Valencia Basket Club, S.A.D. is a Spanish professional

women's basketball Women's basketball is the team sport of basketball played by women. It was first played in 1892, one year after men's basketball, at Smith College in Massachusetts. It spread across the United States, in large parts via women's college compet ...

team based in

Valencia Valencia ( , ), formally València (), is the capital of the Province of Valencia, province and Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Valencian Community, the same name in Spain. It is located on the banks of the Turia (r ...

, Spain. The team currently plays in the Liga Femenina Endesa and EuroLeague Women with home games played at the Font de Sant Lluís. It is the women's team of the namesake club. The club is owned by retail tycoon

Juan Roig Juan Roig Alfonso (; born 8 October 1949) is a Spanish billionaire businessman, president of the Spanish supermarket chain Mercadona and Valencia Basket. As of November 2024, his net worth was estimated at US$6 billion. Early life Juan Roig was ...

. Valencia is the only Spanish club to have won the top category of basketball in Spain in both sections.

History

The women's team of Valencia Basket was created in 2014 after integrating the youth teams of

Ros Casares Valencia Ros Casares Godella was a professional women's basketball team based in Godella, Spain. It played in the Liga Femenina de Baloncesto between 1996 and 2012, when it resigned to play in EuroLeague and Spanish League. It continued playing in Primer ...

, former EuroLeague Women champion club which dissolved its senior squad in 2012, into the structure of the club. In its first season, Valencia Basket played in Primera División, the third tier of Spanish women's basketball. The club promoted in 2016 to

Liga Femenina 2 Liga Femenina 2 is the second division of the women's league of basketball in Spain. It was founded in 2001. Competition format Teams in this league are divided into two groups by geographical criteria. The top four teams of each one, qualify to ...

, and two years later, it qualified for the promotion playoffs to the top tier as champions of the Group B and achieved promotion to Liga Femenina, the top tier of Spanish women's basketball, in front of 6,200 spectators. In their debut season, Valencia Basket reached the semifinals.

Season by season

Players

Current roster

References

External links

Official website

Profile
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