Basket Zaragoza

"CAI Zaragoza" redirects here. For the team that played in ACB until 1996, see CB Zaragoza.

For the former women's team, see CDB Zaragoza.

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 and the FIBA Europe Cup. Their home arena is the Pabellón Príncipe Felipe.

Casademont Zaragoza
Leagues	Liga ACB FIBA Europe Cup
Founded	2002; 22 years ago (2002)
Arena	Pabellón Príncipe Felipe
Capacity	10,744
Location	Zaragoza, Spain
Team colors	Red, White, Black
President	Predrag Savović
Head coach	Porfirio Fisac
Championships	2 LEB championship 1 Copa Príncipe
Website	Official website
Home Away

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 José Luis Abós.

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.
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  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 nationalities not displayed.

Casademont Zaragoza roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Age PG 0 Spissu, Marco 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) 29 – (1995-02-05)5 February 1995 PG 2 Bell-Haynes, Trae 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 29 – (1995-09-05)5 September 1995 SG 3 Slaughter, A. J. 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 37 – (1987-08-03)3 August 1987 SF 4 Yusta, Santiago (C) 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) 27 – (1997-04-28)28 April 1997 SG 5 Langarita, Lucas 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) 19 – (2005-01-04)4 January 2005 G/F 7 González, Miguel 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 25 – (1999-03-20)20 March 1999 PF 8 Mencía, Yoanki 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 27 – (1997-09-23)23 September 1997 PF 10 Fernández, Jaime 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 24 – (2000-07-15)15 July 2000 C 14 Dubljević, Bojan 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) 33 – (1991-10-24)24 October 1991 SG 15 Rodríguez, Joaquín 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) 25 – (1999-06-14)14 June 1999 PF 19 Sulejmanović, Emir 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) 29 – (1995-07-13)13 July 1995 C 44 Bango, Jilson 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) 25 – (1999-01-06)6 January 1999	Head coach Porfirio Fisac Assistant coach(es) Iñaki Martín Jack Burgess Legend (C) Team captain (Y) Youth player Injured Roster Transactions Updated: August 29, 2024

Depth chart

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench 1	Bench 2
C	Bojan Dubljević	Jilson Bango
PF	Yoanki Mencía *	Emir Sulejmanović	Jaime Fernández †
SF	Santiago Yusta †	Miguel González †
SG	A. J. Slaughter	Joaquín Rodríguez	Lucas Langarita †
PG	Marco Spissu	Trae Bell-Haynes

Notes: Blue † – homegrown player^{[lower-alpha 1]}; Red * – overseas player^{[lower-alpha 2]}; Green ‡ – youth player^{[lower-alpha 3]}

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	16th	12–22				4 FIBA Europe Cup	RS	2–4
2022–23	1	Liga ACB	13th	12–22
2023–24	1	Liga ACB	12th	13–21				4 FIBA Europe Cup	QF	9–5

Honours

National leagues

• 2nd division championships: (2)
  • LEB: (2) 2008, 2010
• Copa Príncipe de Asturias: (1)
  • 2004
• Copa Aragón: (2)
  • 2018, 2019

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

Nationality	Name	Season	Valuation
	Pablo Aguilar Bermúdez	2010–2013	9'6
	Pablo Almazán Sierra	2011–2012	0'8
	Alejandro Andreu Sanz	2005–2006	0
	Alberto Angulo Espinosa	2005–2007	7'3
	José Ángel Antelo	2005–2006	8'5
	Robert Archibald	2011–2012	3'9
	Ander Arruti Portilla	2009–2010	-0'6
	Oliver Arteaga	2005–2006 & 2008–2009	3'6
	David Barlow	2009–2011	11'2
	Howard Stephen Brown	2006–2008	4'3
	John Oliver Brown	2004–2005	9'3
	Jacob Burtschi	2011–2012	2
	Carlos Cabezas	2010–2012	11'8
	Jorge Cano Quintana	2010–2011	0'3
	Víctor Miguel Catalán Sánchez	2002–2003 & 2004–2005	-1
	Adam Chubb	2010–2011	6'7
	Josep Cargol Costa	2002–2003	9'5
	Lionel Chalmers	2006–2007	9'5
	Jesús Antonio Cilla Rubio	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
	László Dobos	2013–2014	1
	Benito Doblado Velázquez	2003–2004 & 2005–2006	2'6
	Lester Earl	2003–2004	13
	Chinemelu Elonu	2009–2010 & 2013–2014	8'3
	David Ereña	2002–2004	-0'3
	José Ramón Esmorís	2003–2004	5'2
	Heshimu Evans	2006–2007	12'6
	Nkechinyelu Peter Ezugwu	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
	Mario Bruno Fernández Hidalgo	2005–2006	10
	José Antonio Ferrer González	2003–2005	7'8
	Josh Fisher	2004–2005	-2
	Albert Fontet	2011–2015	(2'4)
	Ricardo Eduardo Fox Tejero	2005–2006	0'5
	Samuel Adán Fuentes	2003–2004	1
	José Luis Galilea	2004–2005	5'8
	Rubén Santiago Garcés Riquelme	2008–2009	4'6
	Sergi García	2013–present	(0'6)
	Adrián García Herepey-Csakanyi	2012–2013	(0'5)
	Asier García Regueiro	2004–2005	7'4
	Iván García Casado	2006–2009	0'4
	Mario Vicente García Burón	2002–2003	5'1
	George Gilmore Jr.	2002–2003	7'7
	Óscar Marco González de las Cuevas Gómez	2003–2004 & 2007–2008	4'7
	Chris Goulding	2014–present	(5'5)
	Taurean Green	2008–2009	9'5
	Vladimir Golubović	2013	8'9
	Roberto Guerra Santana	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)
	Juan José Jiménez Martín	2002–2003	-1'5
	Oriol Junyent Monuera	2009–2010	10'3
	Raško Katić	2014–present	(6'4)
	William Amar Keys	2005–2006	11'9
	Mattew Martin Kiefer	2009–2010	5'6
	Joseph Jones	2012–2014	8'4
	Marcus Tyrone Landry	2014–2015	10'1
	Rogelio Legasa Pérez	2011–2012	-1
	Matías Lescano	2003–2010	10'1
	Lawrence Charles Lewis	2008–2009	11
	Kevin Lisch	2014–2015	6'3
	Pedro Llompart Usón	2012–present	(10'3)
	José Jaime Lloreda Ferrón	2009–2010	8'4
	Esteban López	2005–2006	0'6
	Sebastien Robert N. Maio	2006–2007	0'6
	Christian Maråker	2006–2007	6'3
	Carles Marco	2008–2009	-1'5
	Javier Marín Ayerbe	2009–2010 & 2011–2014	(-0'8)
	José Ignacio "Nacho" Martín	2009–2010	4'7
	Marc Martí Roig	2014–present	(1)
	Carlos Martínez Díaz de Corcuera	2002–2003	8'7
	Ben McCauley	2014	4'8
	Javier Mesa Yáñez	2003–2004	4'9
	Andrés Miso	2010–2011	8'6
	Francisco José Murcia Sánchez	2002–2004	8
	Henk Norel	2012–present	(12'8)
	Roberto Núñez Sánchez	2004–2005	4'3
	Ugonna Nnamdi Onyekwe	2006–2007	10'5
	José María Panadero Cordón	2002–2003	5'9
	Pervis Pasco	2011–2012	4'3
	Sergio Pérez Anagnostou	2008–2009	2'8
	Roberto Pérez Arteaga	2009–2010	1
	Richard Petruška	2002–2003	21'7
	Darren Phillip	2006–2011	10'2
	Gianmarco Pozzecco	2004–2005	18
	Rubén Elías Quintana Ruano	2005–2006	5'5
	Paolo Alfredo Quinteros	2007–2011	13'7
	Nikola Rakočević	2010–2011	0
	Damjan Rudež	2012–2014	(7'9)
	Antonio de André Reynolds-Dean	2004–2005	19'5
	Charles Rhodes	2011–2012	3'8
	Joan Riera Martí	2010–2011	1'5
	Pedro Rivero del Caz	2009–2010	9'6
	Jason Michael Robinson	2014–2015	8'8
	Francisco Robles Campos	2009–2010	1'1
	Gastao Lucio Rodrigues Pinheiro	2002–2003	-3
	José Antonio Rojas Martín	2007–2008	0'8
	Michael Roll	2012–2014	9'4
	Joseph García Roundy	2005–2007	7'2
	Juan José García Rodríguez	2014–present	(0'7)
	José Luis Rubio Costa	2003–2004	0
	Francisco Javier Ruiz González	2002–2003	0'7
	Francisco Sabaté Boada	2003–2004	5'2
	Rodrigo San Miguel	2002–2004	2'5
	Eduardo Sánchez Cimadevilla	2009–2010	5'4
	Viktor Sanikidze	2013–2014	12'8
	Juan Pablo Sartorelli	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)
	Terrence Terrell Stewart	2005–2006	3'5
	Jonathan Tabu	2013–2014	7'8
	José Javier Terrén Morales	2004–2006	-0'3
	Pere Tomàs Noguera	2013–present	(4'9)
	Andre Devalle Turner	2007–2008	2'4
	Chad Toppert	2010–2013	3'7
	Ricardo Uriz	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
	Rafael Vidaurreta Ramírez	2005–2007	6'3
	Willie Earl Walls III	2003–2004	11'2
	Derell Lacero Washington	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
	José Luis Oliete Terraz	2002–2003
	Ranko Žeravica	2002–2003
	Alfred Julbe Bosch	2002–2004 & 2005–2006
	Óscar Quintana Viar	2004–2005
	Jesús Alfonso Mateo Díez	2006–2007
	Francisco Segura Gómez	2007–2009
	Alberto Angulo Espinosa	2008–2009
	José Luis Abós García	2009–2014
	Joaquín Ruiz Lorente	2014–2015
	Andreu Casadevall Guinart	2015–2017
	Luis Guil Torres	2017
	Jota Cuspinera	2017–2018
	Pep Cargol	2018
	Porfirio Fisac	2018–2020
	Sergio Hernández	2020–2021
	Luis Casimiro	2021
	Jaume Ponsarnau	2021–2022
	Dragan Šakota	2022
	Martin Schiller	2022
	Porfirio Fisac	2022–present

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	13	9–21

Current roster

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

Casademont Zaragoza roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Age PG 0 Lacorzana, Ainhoa 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) 24 – (2000-08-31)31 August 2000 G 2 Holešínská, Petra 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) 27 – (1997-03-12)12 March 1997 G 3 Pointer, Khayla 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) 25 – (1998-11-25)25 November 1998 PG 4 Ortiz, Mariona 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) 32 – (1992-02-28)28 February 1992 PF 10 Gulbe, Aleksa 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) 24 – (2000-02-05)5 February 2000 F/C 11 Gimeno, Vega 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) 33 – (1991-01-08)8 January 1991 G/F 12 Urdiáin, Leyre 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) 17 – (2007-04-05)5 April 2007 G/F 13 Fiebich, Leonie 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) 24 – (2000-01-10)10 January 2000 F 16 Oma, Helena 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) 28 – (1996-10-23)23 October 1996 C 20 Hermosa, Nerea 1.99 m (6 ft 6 in) 23 – (2001-04-20)20 April 2001 G/F 22 Atkinson, Tanaya 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) 28 – (1996-01-28)28 January 1996 C 23 Geldof, Serena-Lynn 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 27 – (1997-03-02)2 March 1997 C 32 Diallo, Christelle 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 31 – (1993-03-12)12 March 1993	Head coach Carlos Cantero Morales Legend (C) Team captain Injured Roster Updated: February 29, 2024

Notes

1. A homegrown player is a player that played for at least three years before the age of 20 on a Spanish team. In Liga ACB, the team must register at least four homegrown players in rosters of 10–12 players or at least three homegrown players in rosters of 8–9 players. In FIBA Europe Cup, the team must register at least five homegrown players in rosters of 11–12 players or at least four homegrown players in rosters of 10 players.
2. A overseas player is a player from outside EEA, FIBA Europe or ACP states. In Liga ACB, the team may register at most two overseas players. In FIBA Europe Cup, the team did not have any limitations regarding the number of overseas players.
3. In Liga ACB, the team may register under-22 players linked to the youth system.

References

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 European Spanish). Retrieved 22 July 2020.

External links

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