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Leyma Coruña
Leyma Coruña
League	Liga ACB
Founded	June 1996; 28 years ago
Arena	Coliseum da Coruña
Capacity	9,300
Location	A Coruña, Spain
Team colors	Orange and blue;
President	Roberto Cibeira
Head coach	Diego Epifanio
Championships	1 LEB Oro; 1 Copa Galicia
Website	basquetcoruna.com
Home	Away

Club Básquet Coruña, SAD, also known as Leyma Coruña for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball club based in A Coruña, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB, after being promoted in their 2023–24 LEB Oro season. Their home arena is the Coliseum da Coruña.

History

CB Coruña was founded in 1996 as a merger of clubs CB Ventorrillo and CB Arteixo. This club would substitute former Baloncesto Coruña CAB, that played its last season in Liga EBA before being dissolved.

After playing some seasons at Liga EBA, the club joined LEB league, where it remained four years, known as Sondeos del Norte due to sponsorship reasons. In 2002, CB Coruña sold its LEB spot to a new club Basket Zaragoza. After that, the club could continue playing in Liga EBA, thanks to the promotion of its reserve team.

In 2004, Básquet Coruña did not participate in any competition due to financial reasons, but the club comes back in 2005 to Liga EBA. In 2007, the club was invited to the newly created fourth tier LEB Bronce as one of the participants of the Final Stage of the 2006–07 Liga EBA. In their debut season, the club clinched the promotion to LEB Plata where it finished in the relegation positions in their first season. However, the club was repechaged due to the existence of vacant berths.

Básquet Coruña consolidated in LEB Plata until 2012, when it achieved a vacant berth in LEB Oro, coming back to the Spanish second division ten years later.

Coruña won the LEB Oro championship in the 2023–24 season, being promoted to the Liga ACB for the first time in club history. They defeated Melilla on the final game day to earn direct promotion.^[2]

Players

Current roster

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.

Leyma Coruña roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	No.	Name	Ht.	Age
SG	6	Scrubb, Philip	1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)	32 – (1992-11-27)27 November 1992
PG	7	Jakovičs, Ingus	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)	31 – (1993-04-18)18 April 1993
C	8	Huskić, Goran	2.10 m (6 ft 11 in)	32 – (1992-03-26)26 March 1992
SG	9	Lundqvist, Olle	2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)	25 – (1999-11-21)21 November 1999
PG	11	Taylor, Brandon	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)	30 – (1994-01-08)8 January 1994
C	12	Diagne, Atoumane	2.15 m (7 ft 1 in)	25 – (1998-12-31)31 December 1998
SG	22	Font, Aleix	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)	26 – (1998-03-11)11 March 1998
SF	23	Barrueta, Yunio	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)	31 – (1993-04-15)15 April 1993
SF	24	Figueroa, L. J.	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	26 – (1998-03-28)28 March 1998
PG	30	Hernández, Álex (C)	1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)	34 – (1990-02-12)12 February 1990
C	31	Lima, Augusto	2.10 m (6 ft 11 in)	33 – (1991-09-17)17 September 1991
PF	33	Thompkins, Trey	2.08 m (6 ft 10 in)	34 – (1990-05-29)29 May 1990
PF	77	Burjanadze, Beka	2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)	30 – (1994-01-03)3 January 1994

Head coach

Diego Epifanio

Assistant coach(es)

Román Gómez
Carlos Penedo

Legend

(C) Team captain
Injured

Updated: August 22, 2024

Depth chart

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench 1	Bench 2
C	Augusto Lima †	Goran Huskić	Atoumane Diagne †
PF	Trey Thompkins *	Beka Burjanadze †
SF	L. J. Figueroa	Yunio Barrueta
SG	Philip Scrubb	Olle Lundqvist	Aleix Font †
PG	Brandon Taylor *	Ingus Jakovičs	Álex Hernández †

Notes: Blue † – homegrown player^[a]; Red * – overseas player^[b]; Green ‡ – youth player^[c]

Season by season

Season	Tier	Division	Pos.	W–L	Cup competitions
1996–97	3	Liga EBA	1st		Copa EBA	RU
1997–98	3	Liga EBA	1st^[d]	23–3	Copa EBA	SF
1998–99	2	LEB	13th	10–20
1999–00	2	LEB	13th	12–18
2000–01	2	LEB	14th	13–20
2001–02	2	LEB	14th^[e]	12–22
2002–03	4	Liga EBA	4th	22–8
2003–04	4	Liga EBA	3rd	27–8
2004–05	Did not enter any competition
2005–06	4	Liga EBA	8th	15–15
2006–07	4	Liga EBA	2nd	21–9
2007–08	4	LEB Bronce	3rd	21–15
2008–09	3	LEB Plata	15th^[f]	9–21
2009–10	3	LEB Plata	10th	17–15
2010–11	3	LEB Plata	11th	9–19
2011–12	3	LEB Plata	7th^[g]	13–13
2012–13	2	LEB Oro	9th	13–18
2013–14	2	LEB Oro	6th	14–14
2014–15	2	LEB Oro	10th	12–16
2015–16	2	LEB Oro	5th	22–18
2016–17	2	LEB Oro	6th	22–17
2017–18	2	LEB Oro	8th	18–21
2018–19	2	LEB Oro	12th	14–20
2019–20	2	LEB Oro	3rd^[h]	16–8
2020–21	2	LEB Oro	3rd	21–10
2021–22	2	LEB Oro	7th	19–18
2022–23	2	LEB Oro	6th	24–12
2023–24	2	LEB Oro	1st	27–7	Copa Princesa	RU

Trophies and awards

Trophies

LEB Oro: (1)
- 2024
Copa Galicia: (1)
- 1996

Individual awards

LEB Plata MVP

Robert Joseph – 2009

Notes

^ A homegrown player is a player that played for at least three years before the age of 20 on a Spanish team. In Liga ACB, the team must register at least four homegrown players in rosters of 10–12 players or at least three homegrown players in rosters of 8–9 players.
^ A overseas player is a player from outside EEA, FIBA Europe or ACP states. In Liga ACB, the team may register at most two overseas players.
^ In Liga ACB, the team may register under-22 players linked to the youth system.
^ Achieved a vacant berth in LEB.
^ Sold the berth in LEB to CAI Zaragoza.
^ Remained in the league by achieving a vacant berth after the dissolution of the LEB Bronce league.
^ Achieved a vacant berth in LEB Oro.
^ Season curtailed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

References

^ "ACB.COM". www.acb.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 August 2024. AFORO: 9.300 espectadores
^ "El Leyma Coruña asciende a la ACB por primera vez en su historia". Diario ABC (in Spanish). 2024-05-11. Retrieved 2024-08-02.