2020–21 LEB Plata season

The 2020–21 LEB Plata season is the 21st season of the Spanish basketball third league. It started on 10 October 2020 with the first round of the regular season and will end on 22 May 2021 with the promotion playoffs.

LEB Plata
Season	2020–21
Teams	28
Games played	208
Records
Biggest home win	Barça 110–58 Navarra (24 October 2020)
Biggest away win	Villarrobledo 54–91 Menorca (28 November 2020)
Highest scoring	Ponferrada 100–92 Gijón (12 December 2020)
← 2019–20 2021–22 → All statistics correct as of 7 February 2021.

It is the following season after the 2019–20 season was curtailed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the league was expanded to 28 teams, record of the league, for this season.

Format changes

For this season, the league was expanded to 28 teams divided in 2 groups of 14 with only one group phase. At the end of the regular season, the top team of each group will play for promote directly to LEB Oro, while the loser team will be dropped to the quarter-finals of the promotion playoffs; the teams that finish in 2nd to 8th place of each group will qualify for the promotion playoffs; the teams that finish in 11th and 12th place of each group will play the relegation playoffs; and the last two teams of each group will be relegated to Liga EBA.[1]

Teams

Promotion and relegation (pre-season)

A total of 28 teams contest the league, including 21 sides from the 2019–20 season and seven promoted from the 2019–20 Liga EBA.[2][3]

Teams promoted from Liga EBA

• Aquimisa Carbajosa
• Mondragón Unibersitatea (could not promote and finally registered in Liga EBA)
• NCS Alcobendas
• Ibersol CB Tarragona
• Melilla Sport Capital Enrique Soler
• Hozono Global Jairis
• Zentro Basket Madrid (achieved a vacant berth)
• CB Cornellà (achieved a vacant berth)

Venues and locations

Barcelona

Albacete

Benicarló

Jairis

La Roda

Menorca

Navarra

Pardinyes

Tarragona

Villarrobledo

Alcobendas

Algeciras

Cantabria

Carbajosa

Clavijo

Enrique Soler

Gijón

ISB

Marbella

Morón

Ponferrada

Zamora

Zentro

Zornotza

Barcelona teams:
Barça
Cornellà
L'Hospitalet
Prat

Location of teams in 2020–21 LEB Plata
Red: Group East; Green: Group West

Barça

Cornellà

L'Hospitalet

Prat

Location of teams from Barcelona in 2020–21 LEB Plata

Gran Canaria

Location of teams from the Canary Islands in 2020–21 LEB Plata

Team	Home city	Arena	Capacity
Albacete Basket	Albacete	Pabellón del Parque	1,200
Aquimisa Carbajosa	Carbajosa de la Sagrada	Municipal
Barça B	Sant Joan Despí	Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper	472
CAT&REST Intragas-Clima CDP	Ponferrada	Pabellón Lydia Valentín	2,500
CB Cornellà	Cornellà de Llobregat	Parc Esportiu
CB Marbella	Marbella	Carlos Cabezas
CB Morón	Morón de la Frontera	Alameda	600
CB Pardinyes Lleida	Lleida	Pavelló Barris Nord	6,100
CB Prat	El Prat de Llobregat	Pavelló Joan Busquets	500
Círculo Gijón	Gijón	Palacio de Deportes	5,197
El Ventero CBV	Villarrobledo	Los Pintores
Enerdrink UDEA Algeciras DAM	Algeciras	Pabellón Ciudad de Algeciras	2,300
ENERparking Basket Navarra	Pamplona	Arrosadia	1,500
Fundación Globalcaja La Roda	La Roda	Juan José Lozano Jareño	500
Gran Canaria B	Las Palmas	Centro Insular de Deportes	5,200
Grupo Alega Cantabria	Torrelavega	Vicente Trueba	2,688
Hestia Menorca	Mahón	Pavelló Menorca	5,115
Hozono Global Jairis	Alcantarilla	Fausto Vicent
Ibersol CB Tarragona	Tarragona	El Serrallo
Innova Chef	Zamora	Ángel Nieto	2,200
Juaristi ISB	Azpeitia	Municipal	1,000
Mi Arquitecto CB Benicarló	Benicarló	Pavelló Poliesportiu Municipal	2,000
Melilla Sport Capital Enrique Soler	Melilla	Guillermo García Pezzi
NCS Alcobendas	Alcobendas	Antela Parada
Reina Yogur Clavijo CB	Logroño	Palacio de los Deportes	4,500
Torrons Vicens CB L'Hospitalet	L'Hospitalet	Nou Pavelló del Centre	700
Zentro Basket Madrid	Madrid	Antonio Díaz Miguel
Zornotza ST	Amorebieta-Etxano	Larrea	600

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Barça B	15	13	2	1138	933	+205	28	Qualification to group champions' playoffs
2	Hestia Menorca	15	12	3	1103	916	+187	27	Qualification to promotion playoffs
3	Albacete Basket	16	11	5	1186	1116	+70	27
4	CB Prat	15	10	5	1237	1147	+90	25
5	Gran Canaria B	15	8	7	1133	1143	−10	23
6	CB Pardinyes Lleida	16	7	9	1150	1172	−22	23
7	Fundación Globalcaja La Roda	16	6	10	1078	1101	−23	22
8	Mi Arquitecto CB Benicarló	15	6	9	1014	1037	−23	21
9	CB Cornellà	16	5	11	1040	1199	−159	21
10	Hozono Global Jairis	15	5	10	1020	1056	−36	20
11	Torrons Vicens CB L'Hospitalet	15	5	10	920	979	−59	20	Qualification to relegation playoffs
12	ENERparking Basket Navarra	13	6	7	919	994	−75	19
13	El Ventero CBV	14	5	9	936	993	−57	19	Relegation to Liga EBA
14	Ibersol CB Tarragona	12	5	7	795	883	−88	17

Updated to match(es) played on 7 February 2021. Source: FEB

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after completion of each round. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included in the round at which they are originally scheduled, but added to the full round they are played immediately afterwards.

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
Barça B	6	4	3	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1
Albacete Basket	13	8	5	4	6	4	8	7	4	4	4	4	4	4	2
Hestia Menorca	1	1	1	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	1	2	2	3
CB Prat	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	4
Gran Canaria B	5	3	4	5	7	6	4	4	6	10	12	14	12	8	5
CB Pardinyes Lleida	8	10	9	9	9	8	5	11	9	6	7	6	6	5	6
Mi Arquitecto Benicarló	9	9	6	6	4	7	10	8	8	11	9	9	7	6	7
Globalcaja La Roda	14	13	14	14	14	14	11	5	10	9	6	5	5	7	8
ENERparking Navarra	10	11	10	10	13	10	12	10	7	5	5	7	10	11	9
Hozono Global Jairis	12	14	13	12	10	11	14	14	14	14	14	12	14	13	10
Torrons Vicens	11	7	11	11	11	12	9	9	12	12	11	13	11	14	11
CB Cornellà	3	5	8	8	12	13	13	13	11	7	8	8	8	10	12
El Ventero CBV	7	12	12	13	8	9	6	12	13	13	13	10	13	9	13
Ibersol Tarragona	4	6	7	7	5	5	7	6	5	8	10	11	9	12	14

	Qualification to group champions' playoffs
	Qualification to promotion playoffs
	Qualification to relegation playoffs
	Relegation to Liga EBA

Updated to match(es) played on 31 January 2021. Source: FEB

Results

Home \ Away	ALB	BAR	COR	PAR	PRA	CBV	NAV	ROD	GCA	MEN	JAI	TGN	BNC	HOS
Albacete Basket	—	67–68	75–67	53–72			86–75	64–57	79–71	58–71	82–68			77–49
Barça B		—		66–71			110–58		85–86	70–45	79–63		67–57	76–61
CB Cornellà	68–85	66–69	—	74–82			51–74	49–74	77–59	54–74	67–83			63–51
CB Pardinyes Lleida			69–75	—	93–84	67–74			67–79			64–65	56–72
CB Prat	102–88	60–85	108–74		—	86–61	68–70					87–60	76–67
El Ventero CBV	57–71	72–76	73–77			—		69–73		54–91		65–70	73–62
ENERparking Navarra				74–90	76–88		—	73–68	95–86	70–74				67–64
Globalcaja La Roda		49–64		87–67	82–85	64–63		—		61–80	65–55	69–59		59–68
Gran Canaria B	80–57	54–80		75–70	93–81	81–70		77–75	—			69–76	85–59
Hestia Menorca				84–69	72–78		87–68			—	77–59			53–47
Hozono Global Jairis				66–70	89–90	52–53	70–64	71–61	88–83	55–64	—			63–55
Ibersol Tarragona	68–79	61–79	87–64			62–90				49–83	73–67	—
Mi Arquitecto Benicarló	69–87	63–64	62–64	66–70	77–70		52–55	92–89		69–64	73–71		—
Torrons Vicens	74–78		74–50	78–73	60–74	61–62		65–45				67–65	46–74	—

Updated to match(es) played on 7 February 2021. Source: FEB
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Juaristi ISB	16	13	3	1361	1191	+170	29	Qualification to group champions' playoffs
2	Grupo Alega Cantabria	16	11	5	1293	1211	+82	27	Qualification to promotion playoffs
3	Reina Yogur Clavijo CB	16	9	7	1213	1183	+30	25
4	Innova Chef	15	8	7	1097	1129	−32	23
5	Aquimisa Carbajosa	16	7	9	1101	1128	−27	23
6	CB Marbella	14	8	6	1050	1006	+44	22
7	Zornotza ST	14	8	6	1098	1042	+56	22
8	Enerdrink UDEA Algeciras DAM	16	6	10	1130	1174	−44	22
9	CAT&REST Intragas-Clima CDP	13	8	5	1082	1030	+52	21
10	Zentro Basket Madrid	14	6	8	1065	1080	−15	20
11	Círculo Gijón	14	6	8	1085	1107	−22	20	Qualification to relegation playoffs
12	Melilla Sport Capital Enrique Soler	14	6	8	1054	1086	−32	20
13	CB Morón	15	4	11	1108	1248	−140	19	Relegation to Liga EBA
14	NCS Alcobendas	15	4	11	1109	1231	−122	19

Updated to match(es) played on 6 February 2021. Source: FEB

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after completion of each round. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included in the round at which they are originally scheduled, but added to the full round they are played immediately afterwards.

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
Juaristi ISB	2	4	2	5	5	1	4	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Grupo Alega Cantabria	5	1	1	1	2	3	1	2	2	2	3	2	2	3	2	2
Reina Yogur Clavijo	12	12	9	9	8	8	7	6	8	9	7	7	5	2	3	3
Innova Chef	13	6	5	4	4	7	6	7	6	7	6	8	6	4	4	4
Aquimisa Carbajosa	7	3	6	6	7	5	8	8	7	5	8	6	7	8	9	5
CB Marbella	4	9	10	10	11	10	9	10	9	8	5	5	8	7	5	6
Zornotza ST	3	5	3	2	1	2	3	3	4	3	2	3	3	5	6	7
Enerdrink UDEA	11	14	14	14	14	14	10	11	10	11	11	12	9	9	8	8
CAT&REST Intragas	6	2	4	3	3	6	2	5	3	4	4	4	4	6	7	9
Zentro Basket Madrid	1	8	7	8	6	4	5	4	5	6	9	9	10	10	11	10
Círculo Gijón	8	13	12	12	10	12	12	13	12	12	10	10	11	13	12	11
Melilla Sport Capital	10	11	13	13	13	11	14	14	14	14	13	11	12	12	10	12
CB Morón	9	10	11	11	12	13	13	12	13	13	14	14	14	14	14	13
NCS Alcobendas	14	7	8	7	9	9	11	9	11	10	12	13	13	11	13	14

	Qualification to group champions' playoffs
	Qualification to promotion playoffs
	Qualification to relegation playoffs
	Relegation to Liga EBA

Updated to match(es) played on 6 February 2021. Source: FEB

Results

Home \ Away	CAR	PON	MAR	MOR	GIJ	UDE	CAN	ZAM	ISB	MEL	ACB	CLA	ZEN	ZOR
Aquimisa Carbajosa	—		59–69	84–48	70–66		79–70	74–57		48–75	86–62			75–87
CAT&REST Intragas	77–58	—			100–92		82–67		75–64		79–68	82–74
CB Marbella		92–95	—			77–64			73–76	81–70		70–66	73–78
CB Morón		80–88	75–94	—		71–69			77–109	80–75	86–82	70–77
Círculo Gijón	77–72		74–69	92–73	—			78–71			75–84		90–85	85–65
Enerdrink UDEA	75–45	83–82	52–56	75–81	81–72	—	72–77		69–87			69–77	63–62
Grupo Alega Cantabria	79–62		76–62	88–76	86–72		—		84–87	92–80		91–83	91–80
Innova Chef		84–81	89–87	82–74		73–70	69–80	—	83–82	79–74		63–67		81–73
Juaristi ISB	70–62	99–85			91–77			85–68	—		106–74		89–70	76–66
Melilla Sport Capital	68–75	80–77				70–68	84–79		78–84	—		72–83	83–77
NCS Alcobendas			66–77	82–81		81–82	85–71	71–62	70–80	83–85	—			74–89
Reina Yogur Clavijo	68–82				69–56		66–80	68–73	80–74		79–61	—	87–65	86–78
Zentro Basket Madrid	80–70			77–70	91–79	78–79		65–63			93–66		—	64–77
Zornotza ST		89–79	66–70	74–66		85–59	72–82			80–60		97–83		—

Updated to match(es) played on 6 February 2021. Source: FEB
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.

Playoffs

Group champions' playoffs

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
			0	0

Source: FEB

Round of 16

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
			0	0
			0	0
			0	0
			0	0
			0	0
			0	0
			0	0

Source: FEB

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
			0	0
			0	0
			0	0
			0	0

Source: FEB

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
			0	0
			0	0

Source: FEB

Relegation playoffs

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
			0	0
			0	0

Source: FEB

Copa LEB Plata

The Copa LEB Plata was played on 30 January 2021, by the top team of each group after the end of the first half of the season (round 13).

Teams qualified

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	East	Barça B (H)	13	11	2	991	822	+169	24
1	West	Juaristi ISB	13	11	2	1100	953	+147	24

Source: FEB
(H) Host.

Game

Barça B v Juaristi ISB

30 January 2021	Barça B	82–840(OT)	Juaristi ISB	Sant Joan Despí
16:30	Scoring by quarter: 28–11, 13–17, 15–27, 20–21, Overtime: 6–8
	Pts: Badio 24 Rebs: Cuevas 7 Asts: Cuevas 8 Eff: Badio 21	Report	Pts: Buckingham, Savkov 17 Rebs: Guridi, Suárez 7 Asts: Hevia 5 Eff: Hevia 17	Arena: Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper Referees: Sergio Acevedo, Rodrigo Palanca

Awards

All official awards of the 2020–21 LEB Plata season.

Copa LEB Plata MVP

Pos.	Player	Team
SG	Ibon Guridi	Juaristi ISB

Source: [4]

Regular season

Round	Player	Team	Eff.	Ref
1	Jabs Newby	Círculo Gijón	35	[5]
2	Toni Vicens	CB Cornellà	35	[6]
3	Guillermo Bastante	Zentro Basket Madrid	32	[7]
	Javier Lucas	Círculo Gijón
4	Walter Cabral	Grupo Alega Cantabria	39	[8]
5	Arturo Cruz	Aquimisa Carbajosa	35	[9]
6	Simeon Lepichev	ENERparking Basket Navarra	30	[10]
7	Walter Cabral (2)	Grupo Alega Cantabria	32	[11]
8	Mark Hughes	Fundación Globalcaja La Roda	38	[12]
9	Miki Ortega	Enerdrink UDEA Algeciras DAM	41	[13]
10	Walter Cabral (3)	Grupo Alega Cantabria	36	[14]
11	Nnamdi Okonkwo	Innova Chef	35	[15]
12	Leo Čizmić	Grupo Alega Cantabria	32	[16]
13	Iago Estévez	Enerdrink UDEA Algeciras DAM	33	[17]
14	Zane Najdawi	Hozono Global Jairis	34	[18]
15	Rodrigo Seoane	ENERparking Basket Navarra	32	[19]
16	Ignacio Rodríguez	Zentro Basket Madrid	35	[20]

References

1. "La Comisión Gestora de la FEB aprueba las Bases de Competición para la temporada 2020/21 | Federación Española de Baloncesto". FEB (in Spanish). 3 July 2020. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
2. "Definidos los grupos y equipos de la temporada 2020/21 | Federación Española de Baloncesto". FEB (in Spanish). 21 July 2020. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
3. "La LEB Plata y la Liga EBA cierran su composición definitiva para la temporada 2020/21 | Federación Española de Baloncesto". FEB (in Spanish). 30 July 2020. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
4. "COPA: Ibón Guridi, un MVP y un doble título como reconocimiento a toda una vida | Federación Española de Baloncesto". FEB (in Spanish). 1 February 2021. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
5. "J.1: Jabs Newby, la globalidad de un MVP entre veteranos y noveles | Federación Española de Baloncesto". FEB (in Spanish). 12 October 2020. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
6. "J.2: Toni Vicens, la reconquista de un MVP pausado y madurado | Federación Española de Baloncesto". FEB (in Spanish). 19 October 2020. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
7. "J.3: Guille Bastante y Javi Lucas, el brillo de un MVP partido por la mitad | Federación Española de Baloncesto". FEB (in Spanish). 26 October 2020. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
8. "J.4: Junior Cabral y la sangre fría del primer MVP del Grupo Alega Cantabria | Federación Española de Baloncesto". FEB (in Spanish). 2 November 2020. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
9. "J.5: Arturo Cruz, la cara de un Aquimisa Carbajosa impulsado por su MVP | Federación Española de Baloncesto". FEB (in Spanish). 9 November 2020. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
10. "J.6: Simeon Lepichev, los siete días de oro del primer MVP pamplonés | Federación Española de Baloncesto". FEB (in Spanish). 16 November 2020. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
11. "J.7: Walter Cabral reivindica el poderío cántabro con su segundo MVP | Federación Española de Baloncesto". FEB (in Spanish). 24 November 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
12. "J.8: Mark Hughes, un MVP a golpe de "golden boy" rodeño | Federación Española de Baloncesto". FEB (in Spanish). 8 December 2020. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
13. "J.9: El mago Miki Ortega conquista el primer MVP del Campo de Gibraltar | Federación Española de Baloncesto". FEB (in Spanish). 14 December 2020. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
14. "J.10: Walter Junior Cabral, el MVP que reina cada tres semanas | Federación Española de Baloncesto". FEB (in Spanish). 20 December 2020. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
15. "J.11: Namdi Okonkwo, la selecta gastronomía del MVP zamorano | Federación Española de Baloncesto". FEB (in Spanish). 25 December 2020. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
16. "J.12: Leo Cizmic y la conquista del MVP de los tres puntos cardinales | Federación Española de Baloncesto". FEB (in Spanish). 6 January 2021. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
17. "J.13: Iago Estévez, un MVP en condiciones extremas para el Enerdrink UDEA Algeciras | Federación Española de Baloncesto". FEB (in Spanish). 11 January 2021. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
18. "J.14: Zane Najdawi, el Hozono Global del CB Jairis | Federación Española de Baloncesto". FEB (in Spanish). 18 January 2021. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
19. "J.15: Todo un revulsivo pamplonés a cargo del MVP Rodrigo Seoane | Federación Española de Baloncesto". FEB (in Spanish). 25 January 2021. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
20. "J.16: Nacho Rodríguez o cuando la fortaleza del MVP reside en casa | Federación Española de Baloncesto". FEB (in Spanish). 8 February 2021. Retrieved 8 February 2021.

External links

• Official website (in Spanish)