Basket Zaragoza

Casademont Zaragoza
Casademont Zaragoza
Leagues	Liga ACB
Founded	2002; 19 years ago
Arena	Pabellón Príncipe Felipe
Capacity	10,744
Location	Zaragoza, Spain
Team colors	Red, White, Black;
President	Predrag Savović
Head coach	Jaume Ponsarnau
Championships	2 LEB championship; 1 Copa Príncipe
Website	Official website
Home	Away

Basket Zaragoza 2002 S.A.D.,^[1] more commonly referred to as Basket Zaragoza and as Casademont Zaragoza for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball club based in Zaragoza, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB. Their home arena is the Pabellón Príncipe Felipe.

History

Basket Zaragoza was founded in 2002 with the aim of giving the city of Zaragoza back to the Spanish basketball elite league, after old CB Zaragoza left the Liga ACB on 1996. It started playing on LEB, after taking the place belonging to CB Coruña.

CAI Zaragoza spent five hard years on LEB league before reaching Liga ACB for the first time. The team had to overcome a relegation playoff in its first season against CB Ciudad de Huelva, and four consecutive failed promotion playoffs against CB Granada, CB Murcia and Baloncesto León twice.

Finally, CAI Zaragoza got promoted to Liga ACB after winning the title of the 2007–08 season, but its first participation on it was a total failure. CAI Zaragoza got immediately relegated, after being defeated in the last day by CB Murcia. Nevertheless, the team arranged returned to Liga ACB on the next season after the arrival of homegrown coach .

Under Abos, CAI Zaragoza established on the top Spanish basketball competition; in the 2012–13 season, they qualifying for the first time to the Copa del Rey and reached the ACB semifinals in their first participation in the play-offs for the title. This success allowed CAI Zaragoza to make their debut in European competitions by playing the EuroCup Basketball during three consecutive seasons, reaching the Last 16 stage in the 2015–16 season.

Nevertheless, after Abós's untimely death in 2014, the team struggled in the national competition, and went from reaching the play-offs to barely avoiding relegation. In 2016, after 14 years with CAI, the club changed the sponsorship naming to Tecnyconta Zaragoza.^[2]

In the 2018-19 ACB season, under Porfirio Fisac's coaching and after a profound change in their roster, Tecnyconta Zaragoza returned to the ACB play-off and reached the semifinals for the second time in their history.

On 15 June 2020, Basket Zaragoza created the women's team by integrating the professional team of Stadium Casablanca.^[3]

Logos

Non-commercial logo until 2017.
Logo under the sponsorship of CAI.

Players

Current roster

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.

Casademont Zaragoza roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	No.	Name	Ht.	Age
PG	10	Cook, Omar	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)	39 – (1982-01-28)28 January 1982
SG	22		1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)	23 – (1998-03-11)11 March 1998
G	44		1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)	20 – (2001-04-06)6 April 2001
C	32	Hlinason, Tryggvi	2.16 m (7 ft 1 in)	23 – (1997-10-28)28 October 1997
SG	2	Mobley, Matt	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)	27 – (1994-09-01)1 September 1994
F/C	7	McLean, Jamel	2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)	33 – (1988-04-18)18 April 1988
SF	5	Okoye, Stan	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	30 – (1991-04-10)10 April 1991
F	8	Radončić, Dino	2.02 m (6 ft 8 in)	22 – (1999-01-08)8 January 1999
PG	00	San Miguel, Rodrigo	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)	36 – (1985-01-21)21 January 1985
PG	25	Sipahi, Kenan	1.97 m (6 ft 6 in)	26 – (1995-05-26)26 May 1995
PF	9	Vanwijn, Hans	2.05 m (6 ft 9 in)	26 – (1995-02-15)15 February 1995
C	13		2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)	24 – (1997-09-11)11 September 1997
G/F	21	Waczyński, Adam	1.99 m (6 ft 6 in)	31 – (1989-10-15)15 October 1989
SF	4	Yusta, Santiago	2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)	24 – (1997-04-28)28 April 1997

Head coach

Jaume Ponsarnau

Assistant coach(es)

Aleix Durán
Ignacio Juan

Legend

(C) Team captain
Injured

Roster

Updated: September 15, 2021

Depth chart

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench 1	Bench 2	Inactive
C	Jamel McLean	Tryggvi Hlinason	Ramon Vila
PF	Hans Vanwijn	Dino Radončić
SF	Stan Okoye	Adam Waczyński		Santiago Yusta
SG	Matt Mobley	Aleix Font	Javier García
PG	Rodrigo San Miguel	Kenan Sipahi		Omar Cook

Colours: Blue = homegrown player; Red = non–FIBA Europe player

Season by season

Season	Tier	Division	Pos.	W–L	Copa del Rey	Other cups		European competitions
2002–03	2	LEB	14th	15–20
2003–04	2	LEB	4th	25–19		Copa Príncipe	C
2004–05	2	LEB	6th	19–18		Copa Príncipe	SF
2005–06	2	LEB	4th	30–12
2006–07	2	LEB	3rd	26–16
2007–08	2	LEB Oro	1st	28–6		Copa Príncipe	SF
2008–09	1	Liga ACB	17th	8–24		Supercopa	RU
2009–10	2	LEB Oro	1st	27–7
2010–11	1	Liga ACB	10th	16–18
2011–12	1	Liga ACB	10th	16–18
2012–13	1	Liga ACB	3rd	23–17	Quarterfinalist	Supercopa	SF
2013–14	1	Liga ACB	8th	18–18	Semifinalist			2 Eurocup	L32	8–8
2014–15	1	Liga ACB	9th	18–16	Quarterfinalist			2 Eurocup	L32	6–10
2015–16	1	Liga ACB	12th	13–21				2 Eurocup	EF	12–6
2016–17	1	Liga ACB	15th	9–23
2017–18	1	Liga ACB	16th	10–24
2018–19	1	Liga ACB	6th	18-16
2019–20	1	Liga ACB	6th	17–11	Quarterfinalist			3 Champions League	4th	13–6
2020–21	1	Liga ACB	13th	14–22				3 Champions League	3rd	11–3
2021–22	1	Liga ACB						4 FIBA Europe Cup

Honours

National leagues

2nd division championships: (2)
- LEB: (2) 2008, 2010
Copa Príncipe de Asturias: (1)
- 2004

European competition

Basketball Champions League
- Third place: 2020–21

Individual awards

Copa Príncipe de Asturias MVP

Matías Lescano – 2004

Basketball Champions League Best Young Player

Carlos Alocén – 2020^[4]

Players database

Updated as of the end of the 2014–15 season

Name	Season	Valuation
Pablo Aguilar Bermúdez	2010–2013	9'6
	2011–2012	0'8
	2005–2006	0
Alberto Angulo Espinosa	2005–2007	7'3
José Ángel Antelo	2005–2006	8'5
Robert Archibald	2011–2012	3'9
	2009–2010	-0'6
	2005–2006 & 2008–2009	3'6
David Barlow	2009–2011	11'2
	2006–2008	4'3
	2004–2005	9'3
	2011–2012	2
Carlos Cabezas	2010–2012	11'8
	2010–2011	0'3
	2002–2003 & 2004–2005	-1
Adam Chubb	2010–2011	6'7
	2002–2003	9'5
Lionel Chalmers	2006–2007	9'5
	2004–2005	4'8
Diego Ciorciari	2002–2005	10'8
Joaquim "Quino" Colom	2006–2007 & 2008–2009	3'1
Alberto Corbacho	2006–2007	3
Blaž Črešnar	2007–2008	0'7
Joe Steven Crispin	2006–2007	9'7
Branko Cvetković	2008–2009	10
	2013–2014	1
	2003–2004 & 2005–2006	2'6
	2003–2004	13
Chinemelu Elonu	2009–2010 & 2013–2014	8'3
	2002–2004	-0'3
	2003–2004	5'2
Heshimu Evans	2006–2007	12'6
	2004–2005	6'3
Desmond Farmer	2005–2006	6
Vítor Luiz Faverani Tatsch	2006–2007	10'3
Borja Vidal Fernández Fernández	2004–2005	2'5
	2005–2006	10
	2003–2005	7'8
Josh Fisher	2004–2005	-2
	2011–2015	(2'4)
	2005–2006	0'5
	2003–2004	1
	2004–2005	5'8
Rubén Santiago Garcés Riquelme	2008–2009	4'6
Sergi García	2013–present	(0'6)
	2012–2013	(0'5)
	2004–2005	7'4
	2006–2009	0'4
	2002–2003	5'1
	2002–2003	7'7
	2003–2004 & 2007–2008	4'7
Chris Goulding	2014–present	(5'5)
Taurean Green	2008–2009	9'5
Vladimir Golubović	2013	8'9
	2008–2010	2'5
Rafael Hettsheimeir	2009–2012	12'5
Mike Higgins	2007–2008	1'6
Otis Hill	2002–2004	17'6
Stevan Jelovac	2014–present	(15'8)
	2002–2003	-1'5
Oriol Junyent Monuera	2009–2010	10'3
Raško Katić	2014-present	(6'4)
William Amar Keys	2005–2006	11'9
	2009–2010	5'6
Joseph Jones	2012–2014	8'4
Marcus Tyrone Landry	2014–2015	10'1
	2011–2012	-1
	2003–2010	10'1
	2008–2009	11
Kevin Lisch	2014–2015	6'3
Pedro Llompart Usón	2012–present	(10'3)
José Jaime Lloreda Ferrón	2009–2010	8'4
	2005–2006	0'6
	2006–2007	0'6
Christian Maråker	2006–2007	6'3
Carles Marco	2008–2009	-1'5
	2009–2010 & 2011–2014	(-0'8)
José Ignacio "Nacho" Martín	2009–2010	4'7
Marc Martí Roig	2014–present	(1)
	2002–2003	8'7
Ben McCauley	2014	4'8
	2003–2004	4'9
	2010–2011	8'6
	2002–2004	8
Henk Norel	2012–present	(12'8)
	2004–2005	4'3
Ugonna Nnamdi Onyekwe	2006–2007	10'5
	2002–2003	5'9
	2011–2012	4'3
	2008–2009	2'8
	2009–2010	1
Richard Petruška	2002–2003	21'7
Darren Phillip	2006–2011	10'2
Gianmarco Pozzecco	2004–2005	18
	2005–2006	5'5
Paolo Alfredo Quinteros	2007–2011	13'7
Nikola Rakočević	2010–2011	0
Damjan Rudež	2012–2014	(7'9)
	2004–2005	19'5
Charles Rhodes	2011–2012	3'8
	2010–2011	1'5
	2009–2010	9'6
	2014–2015	8'8
	2009–2010	1'1
	2002–2003	-3
	2007–2008	0'8
Michael Roll	2012–2014	9'4
	2005–2007	7'2
	2014–present	(0'7)
	2003–2004	0
	2002–2003	0'7
	2003–2004	5'2
Rodrigo San Miguel	2002–2004	2'5
	2009–2010	5'4
Viktor Sanikidze	2013–2014	12'8
	2006–2007	2
Joan Sastre Morro	2014–present	6'1
Brent Scott	2004–2005	14'1
Giorgi Shermadini	2013–2014	(15'8)
Ondřej Starosta	2006–2009	11'9
Jón Arnór Stefánsson	2011–present	(6'0)
	2005–2006	3'5
Jonathan Tabu	2013–2014	7'8
	2004–2006	-0'3
Pere Tomàs Noguera	2013-present	(4'9)
Andre Devalle Turner	2007–2008	2'4
	2010–2013	3'7
	2002–2003	7'1
Álex Urtasun Uriz	2013–2014	3'7
José Miguel Urtasun Uriz	2004–2005	6'7
Sam Tom Bert Van Rossom	2010–2013	8'5
Luc-Arthur Vebobe	2005–2006	9
Cuthbert Victor	2007–2008	14'8
Lucas Javier Victoriano Acosta	2006–2009	9'7
	2005–2007	6'3
	2003–2004	11'2
	2002–2003 & 2005–2006	16'5
Loren Woods	2008–2009	18'3
Bracey Wright	2011–2012	(12'4)
Andrija Žižić	2008–2009	2'1

Coaches database

Nat.	Name	Season
		2009–2014
	Alberto Angulo Espinosa	2008–2009
		2018
		2015–2017
		2017–2018
	Porfirio Fisac	2018–present
		2017
		2002–2004 & 2005–2006
		2006–2007
		2002–2003
		2004–2005
	Joaquín Ruiz Lorente	2014–2015
		2007–2009
	Ranko Žeravica	2002–2003

Women's team

Since 2020, Basket Zaragoza has also a women's team. It was created after integrating Stadium Casablanca into the structure of the club. Basket Zaragoza joined to Liga Femenina, instead of Stadium Casablanca which joined to Liga Femenina 2 as a reserve team.^[5]

Season by season

Season	Tier	Division	Pos.	W–L	Copa de la Reina
2020–21	1	Liga Femenina

References

^ "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.
^ "Tecnyconta se incorpora como patrocinador principal del Basket Zaragoza" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 26 September 2016. Archived from the original on 13 November 2017. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
^ "El Basket Zaragoza absorbe al Stadium Casablanca y competirá en Liga Femenina Endesa" (in Spanish). Palco 23. 15 June 2020.
^ "Star Lineup revealed, Alocen Best Young Player". Basketball Champions League. 29 September 2020. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
^ "Casademont Zaragoza reafirma su apuesta por el baloncesto femenino | Basket Zaragoza". www.basketzaragoza.net (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 July 2020.

External links

Official website
Basket Zaragoza at ACB.com (in Spanish)

Casademont Zaragoza roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	No.	Name	Ht.	Age
G	10		1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	22 – (1999-08-01)1 August 1999
C	34	Gatling, Markeisha	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)	29 – (1992-07-14)14 July 1992
G	2	Gorecki, Haley	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	24 – (1996-11-13)13 November 1996
F	22	Handy, Chantelle	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)	34 – (1987-06-16)16 June 1987
G	17		1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)	20 – (2001-04-18)18 April 2001
C	4	Nicholls, Laura	1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)	32 – (1989-02-26)26 February 1989
C	15		1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)	31 – (1990-01-29)29 January 1990
PF	62		1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)	19 – (2002-02-10)10 February 2002
PG	35	Vanloo, Julie	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)	28 – (1993-02-10)10 February 1993
G	7		1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	31 – (1990-08-13)13 August 1990

Head coach

Carlos Iglesias

Legend

(C) Team captain
Injured

[1] "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.

[2] "Tecnyconta se incorpora como patrocinador principal del Basket Zaragoza" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 26 September 2016. Archived from the original on 13 November 2017. Retrieved 26 September 2016.

[3] "El Basket Zaragoza absorbe al Stadium Casablanca y competirá en Liga Femenina Endesa" (in Spanish). Palco 23. 15 June 2020.

[4] "Star Lineup revealed, Alocen Best Young Player". Basketball Champions League. 29 September 2020. Retrieved 8 October 2020.

[5] "Casademont Zaragoza reafirma su apuesta por el baloncesto femenino | Basket Zaragoza". www.basketzaragoza.net (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 July 2020.

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show v t Casademont Zaragoza current roster
00 San Miguel 2 Mobley 4 Yusta 5 Okoye 7 McLean 9 Vanwijn 10 Cook 13 21 Waczyński 22 25 Sipahi 32 Hlinason 44
Head coach: Ponsarnau Assistant coaches: Durán Juan