Bada Huesca · History

Club Balonmano Huesca won its first promotion in the 1995-96 season. The handball section had been founded that year in the capital of Upper Aragon, and the team finished top of the regional second tier. The following season it came second in the Segunda Nacional and went up again. It has played in national divisions since 1997-98. The club has taken several names from its sponsors: Club Balonmano Huesca from 1995 to 1999, Adeslas Huesca from 1999 to 2002, Forcusa Huesca from 2002 to 2008 and Obearagón Huesca from 2008 to 2011. It went back to its original name between 2011 and 2014, and became Bada Huesca in 2014. Its home ground is the Palacio Municipal de Deportes in Huesca, on Calle San Jorge.

Primera Nacional and División de Honor B (1997-2011)

The club spent seven seasons in the Primera Nacional, then the third tier of Spanish handball. It finished seventh in 1997-98, fifth in 1998-99, ninth in 1999-2000 and seventh in 2000-01. In 2001-02 it came first but did not go up. It was second in 2002-03 and second again in 2003-04, and this time it was promoted to the División de Honor B. In the second tier it finished eighth in 2004-05, thirteenth in 2005-06, fifth in 2006-07, tenth in 2007-08 and thirteenth in 2008-09. In 2009-10 the division was renamed División de Plata, and the team finished seventh.

Promotion to the Liga ASOBAL (2011)

In 2010-11 Huesca finished second in the División de Plata and won promotion to the Liga ASOBAL, the Spanish top flight. The coach was José Francisco Nolasco, from Alicante, who had joined the club while it was in the second tier. Nolasco then coached the team in the top flight for many years. In its first ASOBAL season, 2011-12, the team finished eleventh. It moved up to eighth in 2012-13.

Fourth place and European debut (2013-2015)

Fourth place in 2013-14 is the club's best finish in the Liga ASOBAL. It earned a first European campaign, in the 2014-15 EHF Cup. In the third round Huesca met Sweden's Eskilstuna Guif. It won the home leg 26-23 but lost the away leg 32-24, going out 50-55 on aggregate. That season, the first under the name Bada Huesca, it finished ninth in the league. Players at the club in those years included goalkeeper Rodrigo Corrales (2012-2014), centre back Agustín Casado (2014-2016) and pivot Carlos Molina (2013-2015).

Established in the top flight (2015-2021)

The team stayed in mid-table. It was tenth in 2015-16 and seventh in 2016-17. That season it reached the final stage of the Copa del Rey in León, where it lost 32-19 to FC Barcelona in the quarter-finals on 9 June 2017. It came seventh again in 2017-18 and sixth in 2018-19. The 2019-20 season ended in fifteenth place. In 2020-21 it finished fifth, its second-best finish in the top flight. Players in that period included Argentina's Nicolás Bonanno and Gonzalo Carró, both from 2016 to 2019, and Portugal's Filipe Mota (2018-2020).

Cup semi-final and relegation (2021-2026)

Huesca finished ninth in 2021-22, eleventh in 2022-23 and eighth in 2023-24, with 30 points. In 2024-25 it came thirteenth in the league but reached the final stage of the Copa del Rey, played at the Artaleku sports hall in Irun. On 6 June 2025 it knocked out BM Logroño La Rioja 28-25 in the quarter-finals. The next day it lost the semi-final to FC Barcelona 28-43. The 2025-26 season ended in fifteenth place, with seven wins, three draws and twenty defeats from 30 matches. The club went down to the División de Plata in May 2026, after fifteen consecutive seasons in the Liga ASOBAL.