team placed 12th in the classification and the 10th place in the women's classification.

The club is owned by retail tycoon . Olvídese de la Masía de Messi: bienvenidos a L'Alqueria de Juan Roig .


History

1986–1997
Valencia Basket was founded on 27 September 1986, after decided to fold its basketball section.

On 4 May 1988, while in its second season in the Primera División B, which was the second-tier league of Spanish basketball at that time, the team won its first promotion to the Spanish top-tier level , 23 years from the promotion of Valencia Basket ACB.com May 4, 2011 where the team remained until the 1994–95 season. In 1995, Valencia was relegated to the Spanish 2nd-tier level , after falling in the league's relegation playoff against Somontano Huesca. In the next season, after being the runner-up in Liga EBA, in a non-promoting season, Valencia BC bought 's ACB place to join the top league, where it has remained until nowadays.


1998–2014
On 2 February 1998, Pamesa Valencia won its first Spanish national title, after beating Pinturas Bruguer Badalona, by a score of 89–75, in the final of the 1998 Copa del Rey, which was played in . One year later, on 13 April 1999, the club played in the final of the 1998–99 FIBA Saporta Cup, but was defeated by Benetton Treviso, 64–60, in the final played in . Three years later, the club repeated the same success, but Montepaschi Siena won the final of the 2001–02 FIBA Saporta Cup, by a score of 81–71, in , France.

Continuing on with some of the club's best years, the 2001–02 ACB season was historic for the club, as it reached the Spanish finals, where they could not win any games in their series against FC Barcelona. Before this first success in reaching the finals of the Spanish league's playoffs, Pamesa Valencia won its first European-wide title, by defeating in the 2002–03 ULEB Cup, which would then also allow the club to make its debut in the European top-tier level .

In its first EuroLeague participation, Pamesa Valencia qualified for the Top 16, but was eliminated there, after not contesting its game at Nokia Arena against Maccabi Tel Aviv, adducing security issues in .

On 18 April 2010, Power Electronics Valencia won its second European title, by beating , 67–44, in the 2010 EuroCup Finals, which was played in . This allowed the club to come back to the top level EuroLeague, seven years after its first participation in the tournament. This time, Valencia reached the EuroLeague quarterfinals, where it was eliminated by Real Madrid, who won the playoff series by a 3–2 margin.

The club's third European-wide 2nd-tier level EuroCup title arrived on 7 May 2014, when Valencia beat , in the double-legged finals.


2015–present
On 5 June 2017, Valencia Basket qualified for its second Spanish Liga ACB Finals series, after defeating in the semifinals of the 2017 national league playoffs. This time, the club won its first ever Spanish national domestic league championship, on 16 June 2017, by defeating Real Madrid with a 3–1 series score in the ACB league's finals. In the same season, the club also reached the finals of both the Copa del Rey (Spanish Cup), and the EuroCup, but they lost those finals to Real Madrid, and fellow Spanish side, Unicaja, respectively. By winning the Spanish League championship, Valencia also sealed their return to the next season's top-tier level competition, for the 2017–18 season.

The club's fourth European-wide 2nd-tier level EuroCup title arrived on 16 April 2019, when Valencia beat , in the double-legged finals.


Arena
During its first season of existence, the team played its home games at the La Canaleta Sports Complex in the municipality of .

Since 1987 Valencia Basket plays its home games at the 8,500 seat Font de Sant Lluís arena. MUNICIPAL COURT FUENTE DE SAN LUIS CAPACITY: 8.500 spectators The arena is better known as La Fonteta.

The club is expected to move to a new 15,600-seat arena called (previously proposed as Casal España Arena), with the inauguration scheduled for 2024.


Sponsorship naming
Valencia Basket has had several sponsorship names over the years:
  • Valencia-Hoja del Lunes: 1986–1987
  • Pamesa Valencia: 1987–2009
  • Power Electronics Valencia: 2009–2011

== Logos ==


Players

Retired numbers
1994–2003
1992–2007
2008–2019
2013–2023


Current roster

Depth chart

FIBA Hall of Famers
2015
2019
2024


Head coaches
  • Toni Ferrer: 1986–1987, 1989
  • Antoni Serra: 1987–1989
  • José Antonio Figueroa: 1989–1991
  • Fernando Jiménez: 1991
  • Manu Moreno: 1992–1995
  • : 1995
  • Mihajlo Vuković: 1995–2000
  • : 2000–2002
  • : 2002–2004, 2011–2012
  • : 2004–2005
  • Chechu Mulero: 2005, 2006
  • : 2005–2006
  • Fotios Katsikaris: 2006–2008
  • : 2008–2010
  • Manolo Hussein: 2010
  • Svetislav Pešić: 2010–2011
  • Velimir Perasović: 2012–2015
  • Carles Duran: 2015
  • Pedro Martínez: 2015–2017, 2024–present
  • : 2017–2018
  • Jaume Ponsarnau: 2018–2021
  • Joan Peñarroya: 2021–2022
  • Álex Mumbrú: 2022–2024
  • Xavi Albert: 2024


Season by season
1986–871ª División B19th14–20
1987–881ª División B8th24–19
1988–8916th12–27First round
1989–9010th27–12Round of 16
1990–919th18–22Second round
1991–929th21–19Second round
1992–9310th19–15Second round
1993–9412th15–17First round
1994–9519th16–26First round
1995–96 28–10
1996–9711th17–17
1997–987th21–17Champion
1998–996th20–19Quarterfinalist 17–2
1999–006th20–17Runner-up 13–3
2000–015th23–15Semifinalist 11–5
2001–026th22–16Quarterfinalist RU13–4
2002–032nd32–13Semifinalist 14–4
2003–045th24–14Quarterfinalist 13–7
2004–059th18–16Semifinalist 11–1–4
2005–069th16–18Runner-up
2006–077th20–18
2007–085th23–14Quarterfinalist 10–5
2008–097th16–18Quarterfinalist 10–3
2009–105th23–13Semifinalist 14–2
2010–115th24–12SemifinalistRU10–11
2011–124th23–18 12–4
2012–136th23–14Runner-upSF11–5
2013–143rd34–8Semifinalist 15–9
2014–1514th23–18QuarterfinalistSF3–7
5–5
2015–163rd31–9Quarterfinalist 13–3
2016–1711st31–12Runner-up 18–5
2017–1815th23–14QuarterfinalistC12–18
2018–1913rd25–15Quarterfinalist 20–3
2019–2013rd16–13SemifinalistSF12–16
2020–2114rd27–15Quarterfinalist 19–15
2021–2215th24–13QuarterfinalistSF14–7
2022–2318th17–19Quarterfinalist 15–19
2023–2415th22–15Semifinalist 14–20
2024–2512nd30–12Quarterfinalist 18–4
2025–261 C


Honours

Domestic competitions
Winners (1): 2016–17
Runners-up (2): 2002–03, 2024–25
  • Spanish Cup
Winners (1): 1998
Runners-up (4): 2000, 2006, 2013, 2017
  • Spanish Supercup
Winners (2): 2017, 2025
Runners-up (1): 2010


European competitions
  • EuroCup
Champions (4): 2002–03, 2009–10, 2013–14, 2018–19
Runners-up (2): 2011–12, 2016–17
  • FIBA Saporta Cup
Runners-up (2): 1998–99, 2001–02


Friendly trophies
  • Torneo de Lleida Stagepro: (1)
2009
  • Valencia, Spain Invitational Game: (1)
2009
  • Trofeo Costa de Sol: (1)
2014
  • Trofeo Feria de Albacete: (1)
2019
  • Castello, Spain Invitational Game: (1)
2019
  • Salou, Spain Invitational Game: (1)
2020


Individual awards
ACB Most Valuable Player ACB Finals MVP
  • Bojan Dubljević – 2017
Spanish Cup MVP Spanish Supercup MVP
  • Víctor Claver – 2007
EuroCup Finals MVP

EuroCup Rising Star Award

  • Víctor Claver – 2010
  • Bojan Dubljević – 2013, 2014
  • – 2025
EuroCup Coach of the Year
  • Pedro Martínez – 2017, 2025
All-EuroLeague Second Team
  • Duško Savanović – 2011
All-EuroCup First Team All-EuroCup Second Team
  • – 2009
  • Bojan Dubljević – 2014, 2022
  • Fernando San Emeterio – 2017
  • Sam Van Rossom – 2019
  • Xabier López-Arostegui – 2025
  • – 2025


Notable players


Women's team
The women's team of Valencia Basket was created in 2014 and promoted to Liga Femenina in 2018, winning the final game against Real Club Celta de Vigo in Valencia. This access to the first division and the relegation of CB Estudiantes made Valencia Basket the only club with masculine and feminine representation in the first division in the 2018–2019 season.

In the first season competing on the first division, Valencia Basket achieved a ticket to their first Copa de la Reina de baloncesto, celebrated in Vitoria between the 28th of February and the 3 of June. Also, they achieve a spot to participate in the playoffs, losing against Perfumerías Avenida on the semifinals, but achieving the opportunity to play his first European tournament the next season.


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