Baloncesto Fuenlabrada · History

Baloncesto Fuenlabrada is the basketball club of Fuenlabrada, south of Madrid, and has played in the Spanish second tier since 2023. That league was called LEB Oro until 2024, when it was renamed Primera FEB. The club was founded in 1983 and plays at the Pabellón Fernando Martín, which opened in 1991 and holds 5,700 spectators. Between 1996 and 2023 it spent most of its seasons in the Liga ACB, Spain’s top division.

Foundation and early years

Six local fans, Miguel Ángel Hernández, Julián Aranda, Manuel Antolínez, Ángel Illescas, Jorge Penacho and Jesús Viñuales, set up the club in 1983 with backing from the municipal sports board. The team first played on the court of the San Esteban school and, from 1988, in the gym of the Miguel Hernández school. It entered federation competition in 1985. A year later it took its sponsor’s name, Maná Fuenlabrada. It became A. D. Fuenlabrada in 1989 and Baloncesto Fuenlabrada in 1991, the same year the Fernando Martín opened. In 1992 it merged with CB Torrejón de Ardoz to compete in the second division.

Partizan in Fuenlabrada

In the 1991-92 season the Yugoslav Wars prevented KK Partizan from playing in Belgrade, so the Serbian club played its European home games at the Fernando Martín. That team went on to become European champion in 1992. The two clubs kept the bond. In the 2011-12 EuroChallenge, its only appearance in that competition, Fuenlabrada wore black and white in tribute to Partizan. In September 2023 they met in an open-air friendly in Belgrade, which the Serbs won 93-63.

Reaching the ACB

In 1996 the club bought the Liga ACB place held by Club Peñas Recreativas de Huesca and made its top-flight debut in 1996-97. It went down at the end of that season but came straight back: in 1998 it won the Copa Príncipe de Asturias and regained its place through the LEB playoffs, with Óscar Quintana as coach and Velimir Perasović as its main scorer. With the Croatian guard, the team reached the playoff quarterfinals in 1999, 2001 and 2002. It played the Korać Cup in 1999-2000 and 2001-02, and the ULEB Cup in 2002-03. José Manuel Calderón and Pablo Prigioni both came through the squad. In 2002-03 the Argentine Walter Herrmann was the league’s top scorer and its MVP before moving to Unicaja.

Relegation and a return as champions

In 2004 the team finished 17th and dropped to the LEB. Under coach Luis Casimiro it won the LEB title and a second Copa Príncipe de Asturias in 2004-05, and it returned to the ACB in 2005. From then on it played eighteen straight seasons in the top flight. In 2010-11, with Salva Maldonado as coach and Gustavo Ayón and Bismack Biyombo on the roster, it got back to the playoffs and reached the quarterfinals. It played in the Copa del Rey in 1999, 2001, 2012, 2016 and 2018, and made the playoffs again in 2016. In Europe it reached the Top 16 of the 2016-17 EuroCup and played in the Basketball Champions League in 2018-19.

Names and sponsors

The team’s commercial name changed with each sponsor. It was Jabones Pardo Fuenlabrada in the early 2000s, Mad-Croc Fuenlabrada around 2012 and Montakit Fuenlabrada from 2014. It later carried the names of Urbas, from 2020, and Carplus, from 2022. In September 2024 Flexicar became its main sponsor.

From the ACB to Primera FEB

The 2022-23 season ended with the team bottom of the ACB in 18th place and relegated to LEB Oro, where it finished tenth in 2023-24. In Primera FEB, it played the promotion Final Four at Madrid’s Caja Mágica in June 2025. It beat Palencia 75-73 in the semifinal but did not go up. In 2025-26 it reached the semifinals of the Copa España and went out in the playoff quarterfinals. On 10 September 2026 the club announced a new name, Partizan de Fuenlabrada, as part of an integration agreement with KK Partizan Belgrade.