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33-729: Basket League is a founding member of ULEB . Basket League organizes the LBA , the Italian Cup , the Italian Supercup , and the Italian All Star Game . Discussions have been held as to the possibility of Basket League gaining more autonomy, similarly to that of the corresponding football organization, Lega Serie A . It is the sole professional sport league in Italy outside football. The current president of Basket League

66-521: A draw. In 1982, the Asociación de Clubs de Baloncesto was founded and one year later took the helm of the organisation of the league, with several changes in the competition format as they introduced the playoffs and the overtimes in case of draw. The all-time Liga ACB table is an overall record of all match results of every team that has played in Liga ACB since the 1983–84 season . The table

99-602: A shareholder of Basketball Champions League SA . As written above, former Belgian player Tomas Van Den Spiegel is the current President of the ULEB, and Greek League President Vangelis Galatsopoulos is the current Vice President. The current Executive Committee of the Union is completed by the leagues of Belgium , France , Germany and Spain . Members of ULEB in 2022 : Former ULEB members: Liga ACB The Liga ACB , known as Liga Endesa for sponsorship reasons,

132-1108: Is Fernando Marino. Basket League was officially incorporated on May 27, 1970, in Milan , and included the clubs that participated in both the first division Serie A and the second division Serie A2 . On June 20, 2001, it changed to include just the first division Serie A clubs. Presidents of Basket League from 1970 to present. LBA ( Next Gen ) Serie A2 Basket Serie B Basket Coppa Italia Supercoppa Italiana LNP Cup Awards Stats Leaders Italian Clubs In Europe All Star Game Italian Men's National Basketball Team Italian Women's National Basketball Team M U-20 Team , M U-19 Team , M U-17 Team , M 3x3 Team W U-20 Team , W U-19 Team , W U-17 Team , W 3x3 Team Italian Basketball League System Italian Basketball Hall of Fame Teams & Players LegA Basket Femminile Serie A2 Serie B Coppa Italia Supercoppa Italiana ULEB Union of European Leagues of Basketball ( ULEB ; French : Union des Ligues Européennes de Basket-Ball )

165-517: Is a sports organization within basketball created for growth of professional basketball in Europe. Its members are the professional basketball leagues organisations of 11 countries: Belgium , France , Germany , Greece , Israel , Italy , Lithuania , the Netherlands , Poland , Russia , and Spain . The professional basketball organizing bodies of Italy , France and Spain established

198-521: Is accurate as of the end of the 2023–24 season. League or status at 2023–24 season: Player nationality set by the player's national team affiliation. In bold, active players. In gold, players with more than 6,000 points, considered by the ACB as historic players. Stats through end of 2018–19 ACB season : Player nationality set by the player's national team affiliation. In bold, active players. In gold, players with more than 2,500 rebounds, considered by

231-663: Is one of the most popular professional indoor sports leagues in the world, with an average attendance of 6,236 for league matches in the 2018–19 season. This is the ninth-highest of any domestic professional indoor sports league in the world and the fourth-highest of any professional basketball league in the world, behind the National Basketball Association , the EuroLeague , and the Women's National Basketball Association . The competition format follows

264-602: Is the top professional basketball division of the Spanish basketball league system . Administered by the Asociación de Clubs de Baloncesto (ACB), Liga ACB is contested by 18 teams, with the two lowest-placed teams relegated to the Primera FEB and replaced by the top team in that division plus the winner of the promotion playoffs. The competition was founded as the ACB Primera División on 1983 following

297-594: The 2015–16 LEB Oro season . On 24 April 2016, the National Commission of the Markets and the Competence argued that the inbound impedes, in an "unjustified, disproportionate and discriminatory" way, access of new clubs to Liga ACB. In June 2016, the two promoted teams from LEB Oro ( Palencia and Melilla ) resigned promotion to the 2016–17 ACB season and requested to the ACB their sign-in before

330-509: The ACB , considered by the LEB Oro clubs as "disproportionate". For clubs that promote and would make their debut in the ACB demands: In 2012, Iberostar Canarias and Menorca Bàsquet achieved promotion to ACB, but neither could fulfill the requirements in order to promote. However, Canarias finally played in ACB after buying the berth in the league of Lucentum Alicante , previously sold to

363-490: The 2017–18 season. However, as Gipuzkoa Basket , who finished in relegation positions in three of the last four seasons, resigned from ACB, the Association offered again its place to Palencia and Melilla under these conditions: Palencia and Mellila refused the invitation, to reinforce their position against the inbound to play in the league. In April 2017, the National Commission for Markets and Competition declared

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396-415: The 29 editions played of the Liga ACB, only three teams declined promotion, due to acting as reserve teams or for lack of funds: CB Guadalajara and CB Cornellà in 1993 and CB Cajabilbao in 1994. Since 2012, due to the financial crisis that started in 2008 , only two teams ( Canarias and Andorra ) of a possible 10 could promote to Liga ACB. This started a discussion about the promotion requirements of

429-680: The ACB agreed to continue negotiations with the CSD, the FEB and the CNMC to try to establish by mutual agreement new conditions for promotion. In view of the possibility of reaching an agreement that establishes economic and financial requirements in a consensual way before 5 July, the Assembly has agreed to establish two new access criteria, provided that there is no pronouncement of the National Court on

462-523: The ACB approved to establish a negotiation plan with the CSD and the FEB regarding the number of participating teams and the conditions to access to the competition in the next seasons. In June 2017, the ACB agreed not to require the promotion requirements that have been the subject of the resolution (entering inbound and the deposit for the regulation of promotions and relegations) and the participation fee. Also,

495-501: The ACB as historic players. Stats through the end of the 2018–19 ACB season : These are the standing ACB records for the regular season (RS) and play-offs (PO). Since several years ago, the Liga ACB is the European domestic league with the highest average attendance, always surpassing the 6,000 spectators per game since the 2002–03 season. All averages include playoffs games. Source: All averages include playoffs games. In

528-862: The Champions League. In addition, other clubs could participate in the FIBA Europe Cup . The first basketball league in Spain was the Liga Nacional , organised by the Spanish Basketball Federation , whose first edition was played in 1957 by six teams from Madrid and the province of Barcelona . Until 1983 it continued being organised by the federation and consisting in only a round-robin tournament , where every teams faced all other twice, one at home and one away, with two points per win and one point in case of

561-672: The Functioning of the European Union and in the European jurisprudence, and which was unprecedented in Europe and in the rest of the world. In May 2017, the ACB ratified to file a contentious-administrative appeal and request for precautionary measures before the National Court , on the occasion of the resolution of the National Commission for Markets and Competition (CNMC), as well as to refuse any resolution or decision, present or future, which relates to that act. Also,

594-497: The Liga ACB and the Primera FEB . The two lowest placed teams in Liga ACB are relegated to the Primera FEB, and the top team from the Primera FEB promoted to Liga ACB, with an additional club promoted after a series of playoffs involving the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth placed clubs. Below is a complete record of how many teams played in each season throughout the league's history: Until 2012, in

627-689: The ULEB family is the Russian VTB United League , which was granted admission in July 2014, replacing its predecessor, the PBL (which had been admitted in May 2011). So, the ULEB currently represents a total number of 10 professional basketball leagues from across Europe. Other leagues such as Portugal , Adriatic , Austria , Switzerland and the Czech Republic , have been also members of

660-512: The ULEB in the past, but all of them left the Union for different reasons. The Portuguese and Swiss leagues have ceased memberships, the Adriatic lost recognition from FIBA Europe , and the Austrian , British and Czech leagues voluntarily renounced their membership. ULEB is currently a shareholder of Euroleague Commercial Assets (ECA) through Euroleague Basketball SL , and is also

693-752: The ULEB on June 25, 1991 in Rome , Italy. In November 1992, a joint All-Star weekend was held in Madrid , Spain, featuring the most outstanding players from the Spanish and Italian Leagues. The experience was repeated one year later in Rome before a crowd of 10.500 fans. In 1994, the French League joined the event and the All Star weekend moved to Valencia , Spain, with Italian , Spanish and French stars competing and showing their skills. The Greek League

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726-549: The ULEB was expanded with the leagues of Germany , Netherlands and Poland . In October 2002, the ULEB Cup , the second-tier level European club competition, was born. Its first game was played in Istanbul , on October 15, 2002, between Darüşşafaka and Novo Mesto . In June 2003, the league of Lithuania joined, and one year later, in July 2005, the union was expanded with the league of Israel . The most recent addition to

759-418: The association. In 2013, neither CB Atapuerca , Ford Burgos by sponsorship reasons, nor Lucentum Alicante could promote. The latter resigned also to play in the second league and joined the fifth division. In 2014 and 2015, CB Tizona , also Ford Burgos by sponsorship reasons, did not promote despite achieving the place two years in a row. After its second failed promotion, the third in the city of Burgos,

792-412: The club sued the Association any accused them of "distorting the reality". Also in 2015, despite having played in the league during the 1980s and 1990s, Club Ourense Baloncesto was not admitted in the league despite fulfilling all the requirements, after not passing an accounts audit. However, ACB would admit Ourense for the 2016–17 season if it fulfilled the requirements regardless of their position in

825-410: The decision of clubs in the Liga Nacional , founded in 1957, to break away from the Spanish Basketball Federation and professionalize the league. The league's accumulated revenues were worth around €30 million in 2020, with Endesa and Movistar Plus+ contributing 50% of the revenues of the league. The league is a corporation where president Antonio Martín is responsible for its management, whilst

858-454: The entering inbound and the deposit for the regulation of promotions and relegations as illegal, as they consider it "unjustified, discriminatory and excessive" and imposed a fine of €400,000 to the ACB. Subsequently, the ACB replied that it would appeal the decision of the CNMC, contending that it infringed on the self-organizing capacity of professional leagues, as recognized in the Treaty on

891-610: The first promotions since the one of Andorra in 2014. Also, Miraflores became the first team to make its debut in ACB since 2009. If wins are equal between two or more clubs, the rules are: The top teams in Liga ACB, apart from EuroLeague clubs, qualify for the EuroCup and the Champions League with no preference for any competition. Three teams have guaranteed spots in the EuroCup and four teams have guaranteed spots in

924-481: The member clubs act as shareholders. Clubs were apportioned central payment revenues of €12 million in 2019–20. A total of 52 teams have competed in Liga ACB since its inception in 1983. Seven teams have been crowned champions, with FC Barcelona winning the title a record 17 times and Real Madrid 15 times, though Liga ACB also saw other champions, including Baskonia , Joventut Badalona , Bàsquet Manresa , Baloncesto Málaga and Valencia Basket . Liga ACB

957-568: The model of promotions and relegations in the coming seasons. However, this text has not obtained the necessary support of the clubs in the General Assembly and has not been approved, agreeing to continue the negotiations to find the model of competition appropriate to the interests of the teams overall. These new conditions consist of: Ten days later and two years after the denounce of CB Tizona , Gipuzkoa Basket and CB Miraflores , also from Burgos, were promoted to Liga ACB. These were

990-445: The precautionary measures regarding the resolution of the National Court, nor agreement with the different bodies that replace it. These conditions were: On 10 July 2017, the ACB ratified the agreement with the FEB endorsed by the CSD, to change the conditions to make them easier for promoted teams from LEB Oro. The ACB had also reached a principle of agreement with FEB and CSD regarding a reduction of competition to 16 clubs in 2019 and

1023-415: The usual double round-robin format. During the course of a season, which lasts from October to May, each club plays every other club twice, once at home and once away, for a total of 34 games. Teams are ranked by total wins, with the eight highest-ranked clubs at the end of the season plays the playoffs and the winner of the playoffs is crowned champion. A system of relegation and promotion exists between

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1056-538: Was Friday June 9, 2000. That day, the most important clubs in Europe and the ULEB leagues, met in Sitges , and decided to create and manage a new competition, the EuroLeague . Until that moment, it had been FIBA that ran the men's top basketball clubs competition in Europe. The first game of the new EuroLeague , Real Madrid vs. Olympiacos , was played on October 16, 2000 in Madrid . One year later, in October 2001,

1089-474: Was the first to join the three founders in 1996. The ULEB has had three Presidents since its inception: Gianluigi Porelli (since September 1991 until March 1998), Eduardo Portela , (since March 18, 1998 until October 6, 2016) and Tomas Van Den Spiegel , elected October 6, 2016. In December 1999, the Union welcomed the British , Belgian and Swiss Leagues. A key date in ULEB and European basketball history

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