League LEB Plata Number of games 156 (regular season) Season champions River Andorra | Sport Basketball Number of teams 13 Season MVP Marko Todorović | |
The 2011–12 LEB Plata season is the 12th season of the LEB Plata, second league of the Liga Española de Baloncesto and third division in Spain. It is also named Adecco Plata for sponsorship reasons.
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Competition format
Teams will play a regular season of 26 weeks with a Round-robin tournament format. This regular season will start on October 8 and will finish on April 20. The regular season champion will promote directly to LEB Oro and the last qualified will be relegated to Liga EBA. Teams qualified from second to ninth will join the promotion playoffs. The winner will promote also to LEB Oro.
The two first qualified teams after the first half of the league will play the Copa LEB Plata.
Eligibility of players
All teams must have in their roster:
Teams can not sign any player after February 29, 2012.
Team information
Champion of last season Knet Rioja and playoffs winner Iberostar Bàsquet Mallorca were promoted to LEB Oro. Fundación Adepal Alcázar and Aguas de Sousas Ourense were relegated from LEB Oro to LEB Plata. Adepal resigned to its spot and was dissolved.
Aurteneche Maquinaria, Gandía Bàsquet, Platja de Palma and Eninter CB Santfeliuenc were the Liga EBA playoffs winners and promoted to LEB Plata, but Palma and Santfeliuenc refused to play in this league and stayed in Liga EBA. Lan Mobel ISB was also relegated to Liga EBA from LEB Plata.
By July 12, only seven teams were confirmed to play in LEB Plata. These teams were Aguas de Sousas Ourense (relegated from LEB Oro), River Andorra, CB Prat, Fontedoso Carrefour El Bulevar de Ávila, FC Barcelona Regal B, Aurteneche Maquinaria (champion of last Liga EBA) and Tenerife Baloncesto (achieved one of the vacants).
The Spanish Basketball Federation conceded an extension of the July 28 deadline for nine more teams. At this date, four more teams were admitted: Gandía Bàsquet, Leyma Natura Básquet Coruña, Lan Mobel ISB and CB Las Rozas, who played last season in 1ª División (fifth tier, one below Liga EBA).
Some teams demanded a new extension to get the endorsement, and the Federation conceded it until August 10. Oviedo CB and Plasencia Extremadura were admitted after this last extension.
League table
Source: FEB
(C) = Copa LEB Plata champion
Results
Source: FEB
Promotion playoffs
The playoffs will start on 24 April 2012, and it will finish on May 23, 25 or 27 if necessary.
The quarterfinal round will be played in a best-of-three games format, with the best ranked team playing games 1 and 3 if necessary at home. Semifinals and finals will be played in a best-of-5 games format, with the seeded playing the games 1, 2 and 5 if necessary at home. The winner of the playoffs will promote to 2012–2013 LEB Oro season with River Andorra, the champion of the regular season.
Copa LEB Plata
At the half of the league, the two first teams in the table play the Copa LEB Plata at home of the winner of the first half season (13th round). If this team doesn't want to host the Copa LEB Plata, the second qualified can do it. If nobody wants to host it, the Federation will propose a neutral venue.
The Champion of this Cup will play the play-offs as first qualified if it finishes the league between the 2nd and the 5th qualified. The Copa LEB Plata will be played on January 29, 2012.
All LEB Plata team
Team made after the playoffs.