The Spanish basketball league system, or Spanish basketball league pyramid is a series of interconnected competitions for professional basketball clubs in Spain. The system has a hierarchical format with a promotion and demotion system between competitions at different levels.
There are currently five different competitions on the pyramid - the 1st tier Liga ACB, the 2nd tier LEB Oro, the 3rd tier LEB Plata, the 4th tier Liga EBA, and the 5th tier Primera División, which comprises the lower level regional divisions.
Liga ACB is organized by the Basketball Clubs Association. LEB leagues and Liga EBA are organized by the Spanish Basketball Federation while the lower ones are organized by the Regional Federations.
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The tier levels [edit]
For the 2012–13 season, the Spanish basketball league system is as follows:
| Level | League | ||||
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| 1 | Liga ACB (18 teams) (previously Liga Nacional) |
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| 2 | LEB Oro (14 teams) |
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| 3 | LEB Plata (11 teams) |
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| 4 | Liga EBA Group A       |
Liga EBA Group B     |
Liga EBA Group C   |
Liga EBA Group D    |
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| 5 | Primera División (14 groups) |
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| Regional divisions |
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- 1ª División (14 groups, one for each autonomous community except Basque Country, La Rioja, and Navarra, who share the same group, like Valencian Community and Region of Murcia); in Catalonia, known as, Copa Catalunya.
Lower divisions [edit]
For the 2012–13 season, the lower divisions for each of the Autonomous Communities is as follows:
| Community | Level 5 | Level 6 | Level 7 | Level 8 | Level 9 |
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| Galicia |
1ª División (13 teams) |
2ª División (2 groups of 11 teams) |
3ª División (TBD) |
4ª División (TBD) |
None |
| Cantabria |
1ª División (8 teams) |
2ª División (24 teams) |
None | ||
| Castile and León |
1ª División (7 teams) |
Provincial leagues | |||
| Asturias |
1ª División (14 teams) |
1ª Autonómica (16 teams) |
2ª Autonómica (9 teams) |
None | |
| Basque Country |
1ª División (16 teams) |
1ª Autonómica (15 teams) |
Provincial leagues | ||
| La Rioja |
2ª Interautonómica (14 teams) |
Sénior Masculina (TBD) |
None | ||
| Navarre |
1ª Autonómica (12 teams) |
2ª Autonómica (10 teams) |
None | ||
| Aragon |
1ª División (10 teams) |
1ª Aragonesa (12 teams) |
2ª Aragonesa (2 groups of 10 teams) |
3ª Aragonesa (2 groups of 9 teams) |
None |
| Balearic Islands |
1ª División (9 teams) |
Insular leagues | |||
| Catalonia |
Copa Catalunya (2 groups of 16 teams) |
CC 1ª Categoria (3 groups of 16 teams) |
CC 2ª Categoria (4 groups of 16 teams) |
CC 3ª Categoria (8 groups of 16 teams) |
Provincial leagues |
| Community of Madrid |
1ª División (2 groups of 12 teams) |
1ª Autonómica A (2 groups of 12 teams) |
1ª Autonómica B (2 groups of 12 teams) |
2ª Autonómica |
Local leagues |
| Castile-La Mancha |
1ª División (14 teams) |
1ª Autonómica (12 teams) |
2ª Autonómica (33 teams in 4 groups) |
3ª Autonómica (11 teams) |
None |
| Valencian Community |
1ª División (2 groups of 14 teams) |
Sénior Autonómico (3 groups of 14 teams) |
Sénior Preferente (55 teams in 4 groups) |
1ª Zonal (69 teams in 5 groups) |
2ª Zonal (72 teams in 6 groups) |
| Region of Murcia |
1ª Autonómica (10 teams) |
2ª Autonómica (23 teams in 2 groups) |
None | ||
| Extremadura |
1ª División (TBD) |
Provincial leagues | |||
| Andalusia |
1ª División (24 teams) |
Provincial leagues | |||
| Canary Islands |
1ª División (8 teams) |
Provincial and insular leagues | |||
Evolution of the Spanish basketball league system [edit]
| Tier\Years | 1957–78 | 1978–83 | 1983–90 | 1990–94 | 1994–96 | 1996–2000 | 2000–07 | 2007–09 | 2009– |
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| 1 | 1ª División | ACB | |||||||
| 2 | 2ª División | 1ª División B | 1ª División | EBA | LEB (since 2007, LEB Oro) | ||||
| 3 | 3ª División | 2ª División | EBA | LEB 2 (since 2007, LEB Plata) | |||||
| 4 | Lower | 3ª División | Lower | Lower | Lower | 2ª División | EBA | LEB Bronce | EBA |
| 5 | Lower | Lower | 1ª División | EBA | 1ª División | ||||
| 6 | Lower | 1ª División | Lower | ||||||
| 7 | Lower | ||||||||
Other competitions [edit]
See also [edit]
References and notes [edit]
External links [edit]
- ACB League Official Website (Spanish)
- Spanish Basketball Federation (Spanish)
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