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Club Gijón Basket 2015 Corpi, better known as Gijón Basket or Huniko GB2015 for sponsorship reasons, is a basketball club based in Gijón, Asturias that currently plays in Liga EBA, the fourth tier of Spanish basketball.

History

Gijón Basket was founded in 2015 as a merge of men's basketball club CB Corpi and women's basketball Formabasket.^[1] It has the aim to replace Gijón Baloncesto, that was dissolved in 2009, as the main club of the city.

On 8 May 2016, Gijón Basket completed its first competitive season promoting to Liga EBA, fourth tier, after finishing the 2015–16 season as champion of the Asturian group of Primera División. It defeated CB Castrillón in the final by 77–50.^[2]

On 9 October 2016, Gijón Basket made its debut in Liga EBA in Vigo, earning a 43–68 win against Seis do Nadal, but finally could not avoid the relegation to Primera División. However, they remained in the league due to the existence of vacant spots.^[3]

In their second season in the fourth tier, Gijón Basket performed successfully and qualified to the second stage of the league, where they were eliminated in the semifinals.

Head coaches

• Chus Poves 2015–2017
• Fran Sánchez 2017–

Season by season

Current squad

Gijón Basket roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Age PF 4 Fernández Noval, Fernando 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 34 – (1989-11-28)28 November 1989 SG 7 Rubiera, Alejandro 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 26 – (1998-04-17)17 April 1998 PG 8 Bretón, Pablo 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) 31 – (1993-04-11)11 April 1993 SF 9 Pérez-Campoamor, Antonio 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in) 28 – (1995-09-11)11 September 1995 SG 10 Suárez, Carlos 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) 25 – (1999-02-19)19 February 1999 SF 11 Rodríguez, Alejandro 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) 25 – (1998-06-16)16 June 1998 SG 14 Sampedro, Alberto 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) 32 – (1991-08-16)16 August 1991 C 15 Lemke, Sven 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) 24 – (1999-05-27)27 May 1999 C 27 Parada, Manu 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in) 34 – (1989-09-12)12 September 1989 C 29 Escapa, Jorge 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 31 – (1992-06-05)5 June 1992 PG 41 Fernández, Iago 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) 22 – (2001-05-28)28 May 2001	Head coach Fran Sánchez Legend (C) Team captain Injured Roster Updated: 21 November 2019

Individual records

Top performers of Gijón Basket, as of the end of the 2019–20 season.

Most capped players # Player Club career Matches Points 1 Carlos Suárez 2017–0000 77 569 2 Malik Wineglass 2017–2019 53 703 3 Diego Sánchez 2016–0000 51 508 4 Ángel Moro 2015–2017 49 547 5 Alejandro Rubiera 2016–2017 2019–2020 48 720 6 José Soto 2016–2018 45 208 7 Jorge Escapa 2016–2017 2019–0000 44 348 Dani González 2015–2017 44 622 Kenny Hatch 2017–2019 44 675 10 Pablo Bretón 2018–0000 39 209

Top scorers # Player Club career Points Matches Average 1 Alejandro Rubiera 2017–2018 2019–2020 720 48 15.0 2 Malik Wineglass 2017–2019 703 53 13.3 3 Kenny Hatch 2017–2019 675 44 15.3 4 Dani González 2015–2017 622 44 14.1 5 Carlos Suárez 2017–0000 569 77 7.4 6 Ángel Moro 2015–2017 547 49 11.2 7 Diego Sánchez 2006–0000 508 51 10.0 8 James Pegues 2017–2018 462 28 16.5 9 Ryan Ejim 2018–2019 450 25 18.0 10 Kenny Ejim 2018–2019 447 22 20.3

Presidents

• Carmen Puente 2015–2019
• Iván Petrovich 2019–present

References

External links

• Club website (in Spanish)
• Profile at Asturcesto (in Spanish)