2013–14 LEB Plata season

The 2013–14 LEB Plata season is the 13th season of the LEB Plata, the Spanish basketball third division. It is named Adecco Plata as its sponsored identity. The champion of the regular season will be promoted to LEB Oro. The teams between second and ninth position will play a best of five games play off, where the winner will be promoted too to the higher division.

2013–14 LEB Plata season
LeagueLEB Plata
SportBasketball
Number of games156 (regular season)
Number of teams13
Regular Season
Season championsFundación Baloncesto Fuenlabrada
Season MVPNigeria Ola Atoyebi
Playoffs
Playoffs championsCB Prat
  Playoffs runners-upPalma Air Europa
Copa LEB Plata
ChampionsCB Prat
  Runners-upFundación Baloncesto Fuenlabrada
Finals MVPSpain Sergio Pérez Anagnostou

Competition format

Eligibility of players

All teams must have in their roster:

  • A minimum of seven players who played in Spain during three season being between 15 and 20 years old.[1]
  • A maximum of two non-EU players. This players can be replaced by players from the EU or ACP countries.
  • A maximum of two players from the EU or ACP countries.

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.

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.

Since the first round of the second leg, if two or more teams have accumulated the same number of winning games, the criteria of tie-breaking are these:

  1. Head-to-head winning games.
  2. Head-to-head points coefficient.
  3. Total points coefficient.

After the first leg of the season, the two top qualified teams will play the Copa Príncipe de Asturias and the leader will be the host team.

At the final of the season:

  • The regular season winner promotes directly to LEB Oro.
  • Teams qualified between 2nd and 9th, will join the promotion play-offs.
  • Team qualified in last position is relegated directly to Liga EBA.

Team information and location
New teams in the league
Teams that left the league
Location of teams in 2013–14 LEB Plata
Team City Arena Founded Coach
Amics Castelló Castellón de la Plana Pabellón Ciutat de Castelló 1994 Spain Antonio Ten
Araberri BC Vitoria-Gasteiz Polideportivo Mendizorroza 1994 Spain Iñaki Merino
Cafés Aitona San Sebastián Polideportivo Municipal J.A. Gasca 1975 Spain David Blanca
Azpeitia Azkoitia ISB Azpeitia Polideportivo Municipal 1975 Spain Iurgi Caminos
Cáceres Patrimonio de la Humanidad Cáceres Multiusos Ciudad de Cáceres 2007 Spain Ñete Bohígas
CB Prat El Prat de Llobregat Pavelló Joan Busquets 1951 Spain Carles Durán
CEBA Guadalajara Guadalajara Polideportivo San José 2011 Spain Javier Juárez
Conservas de Cambados Cambados O Pombal 1978 Spain Yago Casal
Fundación Baloncesto Fuenlabrada Fuenlabrada Polideportivo Fernando Martín 2013 Spain Armando Gómez
Grupo Eulen Carrefour "El Bulevar" de Ávila Ávila Multiusos Carlos Sastre 2001 Spain
Marín Peixegalego Marín A Raña Spain Sergio Cubeiro
Palma Air Europa Palma de Mallorca Pabellón Toni Servera 2006 Spain Maties Cerdà
Zornotza ST Amorebieta-Etxano Polideportivo Larrea 1959 Spain Mikel Garitaonandia

Regular season

League table
Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts
Qualification or relegation
1 Fundación Baloncesto Fuenlabrada 24 17 7 1730 1548+182 41 Promotion to LEB Oro
2 CB Prat (C) 24 16 8 1827 1739+88 40 Promotion playoffs
3 Palma Air Europa 24 16 8 1869 1738+131 40
4 Amics Castelló 24 14 10 1834 1781+53 38
5 Cáceres Patrimonio de la Humanidad 24 14 10 1721 1579+142 38
6 CEBA Guadalajara 24 13 11 1556 1578−22 37
7 Grupo Eulen Carrefour 'El Bulevar' de Ávila 24 13 11 1775 1771+4 37
8 Araberri BC 24 11 13 1694 1772−78 35
9 Zornotza ST 24 10 14 1747 1830−83 34
10 Azpeitia Azkoitia ISB 24 10 14 1811 1804+7 34
11 Marín Peixegalego 24 9 15 1685 1754−69 33
12 Conservas de Cambados 24 8 16 1623 1667−44 32
13 Askatuak 24 5 19 1479 1790−311 29 Relegation to Liga EBA

(C): indicates Copa LEB Plata champion.

Playoffs
Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
                   
2 CB Prat 70 56 74
9 Zornotza ST 61 59 55
2 CB Prat 78 57 107 68 84
5 Cáceres Patrimonio de la Humanidad 64 80 102 83 71
5 Cáceres Patrimonio de la Humanidad 79 66 67
6 CEBA Guadalajara 67 71 59
2 CB Prat 81 82 67 X X
3 Palma Air Europa 69 78 63 X X
3 Palma Air Europa 84 67 61
8 Araberri BC 88 66 47
3 Palma Air Europa 104 89 81 X X
4 Amics Castelló 71 80 61 X X
4 Amics Castelló 71 83 83
7 Grupo Eulen Carrefour 'El Bulevar' de Ávila 73 78 68

Copa LEB Plata

At the half of the league, the two first teams in the table play the Copa LEB Plata at home of the winner of the first half season (13th round). If this team doesn't want to host the Copa LEB Plata, the second qualified can do it. If nobody wants to host it, the Federation will propose a neutral venue.

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.

Teams qualified
Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts
1 Fundación Baloncesto Fuenlabrada 12 9 3 870 783+87 21
2 CB Prat 12 9 3 968 892+76 21

The game
2 February 2014
12:00
Fundación Baloncesto Fuenlabrada 79–83 CB Prat
Scoring by quarter: 12–24, 15–23, 23–15, 29–21
Pts: Pérez Anagnostou 25
Rebs: Aramburu 7
Asts: R. Martínez, Sanz 7
PIR: Pérez Anagnostou 36		 Pts: Sans 16
Rebs: Serrano 8
Asts: Ros 7
PIR: Ros 21
CB Prat, champion of the 2014 Copa LEB Plata
Polideportivo Fernando Martín, Fuenlabrada
Referees: Martínez Prada, Sánchez Benito, Murillo Khon

Awards and trophies

MVP week by week
DayNameTeamPIR
1Spain Albert AusinaAmics Castelló36
2United States Jason BlairPalma Air Europa26
3Spain Ignacio UrtasunAskatuak34
4United States Javier CarterCáceres Patrimonio de la Humanidad32
5Spain Antonio PantínPalma Air Europa40
6Spain Alberto RodríguezConservas de Cambados31
7Lithuania Gediminas ŽylėAzpeitia Azkoitia ISB34
8Spain Toni VicensPalma Air Europa31
9United States Kyle RowleyZornotza ST30
10Spain Antonio Pantín (2)Palma Air Europa27
11Nigeria Ola AtoyebiAmics Castelló34
12Nigeria Ola Atoyebi (2)Amics Castelló40
13Spain Antonio Lorenzo
Spain Alberto Rodríguez (2)		Zornotza ST
Conservas de Cambados		40
14Spain Darío SuárezMarín Peixegalego26
15Spain Joan FanerAmics Castelló34
16Spain José Antonio MedinaCáceres Patrimonio de la Humanidad27
17United States John di BartolomeoPalma Air Europa39
18Spain Albert Ausina (2)Amics Castelló34
19Spain Joseba AramburuMarín Peixegalego34
20Nigeria Ola Atoyebi (3)Amics Castelló29
21Spain Miguel Alberto MontañanaCáceres Patrimonio de la Humanidad31
22Spain Añaterve CruzPalma Air Europa28
23United States Shalawn MillerAskatuak36
24United States John di Bartolomeo (2)Palma Air Europa30
25Nigeria Emmanuel Okoye
United States Kyle Rowley (2)		Azpeitia Azkoitia ISB
Zornotza ST		28
26Spain Albert Ausina (3)Amics Castelló23

See also

References
  1. Training players, the proposal of the Federation to the Adecco Oro clubs Solobasket.com April 27, 2011
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