2011–12 LEB Plata season

Competition format

Teams will play a regular season of 26 weeks with a Round-robin tournament format. This regular season will start on October 8 and will finish on April 20. The regular season champion will promote directly to LEB Oro and the last qualified will be relegated to Liga EBA. Teams qualified from second to ninth will join the promotion playoffs. The winner will promote also to LEB Oro.

The two first qualified teams after the first half of the league will play the Copa LEB Plata.

Eligibility of players

All teams must have in their roster:

• A minimum of seven players who played in Spain during three season being between 15 and 20 years old.
• A maximum of two non-EU players. This players can be replaced by players from the EU or ACP countries.
• A maximum of two players from the EU or ACP countries.

Teams can not sign any player after February 29, 2012.

Team information

Champion of last season Knet Rioja and playoffs winner Iberostar Bàsquet Mallorca were promoted to LEB Oro. Fundación Adepal Alcázar and Aguas de Sousas Ourense were relegated from LEB Oro to LEB Plata. Adepal resigned to its spot and was dissolved.

Aurteneche Maquinaria, Gandía Bàsquet, Platja de Palma and Eninter CB Santfeliuenc were the Liga EBA playoffs winners and promoted to LEB Plata, but Palma and Santfeliuenc refused to play in this league and stayed in Liga EBA. Lan Mobel ISB was also relegated to Liga EBA from LEB Plata.

By July 12, only seven teams were confirmed to play in LEB Plata. These teams were Aguas de Sousas Ourense (relegated from LEB Oro), River Andorra, CB Prat, Fontedoso Carrefour El Bulevar de Ávila, FC Barcelona Regal B, Aurteneche Maquinaria (champion of last Liga EBA) and Tenerife Baloncesto (achieved one of the vacants).

The Spanish Basketball Federation conceded an extension of the July 28 deadline for nine more teams. At this date, four more teams were admitted: Gandía Bàsquet, Leyma Natura Básquet Coruña, Lan Mobel ISB and CB Las Rozas, who played last season in 1ª División (fifth tier, one below Liga EBA).

Some teams demanded a new extension to get the endorsement, and the Federation conceded it until August 10. Oviedo CB and Plasencia Extremadura were admitted after this last extension.

Regular season

League table

The game

Stats

Awards

All LEB Plata team

Team made after the playoffs.

• ESP Ander Ortiz de Pinedo (Aurteneche Maquinaria Araba/Álava)
• USA Kyle Hill (Aguas de Sousas Ourense)
• SWE Marcus Eriksson (FC Barcelona Regal B)
• ESP Javier Salsón (Omnia CB Las Rozas)
• MNE Marko Todorović (CB Prat Joventut)

Regular season MVP

• Marko Todorović – CB Prat Joventut

MVP week by week

Regular season

Playoffs

References

References

1. [http://www.feb.es/NoticiaDesarrollo.aspx?idNoticia=39610 ADECCO PLATA: Nuevo calendario y representantes] FEB.es September 28, 2011
2. [http://www.solobasket.com/contenidos/jugadores/formacion/principal/novedad/proposicion/cupos/feb/clubes/adecco/oro/c-26772.html Training players, the proposal of the Federation to the Adecco Oro clubs] Solobasket.com April 27, 2011
3. [http://www.solobasket.com/contenidos/sin/bajas/adecco/oro/pero/solo/7/equipos/confirmados/adecco/plata/c-27305.html No renounces in Adecco Oro but only 7 teams confirmed in Adecco Plata] Solobasket.com July 12, 2011
4. [http://www.feb.es/NoticiaDesarrollo.aspx?idNoticia=38454 Clubs bet for Basket FEB] FEB.es July 12, 2011
5. [http://andaluzabaloncesto.org/index.php?page=8&ampliar=10298&p=-1 El grupo D de la EBA contará con 10 u 11 equipos, si presentan el aval] Andalusian Basketball Federation. July 28, 2011
6. [http://www.rtva.ad/noticia.aspx?id=31773 La LEB Plata amplia el termini dinscripció fins al 10 dagost] RTVA.ad July 29, 2011
7. [http://www.bca.ad/ca/noticies/318 13 equips formaran la lliga LEB Plata] {{Webarchive. link. (2011-08-20 BC Andorra website. August 11, 2011)
8. Last 3:51 of the game were replayed due to an error in the annotation of the game, with the score of 64–56. The first game finished 64–65. [http://avila.cope.es/noticias//16-11-11--el-obila-y-el-regal-bar-a-tendran-que-repetir-los-ultimos-3-51---de-su-partido-266579-1 El Óbila y el Regal Barça tendrán que repetir los últimos 3’51’’ de su partido] {{Webarchive. link. (2012-04-25 COPE Ávila. November 16, 2011)
9. [http://www.feb.es/NoticiaDesarrollo.aspx?idNoticia=42006 Adecco Plata: Habrá doble choque gallego-vasco] FEB.es, 20 April 2012
10. [http://www.feb.es/NoticiaDesarrollo.aspx?idNoticia=42561 Adecco Plata: el quinteto ideal de los playoffs] FEB.es May 31, 2012