Liga Endesa1 | |
Extra Information: | 1 Sponsored league name, referring to Endesa. |
Season: | 2024–25 |
Teams: | 18 |
Prevseason: | 2023–24 |
Nextseason: | 2025–26 |
The 2024–25 ACB season, also known as Liga Endesa for sponsorship reasons, will be the 42nd season of the top Spanish professional basketball league, since its establishment in 1983. It will start on 28 September 2024 with the regular season and will end at the latest on 30 June 2025 with the finals.[1]
Real Madrid will be the defending champion.
A total of 18 teams will contest the league, including 16 sides from the 2023–24 season and two promoted from the 2023–24 LEB Oro. This include the top team from the LEB Oro, and the winners of the LEB Oro Final Four.
On May 10, 2024, Leyma Coruña became the first team to clinch the promotion to ACB after a 80–74 win to Melilla Ciudad del Deporte in the last round of the regular season that crowned it as LEB Oro champions.[2] It will be the debut season of the Galician team in the Spanish top tier and the second participation of the city of A Coruña in the Spanish top flight after the participation of Bosco in 1968–69 season.[3] On June 9, 2024, Hiopos Lleida became the second team to achieve the promotion to ACB after winning the LEB Oro Final Four in a 85–70 proud win against Movistar Estudiantes to clinch the last spot to ACB.[4] It will be the debut season of the Catalan team and it will mean the return of the city of Lleida to the Spanish top flight after the previous stage of CE Lleida in the league.
The first team to be relegated from ACB was Zunder Palencia, after a 94–101 loss to Baskonia on 27 April 2024, suffering immediate relegation.[5] The second team relegated to Primera FEB was Monbus Obradoiro, after a 97–71 win in the last round against Joventut Badalona on 12 May 2024 was not enough, ending their 13-year stay in the top tier.[6]
Team | Head coach | Captain | Kit manufacturer | Shirt sponsor (chest) | |||
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Barça | data-sort-value="Peñarroya, Joan" | data-sort-value="Abrines, Álex" | Assistència Sanitària | ||||
Baskonia | data-sort-value="Laso, Pablo" | data-sort-value="Sedekerskis, Tadas" | |||||
Bàsquet Girona | data-sort-value="Katsikaris, Fotios" | data-sort-value="" | Nike | FIATC | |||
Baxi Manresa | data-sort-value="Ocampo, Diego" | Diego Ocampo | data-sort-value="Jou, Guillem" | Guillem Jou | Pentex | Baxi Climatización | |
Casademont Zaragoza | data-sort-value="Fisac, Porfirio" | data-sort-value="Yusta, Santiago" | Mercury | Casademont | |||
Coviran Granada | data-sort-value="Pin, Pablo" | Pablo Pin | data-sort-value="Tomàs, Pere" | Vive | Coviran | ||
Dreamland Gran Canaria | data-sort-value="Lakovič, Jaka" | data-sort-value="Albicy, Andrew" | Dreamland, Gran Canaria | ||||
Hiopos Lleida | data-sort-value="Encuentra, Gerard" | Gerard Encuentra | data-sort-value="" | Pentex | Hiopos | ||
Joventut Badalona | data-sort-value="Miret, Dani" | Dani Miret | data-sort-value="Ribas, Pau" | Fundación Probitas | |||
La Laguna Tenerife | data-sort-value="Vidorreta, Txus" | data-sort-value="Huertas, Marcelo" | Austral | La Laguna, Tenerife | |||
Leyma Coruña | data-sort-value="Epifanio, Diego" | data-sort-value="Hernández, Álex" | Álex Hernández | Estrella Galicia 0,0 | |||
MoraBanc Andorra | data-sort-value="Lezkano, Natxo" | data-sort-value="Llovet, Nacho" | Nacho Llovet | MoraBanc, Andorra | |||
Real Madrid | data-sort-value="Mateo, Chus" | data-sort-value="Llull, Sergio" | Autohero | ||||
Río Breogán | data-sort-value="Mršić, Veljko" | data-sort-value="" | Adidas | Estrella Galicia 0,0 | |||
Surne Bilbao Basket | data-sort-value="Ponsarnau, Jaume" | Jaume Ponsarnau | data-sort-value="Rabaseda, Xavi" | Surne Seguros & Pensiones | |||
UCAM Murcia | data-sort-value="Alonso, Sito" | data-sort-value="Radović, Nemanja" | Nike | UCAM | |||
Unicaja | data-sort-value="Navarro, Ibon" | data-sort-value="Díaz, Alberto" | Joma | Unicaja, Málaga | |||
Valencia Basket | data-sort-value="Martínez, Pedro" | data-sort-value="" | Cultura del Esfuerzo |
Team | Outgoing coach | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Incoming coach | Date of appointment | ||
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data-sort-value="Ivanović, Duško" | End of contract | 27 May 2024[23] | Pre-season | data-sort-value="Laso, Pablo" | 28 June 2024[24] | |||
data-sort-value="Martínez, Pedro" | 29 May 2024[25] | data-sort-value="Ocampo, Diego" | Diego Ocampo | 17 June 2024[26] | ||||
data-sort-value="Albert, Xavi" | Xavi Albert | End of interim period | 29 May 2024[27] | data-sort-value="Martínez, Pedro" | 29 May 2024[28] | |||
data-sort-value="Grimau, Roger" | Sacked | 8 June 2024[29] | data-sort-value="Peñarroya, Joan" | 14 June 2024[30] |