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Professional basketball club in Madrid, Spain From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Real Madrid Baloncesto (English: Real Madrid Basketball) is a Spanish professional basketball club that was founded in 1931, as a division of the Real Madrid CF multi sports club. They play domestically in the Liga ACB, and internationally in the EuroLeague. They are widely regarded as the greatest basketball club in Europe.[1][2][3] Real Madrid currently ranks first in the European professional basketball club rankings.
| Real Madrid | |||
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 2024–25 Real Madrid Baloncesto season | |||
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| Leagues | Liga ACB EuroLeague | ||
| Founded | 8 March 1931 | ||
| History | Real Madrid CF (1931–present) | ||
| Arena | WiZink Center | ||
| Capacity | 15,000 | ||
| Location | Madrid, Spain | ||
| Team colours | White, Purple, Grey | ||
| Main sponsor | Autohero | ||
| President | Florentino Pérez | ||
| Head coach | Chus Mateo | ||
| Team captain | Sergio Llull | ||
| Championships | 11 EuroLeague 4 Saporta Cup 1 Korać Cup 1 Eurocup 5 Intercontinental Cup 37 Spanish Championship 29 Spanish Cup 10 Spanish Supercup | ||
| Retired numbers | 1 (10) | ||
| Website | www | ||
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Similarly to the Real Madrid athletic association football club, the basketball team has been the most successful of its peers in both Spain and Europe.[4] Real Madrid CF is the only European sports club to have become the European champions in both football and basketball in the same season.[5]
The Real Madrid squads have won a record 36 Spanish League championships, including in 7-in-a-row and 10-in-a-row sequences. They have also won a record 29 Spanish Cup titles, a record 11 EuroLeague Championships, a record 4 Saporta Cups, and a record 5 Intercontinental Cups. Madrid has also won 3 Triple Crowns, which constitute a treble of the national league, cup, and continental league won in a single season. Some of the club's star players over the years have included: Carmelo Cabrera, Arvydas Sabonis, Dražen Petrović, Rudy Fernández, Sergio Rodriguez, Sergio Llull, Felipe Reyes, Serge Ibaka, Mirza Delibašić, Dražen Dalipagić, Nikola Mirotić, Juan Antonio Corbalán, Fernando Martín, Alberto Herreros, Dejan Bodiroga, and Luka Dončić.
Real Madrid also has a developmental basketball team, called Real Madrid B, that plays in the amateur-level Spanish 4th-tier Liga EBA.
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For at least half a century, Madrid has been a standard-bearer in European basketball, accumulating a record ten continental titles, based on its dominance in the 1960s. Its early dominance in Spain has resulted in another untouchable cache of 36 national domestic league and 28 national cup trophies. And almost every time that Madrid did not play in Europe's top-tier level competition, it won a different continental trophy – four Saporta Cups, a Korać Cup, and a ULEB Cup – as a stepping-stone back to the big time.
Players like Emiliano Rodríguez, Clifford Luyk, Wayne Brabender, Walter Szczerbiak, Juan Antonio Corbalán, Dražen Petrović, Mirza Delibašić, Arvydas Sabonis, and Dejan Bodiroga have turned Real Madrid into one of the biggest basketball clubs in the world. Madrid won as many as 7 EuroLeague titles between 1964 and 1980, becoming a European basketball club legend, and even when it took the club 15 years to win it again, it found success in other European competitions, too.
Madrid downed Olimpia Milano in the 1984 Cup Winners' Cup, on free throws made by Brian Jackson, then Petrović had 62 points in the 1989 Cup Winners' Cup final, against Snaidero Caserta. Madrid added a 1988 Korać Cup title, against Cibona Zagreb.
Real Madrid won the 1992 Saporta Cup trophy against PAOK, on a buzzer-beating jumper by Rickey Brown. It was not until Sabonis arrived in Madrid, when Real won its eighth EuroLeague title in 1995, by beating Olympiacos in the final. Madrid next won the 1997 Saporta Cup title against Verona, but no more European-wide trophies came for the club in the next decade.
Madrid still found success at home, winning Spanish League titles in 2000 and 2005. It all changed in 2007, when Joan Plaza was promoted to the club's head coach position. With the help of players like Louis Bullock, Felipe Reyes, and Álex Mumbrú, Madrid added a new trophy to its roll of honours, the ULEB Cup, as it won 12 of its last 13 games and downed Lietuvos Rytas by a score of 75–87 in the 2007 ULEB Cup Final. Moreover, Madrid finished in 2nd place in the 2006–07 Spanish League regular season, and stayed strong in its play in Palacio Vistalegre during the Spanish league playoffs; they lifted the club's 30th national league trophy by besting their arch-rivals, Winterthur FC Barcelona, 3–1 in the Spanish League title series in 2007.
In Pablo Laso's era, Real Madrid Baloncesto managed to find consistent success. Spanish top-tier level players of the time, like Sergio Rodríguez and Rudy Fernández, were acquired by the club. Also, ACB Rising Star winner Nikola Mirotić was a part of the team's mix, along with Sergio Llull and Felipe Reyes, to give Real Madrid a strong home grown core of players. This group of players gave Real Madrid Baloncesto 6 Copa del Reys (Spanish Cup) titles, 7 Spanish Super Cup titles, 6 Liga ACB (Spanish League) titles, 2 EuroLeague championships, and an FIBA Intercontinental Cup championship.
On 17 May 2015, after waiting 20 years to win another EuroLeague championship, Real Madrid won the 2015 EuroLeague championship against Olympiacos. Madrid's Andrés Nocioni was named the Final Four MVP. This title was called La Novena.[7] Following the EuroLeague title, the 2014–15 ACB season's championship was also won by Real. Because Real also won the national Spanish Cup and the national Spanish Supercup that season, the club won its first "Quadruble crown".[8]
On 27 September 2015, 34 years after their last FIBA Intercontinental Cup title, Real Madrid won their fifth FIBA Intercontinental Cup trophy, after defeating the Brazilian League club Bauru. Sergio Llull was named the MVP of the tournament. Real Madrid thus made it a record five FIBA Intercontinental Cup titles won, and with the Intercontinental Cup title.
On 20 May 2018, Real Madrid conquered again the EuroLeague, achieving their tenth title ever. The considered major leader of the team that season would be a Slovenian guard/forward named Luka Dončić, who became the designated MVP of the EuroLeague on all accounts at 19 years old.
On 5 June 2022, Pablo Laso suffered a heart attack.[9][10] Exactly one month later, Real Madrid parted ways with him citing "medical reasons exclusively" and adding that keeping him as a coach in his health condition would have been "a risk that this institution cannot assume".[11][12] Laso left Real Madrid as one of the greatest coaches in the club's history, having won 22 titles, which ties him with Lolo Sainz in the second place for most trophies won with Real Madrid, only behind Pedro Ferrándiz with 27. Laso is also the coach who has managed the most games for Madrid (860), having won 659 of them. He was succeeded at Real Madrid's helm by his assistant Chus Mateo.[13]
In the following 2022—23 season, Real Madrid won their eleventh EuroLeague title beating Olympiacos in the championship game after previously winning the title after 5 years. Real Madrid came back at the championship game after the previous season, they lost the championship game versus Anadolu Efes 57—58 in the final. Sergio Llull winning the cluch 2-point shot at 3.1 seconds, but Real Madrid beating Olympiacos 78—79 in the final.
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Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.
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| 10 |  | Fernando Martín | C | 1981–1986, 1987–1989 | |
The following former Real Madrid players are inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame:
Dražen Dalipagić, G, 1982–1983, Inducted 2004 Antonio Díaz-Miguel, F, 1958–1961, Inducted 1997 Pedro Ferrándiz, coach, 1959–1962, 1964–1965, 1966–1975, Inducted 2007
Dražen Petrović, G, 1988–1989, Inducted 2002
Arvydas Sabonis, C, 1992–1995, Inducted 2011| Top scorers | Most official matches | ||||
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| 1. | Sergio Llull | 11 515 points |
1. | Sergio Llull | 1084 matches |
| 2. |  Wayne Brabender | 11 215 points |
2. | Felipe Reyes | 1046 matches |
| 3. | Felipe Reyes | 9 613 points |
3. | Rudy Fernández | 757 matches |
| 4. |  Jaycee Carroll | 7 332 points |
4. | Jaycee Carroll | 709 matches |
| 5. | Rafael Rullán | 7 135 points |
5. | Sergio Rodríguez | 580 matches |
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Ángel Cabrera: 1930–33 Juan Castellví: 1931–34 Máximo Arnáiz: 1934–35
Segundo Braña: 1935–36
Cholo Méndez: 1939–43
Anselmo López: 1943–45, 1946–47
José Borrero: 1947–48
Felipe Kaimo Calderón: 1948–49
Freddy Borrás: 1949–1954 Ignacio Pinedo: 1954–1958, 1990–1991 Jacinto Ardevínez: 1958–1959 Pedro Ferrándiz: 1959–1962, 1964–1965, 1966–1975 Joaquín Hernández: 1962–1964
Robert Busnel: 1965–1966 Lolo Sainz: 1975–1989 George Karl: 1989–1990, 1991–1992 Wayne Brabender: 1990 Ángel González Jareño: 1991. Clifford Luyk: 1992–1994, 1998–1999
Željko Obradović: 1994–1997 Miguel Ángel Martín: 1997 Tirso Lorente: 1998
Sergio Scariolo: 1999–2002 Javier Imbroda: 2002–2003
Julio Lamas: 2003–2004 Božidar Maljković: 2004–2006 Joan Plaza: 2006–2009 Ettore Messina: 2009–2011 Emanuele Molin: 2011 Pablo Laso: 2011–2022 Chus Mateo: 2022–present* Unofficial edition
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ACB Three Point Shootout Champion
ACB Most Spectacular Player of the Year
| Seasons | Achievement | Notes | |
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| 1957–58 | Semi-finals | eliminated by Rīgas ASK, received a forfeit (2–0) in both games | |
| 1960–61 | Semi-finals | eliminated by Rīgas ASK, 78–75 (W) in Paris and 45–66 (L) in Prague | |
| 1961–62 | Final | lost to Dinamo Tbilisi 83–90 in the final (Geneva) | |
| 1962–63 | Final | lost to CSKA Moscow, 86–69 (W) in Madrid and 74–91 (L) in Moscow in the double finals | |
| 1963–64 | Champions | defeated Spartak ZJŠ Brno, 99–110 (L) in Brno and 84–64 (W) in Madrid in the double finals | |
| 1964–65 | Champions | defeated CSKA Moscow, 81–88 (L) in Moscow and 76–62 (W) in Madrid in the double finals | |
| 1965–66 | Quarter-final group stage | 4th place in a group with Slavia Prague, Simmenthal Milano and Bell Mechelen | |
| 1966–67 | Champions | defeated AŠK Olimpija 88–86 in the semi-final, defeated Simmenthal Milano 91–83 in the final of the Final Four in Madrid | |
| 1967–68 | Champions | defeated Spartak ZJŠ Brno 98–95 in the final (Lyon) | |
| 1968–69 | Final | lost to CSKA Moscow 99–103 in the final (Barcelona) | |
| 1969–70 | Semi-finals | eliminated by Ignis Varèse, 86–90 (L) in Madrid and 73–108 (L) in Varese | |
| 1970–71 | Semi-finals | eliminated by Ignis Varèse, 59–82 (L) in Varese and 74–66 (W) in Madrid | |
| 1971–72 | Semi-finals | eliminated by Jugoplastika, 89–81 (W) in Madrid and 69–80 (L) in Split | |
| 1972–73 | Quarter-finals | 3rd place in a group with Simmenthal Milano, Crvena Zvezda and Maccabi Tel Aviv | |
| 1973–74 | Champions | defeated Ignis Varèse 84–82 in the final (Nantes) | |
| 1974–75 | Final | lost to Ignis Varèse 66–79 in the final (Antwerp) | |
| 1975–76 | Final | lost to Mobilgirgi Varese 74–81 in the final (Geneva) | |
| 1976–77 | Semi-final group stage | 4th place in a group with Mobilgirgi Varese, Maccabi Tel Aviv, CSKA Moscow, Maes Pils Mechelen and Zbrojovka Brno | |
| 1977–78 | Champions | defeated Mobilgirgi Varese 75–67 in the final (Munich) | |
| 1978–79 | Semi-final group stage | 4th place in a group with Emerson Varèse, Bosna, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Joventut Freixenet and Olympiacos | |
| 1979–80 | Champions | defeated Maccabi Tel Aviv 89–85 in the final (West Berlin) | |
| 1980–81 | Semi-final group stage | 5th place in a group with Sinudyne Bologna, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Nashua Den Bosch, Bosna and CSKA Moscow | |
| 1982–83 | Semi-final group stage | 3rd place in a group with Ford Cantù, Billy Milano, CSKA Moscow, Maccabi Tel Aviv and Cibona | |
| 1984–85 | Final | lost to Cibona 78–87 in the final (Athens) | |
| 1985–86 | Semi-final group stage | 4th place in a group with Cibona, Žalgiris, Simac Milano, Maccabi Tel Aviv and Limoges | |
| 1986–87 | Semi-final group stage | 6th place in a group with Tracer Milano, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Orthez, Zadar and Žalgiris | |
| 1992–93 | Final Four | 4th place in Athens, lost to Limoges 52–62 in the semi-final, lost to PAOK 70–76 in the 3rd place game | |
| 1993–94 | Quarter-finals | eliminated 2–0 by 7up Joventut, 69–88 (L) in Barcelona and 67–71 (L) in Madrid | |
| 1994–95 | Champions | defeated Limoges 62–49 in the semi-final, defeated Olympiacos 73–61 in the final of the Final Four in Zaragoza | |
| 1995–96 | Final Four | 4th place in Paris, lost to FC Barcelona 66–76 in the semi-final, lost to CSKA Moscow 73–74 in the 3rd place game | |
| 1998–99 | Quarter-finals | eliminated 2–0 by Teamsystem Bologna, 63–90 (L) in Bologna and 65–76 (L) in Madrid | |
| 2000–01 | Quarter-finals | eliminated 2–1 by Paf Wennington Bologna, 68–74 (L) in Bologna, 88–57 (W) in Madrid and 70–88 (L) in Bologna | |
| 2005–06 | Quarter-finals | eliminated 2–1 by FC Barcelona, 58–72 (L) in Barcelona, 84–78 (W) in Madrid and 70–76 (L) in Barcelona | |
| 2008–09 | Quarter-finals | eliminated 3–1 by Olympiacos, 79–88 (L) & 73–79 (L) in Piraeus, 71–63 (W) & 75–78 (L) in Madrid | |
| 2009–10 | Quarter-finals | eliminated 3–1 by FC Barcelona, 61–68 (L) & 70–63 (W) in Barcelona, 73–84 (L) & 78–84 (L) in Madrid | |
| 2010–11 | Final Four | 4th place in Barcelona, lost to Maccabi Tel Aviv 63–82 in the semi-final, lost to Montepaschi Siena 62–80 in the 3rd place game | |
| 2012–13 | Final | defeated FC Barcelona 74–67 in the semi-final, lost to Olympiacos 88–100 in the final of the Final Four in London | |
| 2013–14 | Final | defeated FC Barcelona 100–62 in the semi-final, lost to Maccabi Tel Aviv 86–98 in the final of the Final Four in Milan | |
| 2014–15 | Champions | defeated Fenerbahçe 96–87 in the semi-final, defeated Olympiacos 78–59 in the final of the Final Four in Madrid | |
| 2015–16 | Quarter-finals | eliminated 3–0 by Fenerbahçe, 69–75 (L) & 78–110 (L) in Istanbul, 63–75 (L) in Madrid | |
| 2016–17 | Final Four | 4th place in Istanbul, lost to Fenerbahçe 75–84 in the semi-final, lost to CSKA Moscow 70–94 in the 3rd place game | |
| 2017–18 | Champions | defeated CSKA Moscow 92–83 in the semi-final, defeated Fenerbahçe 85–80 in the final of the Final Four in Belgrade | |
| 2018–19 | Final Four | 3rd place in Vitoria-Gasteiz, lost to CSKA Moscow 90–95 in the semi-final, defeated Fenerbahçe 94–75 in the 3rd place game | |
| 2019–20 | Regular season | The tournament was suspended and then cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic; Madrid was 2nd in the standings at the time of suspension | |
| 2020–21 | Quarter-finals | eliminated 3–2 by Anadolu Efes, 63–90 (L) & 68–91 (L) in Istanbul, 80–76 (W) & 82–76 (W) in Madrid, 83–88 (L) in Istanbul | |
| 2021–22 | Final | defeated FC Barcelona 86–83 in the semi-final, lost to Anadolu Efes 57–58 in the final of the Final Four in Belgrade | |
| 2022–23 | Champions | defeated FC Barcelona 78–66 in the semi-final, defeated Olympiacos 79–78 in the final of the Final Four in Kaunas | |
| 2023–24 | Final | defeated Olympiacos 87—76 in the semifinals, lost to Panathinaikos 80—95 in the final of the Final Four in Berlin | |
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| 1981–82 | Final | lost to Cibona 96–95 in the final (Brussels) | |
| 1983–84 | Champions | defeated Simac Milano 82–81 in the final of European Cup Winners' Cup in Ostend | |
| 1988–89 | Champions | defeated Snaidero Caserta 117–113 in the final of European Cup Winners' Cup in Athens | |
| 1989–90 | Final | lost to Knorr Bologna 74–79 in the final (Florence) | |
| 1991–92 | Champions | defeated PAOK 65–63 in the final of European Cup in Nantes | |
| 1996–97 | Champions | defeated Mash Verona 78–64 in the final of EuroCup in Nicosia | |
| Korać Cup | |||
| 1987–88 | Champions | defeated Cibona, 102–89 (W) in Madrid, 93–94 (L) in Zagreb in the double finals of Korać Cup | |
| 1990–91 | Final | lost to Clear Cantù, 71–73 (L) in Madrid, 93–95 (L) in Cucciago in the double finals of Korać Cup | |
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| 2003–04 | Final | lost to Hapoel Migdal 72–83 in the final (Charleroi) | |
| 2006–07 | Champions | defeated Lietuvos Rytas 87–75 in the final of Eurocup in Charleroi | |
Players who are currently on the team are in boldface. Players who are still active, but in other team, are in italics.
Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.
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Pablo Aguilar Alberto Angulo Lucio Angulo José Miguel Antúnez José Biriukov Wayne Brabender Antonio Bueno Carmelo Cabrera Juan Antonio Corbalán Rudy Fernández Héctor García Usman Garuba Eduardo Hernández-Sonseca Alberto Herreros Serge Ibaka Iker Iturbe José Luis Llorente Sergio Llull Juanjo López Raúl López Juan Manuel López Iturriaga Clifford Luyk Antonio Martín Fernando Martín Jan Martín Nikola Mirotić Juan Antonio Morales Álex Mumbrú Juan Antonio Orenga Alfonso Reyes Felipe Reyes Emiliano Rodríguez Sergio Rodríguez Johnny Rogers Fernando Romay Rafael Rullán Lolo Sainz Ismael Santos Lorenzo Sanz Mike Smith Enrique Villalobos Facundo Campazzo Gabriel Deck Pablo Prigioni Andrés Nocioni Lucas Victoriano Jaycee Carroll
Axel Hervelle Éric Struelens
Mirza Delibašić Džanan Musa Nedžad Sinanović
Edy Tavares Damir Mulaomerović Bojan Bogdanović Dontaye Draper Mario Hezonja Dražen Petrović Mario Stojić Žan Tabak Marko Tomas Ante Tomić
Fabien Causeur Alain Digbeu Mickaël Gelabale Thomas Heurtel Moustapha Sonko Guerschon Yabusele Vincent Poirier
Andrew Betts
Ioannis Bourousis Antonios Fotsis
Adam Hanga
Pat Burke Jay Larrañaga
Kaspars Kambala Arvydas Sabonis Rimas Kurtinaitis Darjuš Lavrinovič Rimantas Kaukėnas Martynas Pocius Jonas Mačiulis
Gustavo Ayón
Blagota Sekulić
Rolf van Rijn
Maciej Lampe Johnny Báez José Ortiz Toñín Casillas
Mikhail Mikhailov
Maurice Ndour Dejan Bodiroga Dražen Dalipagić Aleksandar Đorđević Nikola Lončar Igor Rakočević Zoran Savić Dragan Tarlać Dušan Vukčević
Luka Dončić Anthony Randolph
Jeffery Taylor
Salah Mejri
Kerem Tunçeri Miles Aiken Derrick Alston Michael Anderson Joe Arlauckas Tanoka Beard Elmer Bennett Louis Bullock
D'or Fischer Josh Fisher James Gist Brian Jackson Charles Smith Larry Spriggs Walter Szczerbiak Trey Thompkins Alex Tyus Nigel Williams-Goss| * | Denotes player who has been selected for at least one All-Star Game and All-NBA Team |
| # | Denotes player who has never appeared in an NBA regular season or playoff game |
| ~ | Denotes player who has been selected as Rookie of the Year |
| Position | Player | Year | Round | Pick | Drafted by |
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| PF/C | Fernando Martín |
1985 | 2nd round | 38th | New Jersey Nets |
| C | Stanley Roberts |
1991 | 1st round | 23rd | Orlando Magic |
| PG | Demetrius A
Jackson |
1987 | 2nd round | 49th | Chicago Bulls |
| PG | Raül López |
2001 | 1st round | 24th | Utah Jazz |
| PF/C | Maciej Lampe |
2003 | 2nd round | 30th | New York Knicks |
| SF/PF | Mickaël Gelabale |
2005 | 2nd round | 48th | Seattle SuperSonics |
| PF | Axel Hervelle# |
2005 | 2nd round | 52nd | Denver Nuggets |
| PG/SG | Sergio Llull# |
2009 | 2nd round | 34th | Denver Nuggets |
| PF | Nikola Mirotić |
2011 | 1st round | 23rd | Houston Rockets |
| SG/SF | Luka Dončić*~ |
2018 | 1st round | 3rd | Atlanta Hawks |
| PF | Usman Garuba |
2021 | 1st round | 23rd | Houston Rockets |
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