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Liga Española de Baloncesto

LEB
Sport	Basketball
Founded	1996
No. of teams	18 (LEB Oro) 11 (LEB Plata Group A) 10 (LEB Plata Group B)
Country(ies)	Spain
Continent	Europe
Official website	www.feb.es (Spanish) 2009–10 LEB

Liga Española de Baloncesto is a Spanish basketball league that is the next level of the ACB. It's run by the FEB. The Liga Española de Baloncesto is divided into two categories: LEB Oro and LEB Plata.

The LEB league was founded in 1996, and is played under FIBA rules. Top category, LEB Oro, currently includes 18 teams.

Liga championship rules

Each team of every division has to play with all the other teams of its division twice, once at home and the other at the opponent's stadium. This means that in Liga LEB the league ends after every team plays 34 matches.

Like many other leagues in continental Europe, the Liga LEB takes a winter break once each team has played half its schedule. One feature of the league that may be unusual to North American observers is that the two halves of the season are played in the same order—that is, the order of each team's first-half fixtures is repeated in the second half of the season, with the only difference being the arenas used. This procedure is typical in Europe; it is also used by La Liga in football and the ACB.

Each victory adds 1 match of win to the team in the league ranking. Each match defeated adds 1 match defeated.head-to-head. At the end of the league, the winner is:

1. The team that has most matches won in the ranking.
2. If two or more teams are level on points, the winner is the team that has the best baskets
3. If there is no winner after applying the second rule, then the team with the best overall matches head to head difference wins.

LEB Oro

LEB History

Season	Champion	Runner-up	MVP	Champion's Coach
1996-97	Ciudad de Huelva	Cajacantabria	Robert Harstad	Sergio Valdeolmillos
1997-98	CB Murcia Artel	Fuenlabrada	Tony Smith	Felipe Coello
1998-99	Breogán Universidade	Cabitel Gijón	Eric Cuthrell	Paco García
1999-00	Lucentum Alicante	Ourense Baloncesto	Joe Bunn	Andreu Casadevall
2000-01	Caprabo Lleida	Club Baloncesto Granada	Michael Wilson	Edu Torres
2001-02	Minorisa.net Manresa	Lucentum Alicante	Lawrence Lewis	Ricard Casas
2002-03	CB Etosa Murcia	Unelco Tenerife	Jaime Peterson	Felipe Coello
2003-04	Bilbao Basket	CB Granada	Aaron Swinson	Txus Vidorreta
2004-05	Baloncesto Fuenlabrada	IBB Hoteles Menorca Bàsquet	Ricardo Guillén	Luis Casimiro
2005-06	Bruesa GBC	Polaris World Murcia	Thomas Terrell	Porfirio Fisac
2006-07	Ricoh Manresa	Climalia León	Ricardo Guillén	Jaume Ponsarnau
2007-08	Basket CAI Zaragoza	Bruesa GBC	Andrew Panko	Curro Segura
2008-09	Valladolid	Lucentum Alicante	Jakim Donaldson	Porfirio Fisac

Records

• Most Points in a Game

• 50 by Antwain Barbour (Tenerife Rural) vs. Lucentum Alicante on November 21, 2008

• Most Rebounds in a Game

• 26 by Jakim Donaldson (La Laguna) vs. Melilla on February 15, 2008

• Most Assists in a Game

• 17 by Silas Mills (Aguas Calpe) vs. Cantabria on December 12, 2004

• Most Steals in a Game

• 11 by Gimel Lewis (Cantabria) vs. Farho Gijón on March 30, 2007

• Most Blocks in a Game

• 13 by Lester Earl (Melilla) vs. Sondeos on January 18, 2002

Teams 2009/10 season

LEB Plata

Teams Group A 2009/10 season

Teams Group B 2009/10 season

Relegated or Dissolved

External links

• (Spanish) Spanish Basketball Federation Official Website