2021–22 LEB Oro season

The 2021–22 LEB Oro season was the 26th season of the Spanish basketball second league. It started on 8 October 2021 with the first round of the regular season and ended on 19 June 2022 with the Final Four.

LEB Oro
Season	2021–22
Games played	324
Teams	18
Regular season
Promoted	Covirán Granada Bàsquet Girona
Relegated	CB Prat Palmer Alma Mediterrànea Levitec Huesca La Magia
Finals
Champions	Covirán Granada (1st title)
Records
Biggest home win	Girona 89–47 Huesca (3 December 2021) Granada 102–60 Almansa (13 May 2022)
Biggest away win	Huesca 50–85 Girona (31 March 2022)
Highest scoring	Castelló 103–98 Palma (8 April 2022)
← 2020–21 2022–23 →

Format changes

For this season, the league was back to 18 teams and brought back the single group with a single group phase in which the top team of the regular season promoted directly to Liga ACB.^[1] At the same time, the teams placed between 2nd and 9th qualified for the playoffs to decide the second promotion to Liga ACB and the last three teams were relegated to LEB Plata. For the playoffs, the quarter-finals were played in a best-of-five series and the semi-finals and the final were played in a single-game format in a neutral venue.^[2][3]

Teams

Promotion and relegation (pre-season)

A total of 18 teams contested the league, including 14 sides from the 2020–21 season, two relegated from the 2020–21 ACB and two promoted from the 2020–21 LEB Plata. On July 5, 2021, Real Murcia resigned to play in the league due to lack of financial support.^[4][5]

Teams relegated from Liga ACB

• Movistar Estudiantes
• Acunsa Gipuzkoa

Teams promoted from LEB Plata

• Juaristi ISB
• Barça B (swapped places with ICG Força Lleida which avoided relegation to LEB Plata)^[6]
• CB Prat

Venues and locations

Alicante

Almansa

Cáceres

Castelló

Coruña

Estudiantes

Força Lleida

Gipuzkoa

Girona

Granada

Huesca

ISB

Melilla

Oviedo

Palencia

Palma

Prat

Valladolid

Location of teams in 2021–22 LEB Oro

Team	Home city	Arena	Capacity
Acunsa Gipuzkoa	San Sebastián	Donostia Arena	11,000
Bàsquet Girona	Girona	Fontajau	5,500
Cáceres Patrimonio de la Humanidad	Cáceres	Multiusos Ciudad de Cáceres	6,500
CB Almansa con Afanion	Almansa	Municipal	1,500
CB Prat	El Prat de Llobregat	Pavelló Joan Busquets	500
Covirán Granada	Granada	Palacio de Deportes	7,242
HLA Alicante	Alicante	Pedro Ferrándiz	5,700
ICG Força Lleida	Lleida	Pavelló Barris Nord	6,100
Juaristi ISB	Azpeitia	Municipal	1,000
	Azkoitia		500
Levitec Huesca La Magia	Huesca	Palacio Municipal de Huesca	4,900
Leyma Coruña	A Coruña	Pazo dos Deportes de Riazor	5,000
Melilla Sport Capital	Melilla	Pabellón Javier Imbroda Ortiz	3,800
		Guillermo García Pezzi	984
Movistar Estudiantes	Madrid	WiZink Center	13,109
		Antonio Magariños	700
Palmer Alma Mediterrànea Palma	Palma	Son Moix	3,800
TAU Castelló	Castellón	Pabellón Ciutat de Castelló	6,000
UEMC Real Valladolid	Valladolid	Pisuerga	6,800
Unicaja Banco Oviedo	Oviedo	Polideportivo de Pumarín	1,138
Zunder Palencia	Palencia	Pabellón Municipal	5,000

Personnel and sponsorship

Team	Head coach	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Acunsa Gipuzkoa	Lolo Encinas	Hummel	Acunsa, Gipuzkoa Kirolak
Bàsquet Girona	Jordi Sargatal	Nike
Cáceres Patrimonio de la Humanidad	Roberto Blanco	Erreà	Extremadura
CB Almansa con Afanion	Rubén Perelló	Joma	Afanion
CB Prat	Josep Maria Berrocal	Wibo
Covirán Granada	Pablo Pin	Vive	Supermercados Covirán
HLA Alicante	Gonzalo García de Vitoria	Score Tech	Grupo Hospitalario HLA
ICG Força Lleida	Gerard Encuentra	Pentex	ICG Software
Juaristi ISB	Iñaki Jiménez	Wibo	Juaristi, Orain Gipuzkoa
Levitec Huesca La Magia	Carlos Lanau	Barri-Ball	Levitec, Huesca La Magia
Leyma Coruña	Sergio García	Macron	Leche Leyma
Melilla Sport Capital	Rafa Monclova	Wibo	Melilla Sport Capital
Movistar Estudiantes	Diego Epifanio	Puma	Movistar
Palmer Alma Mediterrànea Palma	Pau Tomàs	Erreà	Palmer Inmobiliaria
	Álex Pérez
TAU Castelló	Toni Ten	Score Tech	TAU Cerámica
UEMC Real Valladolid	Paco García	Adidas	UEMC
Unicaja Banco Oviedo	Natxo Lezkano	Spalding	Unicaja, Oviedo, Asturias
Zunder Palencia	Pedro Rivero	Kappa	Zunder

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced with	Date of appointment
UEMC Real Valladolid	Hugo López	Resigned	14 May 2021[7]	Pre-season	Roberto González	25 May 2021[8]
Zunder Palencia	Arturo Álvarez		17 May 2021[9]		Pedro Rivero	25 June 2021[10]
Melilla Sport Capital	Alejandro Alcoba		19 May 2021[11]		Arturo Álvarez	16 June 2021[12]
ICG Força Lleida	Gustavo Aranzana		19 May 2021[13]		Gerard Encuentra	14 June 2021[14]
Acunsa Gipuzkoa	Marcelo Nicola	End of contract	3 June 2021[15]		Lolo Encinas	25 June 2021[16]
HLA Alicante	Pedro Rivero		24 June 2021[17]		Gonzalo García de Vitoria	2 July 2021[18]
Levitec Huesca La Magia	Óscar Lata	Signed for UCAM Murcia	6 July 2021[19]		Sergio Lamúa	16 July 2021[20]
CB Prat	Dani Miret	Signed for Joventut	16 July 2021[21]		Josep Maria Berrocal	17 July 2021[22]
Bàsquet Girona	Carles Marco	Sacked	15 November 2021[23]	14th (2–6)	Jordi Sargatal	30 November 2021[24]
Levitec Huesca La Magia	Sergio Lamúa		26 January 2022[25]	18th (1–14)	Carlos Lanau	26 January 2022
UEMC Real Valladolid	Roberto González		16 March 2022[26]	14th (9–15)	Paco García	17 March 2022[27]
Melilla Sport Capital	Arturo Álvarez	Resigned	26 March 2022[28]	13th (11–15)	Rafa Monclova	28 March 2022[29]
Movistar Estudiantes	Jota Cuspinera	Sacked	21 April 2022[30]	2nd (21–7)	Diego Epifanio	21 April 2022[31]

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Covirán Granada	34	26	8	2755	2427	+328	60	Promotion to Liga ACB
2	Movistar Estudiantes	34	25	9	2691	2384	+307	59	Qualification to playoffs
3	ICG Força Lleida	34	22	12	2757	2711	+46	56
4	Bàsquet Girona	34	21	13	2675	2488	+187	55
5	Zunder Palencia	34	20	14	2642	2579	+63	54
6	Unicaja Banco Oviedo	34	19	15	2610	2568	+42	53
7	Leyma Coruña	34	19	15	2738	2591	+147	53
8	Cáceres Patrimonio de la Humanidad	34	19	15	2607	2704	−97	53
9	UEMC Real Valladolid	34	18	16	2600	2601	−1	52
10	TAU Castelló	34	17	17	2703	2713	−10	51
11	Acunsa Gipuzkoa	34	17	17	2609	2622	−13	51
12	HLA Alicante	34	16	18	2672	2632	+40	50
13	Melilla Sport Capital	34	14	20	2559	2668	−109	48
14	CB Almansa con Afanion	34	13	21	2704	2830	−126	47
15	Juaristi ISB	34	13	21	2616	2721	−105	47
16	CB Prat	34	12	22	2615	2680	−65	46	Relegation to LEB Plata
17	Palmer Alma Mediterrànea Palma	34	10	24	2669	2813	−144	44
18	Levitec Huesca La Magia	34	5	29	2382	2872	−490	39

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	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
Covirán Granada	8	3	8	4	2	1	1	2	2	4	2	2	2	2	1	1	2	1	1	1	2	2	1	1	1	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Movistar Estudiantes	2	1	1	1	4	4	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	2	2	2	1	1	2	2	2	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
ICG Força Lleida	17	12	10	8	6	8	6	6	6	5	5	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Bàsquet Girona	5	2	7	11	10	14	14	14	15	14	13	12	10	12	11	11	14	14	12	11	9	6	7	9	5	5	5	5	5	4	4	5	4	4
Zunder Palencia	6	6	3	2	1	3	5	4	3	3	4	5	6	6	6	5	4	5	5	6	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	4	5	5
Unicaja Banco Oviedo	9	4	2	5	3	2	4	5	4	2	3	3	4	4	4	6	6	7	8	8	10	10	9	5	6	6	6	6	6	6	8	6	6	6
Leyma Coruña	12	14	11	10	7	6	3	3	5	6	6	6	5	5	5	4	5	4	4	4	6	9	6	6	7	10	8	7	7	8	6	7	7	7
Cáceres P. Humanidad	7	5	4	7	5	7	10	10	12	13	12	10	8	11	10	9	7	8	7	5	5	7	10	11	8	9	7	8	8	9	9	8	8	8
UEMC Real Valladolid	11	9	12	12	11	10	9	9	11	11	11	9	13	13	13	13	12	11	14	14	13	13	13	14	13	12	12	12	12	11	11	10	10	9
TAU Castelló	3	8	6	3	8	5	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	8	10	9	6	6	7	7	8	5	7	11	8	11	9	9	7	7	9	9	10
Acunsa Gipuzkoa	1	7	5	9	12	9	8	8	8	10	10	8	11	9	7	7	8	9	9	9	8	5	8	8	9	11	10	10	10	10	10	11	11	11
HLA Alicante	10	13	14	14	14	13	13	13	10	9	9	13	14	14	14	14	13	12	10	10	11	11	11	10	10	7	9	11	11	12	12	12	12	12
Melilla Sport Capital	4	10	9	6	9	11	12	11	9	8	8	11	9	8	9	8	10	10	13	13	12	12	12	12	12	13	14	14	14	14	14	13	13	13
CB Almansa con Afanion	18	11	13	13	13	12	11	12	13	12	15	14	12	10	12	12	11	13	11	12	14	14	14	13	14	14	13	13	13	13	13	14	14	14
Juaristi ISB	14	15	15	16	15	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	15	15	15	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	17	16	15	15
CB Prat	13	16	18	18	16	16	15	15	14	15	14	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	16	16	16	16	16	15	15	15	15	15	15	16	15	16	16
Palmer Alma Mediterrànea	15	17	16	15	17	17	17	17	17	17	18	18	18	18	18	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	15	17	17	17
Levitec Huesca La Magia	16	18	17	17	18	18	18	18	18	18	17	17	17	17	17	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18

	Promotion to Liga ACB
	Qualification to playoffs
	Relegation to LEB Plata

Source: FEB

Results

Home \ Away	GBC	GIR	CAC	ALM	PRA	GRA	ALI	FLL	ISB	HUE	COR	MEL	MOV	PLM	CAS	VLL	OVI	PAL
Acunsa Gipuzkoa	—	85–81	74–76	101–78	70–63	50–76	72–68	73–81	80–70	95–68	62–49	61–67	54–72	92–65	69–77	85–71	79–77	68–74
Bàsquet Girona	91–88	—	86–80	74–86	82–63	55–66	75–94	97–80	85–73	89–47	68–80	78–71	70–68	98–77	66–61	70–73	99–74	89–72
Cáceres P. Humanidad	68–67	62–59	—	95–89	70–64	88–86	78–65	79–88	79–69	90–83	78–74	79–75	62–71	102–97	77–68	86–80	75–99	70–87
CB Almansa con Afanion	76–105	87–93	93–69	—	75–90	75–82	72–73	78–90	89–73	87–80	83–79	89–70	68–84	80–87	94–65	76–80	72–83	75–96
CB Prat	70–81	85–89	72–80	85–88	—	64–68	89–77	72–82	96–78	96–60	83–79	97–81	80–79	78–98	84–88	68–75	62–91	72–76
Covirán Granada	71–75	83–72	80–86	102–60	89–75	—	67–53	94–84	84–68	101–70	79–88	98–70	69–58	78–62	86–66	89–75	96–68	93–57
HLA Alicante	87–91	67–75	89–58	95–94	73–63	78–83	—	84–82	87–70	84–61	66–79	75–78	75–98	97–89	87–71	57–78	96–97	71–72
ICG Força Lleida	96–84	86–65	95–84	76–77	89–80	78–69	69–67	—	69–81	100–81	84–83	83–73	81–75	89–82	80–71	75–71	67–56	82–81
Juaristi ISB	75–66	63–70	53–75	89–84	77–72	74–62	85–69	86–91	—	89–56	89–82	67–77	88–72	101–80	75–85	59–82	88–80	88–85
Levitec Huesca La Magia	85–68	50–85	61–68	72–83	80–89	60–71	70–85	86–84	74–89	—	75–86	92–100	49–83	83–65	93–94	82–89	73–68	73–103
Leyma Coruña	92–62	72–96	74–55	79–95	82–61	77–85	75–61	88–63	95–87	83–65	—	95–69	87–68	76–70	78–74	80–81	61–83	105–93
Melilla Sport Capital	71–79	92–68	75–67	69–84	77–71	89–77	79–93	74–60	84–67	62–74	72–80	—	63–76	82–89	58–75	60–79	79–78	88–75
Movistar Estudiantes	87–65	88–80	83–76	94–67	73–72	68–70	94–88	98–73	89–75	70–59	88–80	76–66	—	105–71	100–69	81–60	68–63	71–73
Palmer Alma Mediterrànea	85–67	78–73	87–92	82–94	73–76	77–87	79–90	98–90	81–65	86–61	91–88	61–69	70–73	—	70–71	74–83	74–69	82–86
TAU Castelló	92–93	72–67	104–84	81–66	78–80	69–73	69–73	95–98	92–83	85–62	80–85	92–91	66–78	103–98	—	83–77	82–74	84–82
UEMC Real Valladolid	89–99	57–77	92–75	84–70	71–95	78–82	83–82	78–64	86–77	82–69	78–100	68–72	62–66	71–64	82–77	—	81–73	69–78
Unicaja Banco Oviedo	89–76	46–80	87–75	85–63	77–65	80–76	54–77	89–85	79–73	91–73	67–60	81–79	67–75	68–53	70–85	88–71	—	79–74
Zunder Palencia	85–73	62–73	78–69	68–57	74–83	80–83	83–89	62–63	84–72	72–55	80–67	84–77	66–62	76–74	80–79	68–64	76–80	—

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

Playoffs

	Quarter-finals										Semi-finals					Final
	2	Movistar Estudiantes	64	73	54	85		3
	9	UEMC Real Valladolid	60	58	67	59		1
											2	Movistar Estudiantes	89
											5	Zunder Palencia	62
	5	Zunder Palencia	76	83	75			3
	6	Unicaja Banco Oviedo	71	70	67			0
																2	Movistar Estudiantes	60
																4	Bàsquet Girona	66
	3	ICG Força Lleida	87	98	71	73	79	3
	8	Cáceres P. Humanidad	79	75	86	79	70	2
											3	ICG Força Lleida	68
											4	Bàsquet Girona	77
	4	Bàsquet Girona	74	92	85			3
	7	Leyma Coruña	66	62	76			0

Source: FEB

Copa Princesa de Asturias

The Copa Princesa de Asturias was played by the two first qualified teams after the end of the first half of the season (round 17). The cup was scheduled originally on 11–12 February 2022 and was postponed to 3 April 2022 with the aim to extend the term for the dispute of the games postponed from first half of the season in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[32] The champion of the cup played the playoffs against the ninth qualified as it finished the league between the second and the fifth qualified.

Teams qualified

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	Movistar Estudiantes (H)	17	14	3	1323	1184	+139	31
2	Covirán Granada	17	13	4	1381	1248	+133	30

Source: FEB
(H) Hosts

Game

Movistar Estudiantes v Covirán Granada

3 April 2022	Movistar Estudiantes	73–72	Covirán Granada	Madrid
12:30	Scoring by quarter: 23–10, 21–16, 9–26, 20–20
	Pts: Urtasun 14 Rebs: Martín 7 Asts: Urtasun 6 Eff: Urtasun 21	Boxscore	Pts: Costa 15 Rebs: J. Diaz, Gatell 4 Asts: C. Díaz 6 Eff: Costa 18	Arena: WiZink Center Attendance: 9,432[33]

Final standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Promotion or relegation
1	Covirán Granada (C, P)	34	26	8	Promotion to Liga ACB
2	Bàsquet Girona (P)	39	26	13
3	Movistar Estudiantes (X)	40	29	11
4	ICG Força Lleida	40	25	15
5	Zunder Palencia	38	23	15
6	Unicaja Banco Oviedo	37	19	18
7	Leyma Coruña	37	19	18
8	Cáceres Patrimonio de la Humanidad	39	21	18
9	UEMC Real Valladolid	38	19	19
10	TAU Castelló	34	17	17
11	Acunsa Gipuzkoa	34	17	17
12	HLA Alicante	34	16	18
13	Melilla Sport Capital	34	14	20
14	CB Almansa con Afanion	34	13	21
15	Juaristi ISB	34	13	21
16	CB Prat (R)	34	12	22	Relegation to LEB Plata
17	Palmer Alma Mediterrànea Palma (R)	34	10	24
18	Levitec Huesca La Magia (R)	34	5	29

Source: FEB
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated; (X) Champion of the Copa Princesa de Asturias

Awards

All official awards of the 2021–22 LEB Oro season.

Final Four MVP

Pos.	Player	Team
C	Marc Gasol	Bàsquet Girona

Source: ^[34]

Copa Princesa de Asturias MVP

Pos.	Player	Team
SG	Álex Urtasun	Movistar Estudiantes

Source: ^[35]

Player of the round

Regular season

Round	Player	Team	Eff.	Ref
1	Pedro Llompart	HLA Alicante	33	[36]
2	Nick Ward	Leyma Coruña	32	[37]
3	Nick Ward (2)	Leyma Coruña	31	[38]
4	Lucas Faggiano	Movistar Estudiantes	29	[39]
5	Michael Carrera	ICG Força Lleida	35	[40]
6	Eddy Polanco	CB Almansa con Afanion	35	[41]
7	Sergio de la Fuente	UEMC Real Valladolid	40	[42]
8	Nemanja Đurišić	Movistar Estudiantes	30	[43]
9	Lluís Costa	Covirán Granada	39	[44]
10	Marc Gasol	Bàsquet Girona	39	[45]
11	Michael Carrera (2)	ICG Força Lleida	24	[46]
	Nick Ward (3)	Leyma Coruña
12	Nemanja Đurišić (2)	Movistar Estudiantes	33	[47]
13	Kai Edwards	TAU Castelló	33	[48]
14	Sergi Costa	CB Prat	28	[49]
	Joey van Zegeren	HLA Alicante
15	Nick Ward (4)	Leyma Coruña	35	[50]
16	Marc Gasol (2)	Bàsquet Girona	39
17	Eddy Polanco (2)	CB Almansa con Afanion	42	[51]
18	Xavi Rey	Levitec Huesca la Magia	34	[52]
19	T.J. Crockett	CB Prat	34	[53]
20	Moustapha Barro	Zunder Palencia	26	[54]
21	Alec Wintering	UEMC Real Valladolid	33	[55]
22	Zaid Hearst	HLA Alicante	37	[56]
23	Sean McDonnell	Unicaja Banco Oviedo	27	[57]
24	Michael Carrera (3)	ICG Força Lleida	43	[58]
25	T.J. Crockett (2)	CB Prat	26	[59]
26	Elijah Brown	Palmer Alma Mediterránea Palma	29	[60]
27	Eddy Polanco (3)	CB Almansa con Afanion	26	[61]
	Wesley Van Beck	Palmer Alma Mediterránea Palma
28	Marc Gasol (3)	Bàsquet Girona	31	[62]
29	Marc Gasol (4)	Bàsquet Girona	38	[63]
30	Alec Wintering (2)	UEMC Real Valladolid	31	[64]
31	Morayo Soluade	Leyma Coruña	30	[65]
32	Tomáš Pavelka	Palmer Alma Mediterránea Palma	32	[66]
33	Zaid Hearst (2)	HLA Alicante	40
34	Eddy Polanco (4)	CB Almansa con Afanion	33	[67]

Quarter-finals

Round	Player	Team	Eff.	Ref
1st leg	Prince Ali	Zunder Palencia	21	[68]
	Mark Hughes	ICG Força Lleida
2nd leg	Juani Marcos	ICG Força Lleida	31	[69]
3rd leg	Marc Gasol (5)	Bàsquet Girona	30	[70]
4th leg	Juani Marcos (2)	ICG Força Lleida	29	[71]
5th leg	Shaquille Cleare	ICG Força Lleida	20	[72]