2017–18 ACB season

Liga Endesa¹
Liga Endesa1
Season	2017–18
Games played	327
Teams	18
TV partner	Movistar+
Regular season
Season MVP	Luka Dončić
Relegated	RETAbet Bilbao Basket; Real Betis Energía Plus
Finals
Champions	Real Madrid; (34th title)
Runners-up	Kirolbet Baskonia
Semi-finalists	FC Barcelona Lassa; Herbalife Gran Canaria
Finals MVP	Rudy Fernández
Statistical leaders
Points
Points	Gary Neal
Rebounds	Deon Thompson
Assists	Omar Cook
Index Rating	Henk Norel
Records
Biggest home win	Barcelona 121–56 Real Betis; (11 April 2018); League record
Biggest away win	Real Betis 62–109 Tenerife; (24 May 2018)
Highest scoring	Obradoiro 112–116 Estudiantes; (21 April 2018)
Winning streak	11 games; Real Madrid
Losing streak	13 games; Divina Seguros Joventut
Highest attendance	15,512; Baskonia 79–83 Real Madrid; (17 June 2018)
Lowest attendance	1,315; Real Betis 62–109 Tenerife; (24 May 2018)
	← 2016–17 2018–19 → 1 Sponsored league name, referring to Endesa.

The 2017–18 ACB season, also known as Liga Endesa for sponsorship reasons, was the 35th season of the Spanish basketball league. It started on 29 September 2017 with the first round of the regular season and ended on 19 June 2018 with the finals.

Season2017–18

Games played327

Teams18

TV partnerMovistar+

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Valencia Basket was the defending champion, but was defeated in quarterfinals by Herbalife Gran Canaria, who achieved qualification to the EuroLeague for the first time ever, but was defeated in semifinals by Real Madrid who won their 34th title after defeating Kirolbet Baskonia in finals.

Team	Home city	Arena	Capacity
Delteco GBC	San Sebastián	Donostia Arena	11,000^[7]
Divina Seguros Joventut	Badalona	Palau Municipal d'Esports	8,500^[8]
FC Barcelona Lassa	Barcelona	Palau Blaugrana	7,585^[9]
Herbalife Gran Canaria	Las Palmas	Gran Canaria Arena	9,870^[10]
Iberostar Tenerife	San Cristóbal de La Laguna	Santiago Martín	5,003^[11]
Kirolbet Baskonia	Vitoria-Gasteiz	Fernando Buesa Arena	15,504^[12]
Monbus Obradoiro	Santiago de Compostela	Multiusos Fontes do Sar	5,060^[13]
Montakit Fuenlabrada	Fuenlabrada	Fernando Martín	5,100^[14]
MoraBanc Andorra	Andorra la Vella	Poliesportiu d'Andorra	5,000^[15]
Movistar Estudiantes	Madrid	WiZink Center	15,000^[16]
Real Betis Energía Plus	Seville	San Pablo	7,626^[17]
Real Madrid	Madrid	WiZink Center	15,000^[16]
RETAbet Bilbao Basket	Bilbao	Bilbao Arena	10,014^[18]
San Pablo Burgos	Burgos	Coliseum Burgos	9,352^[19]
Tecnyconta Zaragoza	Zaragoza	Pabellón Príncipe Felipe	10,744^[20]
UCAM Murcia	Murcia	Palacio de Deportes	7,341^[21]
Unicaja	Málaga	Martín Carpena	11,300^[22]
Valencia Basket	Valencia	Fuente de San Luis	8,500^[23]

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Delteco GBC	Porfirio Fisac	Xabi Oroz	Hummel	Delteco
Divina Seguros Joventut	Carles Duran	Albert Ventura	Spalding	Divina Pastora Seguros
FC Barcelona Lassa	Svetislav Pešić	Juan Carlos Navarro	Nike	Lassa Tyres
Herbalife Gran Canaria	Luis Casimiro	Eulis Báez	Adidas	Herbalife
Iberostar Tenerife	Fotios Katsikaris	Nicolás Richotti	Austral	Iberostar
Kirolbet Baskonia	Pedro Martínez	Tornike Shengelia	Kelme	Kirolbet
Monbus Obradoiro	Moncho Fernández	Pepe Pozas	Vive	Estrella Galicia 0,0
Montakit Fuenlabrada	Néstor García	Marko Popović	BFS	Montakit
MoraBanc Andorra	Joan Peñarroya	Oliver Stević	Kon	MoraBanc, Andorra
Movistar Estudiantes	Salva Maldonado	Sitapha Savané	Joma	Movistar
Real Betis Energía Plus	Javier Carrasco	Alfonso Sánchez	Spalding	Energía Plus
Real Madrid	Pablo Laso	Felipe Reyes	Adidas	European University
RETAbet Bilbao Basket	Jaka Lakovič	Álex Mumbrú	Erreà	RETAbet
San Pablo Burgos	Diego Epifanio	Javi Vega	Hummel	Inmobiliaria San Pablo, Burgos
Tecnyconta Zaragoza	Pep Cargol	Tomás Bellas	Mercury	Tecnyconta
UCAM Murcia	Ibon Navarro	José Ángel Antelo	Nike	UCAM, Caravaca
Unicaja	Joan Plaza	Carlos Suárez	Spalding	Unicaja, Málaga
Valencia Basket	Txus Vidorreta	Rafa Martínez	Luanvi	Cultura del Esfuerzo¹

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced with	Date of appointment
Tecnyconta Zaragoza	Luis Guil	End of contract	16 May 2017^[24]	Pre-season	Jota Cuspinera	16 June 2017^[25]
FC Barcelona Lassa	Georgios Bartzokas	Sacked	7 June 2017^[26]		Sito Alonso	16 June 2017^[27]
Montakit Fuenlabrada	Jota Cuspinera	Resigned	7 June 2017^[28]		Néstor García	7 July 2017^[29]
Kirolbet Baskonia	Sito Alonso	Mutual consent	16 June 2017^[30]		Pablo Prigioni	16 June 2017^[31]
Valencia Basket	Pedro Martínez	End of contract	20 June 2017^[32]		Txus Vidorreta	20 June 2017^[33]
Iberostar Tenerife	Txus Vidorreta	Resigned	20 June 2017^[34]		Nenad Marković	20 June 2017^[35]
UCAM Murcia	Fotios Katsikaris	Signed for Hapoel Jerusalem	28 June 2017^[36]		Ibon Navarro	29 June 2017
Kirolbet Baskonia	Pablo Prigioni	Resigned	26 October 2017^[37]	11th (2–3)	Pedro Martínez	27 October 2017^[38]
Real Betis Energía Plus	Alejandro Martínez	Sacked	30 October 2017^[39]	17th (0–6)	Óscar Quintana	2 November 2017^[40]
Iberostar Tenerife	Nenad Marković	Sacked	24 November 2017^[41]	12th (4–5)	Fotios Katsikaris	24 November 2017^[42]
RETAbet Bilbao Basket	Carles Duran	Sacked	27 November 2017^[43]	16th (3–6)	Veljko Mršić	27 November 2017^[44]
Tecnyconta Zaragoza	Jota Cuspinera	Mutual consent	30 January 2018	16th (5–13)	Pep Cargol	22 February 2018^[a]^[45]
FC Barcelona Lassa	Sito Alonso	Sacked	4 February 2018^[46]	3rd (12–7)	Svetislav Pešić	9 February 2018^[47]
Divina Seguros Joventut	Diego Ocampo	Sacked	7 February 2018	17th (4–15)	Carles Duran	7 February 2018
Real Betis Energía Plus	Óscar Quintana	Sacked	17 April 2018	17th (7–21)	Javier Carrasco	17 April 2018
RETAbet Bilbao Basket	Veljko Mršić	Sacked	30 April 2018^[48]	17th (8–22)	Jaka Lakovič	30 April 2018

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification or relegation
1	Real Madrid	34	30	4	3052	2678	+374	Qualification to playoffs
2	Kirolbet Baskonia	34	25	9	2946	2668	+278
3	FC Barcelona Lassa	34	24	10	3030	2691	+339
4	Valencia Basket	34	22	12	2809	2582	+227
5	Herbalife Gran Canaria	34	20	14	2851	2780	+71
6	MoraBanc Andorra	34	19	15	2898	2787	+111
7	Unicaja	34	19	15	2778	2631	+147
8	Iberostar Tenerife	34	19	15	2684	2614	+70
9	Montakit Fuenlabrada	34	17	17	2641	2806	−165
10	UCAM Murcia	34	17	17	2624	2589	+35
11	Movistar Estudiantes	34	17	17	2861	2892	−31
12	Monbus Obradoiro	34	14	20	2650	2742	−92
13	Delteco GBC	34	13	21	2742	2854	−112
14	San Pablo Burgos	34	13	21	2775	2961	−186
15	Divina Seguros Joventut	34	12	22	2709	2831	−122
16	Tecnyconta Zaragoza	34	10	24	2780	3006	−226
17	RETAbet Bilbao Basket (R)	34	8	26	2592	2843	−251	Relegation to LEB Oro
18	Real Betis Energía Plus (R)	34	7	27	2629	3096	−467	Relegation to LEB Oro

Home \ Away	GBC	JOV	FCB	HGC	IBT	BKN	OBR	FUE	MBA	MOV	BET	RMB	RBB	SPA	TZA	UCM	UNI	VLC
Delteco GBC	—	92–87	77–101	80–87	89–70	72–84	107–99	81–76	60–64	101–91	94–60	84–98	87–91	63–71	94–99	67–69	71–63	77–95
Divina Seguros Joventut	76–67	—	72–74	92–91	73–76	61–75	62–63	95–87	103–101	93–96	81–76	66–84	84–56	81–88	94–83	62–71	85–78	77–75
FC Barcelona Lassa	89–74	91–79	—	77–88	91–93	87–82	102–58	101–74	94–70	95–100	121–56	94–72	90–58	111–81	100–84	94–97	73–76	79–74
Herbalife Gran Canaria	84–76	94–69	77–93	—	68–76	100–82	82–64	87–65	99–95	99–95	83–90	88–78	90–85	87–80	90–70	83–71	76–55	87–78
Iberostar Tenerife	88–92	77–75	86–81	92–71	—	86–74	73–69	83–75	69–78	77–59	87–70	74–84	83–69	84–76	100–94	84–78	81–77	67–70
Kirolbet Baskonia	88–86	87–77	96–72	91–66	100–94	—	85–78	95–63	88–75	94–76	94–70	69–81	94–71	102–82	73–78	87–85	96–78	78–74
Monbus Obradoiro	69–72	77–68	73–76	79–65	75–64	77–83	—	78–81	65–77	112–116	89–70	93–102	70–69	94–69	80–74	70–68	91–97	96–77
Montakit Fuenlabrada	84–70	83–78	75–93	66–86	79–68	80–75	65–73	—	77–85	87–81	91–94	75–90	82–68	69–79	88–82	88–86	77–69	61–76
MoraBanc Andorra	94–81	88–81	102–92	78–76	58–48	94–97	93–96	94–95	—	78–65	96–68	89–87	99–91	91–99	100–77	90–70	66–60	87–69
Movistar Estudiantes	75–92	101–94	80–70	88–75	97–92	87–89	95–67	69–71	81–72	—	89–83	75–92	96–84	100–76	84–74	79–91	57–72	73–71
Real Betis Energía Plus	88–94	86–81	82–89	76–77	62–109	62–106	83–77	70–73	89–100	81–90	—	63–98	86–94	96–101	70–67	87–102	89–88	80–90
Real Madrid	87–75	87–70	80–84	96–72	89–76	101–89	78–65	100–72	94–88	96–89	104–89	—	95–65	96–81	93–65	87–85	99–85	83–71
RETAbet Bilbao Basket	71–74	99–74	83–104	92–78	67–74	74–78	74–84	77–83	72–82	87–77	93–79	80–87	—	62–78	77–72	73–82	70–67	77–81
San Pablo Burgos	76–99	79–80	101–103	89–98	65–81	76–100	86–77	69–71	92–86	72–87	92–88	95–100	90–86	—	96–88	89–86	78–85	76–90
Tecnyconta Zaragoza	97–73	86–92	86–99	95–99	89–77	74–98	93–87	102–108	95–78	102–97	81–78	81–96	81–61	73–79	—	73–77	77–102	74–97
UCAM Murcia	83–69	75–92	55–61	84–78	74–72	78–67	60–62	82–62	81–77	71–77	63–70	61–63	82–71	67–64	84–73	—	64–74	91–93
Unicaja	114–88	86–74	80–78	94–87	72–62	72–73	96–76	82–86	87–86	89–70	99–71	88–89	93–78	93–72	82–83	78–67	—	74–67
Valencia Basket	86–64	102–81	70–71	89–83	74–61	81–77	80–67	88–72	89–87	93–69	103–67	82–86	87–67	87–78	103–58	73–84	74–73	—

2017–18 ACB season

Teams

Promotion and relegation (pre-season)

Venues and locations

Personnel and sponsorship

Managerial changes

Regular season

League table

Positions by round

Results

Playoffs

Final standings

Attendances

Awards

MVP

Finals MVP

All-ACB Teams

Best Young Player Award

Defensive Player of the Year

Best All-Young Team

El Corte Inglés Top Scorer

KIA Most Spectacular Player

Best Coach

Player of the round

Player of the month

ACB clubs in European competitions

References and notes

External links

Related Articles

Team \ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
Team \ Round
Real Madrid	6	5	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Kirolbet Baskonia	11	9	10	14	11	13	12	10	7	7	5	5	5	5	5	7	6	5	5	3	4	4	4	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
FC Barcelona Lassa	8	7	2	1	3	4	3	3	2	2	2	4	4	2	2	2	3	2	3	4	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Valencia Basket	3	2	4	6	6	2	2	2	3	3	3	2	3	3	4	3	2	3	2	2	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Herbalife Gran Canaria	5	6	3	5	4	6	4	6	6	6	6	6	6	7	6	6	9	7	7	6	6	6	8	5	5	7	8	6	7	6	5	5	5	5
MoraBanc Andorra	12	13	15	13	14	14	16	15	9	12	10	10	10	9	9	10	10	10	9	8	8	8	7	8	6	6	6	7	6	7	7	7	7	6
Unicaja	4	1	7	4	7	5	7	7	8	8	8	9	9	8	7	5	5	4	4	5	5	5	6	7	8	5	5	5	5	5	6	6	6	7
Iberostar Tenerife	1	3	8	7	5	7	8	9	12	9	9	7	7	6	8	8	7	8	8	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	10	10	10	8	8	8	8	8
Montakit Fuenlabrada	2	4	5	3	2	3	5	5	5	5	4	3	2	4	3	4	4	6	6	7	7	7	5	6	7	8	9	9	9	10	10	10	10	9
UCAM Murcia	16	15	11	10	12	9	11	13	11	10	11	11	11	10	10	9	8	9	10	11	11	10	11	10	10	10	7	8	8	9	9	9	9	10
Movistar Estudiantes	9	12	14	12	9	11	9	11	13	14	12	13	12	12	13	12	13	13	13	12	13	13	13	13	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11
Monbus Obradoiro	7	10	9	11	8	8	6	4	4	4	7	8	8	11	11	13	11	11	11	10	10	11	10	11	12	12	13	13	13	13	12	12	12	12
Delteco GBC	14	8	6	8	10	12	15	12	15	11	13	14	13	13	12	11	12	12	12	13	12	12	12	12	13	13	12	12	12	12	13	13	13	13
San Pablo Burgos	18	17	18	18	18	18	18	17	17	17	17	17	17	18	17	16	15	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14
Divina Seguros Joventut	10	11	13	15	16	16	14	16	14	15	15	12	14	16	16	17	17	17	17	17	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	17	15	15	15	15	15	15
Tecnyconta Zaragoza	13	14	16	16	15	15	10	8	10	13	14	15	15	15	14	15	16	16	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	15	15	16	16	16	16	16	16
RETAbet Bilbao Basket	17	16	12	9	13	10	13	14	16	16	16	16	16	14	15	14	14	14	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	16	16	16	17	17	17	17	17	17
Real Betis Energía Plus	15	18	17	17	17	17	17	18	18	18	18	18	18	17	18	18	18	18	18	18	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	18	18	18	18	18	18	18

Quarterfinals				Semifinals					Finals



1 Real Madrid		83	84

8 Iberostar Tenerife		73	75
				1 Real Madrid		88	92	99

				5 Herbalife Gran Canaria		70	83	92
4 Valencia Basket	71	70	89

5 Herbalife Gran Canaria	56	97	92
									1 Real Madrid	90	98	83	96

									2 Kirolbet Baskonia	94	91	78	85
2 Kirolbet Baskonia		87	80

7 Unicaja		70	64
				2 Kirolbet Baskonia	86	85	65	88

				3 FC Barcelona Lassa	61	79	67	82
3 FC Barcelona Lassa	76	85	91

6 MoraBanc Andorra	94	81	71

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Qualification or relegation
1	Real Madrid (C)	43	38	5	Qualification to EuroLeague^[a]
2	Kirolbet Baskonia	44	31	13
3	FC Barcelona Lassa	41	27	14
4	Herbalife Gran Canaria	40	22	18
5	Valencia Basket	37	23	14	Qualification to EuroCup
6	MoraBanc Andorra	37	20	17
7	Unicaja	36	19	17
8	Iberostar Tenerife	36	19	17	Qualification to Champions League regular season
9	Montakit Fuenlabrada	34	17	17	Qualification to Champions League regular season
10	UCAM Murcia	34	17	17	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
11	Movistar Estudiantes	34	17	17	Qualification to Champions League first qualifying round
12	Monbus Obradoiro	34	14	20
13	Delteco GBC	34	13	21
14	San Pablo Burgos	34	13	21
15	Divina Seguros Joventut	34	12	22
16	Tecnyconta Zaragoza	34	10	24
17	RETAbet Bilbao Basket (R)	34	8	26	Relegation to LEB Oro
18	Real Betis Energía Plus (R)	34	7	27	Relegation to LEB Oro

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Kirolbet Baskonia	224,265	15,512	8,102	10,194	+4.5%^†
2	San Pablo Burgos	154,196	9,352	8,531	9,070	+353.5%¹
3	RETAbet Bilbao Basket	148,786	9,842	7,803	8,752	+0.5%^†
4	Real Madrid	188,844	12,114	4,108	8,584	−5.4%^†
5	Movistar Estudiantes	138,552	13,513	4,674	8,150	−2.5%^†
6	Tecnyconta Zaragoza	130,275	9,489	5,821	7,663	+2.6%^†
7	Valencia Basket	137,835	8,500	5,600	7,254	−11.1%^†
8	Unicaja	130,290	9,863	5,871	7,238	+1.7%^†
9	Herbalife Gran Canaria	111,434	6,978	4,176	5,865	−9.3%^†
10	UCAM Murcia	94,818	7,098	5,089	5,578	−1.0%^†
11	Montakit Fuenlabrada	87,960	5,646	4,026	5,174	+5.4%^†
12	Divina Seguros Joventut	84,758	8,597	3,486	4,986	+0.2%^†
13	Monbus Obradoiro	84,698	5,705	4,213	4,982	−1.7%^†
14	FC Barcelona Lassa	100,600	6,438	3,053	4,790	+12.1%^†
15	Iberostar Tenerife	83,882	5,176	3,738	4,660	+3.1%^†
16	MoraBanc Andorra	76,032	5,000	3,620	4,224	−0.1%^†
17	Real Betis Energía Plus	70,661	6,723	1,315	4,157	−14.9%^†
18	Delteco GBC	53,869	5,118	1,495	3,169	n/a¹
	League total	2,101,755	15,512	1,315	6,427	−0.4%^†

Pos.	First Team		Second Team
Pos.	Player	Team	Player	Team
PG	Luka Dončić	Real Madrid	Facundo Campazzo	Real Madrid
SG	Gary Neal	Tecnyconta Zaragoza	Thomas Heurtel	FC Barcelona Lassa
SF	Sylven Landesberg	Movistar Estudiantes	Mateusz Ponitka	Iberostar Tenerife
PF	Tornike Shengelia	Kirolbet Baskonia	Bojan Dubljević	Valencia Basket
C	Henk Norel	Delteco GBC	Ante Tomić	FC Barcelona Lassa

Pos.	Player	Team
PG	Luka Dončić	Real Madrid
SG	Sergi García	Valencia Basket/Tecnyconta Zaragoza
SF	Xabier López-Arostegui	Divina Seguros Joventut
PF	Jonathan Barreiro	Tecnyconta Zaragoza
C	Simon Birgander	Divina Seguros Joventut

Month	Week	Player	Team	PIR	Ref
October	1–6	Henk Norel	Delteco GBC	24.2	^[60]
November	7–9	Gary Neal	Tecnyconta Zaragoza	22	^[61]
December	10–14	Luka Dončić	Real Madrid	24	^[62]
January	15–18	Clevin Hannah	UCAM Murcia	21	^[63]
February	19–20	Gary Neal	Tecnyconta Zaragoza	39	^[64]
March	21–24	Ante Tomić	FC Barcelona Lassa	23.8	^[65]
April	25–30	Gary Neal	Tecnyconta Zaragoza	23.8	^[66]
May	30–34	Nicolás Laprovíttola	Divina Seguros Joventut	22.0	^[67]

Team	Competition	Progress	Ref
Real Madrid	EuroLeague	Champions
Kirolbet Baskonia		7th qualified
Unicaja		9th qualified
Valencia Basket		11th qualified
FC Barcelona Lassa		13th qualified
Herbalife Gran Canaria	EuroCup	Quarterfinals	^[69]
MoraBanc Andorra		Regular season
RETAbet Bilbao Basket		Regular season
UCAM Murcia	Champions League	Third place	^[70]
Iberostar Tenerife		Round of 16
Movistar Estudiantes		Regular season
Divina Seguros Joventut		Second qualifying round