Montakit Fuenlabrada | ||||
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Nickname | Fuenla | |||
Leagues |
Liga ACB EuroCup |
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Founded | 1983 | |||
History |
C.B. Fuenlabrada (1983–1989) A.D. Fuenlabrada (1989–1991) Baloncesto Fuenlabrada (1991–present) |
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Arena | Fernando Martín | |||
Capacity | 5,700 | |||
Location | Fuenlabrada, Spain | |||
Team colors | Orange, White, Black |
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President | José Quintana | |||
Head coach | Jota Cuspinera | |||
Team captain | Marko Popović | |||
Championships |
1 LEB championship 2 Copa Príncipe de Asturias |
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Website | baloncestofuenlabrada.com | |||
Uniforms | ||||
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Baloncesto Fuenlabrada, S.A.D., also known as Montakit Fuenlabrada by sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball team based in Fuenlabrada, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB and the EuroCup. It plays their home games at Fernando Martín.
Founded in 1983, Fuenlabrada started to compete at a local level. The club joined national competitions two years later and worked its way up, reaching the first regional division in the late 1980s. By 1991, it already became Baloncesto Fuenlabrada and a year later, it merged with Club Baloncesto Torrejon de Ardoz to compete in the Spanish second division.
Fuenlabrada acquired Club Peñas Recreativas de Huesca's rights to earn the right to compete in the Spanish first division in the 1996–97 season. The club went down to the second division, but inked scoring machine Velimir Perasović and returned to the elite level a year later. With Perasović, Carlos Cazorla, Ferran Lopez and Salvador Guardia as its main pillars, the addition of Nate Huffman allowed Fuenlabrada to make it to the Spanish League playoffs in 1999. Perasović kept filling the baskets for several seasons, leading Fuenlabrada to two more playoffs appearances in 2001 and 2002, helped by David Wood, Chuck Kornegay and a young José Manuel Calderón and coached by Óscar Quintana.