Tecnyconta Zaragoza · History

In 2004, barely two years after it was founded, the club then known as CAI Zaragoza won the Copa Príncipe de Asturias, the first trophy for a team created in 2002 under the corporate name Basket Zaragoza 2002, S. A. D. The club was set up to give the city a team in the Liga ACB again, the top flight that the old CB Zaragoza had left in 1996. It plays at the Pabellón Príncipe Felipe and has competed under three sponsor names: CAI Zaragoza, Tecnyconta Zaragoza and Casademont Zaragoza.

Founding and the LEB years

In 2002 a group of local businessmen bought the place that Club Basquet Coruña held in the LEB, the second tier of Spanish basketball. Javier Loriente was president for the club’s first five years, until 2007, when Reynaldo Benito took over. The start was rough: in 2002-03 the team had to play a relegation series against CB Ciudad de Huelva, which it won. After that it settled near the top of the table, but between 2004 and 2007 it lost four promotion playoffs in a row, against CB Granada, CB Murcia and twice against Baloncesto León.

Promotion in 2008 and the return in 2010

The breakthrough came in 2007-08, when CAI Zaragoza finished first in LEB Oro and won promotion to the Liga ACB in 2008. The same year it reached the final of the Spanish Supercup. The first spell in the top flight lasted a single season: in 2008-09 the team finished 17th with 8 wins and 24 losses and went down after losing on the final day to CB Murcia. The reaction was immediate. With José Luis Abós as head coach from 2009, Zaragoza won LEB Oro again in 2009-10 and returned to the ACB for the 2010-11 season, and it has stayed in the league ever since.

The José Luis Abós era

Abós coached the team from 2009 to 2014 and delivered its first significant results in the top division. In 2013 CAI Zaragoza played the Copa del Rey for the first time, losing in the quarterfinals, and also made its playoff debut. It finished fifth in the regular season, knocked out Valencia Basket in the quarterfinals, in a series that included a 122-120 win after three overtimes, and lost the 2013 semifinals to Real Madrid 2-0. A year later it reached the semifinals of the 2014 Copa del Rey, its best run in that competition. The 2013 finish earned a place in the EuroCup, which the club played for three straight seasons from 2013-14, reaching the last 16 in 2015-16. Abós died in 2014, during the 2014-15 season.

From Tecnyconta to Casademont

In 2016 the sponsorship of the Caja de Ahorros de la Inmaculada, whose name the team had carried since 2002, came to an end and the club became Tecnyconta Zaragoza. With Porfirio Fisac in charge from 2018, the team returned to the ACB semifinals in 2019, where it met FC Barcelona Lassa. On 23 July 2019 the new name, Casademont Zaragoza, was announced. In 2019-20 the team finished third in the regular season with a 16-7 record, and at the 2020 Copa del Rey it reached the quarterfinals.

Europe and the Basketball Champions League

The Basketball Champions League produced the club’s best results abroad. At the Final Eight in Athens, held in October 2020, Casademont Zaragoza beat Iberostar Tenerife 87-81 in the quarterfinals and played its first European semifinal, losing 99-75 to AEK. In 2020-21 it again reached the last four: it fell 79-84 to Pinar Karşıyaka and then beat Strasbourg 89-77 to finish third in 2021. Later it played in the FIBA Europe Cup, reaching the quarterfinals in 2023-24 and in 2024-25. Fisac, who had left in 2020, returned to coach the team from 2022 to 2025.

Women’s team and honours

At the end of the 2019-20 season the club reached an agreement with Stadium Casablanca and, from 2020-21, has fielded a team in the Liga Femenina, Spain’s top women’s league. That side won the 2023 Copa de la Reina, played in Zaragoza, beating Perfumerías Avenida 55-51, and made its EuroLeague debut in 2023-24. The men’s honours list includes the 2004 Copa Príncipe de Asturias and two LEB Oro titles, in 2008 and 2010. In 2025-26 the men’s team finished 15th in the Liga ACB and secured survival on the final day.