2010–11 LEB Oro season


The 2010–11 LEB Oro season is the 15th season of the Liga Española de Baloncesto. It's named too Adecco Oro by sponsorship reasons. The 306-game regular season began on Friday, October 1, 2010, and will end on Friday, April 15, 2011. The champion of the regular season will be promoted to Liga ACB. The teams between 2nd and 9th position will play a best of 5 games play off, where the winner will be promoted too to the higher division. The teams 16th and 17th will play a best of 5 games play-out where the loser will be relegated to LEB Plata, with the 18th team.

Competition format

Eligibility of players

All teams must have in their roster:
Teams can not sign any player after February 28.

Regular season

Each team of every division has to play with all the other teams of its division twice, once at home and the other at the opponent's stadium. This means that in Liga LEB the league ends after every team plays 34 games.
Like many other leagues in continental Europe, the Liga LEB takes a winter break once each team has played half its schedule. One feature of the league that may be unusual to North American observers is that the two halves of the season are played in the same order—that is, the order of each team's first-half fixtures is repeated in the second half of the season, with the only difference being the arenas used. This procedure is typical in Europe; it is also used by La Liga in football.
If two or more teams have got the same number of winning games, the criteria of tie-breaking are these:
  1. Head-to-head winning games.
  2. Head-to-head points difference.
  3. Total points difference.
At the final of the season:
and Xacobeo Blu:sens were directly relegated from ACB after finishing in the bottom two places and they will substitute CAI Zaragoza and ViveMenorca.
CB Cornellà and Ciudad de Vigo Básquet left the league after finishing in 17th and 18th position. Also, CB Cornellà lost the play-out with CB Tarragona 2017. Fundación Adepal Alcázar as champion of LEB Plata and Lobe Huesca as LEB Plata play-off winner will enjoy the league.
Tenerife Baloncesto renounced because of a future fusion with CB 1939 Canarias and Bàsquet Mallorca will play LEB Plata after the Spanish Basketball Federation didn't accept their request. CE Lleida Bàsquet and Grupo Iruña Navarra will substitute them.
TeamCityArenaCapacityFoundedStarting head coach
UB La PalmaSanta Cruz de La PalmaMultiusos de Santa Cruz de La Palma
4,000
1978 Carlos Frade
CB MurciaMurciaPalacio de Deportes de Murcia
7,454
1985 Luis Guil
Aguas de Sousas OurenseOurensePazo dos Deportes Paco Paz
5,100
1979 Paco García
Leche Río BreogánLugoPazo Provincial Dos Deportes
6,500
1966 Rubén Domínguez
Girona FCGironaPalau Girona-Fontajau
5,500
1962 Ricard Casas
Isla de Tenerife CanariasSan Cristóbal de La LagunaPabellón Insular Santiago Martín
5,100
1991 Alejandro Martínez
Blu:sens MonbúsSantiago de CompostelaPabellón Multiusos Fontes Do Sar
5,206
1970 Moncho Fernández
Cáceres CreativaCáceresMultiusos Ciudad de Cáceres
6,500
2007 Gustavo Aranzana
Fundación Adepal AlcázarAlcázar de San JuanPabellón Antonio Díaz Miguel
2,000
2006 Javier Juárez
CB Tarragona 2017TarragonaPavelló El Serrallo
1,800
1978 Berni Álvarez
Baloncesto LeónLeónPalacio de los Deportes de León
5,300
1981 Javier de Grado
Ford BurgosBurgosPolideportivo El Plantío
2,432
1997 Andreu Casadevall
Palencia BaloncestoPalenciaPabellón Marta Domínguez
1,806
1979 Natxo Lezkano
Melilla BaloncestoMelillaPabellón Javier Imbroda Ortiz
3,800
1991 Gonzalo García
Lobe HuescaHuescaPalacio Municipal de Huesca
5,018
1977 Ángel Navarro
Grupo Iruña NavarraPamplonaPolideportivo Anaitasuna
3,000
2006 Ángel Jareño
Clínicas RincónRincón de la VictoriaTorre de Benagalbón
1,500
1988 Paco Aurioles
CE Lleida BàsquetLleidaPavelló Barris Nord
6,100
1997 Josep María Raventós

Managerial changes

Before the start of the season

TeamOutgoing managerReplaced byPosition in table
Blu:sens Monbús Curro Segura Moncho Fernández17th
CB Murcia Edu Torres Luis Guil18th
Girona FC Borja Comenge Ricard Casas9th
UB La Palma Rafa Sanz Carlos Frade10th
Tarragona 2017 Juan Pablo Márquez Berni Álvarez16th
Grupo Iruña Navarra José María Urabayen Ángel Jareño5th
CE Lleida Bàsquet Josep María Torres Josep María Raventós8th

During the season

1Josep Maria Izquierdo signed before the relegation playoffs.

Regular season

Results

League table

1UB La Palma were docked one point for problems with Chukwudinma Odiakosa's trading in day 1.
means Copa Príncipe Champion.

Positions by round

At the half of the league, the two first teams in the table play the Copa Príncipe de Asturias at home of the winner of the first half season. The Champion of this Cup will play the play-offs as first qualified if it finishes the league between the 2nd and the 5th qualified. The Copa Príncipe will be played on January 30, 2011.

Teams qualified

The game

Playoffs

Promotion playoffs

Teams qualified from 2nd to 9th will play the promotion play-off. If the winner of Copa Príncipe is qualified between 2nd and 5th at the final of the Regular Season, it will join the play-offs as 2nd qualified. Three best-of-five series will decide who promotes to ACB.
Blu:sens Monbús promotes to Liga ACB as second qualified

Relegation playoffs

The loser of a best-of-five series will be relegated to LEB Plata.

Stats leaders in regular season

Points

Rebounds

Assists

[Performance Index Rating]

MVP week by week

Honors

All LEB Oro team