The 2020–21 LEB Plata season was the 21st season of the Spanish basketball third league. It started on 10 October 2020 with the first round of the regular season and ended on 29 May 2021 with the promotion playoffs.
It was the following season after the 2019–20 season was curtailed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Consequently, there were not relegations to Liga EBA and the league was expanded to 28 teams, record of the league, for this season.
Format changes For this season, the league was expanded to 28 teams divided in two groups of 14 with only one group phase. At the end of the regular season, the top team of each group played for promote directly to LEB Oro, while the loser team will beas dropped to the quarter-finals of the promotion playoffs; the teams that finish in 2nd to 8th place of each group qualified for the promotion playoffs; the teams that finish in 11th and 12th place of each group played the relegation playoffs; and the last two teams of each group were relegated to Liga EBA.
Teams
Promotion and relegation (pre-season) A total of 28 teams contested the league, including 21 sides from the 2019–20 season and seven promoted from the 2019–20 Liga EBA.
Teams promoted from Liga EBA Aquimisa Carbajosa Mondragón Unibersitatea (could not promote and finally registered in Liga EBA) NCS Alcobendas Ibersol CB Tarragona Melilla Sport Capital Enrique Soler Hozono Global Jairis Zentro Basket Madrid (achieved a vacant berth) CB Cornellà (achieved a vacant berth)
Venues and locations Team Home city Arena Capacity Albacete Basket Albacete Pabellón del Parque Aquimisa Carbajosa Carbajosa de la Sagrada Municipal Barça B Sant Joan Despí Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper CAT&REST Intragas-Clima CDP Ponferrada Pabellón Lydia Valentín CB Cornellà Cornellà de Llobregat Parc Esportiu CB Marbella Marbella Carlos Cabezas CB Morón Morón de la Frontera Alameda CB Pardinyes Lleida Lleida Pavelló Barris Nord CB Prat El Prat de Llobregat Pavelló Joan Busquets Círculo Gijón Gijón Palacio de Deportes El Ventero CBV Villarrobledo Los Pintores Enerdrink UDEA Algeciras DAM Algeciras Pabellón Ciudad de Algeciras ENERparking Basket Navarra Pamplona Arrosadia Fundación Globalcaja La Roda La Roda Juan José Lozano Jareño Gran Canaria B Las Palmas Centro Insular de Deportes Grupo Alega Cantabria Torrelavega Vicente Trueba Hestia Menorca Mahón Pavelló Menorca Hozono Global Jairis Alcantarilla Fausto Vicent Ibersol CB Tarragona Tarragona El Serrallo Innova Chef Zamora Ángel Nieto Juaristi ISB Azpeitia Municipal Mi Arquitecto CB Benicarló Benicarló Pavelló Poliesportiu Municipal Melilla Sport Capital Enrique Soler Melilla Guillermo García Pezzi NCS Alcobendas Alcobendas Antela Parada Reina Yogur Clavijo CB Logroño Palacio de los Deportes Torrons Vicens CB L'Hospitalet L'Hospitalet Nou Pavelló del Centre Zentro Basket Madrid Madrid Antonio Díaz Miguel Zornotza ST Amorebieta-Etxano Larrea
Regular season
Group East League table
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.
Results
Group West League table
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.
Results
Playoffs
Group champions' playoffs
Source: FEB
Promotion playoffs Round of 16
Source: FEB
Quarter-finals
Source: FEB
Semi-finals
Source: FEB
Relegation playoffs
Source: FEB
Copa LEB Plata The Copa LEB Plata was played on 30 January 2021, by the top team of each group after the end of the first half of the season (round 13).
Teams qualified
Game
Final standings
Awards All official awards of the 2020–21 LEB Plata season.
Group champions' playoffs MVP PlayerTeam SF Manex Ansorregui Juaristi ISB Source:
Copa LEB Plata MVP PlayerTeam SG Ibon Guridi Juaristi ISB Source:
Player of the round Regular season Round Player Team Eff. 1 Jabs Newby Círculo Gijón 35 2 Toni Vicens CB Cornellà 35 3 Guillermo Bastante Zentro Basket Madrid 32 Javier Lucas Círculo Gijón 4 Walter Cabral Grupo Alega Cantabria 39 5 Arturo Cruz Aquimisa Carbajosa 35 6 Simeon Lepichev ENERparking Basket Navarra 30 7 Walter Cabral (2) Grupo Alega Cantabria 32 8 Mark Hughes Fundación Globalcaja La Roda 38 9 Miki Ortega Enerdrink UDEA Algeciras DAM 41 10 Walter Cabral (3) Grupo Alega Cantabria 36 11 Nnamdi Okonkwo Innova Chef 35 12 Leo Čizmić Grupo Alega Cantabria 32 13 Iago Estévez Enerdrink UDEA Algeciras DAM 33 14 Zane Najdawi Hozono Global Jairis 34 15 Rodrigo Seoane ENERparking Basket Navarra 32 16 Ignacio Rodríguez Zentro Basket Madrid 35 17 Víctor Serrano CB Cornellà 36 18 Pablo Hernández CAT&REST Intragas-Clima CDP 38 19 Agustín Barreiro Zentro Basket Madrid 34 20 Diego Alderete Aquimisa Carbajosa 28 21 Jean Montero Gran Canaria B 34 22 Mark Hughes (2) Fundación Globalcaja La Roda 34 Jahvaughn Powell NCS Alcobendas 23 Jeromy Rodríguez Zornotza ST 34 24 Samuel Rodríguez Mi Arquitecto CB Benicarló 35 25 Samuel Rodríguez (2) Mi Arquitecto CB Benicarló 34 26 Imo González Melilla Sport Capital Enrique Soler 34 Pa Mor Diane El Ventero CBV
References
External links Official website