CB Breogán

Club Baloncesto Breogán, S.A.D., also known as Río Breogán for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball club based in Lugo, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB. The club was founded in 1966 by the Varela-Portas brothers. The team played for the first time in the Spanish top league in 1970. The name of the club is a reference to legendary Galician King Breogán.

The Breogán jerseys have always been sky blue with details in details in white or dark blue. The shorts have been also traditionally sky blue, with the exception of some years that have been white too. Their home arena is the Pazo dos Deportes, an arena with a seating capacity of 6.500 people. The Pazo has been one of the Top-10 European arenas in attendance and one of the first in relation to the city population. The current president of the team is José Antonio Caneda. Well-known players have included: Charlie Bell, Pete Mickeal, Velimir Perasović, José Miguel Antúnez, Alfonso Reyes, Tanoka Beard, Anthony Bonner, Claude Riley, James Donaldson, Greg Foster or, most recently, Džanan Musa .

History

Founded in 1966, CB Breogán only needed five years to promote for the first time in its history to the Liga Nacional. It played in it from 1971 to 1977, except in the 1974–75 season, before dropping down again to lower divisions.

Breogán came back to the top tier, now named Liga ACB in 1984, and it qualified for playing the Korać Cup after finishing in the sixth position. It became a classic team in the league until 1995, when it lost to against Valvi Girona and became relegated to Liga EBA.

Its third era in Liga ACB started in 1999 and lasted seven years. In 2006, Breogán was the last qualified in the table and was relegated to LEB Oro, where it continued playing until 2018, when it promoted again to the top tier by winning the LEB Oro. Breogán were relegated the following year only managing to win 9 games out of 34. In 2021, Breogán were promoted to the top tier of Spanish basketball after beating Granada in the final. Breogán lost away from home in the first game but managed to win the second one at home and the final one in the Andalusian city.

Breogán made a brilliant start to the 2021/22 season. After winning the Galician Cup against rivals Obradoiro CAB, they won their first two Liga ACB games and visited FC Barcelona Bàsquet as leaders. Although a defeat there would mean they were no longer at the top of the table, they completed a tremendous first half of the league, qualifying for the Copa del Rey de Baloncesto for the first time in over 30 years, in which they suffered a narrow defeat against finalists Real Madrid Baloncesto. In January, head coach Paco Olmos decided to leave the club following an offer from relegation-bound CB San Pablo Burgos and was substituted by Veljko Mršić. Breogán's push to make it to the play-offs was hampered by star-man Džanan Musa's injury against Bàsquet Manresa. Trae Bell-Haynes got injured one week later as well, which resulted in Breogán being out of Play-off contention, although they were always far from being involved in a relegation battle. Džanan Musa became one of Breogán's most legendary players in the 2021/22 season.

Sponsorship naming

CB Breogán has several denominations through the years due to its sponsorship:
*Breogán Fontecelta 1971–73
*Breogán La Casera 1973–77
*Breogán Caixa Galicia 1985–86
*Leite Río Breogán 1987, 2001–11, 2019–21
* DYC Breogán 1989–93
* DYC Lugo 1994
*Breogán Universidade 2000–01
*Ribeira Sacra Breogán Lugo 2014–2015
*Cafés Candelas Breogán 2015–2019
*Río Breogán 2021–present

Players

Current roster

Depth chart

Season by season

Trophies and awards

Trophies

*2nd division championships: (3)
** 2ª División: (1) 1975
** LEB Oro: (3) 1999, 2018, 2021
* Copa Princesa: (3)
**2008, 2018, 2021
*Copa Galicia: (14)
**1986, 1987, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2018, 2021, 2022

Records

*23 seasons in the top division
**6 in Primera División
**17 in Liga ACB
*1 participation in Korać Cup
**1985–86 season: eliminated in quarterfinals group stage

Individual awards

ACB MVP
* Džanan Musa – 2021–22
All-ACB Team
* Charlie Bell – 2004–05
* Džanan Musa – 2021–22
ACB Top Scorer
* Alfredo Pérez – 1971 (27,1)
* Alfredo Pérez – 1973 (23,2)
* Bob Fullarton – 1976 (30,3)
*Velimir Perasović – 1993 (24,5)
* Charlie Bell – 2005 (27,0)
* Džanan Musa – 2022 (20,1)
ACB Three Point Shootout Champion
* Jacobo Odriozola – 2002
* Nebojša Bogavac – 2005
All-LEB Oro Team
*Anthony Winchester – 2013
*Álex Llorca – 2015
*Jeff Xavier – 2016

Notable players

* Santi Abad
* Alfonso Albert
* Alfons Alzamora
* José Miguel Antúnez
* Manuel Bosch
* Óscar Cervantes
* Pedro Cifré
* Alfonso Martínez
* Alfredo Pérez
* Alfonso Reyes
* Manel Sánchez
* Ángel Serrano
* Josep Maria Soler
* Salva Arco
* Jorge Racca
* Džanan Musa
* Sabahudin Bilalović
* Velimir Perasović
* Herve Kabasele
* James Feldeine
* Joseph Gomis
* Marco Carraretto
* Andrea Pecile
* Nebojša Bogavac
* Đuro Ostojić
* Roeland Schaftenaar
* Torgeir Bryn
* Rubén Garcés
* Nikola Lončar
* Volodymyr Gerun
* Jeff Adrien
* Tanoka Beard
* Charlie Bell
* Anthony Bonner
* Devin Davis
* James Donaldson
* Greg Foster
* Bob Fullarton
* Claude Gregory
* Tharon Mayes
* Pete Mickeal
* Sam Pellom
* Linton Townes
* Jimmy Wright

References

External links

Official websiteEurobasket.com presentation

{{DEFAULTSORT:Breogan

Basketball teams in Galicia (Spain)
Former LEB Oro teams
Rio Breogan
Basketball teams established in 1966
Sport in Lugo