Club Básquet Coruña, SAD, also known as Leyma Coruña for sponsorship reasons, is a professional

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club based in

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, Spain. The team plays in the

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, after being promoted in their 2023–24 LEB Oro season. Their home arena is the

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History

CB Coruña was founded in 1996 as a merger of clubs ''CB Ventorrillo'' and ''CB Arteixo''. This club would substitute former Baloncesto Coruña CAB, that played its last season in

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before being dissolved. After playing some seasons at

, the club joined

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, where it remained four years, known as Sondeos del Norte due to sponsorship reasons. In 2002, CB Coruña sold its LEB spot to a new club

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. After that, the club could continue playing in

, thanks to the promotion of its reserve team. In 2004, Básquet Coruña did not participate in any competition due to financial reasons, but the club comes back in 2005 to

. In 2007, the club was invited to the newly created fourth tier LEB Bronce as one of the participants of the Final Stage of the 2006–07 Liga EBA. In their debut season, the club clinched the promotion to

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where it finished in the relegation positions in their first season. However, the club was repechaged due to the existence of vacant berths. Básquet Coruña consolidated in LEB Plata until 2012, when it achieved a vacant berth in

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, coming back to the Spanish second division ten years later. Coruña won the LEB Oro championship in the 2023–24 season, being promoted to the

for the first time in club history. They defeated

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on the final game day to earn direct promotion.

Players

Current roster

Depth chart

Season by season

Trophies and awards

Trophies

: (1) **

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* Copa Galicia: (1) ** 1996

Individual awards

LEB Plata MVP * Robert Joseph – 2009

Notes

References

External links

Official website

Leyma Coruña
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