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Leagues
  
ACB

President
  
Fernando Galindo

Founded
  
1948, Madrid, Spain

Championships
  
3

Team colors
  
Light Blue, Black

Head coach
  
Salva Maldonado

League
  
Liga ACB

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History
  
Ramiro de Maeztu(1948)CB Estudiantes(1948–Present)

Location
  
Madrid, Community of Madrid

Profiles

Club Estudiantes, S.A.D., known as Movistar Estudiantes for sponsorship reasons, is a basketball team based in the city of Madrid, Community of Madrid. It is member of the Asociación de Clubes de Baloncesto (ACB). Founded in 1948, it is one of the most recognized basketball teams in Spain. Some of its achievements include winning three Spanish Cups and reaching the ACB Finals in 2004.

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Sponsorship naming

Along the years CB Estudiantes has had several sponsorship names:

History

The club was founded in 1948 by a group of students (the "Estudiantes") of a public preparatory school (the Instituto Ramiro de Maeztu, IRM) in Madrid.

By the time when the first Spanish-wide season-long championship was organized in 1955, by the Spanish Basketball Association (FEB), it was one of the six clubs participating in that tournament, as the second best team from the Province of Madrid (the first being Real Madrid. Since then, it has always participated in the premier Spanish basketball league. It is one of only three of such clubs, together with Real Madrid and Joventut. It is also one of two only Spanish basketball clubs with teams both at the top male and female Spanish championships.

In May 2012, Estudiantes was relegated for the first time in its history from the top tier of Spanish basketball, but remained in the league because LEB Oro champion CB 1939 Canarias didn't present the required documentation and money.

Home arenas

  • La Nevera (The IRM Arena) (1948–71)
  • Polideportivo Antonio Magariños (1971–87)
  • Palacio Vistalegre (2001–2005)
  • Telefónica Arena (2005–2010)
  • Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid (1987–2001, 2010–present)
  • Basketball Hall of Famers

  • Antonio Díaz-Miguel, F, 1950–1952, 1953–1958, Inducted 1997
  • Records

  • European competitions
  • Cup Winners Cup : twice semifinalist (1974, 1976)
  • Euroleague : Semifinalist Final Four, Istanbul 1992.
  • Korać Cup: Runner-up, 1999
  • ULEB Cup : twice semifinalist (2003, 2004)
  • FIBA EuroCup: Semifinalist Final Four (Girona, 2007)
  • Spanish competitions
  • Copa del Rey de Baloncesto: 1962/63, 1992, 2000: 3 (and four times more runner-up)
  • Copa Príncipe de Asturias: 1985/86 : 1
  • Spanish league or ACB: Four times runner-up: 1962/63, 1967/68, 1980/81, 2003/04
  • Torneo Comunidad de Madrid: 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003: 9 (and 12 times runner-up)
  • Women's team

    CB Estudiantes has also a women's team which was founded in 1989 and played during several seasons in Liga Femenina, the Spanish women's basketball top tier. It currently plays in Liga Femenina 2.

    References

    CB Estudiantes Wikipedia


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