Gijón Baloncesto

Gijón Baloncesto was a basketball team based in Gijón, Asturias, Spain.

History

Gijón Baloncesto was established in 1982, after taking over the franchise of another local team, Real Grupo de Cultura Covadonga, who was undergoing financial difficulties. In its first year, the club played in the third tier and immediately promoted to Primera División B, the second division in the Spanish league system.

GB continued playing in the second tier from 1984 to 1995, when the club achieves promotion to Liga ACB after finishing runner-up of the 1994–95 Liga EBA and beating Lucentum in the semifinal game. The club only remained one season and could not avoid relegation by losing the relegation playoffs against Ourense by 1–3.

From 1996 to 1999, Gijón Baloncesto played in the new second league: LEB. It came back to ACB in 1999 by beating Menorca 3–0 in the semifinal of the promotion playoffs. In this second era in ACB, Gijón Baloncesto remained for three seasons until the relegation in 2002. After the relegation, the club started its decline until being relegated to the third tier in 2007 and finally being dissolved in 2009.

Sponsorship

IVECO: 1983–1984

Trébol: 1984–1985

Lagisa: 1985–1992

CLAS: 1992–1993

Trébol: 1993–1995

Cabitel: 1998–2000

Isastur: 2002–2003

Calefacciones Farho: 2003–2008

Viopisa: 2008–2009

Head coaches

Pedro Zorrozúa 1982–1983

José Antonio Figueroa 1983–1984

Ed Johnson 1984–1985, 1988–1989, 1991

Ricardo Hevia 1985–1987

Emilio de Diego 1987

Trifón Poch 1987–1988

Eduardo Ayuso 1988

Antonio Garrido 1990–1991, 1992

Víctor Lago 1989, 1991–1992, 1992

Ángel Martín-Benito 1993

Bill McCammon 1993–1995

Iñaki Iriarte 1995–1996

Luis Casimiro 1996–1997

Vicente Charro 1997

Pepe Rodríguez 1997–1998

Moncho López 1998–2002

Moncho Fernández 2002–2005

Diego Tobalina 2005–2006

Joaquín Prado 2006–2007

Jorge Elorduy 2007–2008

Jenaro Díaz 2008–2009

Guillermo Arenas 2021-2022

Season by season

Notable players

Carles Marco

Tomàs Jofresa

Óscar Yebra

Saúl Blanco

Javi Rodríguez

Xavi Vallmajó

Luis Scola

Hernán Jasen

Bob Harstad

James Blackwell

Etdrick Bohannon

Glen Whisby

Michael Smith

Brad Sellers

Linton Townes

Terquin Mott

Lou Roe

Eric Johnson

Ryan Stack

Etdrick Bohannon

Stephen Howard

Todd Fuller

Thierry Zig

Miroslav Pecarski

Guilherme Giovannoni

Larry Moffett

Individual awards

ACB Most Valuable Player

Lou Roe – 2001

External links

Non official website

Defunct basketball teams in Spain

Former LEB Oro teams

Basketball teams established in 1982

Basketball teams disestablished in 2009

Former Liga ACB teams

Former LEB Plata teams

Former Liga EBA teams

1982 establishments in Spain

Sport in Gijón

Basketball teams in Asturias