Liga EBA

Liga Española de Baloncesto Amateur
Current season, competition or edition: 2016–17 Liga EBA season

Sport	Basketball
Founded	1995
CEO	Jorge Garbajosa
No. of teams	86
Country	Spain
Continent	Europe
Level on pyramid	4th tier
Promotion to	LEB Plata
Relegation to	Primera División
Official website	www.feb.es (Spanish)

Liga Española de Baloncesto Amateur is a Spanish basketball championship that is the fourth level in the Spanish basketball league system, behind Liga ACB, LEB Oro and LEB Plata. Is administered by the FEB. It was the second tier competition from 1994 to 1996, the third tier from 1996 to 2000, and the fifth tier from 2007 to 2009.

The Liga EBA is constituted by five inter-regional groups.

After the regular season, sixteen teams will join the playoffs, where only four teams promote to LEB Plata. The last qualified teams of each group, are relegated to Primera División.

History

Final Eight Format

The best teams in the Final Eight were usually promoted to a higher division. Due to economical problems, sometimes the winners couldn't promote to other divisions.

Year	Tier	Host	Champion	Runner-up	Score	Promoted to	Teams promoted
1994–95	2	Gijón	CB Gran Canaria	Gijón Baloncesto	86–84	ACB	2
1995–96	2	Lugo	CB Granada	Valencia BC	104–87	None
1996–97	3	Chipiona	Menorca Bàsquet	CB Cornellà	73–70	LEB	1
1997–98	3	Cabra	SD Bidegintza Zalla	CB Galicia	74–71	LEB	2
1998–99	3	Gandía	UB La Palma	CB Calpe	71–62	None
1999–00	3	Guadalajara	CB Cornellà	UB La Palma	74–58	LEB 2	2
2000–01	4	Pamplona	Gramenet CB	CB Montcada	91–76
2001–02	4	La Laguna	CB Aracena	CB 1939 Canarias	87–79
2002–03	4	Huesca	FC Barcelona B	CB Montcada	72–64
2003–04	4	Montilla	CB L'Hospitalet	UB Sabadell	89–73		3
2004–05	4	Palencia	CB Peñas Huesca	CB Vic	82–69		2
2005–06	4	Guadalajara	CB Prat	CB Muro	83–65
2006–07	4	Murcia	CB Santa Pola	CB Illescas	78–71

Final groups format

The 16 qualified teams were divided in four groups of four teams. The winners of the regular season groups hosted each group. The four group winners were promoted to the disappeared LEB Bronce.

After the play-offs, the FEB sets a table to determine the officious champion of the Liga EBA. In this table, the four group winners were the four first qualified teams, the runners-up from 5th to 8th, third qualifieds from 9th to 12th and last teams from 13th to 16th.

Year	Tier	Champion	Runner-up	Third qualified	Fourth qualified
2007–08	5	Fundación Adepal	Oviedo CB	CB Valls	CB Villa de Valdemoro
2008–09	5	CB Olesa	CB Santurtzi SK	BC Andorra	CB La Vila

'May madness' format

The 32 teams qualified play a two-leg play-off where four teams promote to the higher division. Since the 2010–11 season, only 16 teams are qualified to the 'May madness' format. Four teams are promoted each season to LEB Plata. For the 2012–13 season, FEB decided to come back to the Final Groups format

After the play-offs, the FEB sets a table to determine the officious champion of the Liga EBA.

Year	Tier	Champion	Runner-up	Third qualified	Fourth qualified
2009–10	4	Oviedo CB	Iraurgi SB	CDB Ciudad Real	CB L'Alfàs
2010–11	4	Araberri BC	CB Bahía San Agustín	CB Santfeliuenc	Gandía BA
2011–12	4	Askatuak SBT	CB Bahía San Agustín	CB Santfeliuenc	CE Sant Nicolau
2012–13	4	Xuventude Baloncesto	Real Canoe NC	CB Estudiantes B	Zornotza ST

Comeback to the Final groups format

As in 2008 and 2009, the final round was played by 16 teams divided in four groups, where the winners were promoted to LEB Plata.

Year	Tier	Champion	Runner-up	Third qualified	Fourth qualified
2013–14	4	Univ. Valladolid	CE Sant Nicolau	CB Pla de Na Tesa	AEC Collblanc-Torrassa
2014–15	4	CB Morón	CB Deportivo Coín	Fundación CB Granada	CB Andratx
2015–16	4	CB L'Hospitalet	UPB Gandia	Albacete Basket	Alcázar Basket

Copa EBA

The Copa EBA was a competition held from 1996 to 2000 season. This Cup was held after the end of the regular season and was played by the champions of the groups.

Season	Champion	Runner-up
1996–97	Gandía BA	CB Coruña
1997–98	CB Calpe	FC Barcelona B
1998–99	CB Cornellà	CB Calpe
1999–00	CB Cornellà	Baloncesto León B

2014–15 groups composition

Group A:
- Group A-A:
- Group A-B:
Group B:
Group C:
- Aragon
- Catalonia
Group D:
Group E:
- Group E-A:
- Region of Murcia
- Valencian Community
- Group E-B:
- Balearic Islands

External links

(Spanish) Spanish Basketball Federation Official Website
(Spanish) Liga EBA History

Basketball in Spain

National teams

Men	Spain U-20 U-19 U-18 U-17 U-16 3x3 Wheelchair basketball

Women	Spain U-20 U-19 U-18 U-17 U-16 3x3

League competitions

Men	ACB LEB Oro LEB Plata Liga EBA Primera División

Women	LF LF 2

Wheelchair	División de Honor

Cup competitions

Men	Copa del Rey Supercopa de España Copa Príncipe de Asturias ACB (defunct) Copa Princesa de Asturias Copa LEB Plata

Women	Copa de la Reina Supercopa de España

Regional cups

Regional teams

LEB Oro

2016–17 teams	Actel Força Lleida Cáceres Patrimonio de la Humanidad Calzados Robusta Cafés Candelas Breogán CB Prat Club Melilla Baloncesto Club Ourense Baloncesto FC Barcelona Lassa B Leyma Coruña Marín Ence Peixegalego Palma Air Europa Peñas Huesca Quesos Cerrato Palencia RETABet.es GBC Sáenz Horeca Araberri Basket San Pablo Inmobiliaria Burgos TAU Castelló Unión Financiera Baloncesto Oviedo

LEB Oro seasons	1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17

LEB Oro playoffs	2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Cup competitions	Copa Princesa de Asturias

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