CB Estudiantes

History

The club Estudiantes was founded in April 1948 by a group of students (the "Estudiantes") of a public preparatory school (the Instituto Ramiro de Maeztu, IRM) in Madrid to form a team to practice sport during the school recesses. Mr. Antonio Magariños, Professor of Latin and head of studies of the high school, was the first president of the club. It held the position until 1964. From 1949 it has played in the maximum category of the Spanish basketball.

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). Until 2021, it had always participated in the premier Spanish basketball league along with Real Madrid and Joventut. It was also one of two only Spanish basketball clubs with teams both at the top male and female Spanish championships.

In May 1963, Estudiantes won their first trophy, the Spanish Cup, against Real Madrid. In April 1986, after several decades without sporting success, Estudiantes won their first Copa Príncipe de Asturias against Granollers. The 1990s would be the golden age of the college club. In April 1992, a month after winning his second Spanish Cup against CAI Zaragoza, Estudiantes reached the 1992 EuroLeague Final Four in Istanbul, finishing in 4th place. It was his Annus mirabilis. In March 1999, the team played his only European final, in the 1998–99 Korać Cup, by defeated by FC Barcelona. In January 2000, Estu won his third Spanish Cup against Valencia, the last one until today. In the 2003–04 ACB season, it reached the Spanish ACB League finals, where they could not win against FC Barcelona.

In May 2012, after several irregular seasons, marked by a bad economic situation, 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. In May 2016, again, the team was relegated, but remained in the ACB because champion Palencia Baloncesto didn't present the required documentation and money. Finally, after several relatively stable years, the team's relegation was completed during the coronavirus pandemic in May 2021. Since then, Estu remains in LEB Oro, fighting for promotion and returning to the ACB. Even so, during this negative period, Estudiantes has managed to expand their trophy collection, winning the Copa Princesa de Asturias twice more against Granada (2022) and Básquet Coruña (2024).

Logos

File:Club Baloncesto Estudiantes Madrid (logo).svg|Non-commercial logo File:Movistar Estudiantes.svg|Movistar sponsorship logo

Sponsorship naming

Along the years CB Estudiantes has had several sponsorship names:

Home arenas

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

Rivalries

Estudiantes has a rivalry with Real Madrid. Both teams meet in the Madrid basketball derby (). Since 2011, both teams currently share their home arena, the Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid.

Until 2021, Estudiantes and Real Madrid, along with Joventut, were the only teams that had played all the seasons in the top tier. However, Estudiantes was relegated to LEB Oro after finishing 18th in the 2020–21 ACB season.

Players

Basketball Hall of Famers

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

Current roster

• Toni Ten
• Sergio Jiménez
• Manuel Gil
• ESP Óscar Otín

Depth chart

Notable players

• ESP José Miguel Antúnez
• ESP Víctor Arteaga
• ESP Nacho Azofra
• ESP Javier Beirán
• ESP Darío Brizuela
• ESP Jesús Codina
• ESPAND Quino Colom
• ESP Rodrigo de la Fuente
• ESP Iñaki de Miguel
• ESP Antonio Díaz-Miguel
• ESP Miguel Estrada
• ESP Jaime Fernández
• ESPVEN Germán Gabriel
• ESP Aíto García Reneses
• ESP Fran Guerra
• ESP Juancho Hernangómez
• ESP Alberto Herreros
• ESP Iker Iturbe
• ESP Carlos Jiménez
• ESP Oriol Junyent
• ESP Antonio Martín
• ESP Fernando Martín
• ESP Nacho Martín
• ESP Juan Antonio Martínez
• ESP Javier Mendiburu
• ESP Albert Oliver
• ESP Juan Antonio Orenga
• ESP Xavi Rabaseda
• ESP Vicente Ramos
• ESP Xavi Rey
• ESP Alfonso Reyes
• ESP Felipe Reyes
• ESP Sergio Rodríguez
• ESP Guille Rubio
• ESP Gonzalo Sagi-Vela
• ESP José Sagi-Vela
• ESP Javi Salgado
• ESP Carlos Suárez
• ESP Rafael Vecina
• ESP Édgar Vicedo
• ARGITA Patricio Garino
• ARGITA Pancho Jasen
• ARGITA Nicolás Laprovíttola
• ARGESP Federico Van Lacke
• AUTISRUSA Sylven Landesberg
• AZEUSA Nik Caner-Medley
• BEL Yannick Driesen
• BIHUSAJohn Roberson
• BRA Lucas Nogueira
• BRA Caio Torres
• BUL Dejan Ivanov
• CAN Carl English
• CANIRE Levon Kendall
• CANUK Philip Scrubb
• CHI Nacho Arroyo
• COLESP Hansel Atencia
• COLESP Juan Palacios
• CGO Junior Etou
• CRO Marko Banić
• CRO Danko Cvjetičanin
• CRO Željko Šakić
• CROUSA Goran Suton
• CZE Ondřej Balvín
• CZE Jiří Welsch
• DEN Kevin Larsen
• DOMUSA Josh Asselin
• DOM Ángel Delgado
• DOMUSA Luis Flores
• FINUSA Alex Murphy
• FIN Sasu Salin
• FINUSA Jamar Wilson
• FRAUSA Tariq Kirksay
• FRA Edwin Jackson
• FRA Michel Morandais
• FRA Florent Piétrus
• FRA Ali Traoré
• GEOUSA Tyrone Ellis
• GEO Viktor Sanikidze
• ITA Pietro Aradori
• ITA Alessandro Gentile
• LAT Mārtiņš Laksa
• LAT Toms Leimanis
• LIT Dovydas Giedraitis
• MKDUSA Shayne Whittington
• MNEUSA Omar Cook
• MNE Nemanja Đurišić
• MNE Goran Nikolić
• NEDFRA Nicolas de Jong
• NOR Torgeir Bryn
• NOR Karamo Jawara
• PANESP Rubén Garcés
• PUR J. J. Barea
• PUR Gian Clavell
• RUS Mikhail Mikhailov
• SENESP Sitapha Savané
• SER Aleksa Avramović
• SER Stefan Birčević
• SER Aleksandar Cvetković
• SER Nemanja Dangubić
• SERESP Nikola Lončar
• SER Petar Popović
• SER Vladimir Štimac
• SVN Domen Lorbek
• SVN Uroš Slokar
• SVN Samo Udrih
• SVK Martin Rančík
• SWE Ludvig Håkanson
• UK Daniel Clark
• UKR Vitaly Potapenko
• URUITA Jayson Granger
• VEN Michael Carrera
• USA Gary Alexander
• USA Corey Brewer
• USA Alec Brown
• USA Louis Bullock
• USA Vonteego Cummings
• USA Johnny Dee
• USA Toney Douglas
• USABLZ Marlon Garnett
• USA Keith Jennings
• USA Adam Keefe
• USASVN Kyle Kuric
• USA Chris Lofton
• USA Will McDonald
• USA Tony Mitchell
• USA Andrae Patterson
• USA John Pinone
• USA Phil Pressey
• USA David Russell
• USA Walker Russell
• USABUL Cedric Simmons
• USA Terry Stotts
• USA Ron Taylor
• USA Shaun Vandiver
• USA Glen Whisby
• USA Eric White
• USA Harper Williams
• USA Rickie Winslow
• USA Antoine Wright

Head coach

• Spain Rafael Laborde: 1948–1949, 1953–1955, 1956
• Spain Miguel Parrilla: 1949–1951
• Spain Leopoldo Bermúdez: 1951–1953
• Spain Víctor Díaz: 1955–1956
• Spain Héctor Rodríguez: 1956 (int.)
• Spain José Antonio Garrido: 1956–1957
• Spain Roberto Bermúdez: 1957, 1959–1960, 1974–1975
• Spain Emilio Tejada: 1957–1958
• Spain Ramón Uturbi: 1958–1959
• Spain Jaime Bolea: 1960–1963
• Spain Jesús Codina: 1963–1964, 1973–1974, 1979–1981
• Spain Francisco Hernández: 1964–1965
• Spain Ignacio Pinedo: 1965–1973
• Spain Fernando Bermúdez: 1975–1976
• Spain José Ramón Ramos: 1976–1979
• Spain Fernando Martínez Arroyo: 1979
• Spain Antonio Gómez Carra: 1981–1983
• ESP Paco Garrido: 1983–1988
• ESP Miguel Ángel Martín: 1988–1994
• ESP Pepu Hernández: 1994–2001, 2001–2005, 2011–2012
• ESP Charly Sáinz de Aja: 2001
• ESP Juan Antonio Orenga: 2005–2006
• ESP Pedro Martínez: 2006–2007
• ESP Mariano de Pablos: 2007
• FRA ESP Javier Carlos González: 2007 (int.)
• CRO Velimir Perasović: 2007–2008
• ESP Luis Casimiro: 2008–2011
• ESP Trifón Poch: 2012
• ESP Txus Vidorreta: 2012–2015
• ESP Diego Ocampo: 2015–2016
• ESP Alberto Lorenzo: 2016 (int.), 2023
• ESP Sergio Valdeolmillos: 2016
• ESP Salva Maldonado: 2016–2018
• ESP Josep Maria Berrocal: 2018–2019
• SRB Aleksandar Džikić: 2019–2020
• ESP Javier Zamora: 2020–2021
• ESP Jota Cuspinera: 2021–2022
• ESP Diego Epifanio: 2022
• ESP Javi Rodríguez: 2022–2023
• ESP Pedro Rivero: 2023–2025
• ESP Natxo Lezkano: 2025
• ESP Toni Ten: 2025–present

Presidents

• Antonio Magariños: 1948–1964
• Anselmo López: 1964 (int.)
• José Hermida: 1964–1971
• Pedro Dellmans: 1971–1983
• Juan Francisco Moneo: 1983–1998
• Alejandro González Varona: 1998–2004
• Juan Francisco García: 2004–2005, 2008–2014
• Fernando Bermúdez: 2005–2008
• Javier Tejedor: 2008
• Fernando Galindo: 2014–2022
• Ignacio Triana: 2022–present

Season by season

Honours

Domestic competitions

• Liga ACB : Runners-up (4): 1962–63, 1967–68, 1980–81, 2003–04
• Copa del Rey de Baloncesto (Spanish King's Cup) : Winners (3): 1963, 1992, 2000 : Runners-up (4): 1962, 1973, 1975, 1991
• Spain Cup : Winners (1): 2025–26
• Copa Princesa de Asturias (Spanish Princess' Cup) (defunct) : Winners (3): 1986, 2022, 2024

European competitions

• EuroLeague : 4th place (1): 1991–92 : Final Four (1): 1992
• FIBA Saporta Cup (defunct) : Semifinalists (2): 1973–74, 1975–76
• FIBA Korać Cup (defunct) : Runners-up (1): 1998–99
• EuroCup Basketball : Semifinalists (2): 2002–03, 2003–04
• FIBA EuroChallenge (defunct) : 4th place (1): 2006–07 : Final Four (1): 2007

Other competitions

• FIBA International Christmas Tournament (defunct) : Winners (1):1992 : 4th place (4): 1972, 1974, 1975, 1993
• Torneo Comunidad de Madrid (defunct) : Winners (8): 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003
• Albacete, Spain Invitational Game : Winners (1): 2014
• Torneo Ciudad de Getafe : Winners (1): 2019

Individual awards

Spanish Cup MVP

• Juan Antonio Orenga – 1991
• John Pinone – 1992
• Alfonso Reyes – 2000

ACB Rising Star

• Sergio Rodríguez – 2005
• Carlos Suárez – 2006
• Juancho Hernangómez – 2016

ACB Slam Dunk Champion

• David Russell – 1986, 1987
• Rickie Winslow – 1990
• Chandler Thompson – 1996, 1998

ACB Three Point Shootout Champion

• Danko Cvjetičanin – 1993
• Keith Jennings – 1996

All-ACB First Team

• Carlos Jiménez – 2006
• Carlos Suárez – 2010
• Nik Caner-Medley – 2011
• Edwin Jackson – 2017
• Sylven Landesberg – 2018

Spanish Princess' Cup MVP

• David Russell – 1986
• Álex Urtasun – 2022
• Alec Wintering – 2024

Spain Cup MVP

• Lotanna Nwogbo – 2026

Matches against NBA teams

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.

Current roster

Vacant

Season by season

References

References

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2. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120616235829/http://www.acb.com/redaccion.php?id=85527 Comunicado oficial Asefa Estudiantes] ACB.com, 15 June 2012
3. (24 August 2010). "Asefa Estudiantes will play the next season in the Palacio de Deportes".
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5. "Competiciones FEB".