Club Bàsquet L'Hospitalet, also known as Torrons Vicens L'Hospitalet for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball team based in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Catalonia and plays in the Complex Esportiu L'Hospitalet Nord, in LEB Plata league.
CB L'Hospitalet organises annually the under-18 City of L'Hospitalet Tournament, integrated in the Euroleague Basketball Next Generation Tournament.
History Founded in 1929, CB L'Hospitalet is one of the oldest basketball clubs in Spain. In their first years, the club achieved one Spanish Cup in 1940, became runner-up in the next year and in both seasons, it won two Catalan championships.
In 1974, CB L'Hospitalet achieved their first promotion ever to the National League, where it played until 1978. In 1983, after promoting again, L'Hospitalet became one of the founding clubs of the Liga ACB, but they only played the first season, as the club finished in the last position.
After several relegations, L'Hospitalet comes back to Liga EBA, third tier in that time, in 1999 and it becomes champion in the 2003–04 season, thus promoting to LEB 2, the new third division later renamed as LEB Plata.
The club achieves the league title in their debut season in the league, and promoted to LEB league, where they played three seasons until its relegation in 2008, achieving the qualification to the promotion playoffs to Liga ACB in 2006.
In 2010, L'Hospitalet could not register in LEB Plata due to the inability to meet the financial requirements and was dropped to the fifth tier, but came back to Liga EBA by achieving a vacant berth in the Group C.
In the 2015–16 season, L'Hospitalet registered a 30–2 record for promoting to LEB Plata, six years after the last time they played. The club was relegated again to Liga EBA. However, it remained in the league due to the existence of vacant places in it.
Season by season SeasonTierDivisionPos.Copa del ReyOther cups1929–56Copa del Rey1 time champion (39–40), 1 time runner-up (40–41)1956–65Lower divisions1965–66 11ª División 8th 5–13Quarterfinalist1966–67 11ª División10th 3–17 1967–68 22ª División 9–9 1968–69 22ª División 1–1–16 1969–73Lower divisions1973–74 22ª División – 1974–75 11ª División 9th 7–1–14 1975–76 11ª División 7th 14–1–17 1976–77 11ª División 7th 14–1–17First round1977–78 11ª División12th 5–1–16First round1978–79 21ª División B 6th 11–1–10 1979–80 21ª División B3rd 23–1–6 1980–81 11ª División10th 9–17 1981–82 21ª División B 4th 16–1–8 1982–83 21ª División B3rd 17–2–7 1983–84 1Liga ACB15th 11–20 1984–85 21ª División B 6th 14–12 1985–86 21ª División B14th 15–16 1986–90Lower divisions1989–90 21ª División 11th 16–19 1990–91 21ª División 11th 19–25 1991–92 21ª División16th 11–25 1992–99Lower divisions1999–00 4Copa Catalunya3rd 2000–01 4Liga EBA 15–15 2001–02 4Liga EBA 21–11 2002–03 4Liga EBA 16–14 2003–04 4Liga EBA 27–6 2004–05 3LEB 21st 27–10 2005–06 2LEB 6th 17–20 2006–07 2LEB 12th 16–18 2007–08 2LEB Oro18th 11–23 2008–09 3LEB Plata 5th 22–13 Copa LEB Plata RU2009–10 3LEB Plata 17th 11–17 2010–11 5Copa Catalunya 14–16 2011–12 4Liga EBA 17–11 2012–13 4Liga EBA 16–14 2013–14 4Liga EBA 11–9 2014–15 4Liga EBA 21–8 2015–16 4Liga EBA 29–2 2016–17 3LEB Plata13th 10–20 2017–18 3LEB Plata 7th 19–15 2018–19 3LEB Plata 16th 16–18 2019–20 3 LEB Plata 17th 12–132020–21 3 LEB Plata14th 6–202021–22 4 Liga EBA 20–22022–23 3 LEB Plata 11th 8–182023–24 3 LEB Plata12th 10–16
Trophies and awards
Trophies Spanish Cups: (1) 1940 2nd division Championships: (1) 2ª División: (1) 1974 LEB Plata: (1) 2005 Catalan Championship: (2) 1940, 1941
Individual awards LEB Oro MVP Thomas Terrell – 2006 LEB Plata MVP Thomas Terrell – 2005
Notable players José Ángel Antelo Joan Creus Xavi Fernández Ferran Laviña Roger Grimau Edgar San Epifanio Thomas Terrell Serge Ibaka Chris Copeland
References
External links Official CB L'Hospitalet page