Valencia Basket

Valencia Basket was founded on 27 September 1986, after Valencia CF decided to fold its basketball section.^[3]

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 ACB,^[4] where the team remained until the 1994–95 season. In 1995, Valencia was relegated to the Spanish 2nd-tier level EBA League, 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 Amway Zaragoza'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

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 ACB League 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 Krka Novo Mesto 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

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

2015–present

On 5 June 2017, Valencia Basket qualified for its second Spanish Liga ACB Finals series, after defeating Baskonia 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.^[7] 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 EuroLeague 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 Alba Berlin, in the double-legged finals.

Arena

External and internal view of La Fonteta

During its first season of existence, the team played its home games at the La Canaleta Sports Complex in the municipality of Mislata.^[8]

Since 1987 Valencia Basket plays its home games at the 8,500 seat Font de Sant Lluís arena.^[9] 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),^[10] with the inauguration scheduled for 2024.^[11][12]

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

• 
  1987–2009 (The logo during the Pamesa era).
• 
  2009–2017 (Original non commercial logo).
• 
  2016–2017 (30 year anniversary logo).
• 
  2017–present.

Players

Retired numbers

Valencia Basket retired numbers
No	Nat.	Player	Position	Tenure
11		Nacho Rodilla	PG	1994–2003
15		Víctor Luengo	SG/SF	1992–2007

Current roster

Valencia Basket roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Age PG 0 Harper, Jared 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) 26 – (1997-09-14)14 September 1997 F 1 Claver, Víctor (C) 2.07 m (6 ft 9 in) 35 – (1988-08-30)30 August 1988 G/F 2 Puerto, Josep 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) 25 – (1999-03-08)8 March 1999 C 3 Reuvers, Nate 2.11 m (6 ft 11 in) 25 – (1998-09-30)30 September 1998 F/C 4 Pradilla, Jaime 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) 23 – (2001-01-03)3 January 2001 G/F 5 Anderson, Justin 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 30 – (1993-11-19)19 November 1993 SF 6 López-Arostegui, Xabier 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) 26 – (1997-05-19)19 May 1997 G 7 Jones, Chris 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 31 – (1993-04-10)10 April 1993 PF 10 Inglis, Damien 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 28 – (1995-05-20)20 May 1995 PG 16 Jović, Stefan 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 33 – (1990-11-03)3 November 1990 C 21 Toure, Boubacar  2.13 m (7 ft 0 in) 28 – (1995-12-31)31 December 1995 F/C 27 Kaba, Alpha 208 m (682 ft 5 in) 28 – (1996-01-29)29 January 1996 SG 30 Robertson, Kassius 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 29 – (1994-04-20)20 April 1994 C 32 Davies, Brandon 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) 32 – (1991-07-25)25 July 1991 F 37 Ojeleye, Semi 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 29 – (1994-12-05)5 December 1994 PG 47 Pangos, Kevin 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) 31 – (1993-01-26)26 January 1993	Head coach Álex Mumbrú Assistant coach(es) Juan Maroto Xavier Albert Fernando San Emeterio Legend (C) Team captain Injured Roster Updated: April 5, 2024

Depth chart

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench 1	Bench 2	Bench 3	Inactive
C	Brandon Davies	Jaime Pradilla *		Alpha Kaba	Boubacar Toure
PF	Damien Inglis	Víctor Claver *		Nate Reuvers †
SF	Semi Ojeleye	Justin Anderson †	Xabier López-Arostegui *
SG	Chris Jones	Kassius Robertson		Josep Puerto *
PG	Kevin Pangos	Jared Harper †	Stefan Jovic

† indicates an overseas player.

* indicates a "cupo" player.

In compliance with ACB's homegrown player policy, only 2 overseas players can be in the roster for every given match, with the exception of those holding a European citizenship, or from any country with an association treaty, such as the Cotonou Agreement. In addition to that, at least 4 of the players in a 12 or more player roster must "cupo" players (i.e., they are Spanish, or must have been in the youth systems of a Spanish club for at least 3 years).[9][10] Euroleague Basketball does not have any policy in regards of players' origin, so it is possible for teams to call more than two overseas players for a match in Euroleague competitions.

FIBA Hall of Famers

Valencia Basket Hall of Famers
Players
No.	Nat.	Name	Position	Tenure	Inducted
44		Antoine Rigaudeau	G	2003–2005	2015[13]

Head coaches

Season by season

Honours

Trophies and awards

• Liga ACB: (1)

2017

Runners-up (1): 2003

• Copa del Rey: (1)

1998

Runners-up (4): 2000, 2006, 2013, 2017

• Supercopa: (1)

2017

• Saporta Cup
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Runners-up (2): 1999, 2002

• EuroCup Basketball: (4)

2003, 2010, 2014, 2019

Runners-up (2): 2012, 2017

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

Notable players

Women's team

The women's team of Valencia Basket was created in 2014 and promoted to

External links

• Official website
• Valencia Basket at ACB.com (in Spanish)
• Valencia Basket at the EuroLeague