Bilbao Basket
basketball team
Club Basket Bilbao Berri S.A.D., commonly known as Bilbao Basket (pronounced [bilˈβao βasˈket]), also known as Surne Bilbao Basket for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball club based in Bilbao, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB. Their home arena is the Bilbao Arena.
History
The club was founded in 2000 after replacing the former city clubs: Cajabilbao and SD Patronato. After four seasons between LEB and LEB 2, Bilbao promoted to Liga ACB in 2004 by winning by 3–1 to Baloncesto León in the LEB semifinals.
Bilbao spent ten seasons in the top tier of the Spanish basketball becoming finalist of the league in the 2010–11 season, where it lost in the finals to FC Barcelona by 3–0. In 2012, Bilbao played the EuroLeague and it was eliminated in the quarterfinals by CSKA Moscow, who won the series by 3–1.
The best era of the club finished in 2013, when it lost the 2013 Eurocup Final at Charleroi against Lokomotiv Kuban.
On 17 July 2014, the ACB excluded Bilbao Basket from the Liga ACB due to its financial trouble, but on 8 August, the Association was forced to retire the exclusion and finally Bilbao Basket remained in the Spanish top league.
The club played four more seasons in Liga ACB until their relegation on 13 May 2018, after losing against Baskonia the Basque derby by 74–78.
Sponsorship naming
Bilbao Basket has had several denominations through the years due to its sponsorship:
Lagun Aro Bilbao Basket: 2004–07
iurbentia Bilbao Basket: 2007–09
Bizkaia Bilbao Basket: 2009–11
Gescrap Bizkaia Bilbao Basket: 2011–12
Uxúe Bilbao Basket: 2012–13
Dominion Bilbao Basket: 2015–16
RETAbet Bilbao Basket: 2016–21
Surne Bilbao Basket: 2021–present
Logos
Home arenas
Pabellón La Casilla: (2000–09)
Bizkaia Arena: (2009–10), occasionally used for home games in 2007 and 2008
Bilbao Arena: (2010–present)
Players
Retired numbers
Current roster
Depth chart
Head coaches
Season by season
Trophies and awards
Trophies
FIBA Europe Cup:
Winners (2): 2025, 2026
Liga ACB:
Runners-up (1): 2011
Supercopa de España:
Runners-up (1): 2007
EuroCup:
Runners-up (1): 2013
LEB:
Winners (1): 2004
Copa Princesa de Asturias:
Runners-up (2): 2002, 2019
LEB Plata: (1)
2002
Copa LEB Plata: (1)
2002
Individual awards
All-ACB First Team
Marcelo Huertas – 2008
Marko Todorović – 2015
Álex Mumbrú – 2016
EuroCup MVP
Marko Banić – 2010
All-EuroCup First Team
Marko Banić – 2009, 2010
Kostas Vasileiadis – 2013
All-EuroCup Second Team
Lamont Hamilton – 2013
EuroCup Coach of the Year
Fotios Katsikaris – 2013
Notable players
Matches against NBA teams
Win
Loss
Rivalries
Bilbao Basket has a strong rivalry with Saski Baskonia.
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