2011–12 LEB Plata season


The 2011–12 LEB Plata season is the 12th season of the LEB Plata, second league of the Liga Española de Baloncesto and third division in Spain. It is also named Adecco Plata for sponsorship reasons.

Competition format

Teams will play a regular season of 26 weeks with a Round-robin tournament format. This regular season will start on October 8 and will finish on April 20. The regular season champion will promote directly to LEB Oro and the last qualified will be relegated to Liga EBA. Teams qualified from second to ninth will join the promotion playoffs. The winner will promote also to LEB Oro.
The two first qualified teams after the first half of the league will play the Copa LEB Plata.

Eligibility of players

All teams must have in their roster:
Teams can not sign any player after February 29, 2012.

Team information

Champion of last season Knet Rioja and playoffs winner Iberostar Bàsquet Mallorca were promoted to LEB Oro. Fundación Adepal Alcázar and Aguas de Sousas Ourense were relegated from LEB Oro to LEB Plata. Adepal resigned to its spot and was dissolved.
Aurteneche Maquinaria, Gandía Bàsquet, Platja de Palma and Eninter CB Santfeliuenc were the Liga EBA playoffs winners and promoted to LEB Plata, but Palma and Santfeliuenc refused to play in this league and stayed in Liga EBA. Lan Mobel ISB was also relegated to Liga EBA from LEB Plata.
By July 12, only seven teams were confirmed to play in LEB Plata. These teams were Aguas de Sousas Ourense, River Andorra, CB Prat, Fontedoso Carrefour El Bulevar de Ávila, FC Barcelona Regal B, Aurteneche Maquinaria and Tenerife Baloncesto.
The Spanish Basketball Federation conceded an extension of the July 28 deadline for nine more teams. At this date, four more teams were admitted: Gandía Bàsquet, Leyma Natura Básquet Coruña, Lan Mobel ISB and CB Las Rozas, who played last season in 1ª División.
Some teams demanded a new extension to get the endorsement, and the Federation conceded it until August 10. Oviedo CB and Plasencia Extremadura were admitted after this last extension.

TeamCityArenaFoundedCoach
Aguas de Sousas OurenseOurensePazo dos Deportes Paco Paz1979 Rafa Sanz
Aurteneche Maquinaria Araba/ÁlavaVitoria-GasteizPolideportivo Mendizorroza1994 Iñaki Merino
CB Prat JoventutEl Prat de LlobregatPavelló Joan Busquets
1951
 Carles Durán
FC Barcelona Regal BBarcelonaPalau Blaugrana
1926
 Borja Comenge
Fontedoso Carrefour El Bulevar de ÁvilaÁvilaMultiusos Carlos Sastre
2001
 Armando Gómez
Gandía BàsquetGandiaPavelló Municipal de Gandia
1981
 Víctor Rubio
Lan Mobel ISBAzpeitiaPolideportivo Municipal
1975
 Iurgi Caminos
Leyma Natura Básquet CoruñaA CoruñaPolideportivo de Riazor
1995
 Antonio Pérez
Omnia CB Las RozasLas Rozas de MadridPolideportivo Las Matas1987 Alonso de Madariaga
Oviedo CBOviedoPolideportivo de Pumarín
2004
 Alfredo Riera
Plasencia ExtremaduraPlasenciaPabellón Ciudad de Plasencia
1978
 Rafa Gomáriz
River AndorraAndorra La VellaPoliesportiu d'Andorra
1970
 Joan Peñarroya
Tenerife BaloncestoSanta Cruz de TenerifePolideportivo Municipal
1996
 Jou Costa

Regular season

League table

Results

Promotion playoffs

The playoffs will start on 24 April 2012, and it will finish on May 23, 25 or 27 if necessary.
The quarterfinal round will be played in a best-of-three games format, with the best ranked team playing games 1 and 3 if necessary at home. Semifinals and finals will be played in a best-of-5 games format, with the seeded playing the games 1, 2 and 5 if necessary at home. The winner of the playoffs will promote to 2012–2013 LEB Oro season with River Andorra, the champion of the regular season.

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. 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. The Copa LEB Plata will be played on January 29, 2012.

Teams qualified

The game

Awards

All LEB Plata team

Team made after the playoffs.

Regular season

Playoffs