Valencia Basket Club S.A.D., commonly known as Valencia Basket or Valencia (), is a professional basketball team based in Valencia, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB and the EuroLeague, 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 Roig Arena, with a Seating capacity 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 FIBA Europe classification and the 10th place in the women's classification.
The club is owned by retail tycoon Juan Roig. Olvídese de la Masía de Messi: bienvenidos a L'Alqueria de Juan Roig .
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 Liga ACB, 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 Liga EBA, 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 CB Zaragoza's ACB place to join the top league, where it has remained until nowadays.
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 Liga ACB 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 KK Krka in the 2002–03 ULEB Cup, which would then also allow the club to make its debut in the European top-tier level EuroLeague.
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 Israel.
On 18 April 2010, Power Electronics Valencia won its second European title, by beating Alba Berlin, 67–44, in the 2010 EuroCup Finals, which was played in Vitoria-Gasteiz. 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 BC UNICS, in the double-legged finals.
The club's fourth European-wide 2nd-tier level EuroCup title arrived on 16 April 2019, when Valencia beat Alba Berlin, in the double-legged finals.
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 Roig Arena (previously proposed as Casal España Arena), with the inauguration scheduled for 2024.
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1994–2003 |
1992–2007 |
2008–2019 |
2013–2023 |
2015 |
2019 |
2024 |
1986–87 | 1ª División B | 19th | 14–20 | ||||||
1987–88 | 1ª División B | 8th | 24–19 | ||||||
1988–89 | Liga ACB | 16th | 12–27 | First round | |||||
1989–90 | Liga ACB | 10th | 27–12 | Round of 16 | |||||
1990–91 | Liga ACB | 9th | 18–22 | Second round | |||||
1991–92 | Liga ACB | 9th | 21–19 | Second round | |||||
1992–93 | Liga ACB | 10th | 19–15 | Second round | |||||
1993–94 | Liga ACB | 12th | 15–17 | First round | |||||
1994–95 | Liga ACB | 19th | 16–26 | First round | |||||
1995–96 | Liga EBA | 28–10 | |||||||
1996–97 | Liga ACB | 11th | 17–17 | ||||||
1997–98 | Liga ACB | 7th | 21–17 | Champion | |||||
1998–99 | Liga ACB | 6th | 20–19 | Quarterfinalist | 17–2 | ||||
1999–00 | Liga ACB | 6th | 20–17 | Runner-up | 13–3 | ||||
2000–01 | Liga ACB | 5th | 23–15 | Semifinalist | 11–5 | ||||
2001–02 | Liga ACB | 6th | 22–16 | Quarterfinalist | RU | 13–4 | |||
2002–03 | Liga ACB | 2nd | 32–13 | Semifinalist | 14–4 | ||||
2003–04 | Liga ACB | 5th | 24–14 | Quarterfinalist | 13–7 | ||||
2004–05 | Liga ACB | 9th | 18–16 | Semifinalist | 11–1–4 | ||||
2005–06 | Liga ACB | 9th | 16–18 | Runner-up | |||||
2006–07 | Liga ACB | 7th | 20–18 | ||||||
2007–08 | Liga ACB | 5th | 23–14 | Quarterfinalist | 10–5 | ||||
2008–09 | Liga ACB | 7th | 16–18 | Quarterfinalist | 10–3 | ||||
2009–10 | Liga ACB | 5th | 23–13 | Semifinalist | 14–2 | ||||
2010–11 | Liga ACB | 5th | 24–12 | Semifinalist | RU | 10–11 | |||
2011–12 | Liga ACB | 4th | 23–18 | 12–4 | |||||
2012–13 | Liga ACB | 6th | 23–14 | Runner-up | SF | 11–5 | |||
2013–14 | Liga ACB | 3rd | 34–8 | Semifinalist | 15–9 | ||||
2014–15 | 1 | Liga ACB | 4th | 23–18 | Quarterfinalist | SF | 3–7 | ||
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2015–16 | Liga ACB | 3rd | 31–9 | Quarterfinalist | 13–3 | ||||
2016–17 | 1 | Liga ACB | 1st | 31–12 | Runner-up | 18–5 | |||
2017–18 | 1 | Liga ACB | 5th | 23–14 | Quarterfinalist | C | 12–18 | ||
2018–19 | 1 | Liga ACB | 3rd | 25–15 | Quarterfinalist | 20–3 | |||
2019–20 | 1 | Liga ACB | 3rd | 16–13 | Semifinalist | SF | 12–16 | ||
2020–21 | 1 | Liga ACB | 4rd | 27–15 | Quarterfinalist | 19–15 | |||
2021–22 | 1 | Liga ACB | 5th | 24–13 | Quarterfinalist | SF | 14–7 | ||
2022–23 | 1 | Liga ACB | 8th | 17–19 | Quarterfinalist | 15–19 | |||
2023–24 | 1 | Liga ACB | 5th | 22–15 | Semifinalist | 14–20 | |||
2024–25 | 1 | Liga ACB | 2nd | 30–12 | Quarterfinalist | 18–4 | |||
2025–26 | 1 | Liga ACB | C | ||||||
EuroCup Rising Star Award
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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