Agrupación Deportiva Cantbasket 04, also known as Cantbasket, is a

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team based in Santander,

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, who currently play in

Liga EBA The Tercera FEB, formerly known as Liga EBA (''Liga Española de Baloncesto Aficionado''), is a Spanish basketball championship that is the fourth tier level in the Spanish basketball league system, after the Liga ACB, Primera FEB and Segunda FEB ...

History

AD Cantbasket 04, registered in the Sports Entities Registry of the

Government of Cantabria The Government of Cantabria is one of the statutory institutions that conform the Autonomous Community of Cantabria. It is the superior collegiate body that directs the politics and the Administration of this Spanish autonomous community, and at ...

, was founded in 2004 by two co-founders who began as basketball coaches at Colegio Altamira, located in Revilla, Camargo. Step by step, Cantbasket was growing thanks to agreement with different schools of the city of Santander. After conducting an extraordinary groundwork for a decade, the board of directors decided to take a step further in its strong growth, and enrolls its first team in

, fourth tier, taking advantage of the tenth anniversary of the club's foundation. Cantbasket made its debut in the fourth tier on 19 October 2014, with a win in

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over the reserve team of

CB Clavijo Club Baloncesto Clavijo is a professional Basketball team based in Logroño, La Rioja. The team currently plays in league LEB Oro. History Founded in 1967, CB Clavijo started their first years playing in the provincial league and after achieving ...

by 77–87. The team, managed by Benjamín Santos, started the season in the best way possible with seven consecutive wins that allowed them to lead the league table, earning possilities to play the promotion playoffs to

LEB Plata The Segunda FEB, formerly known as LEB 2 and LEB Plata, is the third basketball division of the Spanish basketball league system and the second basketball division organized by the Spanish Basketball Federation. Since 2019, three teams are promote ...

. However, Cantbasket finished the season in the third position of the grupo A-A. In the 2015–16 season, an injury of franchise player DeAngelo Hailey, during the pre-season, weakened the team in the first months and finished its second participation in Liga EBA in the seventh position of the group. In the third campaign in this league, the board of directors and coach staff carried out a deep renovation of the squad, creating a reserve team, whose average age was 22 years old, where the youth squad and players from Cantabria were protagonists. Currently, Cantbasket is one of the largest sports entities in

, has men's teams in all school and federated categories. In 2009, Cantbasket 04 decided to create a new project, separating its masculine section from the feminine one, thus the CB Némesis was born, with the firm purpose of being a future academy for Cantabrian female players.

Season by season

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cantbasket Basketball teams in Cantabria Liga EBA teams Sport in Santander, Spain