CB Breogán

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Field	Value
name	Río Breogán
nickname	Breo, O equipo de Galicia
logo	CB Breogán.svg
league	Liga ACB
founded
history	CB Breogán
(1966–present)
arena	Pazo dos Deportes
capacity	5,310
location	Lugo, Spain
colors	Sky blue and white

| | sponsor | Río de Galicia, Estrella Galicia | | president | Carmen Lence | | coach | Luis Casimiro | | championships | 3 LEB Oro championship 3 Copa Princesa 16 Copa Galicia | | website | | | h_pattern_b | _whitelines | | h_body | 73C2FB | | h_pattern_s | _bluestripes | | h_shorts | 73C2FB | | a_pattern_b | _skybluesides | | a_body | FFFFFF | | a_pattern_s | _blue stripes | | a_shorts | FFFFFF | | colour2 | #00BFFF|colour1=#FFFFFF | ::

| name = Río Breogán | nickname = Breo, O equipo de Galicia | logo = CB Breogán.svg | imagesize = | league = Liga ACB | founded = | history = CB Breogán (1966–present) | arena = Pazo dos Deportes | capacity = 5,310 | location = Lugo, Spain | colors = Sky blue and white

| current = | sponsor = Río de Galicia, Estrella Galicia | president = Carmen Lence | coach = Luis Casimiro | captain = | championships = 3 LEB Oro championship 3 Copa Princesa 16 Copa Galicia | website = | h_pattern_b = _whitelines | h_body = 73C2FB | h_pattern_s = _bluestripes | h_shorts = 73C2FB | a_pattern_b = _skybluesides | a_body = FFFFFF | a_pattern_s = _blue stripes | a_shorts = FFFFFF |colour2=#00BFFF|colour1=#FFFFFF}} Club Baloncesto Breogán, S.A.D., also known as Río Breogán for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball club based in Lugo, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB. The club was founded in 1966 by the Varela-Portas brothers. The team played for the first time in the Spanish top league in 1970. The name of the club is a reference to legendary Galician King Breogán. It is the most popular basketball club in Galicia, and it is also the Galician club with the most seasons and games in the top tier of Spanish basketball – Liga ACB – and European and Copa del Rey appearances in addition to that. Because of that, Breogán fans proudly nickname their team as "O equipo de Galicia" (in English: Galicia's team).

Breogán jerseys have always been sky blue with details in details in white or dark blue. The shorts have been also traditionally sky blue, with the exception of some years that have been white too. Their home arena is the Pazo dos Deportes, an arena with a seating capacity of 5,310 people. The Pazo has been one of the Top-10 European arenas in attendance and one of the first in relation to the city population. The current president of the team is José Antonio Caneda. Well-known players have included: Charlie Bell, Pete Mickeal, Velimir Perasović, José Miguel Antúnez, Alfonso Reyes, Tanoka Beard, Anthony Bonner, Claude Riley, James Donaldson, Greg Foster, James Feldeine, or, most recently, Džanan Musa, Ethan Happ and Justus Hollatz.

History

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Founded in 1966, CB Breogán only needed five years to promote for the first time in its history to the Liga Nacional. It played in it from 1971 to 1977, except in the 1974–75 season, before dropping down again to lower divisions. Alfredo Pérez was the league's top scorer in both 1970–71 and 1972–73 seasons.Alfredo Pérez Gómez Breogán coexisted with another team from Lugo called La Casera for a while, and even though La Casera had more local players, Breogán was the whole city's preferred team because Lugo's population felt a lot more identified with the club. La Casera disappeared and a few of their players signed for Breogán afterwards.

Breogán had a bit of a rollercoaster journey between the top division and the lower leagues, and got promoted back to the now named Liga ACB in the 1983–84 season, and qualified for the Korać Cup after finishing in the sixth position in 1984–85, playing against Red Star Belgrade, Pallacanestro Varese and ASVEL Basket. Manel Sánchez, from Lugo, was the star of this team. The club got relegated in the 1986–87 season after the referees allowed Oximesa Granada to score the winning free throws despite the clock having run out of time before the foul. The incidents caused the closure of Breogán's arena and Breo had to play the remaining games in A Coruña, where it got relegated despite Lugo population's massive support filling up an arena 100 km away from home and Manel Sánchez being the league's top scorer. Season 1988–89 saw the club's return to Liga ACB once again, where they stayed until 1995, when it lost to against Valvi Girona and became relegated to Liga EBA. During this time, Manel Sánchez left the club for good, and Olympic medallist Velimir Perasović was brought as his substitute for the 1992–93 season, its first in the new arena, Pazo dos Deportes.

In 1999 the club returned once again to Liga ACB, an era which would last seven years. Great players like Anthony Bonner, former EuroLeague champion Nikola Lončar or Devin Davis played for the club during that time. They earned a European spot in the 2003–04 season, but ULEB Cup organisers decided to invite Real Madrid instead, even though they finished in a lower position than Breogán. 2004–05 season was defined by the arrival of one of Liga ACB's most talented players in the 21st century, Charlie Bell. His impressive performances for Breo earned him a move to the NBA for the following season. In the 2005–06 season, Breogán was the last qualified in the table despite having players such as Pete Mickeal or Alfonso Reyes and was relegated to LEB Oro in which would become the club's biggest absence from the top tier – 12 years -.

The club got in a very bad financial state, and was close to disappearing in the early 2010s. This became aggravated by the exit of former chairman Raúl López to become chairman at Obradoiro CAB, a move which kickstarted the rivalry between the two Galician sides. Obradoiro had only been at the Liga ACB for two season in their entire history when that happened. After failing to get promotion for many years, a playoff final loss against Club Ourense Baloncesto in 2015 the club went up by winning the LEB Oro in 2017–18. Breogán signing Ray McCallum Jr. mid-season wasn't enough to secure safety and were relegated with only 9 games out of 34 games. In 2021, Breogán were promoted to the top tier of Spanish basketball once again after beating Granada in the final. Breogán lost away from home in the first game but managed to win the second one at home and the final one in the Andalusian city.

Breogán made a brilliant start to the 2021/22 season. After winning the Galician Cup against rivals Obradoiro CAB, they won their first two Liga ACB games and visited FC Barcelona Bàsquet as leaders. Although a defeat there would mean they were no longer at the top of the table, they completed a tremendous first half of the league, qualifying for the Copa del Rey de Baloncesto for the first time in over 30 years, in which they suffered a narrow defeat against finalists Real Madrid Baloncesto. In January, head coach Paco Olmos decided to leave the club following an offer from relegation-bound CB San Pablo Burgos and was substituted by Veljko Mršić. Breogán's push to make it to the play-offs was hampered by star-man Džanan Musa's injury against Bàsquet Manresa. Trae Bell-Haynes got injured one week later as well, which resulted in Breogán being out of Play-off contention, although they were always far from being involved in a relegation battle. Džanan Musa became one of Breogán's most legendary players in the 2021–22 season and won Liga ACB's MVP award for the season, earning a move to Real Madrid.

Despite not being able to win the Basketball Champions League qualifiers at the beginning of the 2022–23 season, the Galicians managed to have another successful season, led by coach Veljko Mršić, despite maintaining only three players from the successful 2021–22 season, Erik Quintela, Sergi Quintela and Marko Luković. Key additions like Ethan Happ, Scott Bamforth, Toni Nakić and Justus Hollatz, who would later become a World Champion with Germany helped them to achieve a 10th-place finish in the Liga ACB and direct qualification to the 2023–24 edition of the Basketball Champions League, including a sweep against Galician rivals Obradoiro CAB and a 96–72 win against Real Madrid, led by former Breogán player Džanan Musa.

Breogán has had to face a massive rebuild again for the 2023–24 season, even though this time it was the club who chose not to offer some players a new deal. Veljko Mršić extended his contract as head coach, and club captains and local players Erik Quintela and Sergi Quintela stayed, alongside Sergi García, Toni Nakić and Stefan Momirov. New signings included former Bayern players Zan Mark Sisko and Matej Rudan, former ASVEL player Anthony Polite, the Italian rising star Mouhamet Diouf, Lithuanian Matas Jogėla and Martynas Sajus, the Argentinian center Juan Fernández and former Joventut captain Albert Ventura, but a lot of setbacks quickly started to happen. Toni Nakić got seriously injured in pre-season, and his replacement Dimitrios Agravanis left the club injured having played just two games, Zan Mark Sisko decided to leave for personal reasons after the first Liga ACB game against Baskonia and got replaced by Conner Frankamp and Anthony Polite suffered an adductor injury which also got him sidelined for a few weeks. Their ACB League struggles kept going for the rest of 2023 despite the improvement given by Justin Anderson's two-month stint in Lugo before leaving for Valencia Basket. On 22 December 2023, the club announced the signing of 9-year NBA veteran Ben McLemore, who had left Greek side AEK B.C. a few days before.

Bursaspor Basketbol, Hapoel Holon B.C. and current Champions Telekom Baskets Bonn were Breogán's rivals in Group F of the Basketball Champions League, in which the Galician club won all three home games and lost their three away games, finishing the group in 3rd place after all the teams finished with a 3–3 record, advancing to the play-in stage, in which they will face Turkish outfit Pinar Karsiyaka. On May 10, 2024, they secured safety in the Liga ACB by defeating MoraBanc Andorra.

Sponsorship naming

Club Baloncesto Breogán has several denominations through the years due to its sponsorship:

• Breogán Lugo 1966–69
• Breogán Fontecelta 1969–73
• Breogán Lugo 1973–75
• Breogán La Casera 1975–76
• Breogán Lugo 1976–79
• Breogán Deportes Bourio 1979–80
• Breogán Stilton 1980–81
• Breogán Internacional de Seguros 1981–82
• Breogán Caixa Galicia 1982–86
• Leche Río Breogán 1986–89
• DYC Breogán 1989–94
• DYC Lugo 1994–95
• Leche Río Breogán 1995–98
• Breogán Universidade 1998–2001
• Leche Río Breogán 2001–12
• CB Breogán Lugo 2011–13
• Ribeira Sacra Breogán 2014–2015
• Cafés Candelas Breogán 2015–2019
• Leche Río Breogán 2019–21
• Río Breogán 2021–present

Rivalries

Breogán has had different rivals throughout its history. Breogán's biggest rival during its first decades of existence was CB OAR Ferrol, which disappeared in 1996. Club Ourense Baloncesto was a rival as well, especially during the 2014–15 season in which they eliminated Breogán in the playoff finals to go back to the Liga ACB – although they couldn't materialise their promotion due to – as well as Básquet Coruña, a team they faced quite a lot of times during Breogán's tenures in the 2nd tier during the 2010s.

That being said, Obradoiro CAB – based in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia's capital – have become Breogán's fiercest rivals since the beginning of the 2010s. They were brought from the bottom leagues to the Liga ACB after a long judicial process in 2009, and Raúl López, former Breogán chairman, left the club in a very bad financial state to become Obradoiro's chairman in 2010, which Breogán fans saw as treason and started the rivalry, which had been non-existent before because Breogán had a much bigger and better history up until that point. Nowadays, with Breogán fully up and running after overcoming a very difficult financial situation, both of them are in Liga ACB and face each other in the Galician Derby in what is considered one of the biggest – if not the biggest – rivalries in Spanish basketball.

Former Breogán's head coach Paco Olmos' departure to San Pablo Burgos in January 2022 also kicked off a bit of a rivalry between both fanbases, although it soon went away after San Pablo Burgos' relegation in May 2022 and Paco Olmos being sacked later that year.

Players

Current roster

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• Luis Casimiro | asst_coach =
• Fernán Varela
• Enrique Fernández | roster_url=https://www.acb.com/club/plantilla/id/25 | transaction_url=https://www.acb.com/mercado/ver/id/137 | access-date=

Depth chart

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Season by season

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Season	Tier	Division	Pos.	W–L	Copa del Rey	Other cups	European competitions
1966–67	4	3ª Provincial	1st
1967–68	3	3ª División	1st
1968–69	2	2ª División	1st	15–6
1969–70	2	2ª División	1st	17–3
1970–71	1	1ª División	9th	9–15
1971–72	1	1ª División	11th	5–1–18
1972–73	1	1ª División	13th	12–1–19	Round of 16
1973–74	1	1ª División	15th	6–22
1974–75	2	2ª División	1st	29–3
1975–76	1	1ª División	10th	14–18
1976–77	1	1ª División	12th	2–20	First round
1977–78	2	2ª División	9th	13–2–15
1978–79	3	2ª División
1979–80	4	3ª División	1st
1980–81	3	2ª División	6th	12–10
1981–82	3	2ª División
1982–83	2	1ª División B
1983–84	2	1ª División B	2nd	18–8
1984–85	1	Liga ACB	6th	12–20		Copa Príncipe	R3
1985–86	1	Liga ACB	7th	11–21		Copa Príncipe	QF
1986–87	1	Liga ACB	15th	13–19		Copa Príncipe
1987–88	2	1ª División B	5th	29–15
1988–89	1	Liga ACB	21st	20–25	First round
1989–90	1	Liga ACB	17th	22–18	Quarter-finalist
1990–91	1	Liga ACB	16th	17–23	First round
1991–92	1	Liga ACB	20th	15–22	First round
1992–93	1	Liga ACB	17th	12–19	Third round
1993–94	1	Liga ACB	16th	10–20	Third round
1994–95	1	Liga ACB	20th	12–31	First round
1995–96	2	Liga EBA	1st	27–9
1996–97	2	LEB	3rd	22–13		Copa Príncipe
1997–98	2	LEB	3rd	19–12		Copa Príncipe	QF
1998–99	2	LEB	1st	26–10		Copa Príncipe	QF
1999–00	1	Liga ACB	13th	15–19
2000–01	1	Liga ACB	11th	13–21
2001–02	1	Liga ACB	13th	13–21
2002–03	1	Liga ACB	9th	17–17
2003–04	1	Liga ACB	15th	14–20
2004–05	1	Liga ACB	11th	13–21
2005–06	1	Liga ACB	18th	11–23
2006–07	2	LEB	9th	17–17
2007–08	2	LEB Oro	4th	26–11		Copa Príncipe	C
2008–09	2	LEB Oro	6th	23–13
2009–10	2	LEB Oro	8th	20–18
2010–11	2	LEB Oro	5th	21–20
2011–12	2	LEB Oro	8th	20–18
2012–13	2	LEB Oro	6th	16–15
2013–14	2	LEB Oro	4th	20–12
2014–15	2	LEB Oro	3rd	27–13		Copa Príncipe	RU
2015–16	2	LEB Oro	7th	19–16
2016–17	2	LEB Oro	4th	27–15
2017–18	2	LEB Oro	1st	28–6		Copa Princesa	C
2018–19	1	Liga ACB	18th	9–25
2019–20	2	LEB Oro	8th	15–9
2020–21	2	LEB Oro	1st	25–10		Copa Princesa	C
2021–22	1	Liga ACB	11th	16–18	Quarter-finalist
2022–23	1	Liga ACB	10th	14–20			3 Champions League
2023–24	1	Liga ACB	16th	11–23			3 Champions League
2024–25	1	Liga ACB	13th	13–21
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Trophies and awards

Trophies

• 2nd division championships: (4)
  • 2ª División: (1) 1975
  • LEB Oro: (3) 1999, 2018, 2021
• Copa Princesa: (3)
  • 2008, 2018, 2021
• Copa Galicia: (16)
  • 1986, 1987, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025

Records

• 23 seasons in the top division
  • 6 in Primera División
  • 17 in Liga ACB
• 1 participation in Korać Cup
  • 1985–86 season: eliminated in quarterfinals group stage
• 2 participations in Basketball Champions League
  • 2022–23 season: eliminated in the qualifying rounds
  • 2023–24 season: group stages.

Individual awards

ACB MVP

• Džanan Musa – 2021–22 All-ACB Team
• Charlie Bell – 2004–05
• Džanan Musa – 2021–22 ACB Top Scorer
• Alfredo Pérez – 1971 (27,1)
• Alfredo Pérez – 1973 (23,2)
• Bob Fullarton – 1976 (30,3)
• Velimir Perasović – 1993 (24,5)
• Charlie Bell – 2005 (27,0)
• Džanan Musa – 2022 (20,1) ACB Three Point Shootout Champion
• Jacobo Odriozola – 2002
• Nebojša Bogavac – 2005 All-LEB Oro Team
• Anthony Winchester – 2013
• Álex Llorca – 2015
• Jeff Xavier – 2016

Notable players

• ESP Sergi Quintela
• ESP Sergi García
• ESP Santi Abad
• ESP Alfonso Albert
• ESP Alfons Alzamora
• ESP José Miguel Antúnez
• ESP Manuel Bosch
• ESP Óscar Cervantes
• ESP Pedro Cifré
• ESP Alfonso Martínez
• ESP Alfredo Pérez
• ESP Alfonso Reyes
• ESP Manel Sánchez
• ESP Ángel Serrano
• ESP Sergi Vidal
• ESP Salva Arco
• ARG Jorge Racca
• BIH Džanan Musa
• BIH Sabahudin Bilalović
• CAN Trae Bell-Haynes
• CRO Velimir Perasović
• CRO Toni Nakić
• CPV Betinho
• DEN Kevin Larsen
• DOM James Feldeine
• DRC Jordan Sakho
• FIN Roope Ahonen
• FRA Joseph Gomis
• GER Justus Hollatz
• ITA Marco Carraretto
• ITA Andrea Pecile
• ITA Adam Sollazzo
• MNE Nebojša Bogavac
• MNE Đuro Ostojić
• NED Roeland Schaftenaar
• NOR Torgeir Bryn
• PAN Rubén Garcés
• SRB Nikola Lončar
• UKR Volodymyr Gerun
• USA Jeff Adrien
• USA Tanoka Beard
• USA Charlie Bell
• USA Anthony Bonner
• USA Devin Davis
• USA James Donaldson
• USA Greg Foster
• USA Claude Gregory
• USA Tharon Mayes
• USA Pete Mickeal
• USA Sam Pellom
• USA Linton Townes
• USA Tyler Kalinoski
• USA Ethan Happ

Notes

References

References

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4. (13 April 2018). "El Breogán asciende a la Liga ACB 12 años después". [[Marca (newspaper).
5. (15 May 2022). "Musa, MVP Movistar de la 2021–22 {{!}} ACB.COM".
6. MARCA.com. (2 June 2015). "Ourense gana al Breogán y vuelve a la ACB 14 años después".
7. AS, Diario. (28 November 2007). "El Supremo sentencia que la ACB admita al Obradoiro".
8. Lugo, El Progreso de. (12 November 2010). "Raúl López: ''Mi llegada al Obradoiro no es una traición a la afición del Breogán, más bien al contrario''".
9. Burgos, Diario de. (10 January 2022). "Paco Olmos firma por el Hereda San Pablo Burgos hasta 2024".

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