Real Valladolid Baloncesto Explained

Real Valladolid
Nickname:	Las Ardillas (The squirrels) Pucela / Pucelanos (Pucelle) Blanquivioletas / Albivioletas (White and Violets)
Leagues:	LEB Oro
Founded:	^[1]
Arena:	Polideportivo Pisuerga
Capacity:	6,800
Location:	Valladolid Castile and León, Spain
Colors:	Purple and white
President:	Alejandro García Pellitero
Coach:	Paco García
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Real Valladolid Baloncesto is a Spanish professional basketball team based in Valladolid, Castile and León. The team currently plays in league LEB Oro.

History

CB Ciudad de Valladolid was founded in June 2015 by the former American-Spanish retired player Mike Hansen with the aim to replace CB Valladolid, the main club of the city, which was dissolved at the end of the 2014–15 season.^[2]

In its first season, in LEB Plata, Ciudad de Valladolid was relegated after finishing the league with only nine wins in 26 games.^[3] However, the club remained the league due to the existence of vacant spots.^[4]

As other teams in previous seasons, Ciudad de Valladolid took advantage and promoted to LEB Oro in the next season by defeating Fundación Lucentum, Morón and Zornotza in the promotion playoffs.^[5]

In 2020, when the team was leading the LEB Oro, the season was curtailed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the club was awarded with the promotion to Liga ACB but did not fulfill the requirements for joining the league.

On 28 July 2020, Ciudad de Valladolid agreed collaboration terms with local association football club Real Valladolid and started to use their name, colors and crest.^{[6] [7]}

Sponsorship naming

• Brico Dépôt Ciudad de Valladolid 2015–2016
• Comercial Ulsa Ciudad de Valladolid 2016–2017
• Carramimbre CBC Valladolid 2017–2020
• Real Valladolid Baloncesto 2020–present

Players

Notable players

• Frank Bartley (born 1994), basketball player for Ironi Ness Ziona of the Israeli Basketball Premier League

Head coaches

• Iñaki Martín 2015–2016
• Paco García 2016–2019
• Hugo López 2019–2021
• Roberto González 2021-2022
• Paco García 2022-present

Season by season

Season	Tier	Division	Pos.		Cup competitions
2015–16	3	LEB Plata	13th	9–17
2016–17	3	LEB Plata	2nd	26–18
2017–18	2	LEB Oro	9th	15–22
2018–19	2	LEB Oro	7th	22–17
2019–20	2	LEB Oro	1st	18–6		bgcolor=silver
2020–21	2	LEB Oro	9th	13–13
2021–22	2	LEB Oro	9th	19–19
2022–23	2	LEB Oro	4th	25–14
2023–24	2	LEB Oro	8th	18–19

Trophies and awards

Trophies

• LEB Oro

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• • 2020

Individual awards

LEB Plata MVP

• Sergio de la Fuente – 2017

Notes and References

1. Web site: Orígenes – CBC Valladolid . CBC Valladolid . 11 September 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200613120514/https://www.cbcvalladolid.es/origenes/ . 13 June 2020 . es-ES . dead.
2. Web site: El CBC Valladolid echa a andar de la mano de Mike Hansen. Cadena SER. 22 July 2015. Spanish.
3. Web site: El Brico Depôt gana, pero desciende. es. El Norte de Castilla. 10 April 2016. 1 October 2016.
4. Web site: Al final serán dieciséis equipos. Granada Hoy. es. 18 August 2016. 1 October 2016.
5. Web site: F-J.4: Comercial ULSA Valladolid salda una deuda histórica. FEB.es. 4 June 2017. 6 June 2017. es.
6. Web site: Comunicado oficial: Acuerdo de colaboración con el CBC Valladolid Real Valladolid - Web Oficial . . 28 July 2020 . es-ES . 28 July 2020.
7. Web site: El Real Valladolid Baloncesto es una realidad Real Valladolid - Web Oficial . . 11 September 2020 . es-ES . 3 August 2020.