2016–17 ACB season

Liga Endesa^1
Teams	17
Games played	272 (Regular season) 17–27 (Playoffs)
TV	Movistar+

The 2016–17 ACB season is the 34th season of the Spanish basketball league, also called Liga Endesa in its sponsored identity. It started on 30 September 2016 with the first round of the regular season and will finish in June 2017 with the ACB Finals.^[1]

Teams

Promotion and relegation (pre-season)

A total of 18 or 19 teams were expected to contest the league, including 16 sides from the 2015–16 season and two or three promoted from the 2015–16 LEB Oro. ACB agreed with Ourense Provincia Termal its promotion to this season instead the previous one if it fulfills successfully the requirements.^[2]

Teams promoted from LEB Oro

• Ourense Provincia Termal (did not fulfill the requirements)^[3]
• Quesos Cerrato Palencia^[4] (resigned to promote due to the impossibility to fulfill the requirements, its place was offered Movistar Estudiantes)^[5]
• Club Melilla Baloncesto^[6] (resigned to promote due to the impossibility to fulfill the requirements, its place was offered RETAbet.es GBC, which resigned to it and finally agreed to play in LEB Oro)^[5][7]

After the resign of RETAbet.es GBC to play in ACB, the ACB offered its place to Quesos Cerrato Palencia and Club Melilla Baloncesto to complete a league of 18 teams.^[8] After both teams refused the invitation,^[9] the ACB agreed to play a 17-team league.^[10] On 27 September 2016, the league confirmed that the two last qualified teams will be relegated to LEB Oro.^[11]

Venues and locations

Andorra

Bilbao

Barcelona

Baskonia

Betis

Estudiantes

Fuenlabrada

Joventut

Manresa

Murcia

Obradoiro

Real Madrid

Unicaja

Valencia

Zaragoza

Location of teams in 2016–17 ACB

Tenerife

Gran Canaria

Location of teams from the Canary Islands in 2016–17 ACB

Team	Home city	Arena	Capacity
Baskonia	Vitoria-Gasteiz	Fernando Buesa Arena	15,504[12]
Divina Seguros Joventut	Badalona	Palau Municipal d'Esports	8,500[13]
FC Barcelona Lassa	Barcelona	Palau Blaugrana	7,585[14]
Herbalife Gran Canaria	Las Palmas	Gran Canaria Arena	9,870[15]
Iberostar Tenerife	San Cristóbal de La Laguna	Santiago Martín	5,003[16]
ICL Manresa	Manresa	Nou Congost	5,000[17]
Montakit Fuenlabrada	Fuenlabrada	Fernando Martín	5,100[18]
MoraBanc Andorra	Andorra la Vella	Poliesportiu d'Andorra	5,000[19]
Movistar Estudiantes	Madrid	Barclaycard Center	15,000[20]
Real Betis Energía Plus[21]	Sevilla	San Pablo	7,626[22]
Real Madrid	Madrid	Barclaycard Center	15,000[20]
RETAbet Bilbao Basket	Bilbao	Bilbao Arena	10,014[23]
Rio Natura Monbus Obradoiro	Santiago de Compostela	Multiusos Fontes do Sar	5,060[24]
Tecnyconta Zaragoza[25]	Zaragoza	Pabellón Príncipe Felipe	10,744[26]
UCAM Murcia	Murcia	Palacio de Deportes	7,341[27]
Unicaja	Málaga	Martín Carpena	10,233[28]
Valencia Basket	Valencia	Fuente de San Luis	8,500[29]

Personnel and sponsorship

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Captain[30]	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Baskonia	José Antonio Querejeta	Sito Alonso	Ádám Hanga	Hummel
Divina Seguros Joventut	Jordi Villacampa	Diego Ocampo	Albert Ventura	Spalding	Divina Pastora Seguros
FC Barcelona Lassa	Josep Maria Bartomeu	Georgios Bartzokas	Juan Carlos Navarro	Nike	Lassa Tyres
Herbalife Gran Canaria	Miguel Ángel Betancor	Luis Casimiro	Eulis Báez	Adidas	Herbalife
Iberostar Tenerife	Félix Hernández	Txus Vidorreta	Nicolás Richotti	Austral	Iberostar
ICL Manresa	Jaume Arnau	Ibon Navarro	Román Montañez	Pentex	ICL Iberia
Montakit Fuenlabrada	José Quintana	Jota Cuspinera	Marko Popović	BFS	Montakit
MoraBanc Andorra	Gorka Aixàs	Joan Peñarroya	David Navarro	Kon	MoraBanc
Movistar Estudiantes	Fernando Galindo	Salva Maldonado	Jaime Fernández	Joma	Movistar
Real Betis Energía Plus	Fernando Moral	Žan Tabak	Boštjan Nachbar	Spalding	Energía Plus
Real Madrid	Florentino Pérez	Pablo Laso	Felipe Reyes	Adidas	Teka
RETAbet Bilbao Basket	Koldo Mauraza	Carles Duran	Álex Mumbrú	Erreà	RETAbet
Rio Natura Monbus Obradoiro	Raúl López	Moncho Fernández	Pepe Pozas	Vive	Rio Natura, Monbus
Tecnyconta Zaragoza	Reynaldo Benito	Andreu Casadevall	Henk Norel	Mercury	Tecnyconta
UCAM Murcia	José Luis Mendoza	Óscar Quintana	José Ángel Antelo	Nike	UCAM
Unicaja	Eduardo García	Joan Plaza	Carlos Suárez	Spalding	Unicaja, Benahavís
Valencia Basket	Vicent J. Solá	Pedro Martínez	Rafa Martínez	Luanvi	Cultura del Esfuerzo^1

Notes

1. ^ Cultura del Esfuerzo is the motto of the club.

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced with	Date of appointment
Herrbalife Gran Canaria	Aíto García Reneses	End of contract	2 June 2016[31]	Pre-season	Luis Casimiro	30 June 2016[32]
Baskonia	Velimir Perasović	Signed for Anadolu Efes	14 June 2016[33]		Sito Alonso	8 July 2016[34]
Movistar Estudiantes	Sergio Valdeolmillos	Sacked	16 June 2016		Salva Maldonado	27 July 2016
FC Barcelona Lassa	Xavi Pascual	Sacked	28 June 2016[35]		Georgios Bartzokas	8 July 2016[36]
Real Betis Energía Plus	Luis Casimiro	End of contract	30 June 2016[37]		Žan Tabak	28 July 2016
Divina Seguros Joventut	Salva Maldonado	Resigned	7 July 2016[38]		Diego Ocampo	26 July 2016
RETAbet Bilbao Basket	Sito Alonso	Resigned	8 July 2016[39]		Carles Duran	11 July 2016[40]
UCAM Murcia	Fotios Katsikaris	Signed for Lokomotiv Kuban	25 July 2016		Óscar Quintana	28 July 2016

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification or relegation
1	Real Madrid	9	8	1	811	689	+122	Qualification to playoffs
2	Iberostar Tenerife	10	8	2	808	717	+91
3	FC Barcelona Lassa	9	7	2	756	700	+56
4	Valencia Basket	9	6	3	736	680	+56
5	Unicaja	9	6	3	762	723	+39
6	RETAbet Bilbao Basket	9	6	3	735	709	+26
7	MoraBanc Andorra	9	6	3	758	761	−3
8	Baskonia	10	6	4	874	824	+50
9	Herbalife Gran Canaria	10	5	5	836	782	+54
10	Movistar Estudiantes	9	3	6	716	738	−22
11	Tecnyconta Zaragoza	9	3	6	699	740	−41
12	Real Betis Energía Plus	9	3	6	663	747	−84
13	UCAM Murcia	10	3	7	779	817	−38
14	Rio Natura Monbus Obradoiro	10	3	7	756	802	−46
15	Divina Seguros Joventut	10	3	7	753	819	−66
16	Montakit Fuenlabrada	10	3	7	739	844	−105	Relegation to LEB Oro
17	ICL Manresa	9	1	8	656	745	−89

Updated to match(es) played on 27 November 2016. Source: ACB

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after completion of each round. In italics, the team did not play any game in that round.

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
Real Madrid	4	1	3	3	1	1	2	1	1	1
Iberostar Tenerife	5	3	1	1	2	2	1	3	3	2
FC Barcelona Lassa	7	6	5	7	5	4	3	2	2	3
Valencia Basket	3	11	8	6	6	3	5	4	6	4
Unicaja	13	16	10	9	8	7	8	7	7	5
RETAbet Bilbao Basket	6	4	2	2	4	6	6	8	8	6
MoraBanc Andorra	9	5	4	5	7	8	7	5	4	7
Baskonia	1	2	6	4	3	5	4	6	5	8
Herbalife Gran Canaria	14	14	15	16	14	11	9	9	9	9
Movistar Estudiantes	16	13	11	10	10	10	11	10	10	10
Tecnyconta Zaragoza	15	10	12	12	9	12	12	12	13	11
Real Betis Energía Plus	2	7	13	11	12	9	10	11	11	12
UCAM Murcia	8	12	7	8	11	13	15	15	12	13
Rio Natura Monbus	17	17	17	15	15	16	13	13	15	14
Divina Seguros Joventut	10	15	16	17	17	15	14	14	14	15
Montakit Fuenlabrada	12	8	9	13	16	17	16	16	16	16
ICL Manresa	11	9	14	14	13	14	17	17	17	17

Updated to match(es) played on 27 November 2016. Source: ACB

Results

Home \ Away

BKN

CJB

FCB

HGC

TFE

ICL

FUE

MBA

MOV

BEP

RMB

BLB

OBR

TCZ

UCM

UNI

VBC

Baskonia

72–73

82–69

95–77

a

101–92

87–75

Divina Seguros Joventut

83–90

73–78

65–82

82–79

86–84

FC Barcelona Lassa

98–92

92–80

80–58

85–75

Herbalife Gran Canaria

81–92

111–60

82–62

68–76

75–84

Iberostar Tenerife

96–50

81–72

96–74

70–55

72–73

ICL Manresa

81–85

50–56

91–93

78–82

Montakit Fuenlabrada

75–78

85–73

80–89

85–98

73–68

MoraBanc Andorra

92–73

97–89

85–81

91–87

88–72

Movistar Estudiantes

83–71

78–86

86–74

82–95

88–96

Real Betis Energía Plus

75–80

79–74

87–84

77–103

Real Madrid

a

86–59

96–70

94–68

93–86

101–90

RETAbet Bilbao Basket

a

83–70

92–79

81–91

91–76

79–74

Rio Natura Monbus

76–92

87–90

64–73

80–63

75–92

Tecnyconta Zaragoza

80–75

69–75

95–77

68–80

UCAM Murcia

67–65

83–99

57–76

85–61

74–76

Unicaja

82–72

95–89

89–78

85–64

71–80

Valencia Basket

99–91

88–62

66–56

75–94

Updated to match(es) played on 27 November 2016. Source: ACB

Attendances

Attendances include playoff games:

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Movistar Estudiantes	37,134	13,570	7,793	9,284	+7.3%^†
2	Real Madrid	36,922	9,445	9,028	9,231	+2.8%^†
3	Baskonia	35,183	9,145	7,850	8,796	−11.3%^†
4	RETAbet Bilbao Basket	34,425	9,703	8,103	8,606	−5.0%^†
5	Valencia Basket	25,200	8,500	8,200	8,400	+2.3%^†
6	Herbalife Gran Canaria	37,404	8,661	6,559	7,481	+10.5%^†
7	Unicaja	37,087	9,194	6,596	7,417	+1.0%^†
8	Tecnyconta Zaragoza	28,268	7,621	6,276	7,067	−1.0%^†
9	UCAM Murcia	23,417	6,906	5,322	5,854	−1.2%^†
10	Rio Natura Monbus Obradoiro	25,951	5,439	4,929	5,190	−1.4%^†
11	FC Barcelona Lassa	20,433	6,581	4,091	5,108	+0.6%^†
12	Real Betis Energía Plus	18,369	5,121	4,108	4,592	+1.0%^†
13	Montakit Fuenlabrada	18,217	5,006	4,096	4,554	−12.2%^†
14	ICL Manresa	16,900	4,420	3,980	4,225	−2.4%^†
15	Iberostar Tenerife	20,999	4,521	3,747	4,200	+4.3%^†
16	MoraBanc Andorra	20,381	4,750	3,423	4,076	+0.9%^†
17	Divina Seguros Joventut	19,733	4,738	3,625	3,947	−20.0%^†
	League total	509,457	13,570	3,423	6,368	−0.2%^†

Updated to games played on 27 November 2016
Source: ACB

Awards

Player of the week

Date	Player	Team	PIR
1	Luka Žorić	Real Betis Energía Plus	30
2	Patrik Auda	ICL Manresa	27
	Sergio Llull	Real Madrid
3	Davin White	Iberostar Tenerife	38
4	Nemanja Nedović	Unicaja	29
5	Ante Tomić	FC Barcelona Lassa	27
	Johannes Voigtmann	Baskonia
6	Albert Sàbat	Divina Seguros Joventut	25
7	Ante Tomić (2)	FC Barcelona Lassa	33
8	Stevan Jelovac	Tecnyconta Zaragoza	29
9	Álex Mumbrú	RETAbet Bilbao Basket	36
10	Sergio Llull (2)	Real Madrid	37

Source: ^[41]

Player of the month

Month	Week	Player	Team	PIR	Ref
October	1–6	Scott Bamforth	RETAbet Bilbao Basket	22.8	[42]
November	7–10	Stevan Jelovac	Tecnyconta Zaragoza	23.6	[43]

ACB clubs in European competitions

Team	Competition	Progress
Baskonia	EuroLeague	Regular season
FC Barcelona Lassa		Regular season
Real Madrid		Regular season
Herbalife Gran Canaria	EuroCup	Regular season
Montakit Fuenlabrada		Regular season
RETAbet Bilbao Basket		Regular season
UCAM Murcia		Regular season
Unicaja		Regular season
Valencia Basket		Regular season
Iberostar Tenerife	Champions League	Regular season

References and notes

1. "Calendario de fechas de la temporada 2016-17" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 22 July 2016. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
2. "La Asamblea ratifica el acuerdo con el Ourense para la temporada 16-17" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 17 September 2015. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
3. "El Ourense Baloncesto no solicita su inscripción en la ACB" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 16 June 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
4. "Quesos Cerrato Palencia, campeón de LEB Oro, asegura plaza de ascenso" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 8 April 2016. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
5. "Comunicado oficial: Inscripción de Quesos Cerrato Palencia y Melilla" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 14 June 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
6. "Melilla logra la segunda plaza de ascenso tras superar la prórroga oscense" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 27 May 2016. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
7. "Gipuzkoa Basket se inscribe en LEB Oro". San Sebastián Gipuzkoa Basket Club. 12 July 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
8. "Comunicado Oficial de la Asamblea ACB" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 22 July 2016. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
9. "Palencia Baloncesto declina la oferta de la ACB" (in Spanish). Palencia Baloncesto. 22 July 2016. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
10. "Liga Endesa 16-17, con 17 equipos" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 29 July 2016. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
11. "Comunicado Oficial de la Asamblea General de la ACB" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 27 September 2016. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
12. "Baskonia" (in Spanish). ACB.com. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
13. "Divina Seguros Joventut" (in Spanish). ACB.com. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
14. "FC Barcelona Lassa" (in Spanish). ACB.com. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
15. "Herbalife Gran Canaria" (in Spanish). ACB.com. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
16. "Iberostar Tenerife" (in Spanish). ACB.com. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
17. "ICL Manresa" (in Spanish). ACB.com. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
18. "Montakit Fuenlabrada" (in Spanish). ACB.com. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
19. "Morabanc Andorra" (in Spanish). ACB.com. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
20. "Barclaycard Center". Real Madrid. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
21. "El Real Betis Balompié y Energía Plus se alían para garantizar el futuro del Baloncesto Sevilla" (in Spanish). Baloncesto Sevilla. 21 July 2016. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
22. "Real Betis Energía Plus" (in Spanish). ACB.com. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
23. "Bilbao Arena" (in Spanish). Bilbao Basket. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
24. "Rio Natura Monbus Obradoiro" (in Spanish). ACB.com. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
25. "Tecnyconta se incorpora como patrocinador principal del Basket Zaragoza" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 26 September 2016. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
26. "CAI Zaragoza" (in Spanish). ACB.com. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
27. "UCAM Murcia" (in Spanish). ACB.com. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
28. "Unicaja" (in Spanish). ACB.com. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
29. "Pabellón". Valencia BC. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
30. "Los capitanes de la Liga Endesa 2016-17" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 30 September 2016. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
31. "Aíto García Reneses no renovará con el Herbalife Gran Canaria" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 2 June 2016. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
32. "Luis Casimiro, experiencia para el banquillo del Herbalife Gran Canaria" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 30 June 2016. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
33. "Velimir Perasovic abandona el Laboral Kutxa rumbo al Anadolu Efes" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 14 June 2016. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
34. "Sito Alonso dirigirá el banquillo baskonista" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 8 July 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
35. "Xavi Pascual no longer head coach of FC Barcelona Lassa". fcbarcelona.com. 27 June 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
36. "Georgios Bartzokas, nuevo entrenador del FC Barcelona Lassa" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 8 July 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
37. "Afectuoso adiós del Baloncesto Sevilla a Luis Casimiro" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 30 June 2016. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
38. "Salva Maldonado deja de ser entrenador del Divina Seguros Joventut" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 7 July 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
39. "Sito Alonso deja el RETAbet Bilbao Basket" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 8 July 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
40. "Carles Duran, nuevo entrenador del RETAbet Bilbao Basket" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 11 July 2016. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
41. "Los Jugadores de la Jornada de la temporada 2016-17" (in Spanish). ACB.com.
42. "Scott Bamforth, MVP Movistar+ de octubre" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 1 November 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
43. "Stevan Jelovac, MVP Movistar+ de noviembre" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 30 November 2016. Retrieved 30 November 2016.

External links

• Official website (Spanish)
• linguasport.com (Spanish)