Araberri Basket Club, also known as Sáenz Horeca Araberri for sponsorship reasons, is a basketball team based in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
History Founded in 1994. In June 2011, the team promoted to LEB Plata, where it won one Copa LEB Plata and promoted to LEB Oro as winner of the playoffs in 2016.
Despite this achievement, on 23 July 2016 the club announced it could not fulfill the requirements in the league and folded the professional team, maintaining only the youth teams. However, one month later Araberri was allowed to participate in the league and the professional team was reinstated. On 18 July 2017, the club announced it could not fulfill the requirements in the league and it appealed against the decision of FEB. However, they were finally admitted and registered for playing the 2017–18 LEB Oro season.
On July 5, 2019, the club folded the professional team, maintaining only the youth teams.
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Season by season SeasonTierDivisionPos.Cup competitions2002–03 71ª Provincial1st 2003–04 61ª Autonómica 6th 2004–05 61ª Autonómica2nd 2005–06 51ª División 9th 16–142006–07 51ª División 5th 17–92007–08 61ª División 2nd 22–92008–09 61ª División1st 23–52009–10 4Liga EBA 16–122010–11 4Liga EBA 25–32011–12 3LEB Plata 4th 17–14Copa LEB Plata C2012–13 3LEB Plata 7th 11–112013–14 3LEB Plata 8th 12–152014–15 3 LEB Plata15th 2–262015–16 3 LEB Plata2nd 25–112016–17 2 LEB Oro 12th 14–202017–18 2LEB Oro 11th 15–192018–19 2LEB Oro18th 7–27
Trophies and awards Trophies Copa LEB Plata: (1) 2012 Liga EBA: (1) 2011 Euskal Kopa: (3) 2013, 2015, 2016
Notable players
To appear in this section a player must have either: - Set a club record or won an individual award as a professional player. - Played at least one official international match for his senior national team at any time. Artem Tavakalyan Mathieu Kamba Lester Prosper
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