Club Balonmano Torrevieja was a

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club based in

Torrevieja Torrevieja (; is a Mediterranean-seaside city and municipality on the Costa Blanca, in the province of Alicante, Valencian Community, in southeastern Spain. The city is in one of the only Spanish-speaking areas of the Valencian Community. Tor ...

Valencian Community The Valencian Community is an Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Spain. It is the fourth most populous Spanish Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community after Andalusia, Catalonia and the Community of Madrid wit ...

. CB Torrevieja played in the

Liga ASOBAL Liga Asobal is the premier professional handball league in Spain. It was founded in 1958 with the name of División de Honor, changing its name to the current name in 1990. The Liga ASOBAL, which is played under EHF rules, currently consists of ...

until the 2011/2012 season, after which it disbanded due to financial problems.

History

Club Balonmano Torrevieja was founded in 1973 as ''Grupo de Empresas Torrevieja''. The team played in regional divisions until 1888 and achieved promotion to Segunda Nacional. Their first appearance in Liga ASOBAL came in the 2002–03 season playing at overall nine seasons in Liga ASOBAL until 2012 summer when the club was disbanded due to high debts and economic constraints.El Torrevieja renuncia a Asobal y crea el Club Mare Nostrum
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Season by season

Notable players

* Diego Simonet *

Dimitrije Pejanović Dimitrije Pejanović (; born 9 July 1974) is a Serbian former handball player. Club career Over the course of his career that spanned more than two decades, Pejanović spent 11 seasons in Spain. He played for four Liga ASOBAL teams, namely Alme ...

* Nikola Prce * Damir Opalić * Eduardo Gurbindo * Alberto Val *

Tonči Valčić Tonči Valčić (born 9 June 1978) is a Croatian former professional handball player. He was a member of the Croatia national team at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Playing career Valčić began his career in Croatian powerhouse RK Zagreb where h ...

* Rodrigo Salinas Muñoz * Birkir Guðmundsson *

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* Eivind Nygaard * Cornel Durău * Jani Čop * Uroš Mandić * Mirko Stojanović * Magnus Jernemyr * Ivan Vukas * Milan Rašić * Rene Bach Madsen

Stadium information

* Name:

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* City:

* Capacity: 4,500 * Address: Avda. Monge y Bielsa s/n

References

External links

CB Torrevieja Official Website

city video. From a local resident. *
Documentacion para entrenadores de Balonmano
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Revista digital de la Liga Asobal
Handball clubs in Spain Defunct handball clubs in Spain Sports clubs and teams in the Valencian Community Handball clubs established in 1973 Handball clubs disestablished in 2012 1973 establishments in Spain 2012 disestablishments in Spain Torrevieja {{Spain-sport-team-stub