Baloncesto Fuenlabrada

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History

Founded in 1983, Fuenlabrada started to compete at a local level. The club joined national competitions two years later and worked its way up, reaching the first regional division in the late 1980s. By 1991, it already became Baloncesto Fuenlabrada and a year later, it merged with CB Torrejón de Ardoz to compete in the Spanish second division.^[1]

Fuenlabrada acquired Club Peñas Recreativas de Huesca's rights to earn the right to compete in the Spanish first division in the 1996–97 season. The club went down to the second division, but inked scoring machine Velimir Perasović and returned to the elite level a year later. With Perasović, Carlos Cazorla, Ferran Lopez and Salvador Guardia as its main pillars, the addition of Nate Huffman allowed Fuenlabrada to make it to the Spanish League playoffs in 1999 and their debut in the Korać Cup. Perasović kept filling the baskets for several seasons, leading Fuenlabrada to two more playoffs appearances in 2001 and 2002, helped by David Wood, Chuck Kornegay and a young José Manuel Calderón and coached by Óscar Quintana.^[1]

Fuenlabrada made its ULEB Cup debut in the 2002–03 season, in which Herrmann was chosen as the Spanish League MVP. The club returned to the Spanish second division in 2004 but came back, for good, a year later. Players like Saúl Blanco, Jorge García, Kristaps Valters and Brad Oleson kept Fuenlabrada in the first division for years without much trouble. The club returned to the Spanish League playoffs in the 2010–11 season with Salva Maldonado as head coach and a young Gustavo Ayón as its star center.

One year later, the club would be eliminated in the quarterfinals of the EuroChallenge by Triumph Lyubertsy. Despite this European achievement, Fuenlabrada would continue fighting to avoid relegation, finally being relegated to LEB Oro in 2015. However, the club continued in Liga ACB as Ford Burgos and Club Ourense Baloncesto would not fulfill the requirements for promoting.

Fuenlabrada took advantage and led by Marko Popović, Jonathan Tabu and Ivan Paunić, Fuenlabrada made it to the Spanish League playoffs, earning the right to return to the EuroCup 13 years later.^[1] In the 2016-2017 season, Fuenlabrada played well and qualified to the EuroCup Top16. However, they only finished 12th in the ACB. After a 9th-place finish in the 2017-2018 ACB season, Fuenlabrada earned the right to compete in the FIBA Basketball Champions League. Fuenlabrada won the first 3 games, before suffering a complete fiasco and finishing the tournament with 11 consecutive losses.

Sponsorship naming

Baloncesto Fuenlabrada has had several denominations through the years due to its sponsorship:

Maná Fuenlabrada 1986–1987
Jabones Pardo Fuenlabrada 1999–2004
Alta Gestión Fuenlabrada 2005–2009
Ayuda en acción Fuenlabrada 2009–2010
Mad-Croc Fuenlabrada 2012–2013
Montakit Fuenlabrada 2014–2020
Urbas Fuenlabrada 2020–2022
Carplus Fuenlabrada 2022–2024
Flexicar Fuenlabrada 2024–present

Team logos

Non-commercial logo

Non-commercial logo
2005–2009

2005–2009
2009–2010

2009–2010

Home arenas

San Esteban Public High School Court (1983–88).
Miguel Hernández Public High School Gymnasium (1988–91).
Pabellón Fernando Martín (1991–present).

Players

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Retired numbers

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2	Template:Flagicon	Marko Popović	PG	2015–2019
6	Template:Flagicon	Velimir Perasović	SG	1997–2002
8	Template:Flagicon	Salva Guardia	PF	1996–2001, 2003–2008, 2010–2011
10	Template:Flagicon	Ferrán López	PG	1997–2001, 2004–2009
13	Template:Flagicon	Francesc Solana	SF	2002–2007

Source: ^[2]

Other notable players

Current roster

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Head coaches

Managers since 1993:

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Óscar Quintana 1993–1995, 1997–2004, 2023
Martín Fariñas 1995–1996
Andreu Casadevall 1996–1997
Luis Casimiro 2004–2008, 2014–2015
Luis Guil 2008–2009
Chus Mateo 2009, 2013-14
Salva Maldonado 2009–2011
Porfirio Fisac 2011–2012
Trifón Poch 2012–2013
Hugo López 2015
Jesús Sala 2015
Žan Tabak 2015
Jota Cuspinera 2015–2017, 2019–2020
Che García 2017–2018, 2018–2019
Agustí Julbe 2018
Paco García 2020
Javier Juárez 2020–2021
Josep Maria Raventós 2021–2022
José Luis Pichel 2022–2023
Toni Ten 2023–2025

Season by season

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1986–87	5	2ª Autonómica
1987–88	4	1ª Autonómica
1988–89	4	1ª Autonómica
1989–90	4	1ª Autonómica
1990–91	3	2ª División
1991–92	3	2ª División	11th	6–16
1992–93	2	1ª División	17th	16–18
1993–94	2	1ª División	12th	22–10
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1995–96	2	Liga EBA	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />3rdScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Efn
1996–97	1	Liga ACB	18th	4–33
1997–98	2	LEB	2nd	23–11		Copa Príncipe	C
1998–99	1	Liga ACB	7th	18–19	Quarterfinalist
1999–00	1	Liga ACB	15th	11–23				3 Korać Cup	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />GSScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	3–3
2000–01	1	Liga ACB	7th	20–17	Quarterfinalist
2001–02	1	Liga ACB	7th	19–18				3 Korać Cup	QF	5–5
2002–03	1	Liga ACB	14th	14–20				2 ULEB Cup	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />RSScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	3–7
2003–04	1	Liga ACB	17th	13–21
2004–05	2	LEB	1st	34–9		Copa Príncipe	C
2005–06	1	Liga ACB	10th	15–19
2006–07	1	Liga ACB	12th	14–20
2007–08	1	Liga ACB	13th	13–21
2008–09	1	Liga ACB	9th	15–17
2009–10	1	Liga ACB	15th	12–22
2010–11	1	Liga ACB	7th	20–16
2011–12	1	Liga ACB	16th	12–22	Quarterfinalist			3 EuroChallenge	QF	11–4
2012–13	1	Liga ACB	14th	12–22
2013–14	1	Liga ACB	15th	12–22
2014–15	1	Liga ACB	18thTemplate:Efn	8–26
2015–16	1	Liga ACB	8th	17–19	Quarterfinalist
2016–17	1	Liga ACB	12th	12–20				2 EuroCup	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />T16Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	6–8
2017–18	1	Liga ACB	9th	17–17	Quarterfinalist
2018–19	1	Liga ACB	13th	13–21				3 Champions League	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />RSScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	3–11
2019–20	1	Liga ACB	17thTemplate:Efn	5–17		Supercopa	SF
2020–21	1	Liga ACB	15th	12–24
2021–22	1	Liga ACB	14th	12–22
2022–23	1	Liga ACB	18th	4–30
2023–24	2	LEB Oro	10th	16–18
2024–25	2	Primera FEB	3rd	31–8		Spain Cup	GS

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Team records and awards

Records

20 seasons in ACB
2 seasons in LEB
2 seasons in EBA
2 seasons in Primera División B

Trophies

LEB Oro: (1)
- 2005
Copa Príncipe de Asturias: (2)
- 1998, 2005
Torneo Comunidad de Madrid: (1)
- 1998

Individual awards

ACB Most Valuable Player

Wálter Herrmann – 2003

EuroCup Basketball Rising Star

Rolands Šmits – 2017

ACB Rising Star

Brad Oleson – 2009
Gustavo Ayón – 2011

All-ACB Second Team

Marko Popović – 2016

ACB Three Point Shootout Champion

Sergiy Gladyr – 2012