Cáceres Ciudad del Baloncesto

Cáceres Patrimonio de la Humanidad
Cáceres Patrimonio de la Humanidad
Leagues	LEB Oro
Founded	2007; 17 years ago
Arena	Ciudad de Cáceres
Capacity	6,550
Location	Cáceres, Extremadura
Team colors	Black and Green;
President	José Manuel Sánchez
Head coach	Roberto Blanco
Championships	1 LEB Plata
Website	www.caceresbasket.com
Home	Away

Cáceres Ciudad del Baloncesto, also named as Cáceres Patrimonio de la Humanidad for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball team based in Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain. It plays in the LEB Oro, the second in importance in Spain after ACB League.

The club is distinct from Cáceres Club Baloncesto, the former elite team in the city, which was dissolved in 2005.

History

Cáceres Ciudad del Baloncesto was founded in 2007 as a merger of two teams from Cáceres city:

San Antonio
Ciudad de Cáceres

Cáceres played the first season in its history (2007–08) in LEB Plata after buying the berth to CEB Llíria. In this first year, playing as Cáceres 2016, the team achieved the promotion semifinals but, after beating CajaRioja in the quarterfinalist series, lost against CB Illescas in the semifinal played at Cáceres.

After this season, the team joined the second tier, the LEB Oro, after achieving the vacant of Palma Aqua Màgica. Cáceres continues playing in LEB Oro until nowadays, where reached two times in a row the promotion playoffs but failed in the quarterfinals: in 2010 versus Ford Burgos and in 2011 versus Blu:sens Monbús, both times by 3–1.

In 2012 the club won for the first time a LEB Oro quarterfinal serie, 3–2 to Ford Burgos, but failed in the semifinal against Club Melilla Baloncesto after five games. Same happened in 2013, when the club advanced to semifinals after defeating CB Breogán by 2–3 in the quarterfinals and failing 3–1 against River Andorra.

In 2013 the club opted by joining the LEB Plata again due to economic issues. On April 25, 2015, two years after its resign to play in LEB Oro, Cáceres came back to the league after winning the 2014–15 LEB Plata, by defeating CEBA Guadalajara 67–63 in the last game of the regular season.^[1]

The 2019–20 season is its fifth straight season in LEB Oro and tenth overall.

Sponsorship naming

Cáceres 2016: 2007–11
Cáceres Creativa: 2011
Cáceres Patrimonio de la Humanidad: 2011–

Head coaches

Fede Pozuelo: 2007
Piti Hurtado: 2007–2009
Gustavo Aranzana: 2009–2012
Carlos Frade: 2012–2013
Ñete Bohígas: 2013–2019
Roberto Blanco: 2019–present

Players

Current roster

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

Cáceres Patrimonio de la Humanidad roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	No.	Name	Ht.	Age
G	11	Rodriguez, Manu	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)	33 – (1991-08-17)17 August 1991
F	0	Mbala, Ben	2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)	29 – (1995-07-13)13 July 1995
F	35	Belemene, Romaric	2.05 m (6 ft 9 in)	27 – (1997-02-19)19 February 1997
G	13	Lobo, Jaume	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	27 – (1997-07-31)31 July 1997
G	6	Sanz, Jorge	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)	31 – (1993-01-24)24 January 1993
C	14	Olaizola, Julen	2.02 m (6 ft 8 in)	31 – (1993-03-04)4 March 1993
F	37	Toledo, Carlos	2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)	29 – (1994-12-11)11 December 1994
G	0	Schmidt, Devin	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)	30 – (1994-11-24)24 November 1994
G	7	Diaz, Mateo	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)	22 – (2002-03-06)6 March 2002
F	26	Dukan, Duje	2.08 m (6 ft 10 in)	32 – (1991-12-04)4 December 1991
F	4	Trapote, Alex	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	21 – (2003-08-03)3 August 2003
G		Vasallo, Javier	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)	23 – (2001-04-21)21 April 2001
F		Raitanen, Remu	2.06 m (6 ft 9 in)	27 – (1997-08-21)21 August 1997

Head coach

Roberto Blanco

Legend

(C) Team captain
Injured

Depth chart

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench
C	Romaric Belemene	Julen Olaizola
PF	Carlos Toledo
SF	Devin Schmidt
SG	Jorge Sanz
PG	Jaume Lobo	Manu Rodriguez

Colours: Blue = homegrown player; Black = FIBA Europe or Cotonou player; Red = Foreign player.

Season by season

Multiusos Ciudad de Cáceres, home court of the team

Season	Tier	Division	Pos.	W–L
2007–08	3	LEB Plata	5th^[a]	22–15
2008–09	2	LEB Oro	11th	15–19
2009–10	2	LEB Oro	6th	21–17
2010–11	2	LEB Oro	9th	19–19
2011–12	2	LEB Oro	5th	23–21
2012–13	2	LEB Oro	5th^[b]	16–19
2013–14	3	LEB Plata	4th	18–14
2014–15	3	LEB Plata	1st	23–5
2015–16	2	LEB Oro	9th	14–17
2016–17	2	LEB Oro	11th	14–20
2017–18	2	LEB Oro	10th	15–19
2018–19	2	LEB Oro	14th	11–23
2019–20	2	LEB Oro	9th^[c]	14–10
2020–21	2	LEB Oro	12th	11–15
2021–22	2	LEB Oro	8th	21–18
2022–23	2	LEB Oro	15th	10–24
2023–24	2	LEB Oro	17th	6–28