2021–22 ACB season

The 2021–22 ACB season, also known as Liga Endesa for sponsorship reasons, was the 39th season of the top Spanish professional basketball league, since its establishment in 1983. It started on 18 September 2021 with the first round of the regular season and ended on 19 June 2022 with the finals.

Liga Endesa1
Season	2021–22
Games played	327
Teams	18
Regular season
Season MVP	Džanan Musa
Relegated	MoraBanc Andorra Hereda San Pablo Burgos
Finals
Champions	Real Madrid 14th ACB title 36th Spanish title
Runners-up	Barça
Semifinalists	Joventut Bitci Baskonia
Finals MVP	Edy Tavares
Statistical leaders
Points Džanan Musa 20.1 Rebounds Ángel Delgado 8.5 Assists Shannon Evans 6.8
Records
Biggest home win	Joventut 105–61 Manresa (9 October 2021)
Biggest away win	Betis 64–106 Manresa (26 September 2021)
Highest scoring	Barça 108–97 Real Madrid (10 April 2022)
Winning streak	10 games Real Madrid
Losing streak	7 games Casademont Zaragoza
Highest attendance	12,315 Real Madrid 81–74 Barça (19 June 2022)
Lowest attendance	956 Tenerife 87–82 Unicaja (23 September 2021)
← 2020–21 2022–23 → 1 Sponsored league name, referring to Endesa.

Barça was the defending champion which lost the final series 1–3 to Real Madrid which reclaimed a record 36th Spanish title and their 14th ACB title ending a 3-year drought after their last triumph in 2019.

Teams

Promotion and relegation (pre-season)

A total of 18 teams contested the league, including 17 sides from the 2020–21 season and one promoted from the 2020–21 LEB Oro.

Team promoted from LEB Oro

• Río Breogán^[1][2]

Teams relegated to LEB Oro

• Movistar Estudiantes
• Acunsa GBC

Venues and locations

Andorra

Barça

Baskonia

Betis

Bilbao

Breogán

Burgos

Fuenlabrada

Joventut

Manresa

Murcia

Obradoiro

Real Madrid

Unicaja

Valencia

Zaragoza

Location of teams in 2021–22 ACB

Tenerife

Gran Canaria

Location of teams from the Canary Islands in 2021–22 ACB

Team	Home city	Arena	Capacity
Barça	Barcelona	Palau Blaugrana	7,585[3]
Baxi Manresa	Manresa	Nou Congost	5,000[4]
Bitci Baskonia	Vitoria-Gasteiz	Buesa Arena	15,716[5]
Casademont Zaragoza	Zaragoza	Pabellón Príncipe Felipe	10,744[6]
Coosur Real Betis	Seville	San Pablo	7,242[7]
Gran Canaria	Las Palmas	Gran Canaria Arena	9,870[8]
Hereda San Pablo Burgos	Burgos	Coliseum Burgos	9,000[9]
Joventut	Badalona	Palau Municipal d'Esports	12,760[10]
Lenovo Tenerife	San Cristóbal de La Laguna	Santiago Martín	5,100[11]
Monbus Obradoiro	Santiago de Compostela	Multiusos Fontes do Sar	6,000[12]
MoraBanc Andorra	Andorra la Vella	M.I. Govern Andorra	5,005[13]
Real Madrid	Madrid	WiZink Center	13,109[14]
Río Breogán	Lugo	Pazo dos Deportes	5,310[15]
Surne Bilbao Basket	Bilbao	Bilbao Arena	10,014[16]
UCAM Murcia	Murcia	Palacio de Deportes	7,454[17]
Unicaja	Málaga	Martín Carpena	10,642[18]
Urbas Fuenlabrada	Fuenlabrada	Fernando Martín	5,700[19]
Valencia Basket	Valencia	La Fonteta	8,500[20]

Personnel and sponsorship

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Barça	Šarūnas Jasikevičius	Pierre Oriola	Nike	Assistència Sanitària
Baxi Manresa	Pedro Martínez	Guillem Jou	Pentex	Baxi
Bitci Baskonia	Neven Spahija	Jayson Granger	Kelme	Bitci
Casademont Zaragoza	Dragan Šakota	Rodrigo San Miguel	Mercury	Casademont
Coosur Real Betis	Luis Casimiro	Pablo Almazán	Kappa	Coosur
Gran Canaria	Porfirio Fisac	Oliver Stević	Spalding
Hereda San Pablo Burgos	Paco Olmos	Vítor Benite	Givova	Inmobiliaria San Pablo, Burgos
Joventut	Carles Duran	Albert Ventura	Spalding	Fundación Probitas
Lenovo Tenerife	Txus Vidorreta	Marcelo Huertas	Austral	Lenovo, Tenerife
Monbus Obradoiro	Moncho Fernández	Álvaro Muñoz	Deportes Caneda	Estrella Galicia 0,0
MoraBanc Andorra	Óscar Quintana	Guillem Colom	Hummel	MoraBanc, Andorra
Real Madrid	Pablo Laso	Sergio Llull	Adidas	Palladium Hotel Group
Río Breogán	Veljko Mršić	Džanan Musa	Wibo	Estrella Galicia 0,0
Surne Bilbao Basket	Álex Mumbrú	Jonathan Rousselle	Hummel	Surne Seguros
UCAM Murcia	Sito Alonso	Sadiel Rojas	Hummel	UCAM, Costa Cálida
Unicaja	Ibon Navarro	Carlos Suárez	Joma	Unicaja, Málaga
Urbas Fuenlabrada	Josep María Raventós	Christian Eyenga	Pentex	URBAS Grupo Financiero
Valencia Basket	Joan Peñarroya	Bojan Dubljević	Luanvi	Cultura del Esfuerzo[a]

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced with	Date of appointment
Casademont Zaragoza	Luis Casimiro	End of contract	17 June 2021[21]	Pre-season	Jaume Ponsarnau	17 June 2021[21]
Valencia Basket	Jaume Ponsarnau		17 June 2021[22]		Joan Peñarroya	21 June 2021[23]
Hereda San Pablo Burgos	Joan Peñarroya		17 June 2021[24]		Žan Tabak	30 June 2021[25]
Río Breogán	Diego Epifanio		6 July 2021[26]		Paco Olmos	15 July 2021[27]
Bitci Baskonia	Duško Ivanović	Sacked	15 November 2021[28]	11th (4–6)	Neven Spahija	15 November 2021[29]
Hereda San Pablo Burgos	Žan Tabak		15 November 2021[30]	14th (3–7)	Félix Alonso (interim)	15 November 2021
Coosur Real Betis	Joan Plaza	Resigned	22 November 2021[31]	18th (2–9)	Luis Casimiro	22 November 2021[32]
Hereda San Pablo Burgos	Félix Alonso	End of interim period	29 November 2021	15th (3–8)	Salva Maldonado	29 November 2021[33]
Río Breogán	Paco Olmos	Signed for Hereda San Pablo Burgos	9 January 2022[34]	7th (8–6)	Javi Muñoz (interim)	9 January 2022
Hereda San Pablo Burgos	Salva Maldonado	Sacked	10 January 2022[35]	17th (4–11)	Paco Olmos	10 January 2022[36]
Río Breogán	Javi Muñoz	End of interim period	20 January 2022	7th (9–7)	Veljko Mršić	20 January 2022[37]
MoraBanc Andorra	Ibon Navarro	Sacked	23 January 2022[38]	16th (5–12)	David Eudal	23 January 2022
Unicaja	Fotios Katsikaris	Sacked	6 February 2022[39]	13th (7–11)	Ibon Navarro	10 February 2022[40]
Casademont Zaragoza	Jaume Ponsarnau	Sacked	13 March 2022[41]	13th (8–15)	Aleix Durán (interim)	13 March 2022
Casademont Zaragoza	Aleix Durán	End of interim period	20 March 2022	16th (8–16)	Dragan Šakota	20 March 2022[42]
MoraBanc Andorra	David Eudal	Resigned	18 April 2022[43]	18th (8–21)	Óscar Quintana	18 April 2022

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification or relegation
1	Barça	34	27	7	2833	2539	+294	Qualification to playoffs
2	Real Madrid	34	25	9	2840	2580	+260
3	Valencia Basket	34	23	11	2827	2702	+125
4	Joventut	34	22	12	2776	2666	+110
5	Lenovo Tenerife	34	21	13	2819	2685	+134
6	Bitci Baskonia	34	20	14	2777	2675	+102
7	Baxi Manresa	34	20	14	2995	2905	+90
8	Gran Canaria	34	17	17	2750	2798	−48
9	Surne Bilbao Basket	34	16	18	2768	2886	−118
10	UCAM Murcia	34	16	18	2900	2822	+78
11	Río Breogán	34	16	18	2831	2849	−18
12	Unicaja	34	13	21	2742	2741	+1
13	Coosur Real Betis	34	13	21	2674	2883	−209
14	Urbas Fuenlabrada	34	12	22	2807	2938	−131
15	Monbus Obradoiro	34	12	22	2792	2930	−138
16	Casademont Zaragoza	34	12	22	2570	2783	−213
17	MoraBanc Andorra	34	11	23	2665	2813	−148	Relegation to LEB Oro
18	Hereda San Pablo Burgos	34	10	24	2632	2803	−171

Source: ACB
Rules for classification: 1) Win–loss record; 2) Head–to–head record; 3) Head–to–head point difference; 4) Point difference; 5) Points scored; 6) Sum of quotients of points scored (Note: Head–to–head record is used only after all the matches between the teams in question have been played)^[44]

Results

Home \ Away	BAR	BAX	BKN	CAZ	BET	GCA	BUR	CJB	LNT	MOB	MBA	RMB	BRE	SBB	UCM	UNI	URF	VBC
Barça	—	95–96	78–91	76–63	83–63	98–80	84–69	99–84	69–65	83–67	107–88	108–97	78–69	84–62	85–78	63–73	79–69	79–87
Baxi Manresa	80–94	—	74–67	94–73	96–102	91–72	93–68	95–91	95–93	104–84	94–60	87–92	86–75	87–79	103–93	85–74	99–89	69–89
Bitci Baskonia	77–96	107–85	—	91–59	93–72	70–86	80–69	81–89	65–71	91–70	83–77	65–83	89–84	101–86	93–83	92–89	95–86	71–78
Casademont Zaragoza	76–71	98–91	97–79	—	82–72	76–86	54–75	63–77	62–77	80–73	80–83	65–86	79–75	80–82	91–78	93–82	74–85	70–76
Coosur Real Betis	61–78	64–106	83–87	79–69	—	93–86	71–74	66–77	72–81	76–87	102–98	69–71	84–81	71–88	84–93	73–79	99–83	75–68
Gran Canaria	64–82	80–82	83–77	79–76	94–70	—	82–89	84–71	89–77	71–69	84–78	83–91	84–86	88–86	83–100	76–59	79–60	89–83
Hereda San Pablo Burgos	69–83	82–90	62–78	78–56	76–84	77–86	—	92–76	73–81	77–82	81–70	70–85	62–87	104–97	84–102	89–74	66–83	65–69
Joventut	83–72	105–61	72–61	84–78	84–82	82–75	82–65	—	58–74	78–84	73–79	71–90	96–87	85–79	83–77	76–70	92–75	76–68
Lenovo Tenerife	60–75	94–83	78–91	90–65	99–97	98–89	91–78	72–79	—	86–83	79–70	72–59	96–78	89–79	87–71	87–82	87–74	78–80
Monbus Obradoiro	64–79	98–91	81–76	87–82	86–93	106–97	101–94	93–91	81–84	—	81–73	88–89	100–83	91–96	70–104	71–85	93–81	85–89
MoraBanc Andorra	74–86	79–82	78–79	83–92	76–93	87–71	73–71	91–72	75–77	86–73	—	58–86	79–86	82–72	90–89	83–74	92–84	75–76
Real Madrid	75–85	75–86	72–80	94–69	71–48	70–75	70–63	99–89	86–77	78–68	83–88	—	90–65	95–61	90–69	79–74	92–77	93–94
Río Breogán	72–74	98–94	89–83	82–85	97–65	76–66	105–96	87–90	92–73	80–78	83–74	71–79	—	86–94	94–89	93–84	97–89	99–82
Surne Bilbao Basket	68–84	89–82	62–90	76–100	98–99	95–80	87–81	71–77	87–79	80–76	74–71	79–67	83–75	—	78–77	83–77	85–80	84–78
UCAM Murcia	87–89	71–67	80–79	72–77	88–66	86–75	83–89	71–83	88–86	98–80	96–67	71–80	91–72	92–87	—	79–84	99–76	71–72
Unicaja	73–75	95–100	72–73	112–72	96–80	79–80	89–78	72–76	64–97	91–79	78–74	91–92	72–64	91–75	87–88	—	90–86	82–87
Urbas Fuenlabrada	69–86	90–82	84–70	77–55	77–82	87–92	91–96	82–104	104–96	93–92	91–78	85–88	88–65	87–82	105–95	53–73	—	88–87
Valencia Basket	86–76	90–85	67–72	81–79	81–84	91–62	84–70	71–70	92–88	91–71	81–76	79–93	97–98	100–84	86–91	90–75	97–79	—

Source: ACB
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.

Playoffs

Main article: 2022 ACB Playoffs

	Quarterfinals								Semifinals										Finals
	1	Barça	93	88		2
	8	Gran Canaria	82	86		0
									1	Barça	89	81	83	63		3
									4	Joventut	72	87	77	60		1
	4	Joventut	100	76	81	2
	5	Lenovo Tenerife	68	103	58	1
																			1	Barça	75	71	66	74		1
																			2	Real Madrid	88	69	81	81		3
	2	Real Madrid	93	83		2
	7	Baxi Manresa	76	74		0
									2	Real Madrid	94	83	85			3
									6	Bitci Baskonia	84	71	77			0
	3	Valencia Basket	79	89	59	1
	6	Bitci Baskonia	80	82	76	2

Final standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Qualification or relegation
1	Real Madrid (C)	43	33	10	Already qualified to EuroLeague
2	Barça	44	33	11
3	Joventut	41	25	16	Qualification to EuroCup
4	Bitci Baskonia	40	22	18	Already qualified to EuroLeague
5	Valencia Basket	37	24	13
6	Lenovo Tenerife	37	22	15	Qualification to Champions League regular season
7	Baxi Manresa	36	20	16
8	Gran Canaria	36	17	19	Qualification to EuroCup
9	Surne Bilbao Basket	34	16	18	Qualification to Champions League regular season
10	UCAM Murcia	34	16	18
11	Río Breogán	34	16	18	Qualification to Champions League qualifying rounds
12	Unicaja	34	13	21
13	Coosur Real Betis	34	13	21
14	Urbas Fuenlabrada	34	12	22
15	Monbus Obradoiro	34	12	22
16	Casademont Zaragoza	34	12	22
17	MoraBanc Andorra (R)	34	11	23	Relegation to LEB Oro
18	Hereda San Pablo Burgos (R)	34	10	24

Source: ACB
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Attendances to arenas

Restrictions

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, clubs were not allowed to use the total capacity of their arenas. According to the progress of the pandemic, the capacity allowed each month was decided by the Government of Spain, in agreement with the Autonomous Communities.

• September: 40% of capacity allowed.^[45] Additionally, Catalonia reduced it to 30%.^[46]
• October to December: 80% of capacity allowed, except for Catalonia and Basque Country, whose Governments limited initially the attendance to 30% and 40%, respectively.^[47] On October 5, 2021, Basque Country increased the capacity allowed to 80%.^[48] On October 15, 2021, Catalonia increased the capacity allowed to 80%.^[49]
• January: 50% of capacity allowed.^[50]
• February: 75% of capacity allowed.^[51]
• March to June: 100% of capacity allowed.^[52]

Average attendances

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average
1	Hereda San Pablo Burgos	133,795	9,568	3,550	7,870†
2	Bitci Baskonia	128,691	10,038	5,062	6,773†
3	Surne Bilbao Basket	100,809	8,487	2,747	5,930†
4	Joventut	120,768	12,166	2,362	5,751†
5	Real Madrid	125,608	12,315	2,648	5,709†
6	Casademont Zaragoza	87,753	7,347	3,128	5,162†
7	Barça	110,777	7,438	2,284	5,035†
8	UCAM Murcia	81,916	6,660	2,036	4,819†
9	Valencia Basket	84,367	7,909	2,908	4,440†
10	Monbus Obradoiro	72,216	5,415	2,200	4,248†
11	Unicaja	72,038	6,257	2,473	4,238†
12	Río Breogán	71,451	5,280	2,086	4,203†
13	Gran Canaria	74,748	7,029	1,549	4,153†
14	Coosur Real Betis	66,858	5,850	1,286	3,933†
15	Baxi Manresa	67,572	5,000	1,400	3,754†
16	Urbas Fuenlabrada	62,573	4,985	1,711	3,681†
17	Lenovo Tenerife	62,378	5,133	956	3,465†
18	MoraBanc Andorra	47,765	5,000	1,500	2,810†
	League total	1,572,083	12,315	956	4,808†

Source: ACB

Awards

All official awards of the 2021–22 ACB season.

MVP

Pos.	Player	Team
SF	Džanan Musa	Río Breogán

Source: ^[53]

Finals MVP

Pos.	Player	Team
C	Edy Tavares	Real Madrid

Source: ^[54]

All-ACB Teams

Pos.	First Team		Second Team
	Player	Team	Player	Team
PG	Marcelo Huertas	Lenovo Tenerife	Shannon Evans	Coosur Real Betis
SG	Nicolás Laprovíttola	Barça	Isaiah Taylor	UCAM Murcia
SF	Džanan Musa	Río Breogán	Joe Thomasson	Baxi Manresa
PF	Chima Moneke	Baxi Manresa	Nikola Mirotić	Barça
C	Giorgi Shermadini	Lenovo Tenerife	Edy Tavares	Real Madrid

Source: ^[55][56]

Best Young Player Award

Pos.	Player	Team
SF	Joel Parra	Joventut

Source: ^[57]

Best All-Young Team

Pos.	Player	Team
PG	Žiga Samar	Urbas Fuenlabrada
SG	Rokas Jokubaitis	Barça
SF	Joel Parra	Joventut
PF	Jaime Pradilla	Valencia Basket
C	Khalifa Diop	Gran Canaria

Source: ^[58]

Best Defender Award

Pos.	Player	Team
C	Edy Tavares	Real Madrid

Source: ^[59]

Player of the round

Round	Player	Team	PIR
1	Džanan Musa	Río Breogán	35
2	Nikola Mirotić	Barça	36
	Bruno Fitipaldo	Lenovo Tenerife
3	Nikola Mirotić (2)	Barça	32
4	Laurynas Birutis	Monbus Obradoiro	30
5	Rokas Giedraitis	Bitci Baskonia	26
6	Amine Noua	MoraBanc Andorra	31
7	Clevin Hannah	MoraBanc Andorra	35
8	Klemen Prepelič	Valencia Basket	29
9	Tadas Sedekerskis	Bitci Baskonia	35
10	Clevin Hannah (2)	MoraBanc Andorra	30
	Ante Tomić	Joventut
11	Giorgi Shermadini	Lenovo Tenerife	41
12	Laurynas Birutis (2)	Monbus Obradoiro	28
13	Vitto Brown	Coosur Real Betis	36
14	Džanan Musa (2)	Río Breogán	44
15	Džanan Musa (3)	Río Breogán	39
	Chima Moneke	Baxi Manresa
16	Laurynas Birutis (3)	Monbus Obradoiro	37
17	Džanan Musa (4)	Río Breogán	36
18	Giorgi Shermadini (2)	Lenovo Tenerife	32
	Shannon Evans	Coosur Real Betis
19	Giorgi Shermadini (3)	Lenovo Tenerife	33
20	Codi Miller-McIntyre	MoraBanc Andorra	34
21	Shannon Evans (2)	Coosur Real Betis	31
22	Džanan Musa (5)	Río Breogán	47
23	Marcelo Huertas	Lenovo Tenerife	38
24	Giorgi Shermadini (4)	Lenovo Tenerife	36
25	Kyle Alexander	Urbas Fuenlabrada	37
26	Matt Costello	Bitci Baskonia	32
27	Shannon Evans (3)	Coosur Real Betis	30
28	Ante Tomić (2)	Joventut	33
29	Joe Thomasson	Baxi Manresa	35
30	Wade Baldwin	Bitci Baskonia	41
31	Chima Moneke (2)	Baxi Manresa	43
32	Ángel Delgado	Surne Bilbao Basket	44
33	Shannon Evans (4)	Coosur Real Betis	39
34	Shannon Evans (5)	Coosur Real Betis	37

Source: ^[60]

Player of the month

Month	Rounds	Player	Team	PIR	W–L	Ref
September	1–3	Nikola Mirotić	Barça	27.7	3–0	[61]
October	4–8	Edy Tavares	Real Madrid	20.2	4–1	[62]
November	9–11	Jayson Granger	Bitci Baskonia	25	2–1	[63]
December	12–15	Džanan Musa	Río Breogán	34	3–1	[64]
January	16–17	James Webb	UCAM Murcia	24.5	1–1	[65]
February	21–22	Džanan Musa (2)	Río Breogán	30.5	1–1	[66]
March	23–26	Giorgi Shermadini	Lenovo Tenerife	24.4	4–1	[67]
April	27–30	Giorgi Shermadini (2)	Lenovo Tenerife	27.4	4–3	[68]
May	31–34	Shannon Evans	Coosur Real Betis	37	3–0	[69]

Source: ^[70]

ACB clubs in international competitions

Euroleague Basketball competitions

Team	Competition	Progress	Result	W–L
Real Madrid	EuroLeague	Championship game	Loss vs. Anadolu Efes	22–11
		Semifinals	Win vs. Barcelona
		Playoffs	3–0 vs. Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv
		Regular season	4th of 15 teams (18–10)
Barça		Third place game	Win vs. Olympiacos	25–10
		Semifinals	Loss vs. Real Madrid
		Playoffs	3–2 vs. Bayern Munich
		Regular season	1st of 15 teams (21–7)
Bitci Baskonia		Regular season	9th of 15 teams (12–16)	12–16
Valencia Basket	EuroCup	Semifinals	Loss vs. Virtus Segafredo Bologna	14–7
		Quarterfinals	Win vs. Metropolitans 92
		Eighthfinals	Win vs. Hamburg Towers
		Regular season Group B	2nd of 10 teams (12–6)
MoraBanc Andorra		Semifinals	Loss vs. Frutti Extra Bursaspor	12–7
		Quarterfinals	Win vs. Gran Canaria
		Eighthfinals	Win vs. Budućnost VOLI
		Regular season Group A	4th of 10 teams (10–6)
Gran Canaria		Quarterfinals	Loss vs. MoraBanc Andorra	13–7
		Eighthfinals	Win vs. Śląsk Wrocław
		Regular season Group B	1st of 10 teams (12–6)
Joventut		Eighthfinals	Loss vs. ratiopharm Ulm	12–5
		Regular season Group A	1st of 10 teams (12–4)

FIBA competitions

Team	Competition	Progress	Result	W–L
Hereda San Pablo Burgos	Intercontinental Cup	Final	Loss vs. Flamengo	1–1
		Semi-finals	Win vs. Zamalek
	Champions League	Play-ins	1–2 vs. Darüşşafaka	5–4
		Regular season Group H	2nd of 4 teams (4–2)
Lenovo Tenerife		Final	Win vs. Baxi Manresa	16–3
		Semi-finals	Win vs. Hapoel Holon
		Quarter-finals	2–0 vs. Tofaş
		Round of 16 Group L	1st of 4 teams (6–0)
		Play-ins	2–1 vs. Pınar Karşıyaka
		Regular season Group A	2nd of 4 teams (4–2)
Baxi Manresa		Final	Loss vs. Lenovo Tenerife	12–4
		Semi-finals	Win vs. MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg
		Quarter-finals	2–0 vs. Unicaja
		Round of 16 Group J	1st of 4 teams (4–2)
		Regular season Group B	1st of 4 teams (5–1)
Unicaja		Quarter-finals	0–2 vs. Baxi Manresa	6–6
		Round of 16 Group K	2nd of 3 teams (2–2)
		Regular season Group C	1st of 4 teams (4–2)
Casademont Zaragoza	FIBA Europe Cup	Regular season Group D	3rd of 4 teams (2–4)	2–4

Notes

1. Cultura del Esfuerzo (transl. "Culture of Effort") is the motto of the club.