2020–21 ACB season

The 2020–21 ACB season, also known as Liga Endesa for sponsorship reasons, will be the 38th season of the top Spanish professional basketball league, since its establishment in 1983. It will start on 18 September 2020 with the first round of the regular season and will end on June 2021 with the finals.

Liga Endesa¹

Competition details
Season	2020–21
Teams	18
← 2019–20 2021–22 → ^1 Sponsored league name, referring to Endesa.

It will be the following season after the 2019–20 season was affected due to the COVID-19 pandemic and no teams promoted from the LEB Oro will participate in the league for the first time in four years.[1]

TD Systems Baskonia will be the defending champion.

Teams

Promotion and relegation (pre-season)

A total of 18 teams will contest the league, including the same 18 sides from the 2019–20 season and none promoted from the 2019–20 LEB Oro.

Teams promoted from LEB Oro

• Carramimbre CBC Valladolid (did not request to join the league)
• Delteco Gipuzkoa Basket (was not accepted to join the league)[2]

Venues and locations

Andorra

Barça

Baskonia

Betis

Bilbao

Burgos

Estudiantes

Fuenlabrada

Joventut

Manresa

Murcia

Obradoiro

Real Madrid

Unicaja

Valencia

Zaragoza

Location of teams in 2020–21 ACB

Tenerife

Gran Canaria

Location of teams from the Canary Islands in 2020–21 ACB

Team	Home city	Arena	Capacity
Barça	Barcelona	Palau Blaugrana	7,585[3]
Baxi Manresa	Manresa	Nou Congost	5,000[4]
Casademont Zaragoza	Zaragoza	Pabellón Príncipe Felipe	10,744[5]
Club Joventut Badalona	Badalona	Palau Municipal d'Esports	12,760[6]
Coosur Real Betis	Seville	San Pablo	7,242[7]
Herbalife Gran Canaria	Las Palmas	Gran Canaria Arena	9,870[8]
Iberostar Tenerife	San Cristóbal de La Laguna	Santiago Martín	5,000[9]
Monbus Obradoiro	Santiago de Compostela	Multiusos Fontes do Sar	6,000[10]
Montakit Fuenlabrada	Fuenlabrada	Fernando Martín	5,700[11]
MoraBanc Andorra	Andorra la Vella	M.I. Govern Andorra	5,005[12]
Movistar Estudiantes	Madrid	WiZink Center	13,109[13]
Real Madrid	Madrid	WiZink Center	13,109[14]
RETAbet Bilbao Basket	Bilbao	Bilbao Arena	10,014[15]
San Pablo Burgos	Burgos	Coliseum Burgos	9,000[16]
TD Systems Baskonia	Vitoria-Gasteiz	Buesa Arena	15,504[17]
UCAM Murcia	Murcia	Palacio de Deportes	7,454[18]
Unicaja	Málaga	Martín Carpena	10,642[19]
Valencia Basket	Valencia	La Fonteta	8,500[20]

Personnel and sponsorship

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Barça	Šarūnas Jasikevičius		Nike	Assistència Sanitària
Baxi Manresa	Pedro Martínez		Pentex	Baxi
Casademont Zaragoza	Diego Ocampo		Mercury	Casademont
Club Joventut Badalona	Carles Duran	Albert Ventura	Spalding	Fundación Probitas
Coosur Real Betis	Curro Segura	Pablo Almazán	Kappa	Coosur
Herbalife Gran Canaria	Porfirio Fisac		Spalding	Herbalife
Iberostar Tenerife	Txus Vidorreta	Marcelo Huertas	Austral	Iberostar
Monbus Obradoiro	Moncho Fernández	Pepe Pozas	Geff	Estrella Galicia 0,0
Montakit Fuenlabrada	Paco García	Christian Eyenga	Pentex	Montakit
MoraBanc Andorra	Ibon Navarro	Guillem Colom	Hummel	MoraBanc, Andorra
Movistar Estudiantes	Javier Zamora	Édgar Vicedo	Wibo	Movistar
Real Madrid	Pablo Laso	Felipe Reyes	Adidas	Palladium Hotel Group
RETAbet Bilbao Basket	Álex Mumbrú		Hummel	RETAbet
San Pablo Burgos	Joan Peñarroya		Hummel	Inmobiliaria San Pablo, Burgos
TD Systems Baskonia	Duško Ivanović		Kelme	TD Systems
UCAM Murcia	Sito Alonso	Sadiel Rojas	Hummel	UCAM, Costa Cálida
Unicaja	Luis Casimiro	Carlos Suárez	Joma	Unicaja, Málaga
Valencia Basket	Jaume Ponsarnau	Bojan Dubljević	Luanvi	Cultura del Esfuerzo[lower-alpha 1]

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced with	Date of appointment
Herbalife Gran Canaria	Fotios Katsikaris	End of contract	30 June 2020[21]	Pre-season	Porfirio Fisac	8 July 2020[22]
Barça	Svetislav Pešić	Sacked	1 July 2020[23]		Šarūnas Jasikevičius	2 July 2020[24]
Casademont Zaragoza	Porfirio Fisac	Resigned	8 July 2020[25]		Diego Ocampo	11 July 2020[26]

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification or relegation
1	Barça	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification to playoffs
2	Baxi Manresa	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Casademont Zaragoza	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Club Joventut Badalona	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Coosur Real Betis	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	Herbalife Gran Canaria	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	Iberostar Tenerife	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	Monbus Obradoiro	0	0	0	0	0	0
9	Montakit Fuenlabrada	0	0	0	0	0	0
10	MoraBanc Andorra	0	0	0	0	0	0
11	Movistar Estudiantes	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	Real Madrid	0	0	0	0	0	0
13	RETAbet Bilbao Basket	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	San Pablo Burgos	0	0	0	0	0	0
15	TD Systems Baskonia	0	0	0	0	0	0
16	UCAM Murcia	0	0	0	0	0	0
17	Unicaja	0	0	0	0	0	0	Relegation to LEB Oro
18	Valencia Basket	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played on 18 September 2020. Source: ACB

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after completion of each round. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included in the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards.

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
Barça
Baxi Manresa
Casademont Zaragoza
Club Joventut Badalona
Coosur Real Betis
Herbalife Gran Canaria
Iberostar Tenerife
Monbus Obradoiro
Montakit Fuenlabrada
MoraBanc Andorra
Movistar Estudiantes
Real Madrid
RETAbet Bilbao Basket
San Pablo Burgos
TD Systems Baskonia
UCAM Murcia
Unicaja
Valencia Basket

	Leader and qualification to playoffs
	Qualification to playoffs
	Relegation to LEB Oro

First match(es) will be played on 18 September 2020. Source: ACB

Results

Home \ Away	BAR	BAX	ZGZ	JOV	BET	HGC	IBT	MOB	MKF	MBA	MOV	RMB	RBB	BUR	TDS	UCM	UNI	VBC
Barça	—
Baxi Manresa		—
Casademont Zaragoza			—
Club Joventut Badalona				—
Coosur Real Betis					—
Herbalife Gran Canaria						—
Iberostar Tenerife							—
Monbus Obradoiro								—
Montakit Fuenlabrada									—
MoraBanc Andorra										—
Movistar Estudiantes											—
Real Madrid												—
RETAbet Bilbao Basket													—
San Pablo Burgos														—
TD Systems Baskonia															—
UCAM Murcia																—
Unicaja																	—
Valencia Basket																		—

First match(es) will be played on 18 September 2020. Source: ACB
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.

Playoffs

	Quarterfinals								Semifinals								Finals
				0	0	0
				0	0	0
										0	0	0	0	0
										0	0	0	0	0
				0	0	0
				0	0	0
																		0	0	0	0	0
																		0	0	0	0	0
				0	0	0
				0	0	0
										0	0	0	0	0
										0	0	0	0	0
				0	0	0
				0	0	0

Attendances

Attendances include playoff games:

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	San Pablo Burgos	0	0	0	9,438	0.0%^†
2	Casademont Zaragoza	0	0	0	9,371	0.0%^†
3	Movistar Estudiantes	0	0	0	9,074	0.0%^†
4	TD Systems Baskonia	0	0	0	8,931	0.0%^†
5	RETAbet Bilbao Basket	0	0	0	8,500	0.0%^†
6	Real Madrid	0	0	0	8,086	0.0%^†
7	Unicaja	0	0	0	7,768	0.0%^†
8	Valencia Basket	0	0	0	7,096	0.0%^†
9	Herbalife Gran Canaria	0	0	0	6,122	0.0%^†
10	Barça	0	0	0	5,693	0.0%^†
11	Club Joventut Badalona	0	0	0	5,550	0.0%^†
12	UCAM Murcia	0	0	0	5,510	0.0%^†
13	Coosur Real Betis	0	0	0	5,321	0.0%^†
14	Montakit Fuenlabrada	0	0	0	5,179	0.0%^†
15	Monbus Obradoiro	0	0	0	5,104	0.0%^†
16	Iberostar Tenerife	0	0	0	4,873	0.0%^†
17	Baxi Manresa	0	0	0	4,515	0.0%^†
18	MoraBanc Andorra	0	0	0	3,991	0.0%^†
	League total	0	0	0	6,682	0.0%^†

Source: ACB

ACB clubs in international competitions

Euroleague Basketball competitions

Team	Competition	Progress	Result
Barça	EuroLeague	Regular season
Real Madrid		Regular season
TD Systems Baskonia		Regular season
Valencia Basket		Regular season
Club Joventut Badalona	EuroCup	Regular season
Herbalife Gran Canaria		Regular season
MoraBanc Andorra		Regular season
Unicaja		Regular season

FIBA competitions

Team	Competition	Progress	Result
Casademont Zaragoza	Champions League	Regular season
Iberostar Tenerife		Regular season
RETAbet Bilbao Basket		Regular season
San Pablo Burgos		Regular season

Notes

1. Cultura del Esfuerzo (transl. "Culture of Effort") is the motto of the club.

References

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External links

• Official website (in Spanish)