CB Ademar León

Reale Ademar
Founded	1956
Arena	Palacio Municipal, León, Castile and León, Spain
Capacity	6,000
President	Carlos Pollán
Head coach	Jordi Ribera
League	Liga ASOBAL
2010–11	Liga ASOBAL, 3rd
Home Away

Club Balonmano Ademar León is a Spanish handball team based in León. The team plays in Liga ASOBAL.

History

Founded on 1956, the Ademar León is the handball team more representative of the city of León. Until 1975 it played in the provincial categories when not existing economic availability to be able to promotion. In that year the team promoted to 1ª División Nacional (being player of the team the currently chairman , Juan Arias). His 6º place in season 95/96 allowed him to play for the first time in its history a European competition (City Cup). In season 96/97 Runner-up of ASOBAL League, and Runner-up of ASOBAL Cup was able to proclaim itself, being third in the King's Cup and obtaining seat to play the Champions League in the following season. The beginning of Season 2001-2002 caused the first misfortune when losing the first Title of the year, Supercopa of Spain, in Tudela losing the final against Portland San Antonio, champion of Cup in the previous season.

Trophies

• Liga ASOBAL
  • Winners: 2000-01.
  • Runners-Up: 1996-97, 1998-99.
• King's Cup
  • Winners: 2001-02.
• ASOBAL Cup
  • Winners: 1998-99, 2008-09.
  • Runners-Up: 1996-97, 1997–98, 2001-02.
• Supercopa ASOBAL
  • Runners-Up: 2001-02, 2002-03.
• EHF Cup Winner's Cup
  • Winners: 1998-99, 2004-05.
  • Runners-Up: 2000-01, 2006-07.

Current squad

1 Vicente Álamo 2 Álvaro Cabanas 4 Jaime González 5 Iosu Goñi 6 Ander Ugarte 7 Gonzalo Carou 8 Ángel Montoro 9 Ricardo Martins 10 Jorge García 11 Héctor Castresana

14 Juan Andreu 16 Denis Buntić 17 Denis Krivoshlykov 18 Danil Chernov 20 Venio Losert 21 Mikel Aguirrezabalaga 22 Carlos Ruesga 23 Javier Ortigosa 24 Martin Straňovský 30 Dalibor Čutura

Statistic 2010/11

Liga ASOBAL	Position	Pts	P	W	D	L	F	A
Ademar León	3rd	43	30	20	4	6	937	853

Stadium Information

• Name: - Palacio Municipal
• City: - León
• Capacity: - 6,000
• Address: - Avda. Saenz de Miera s/n

Famous players

Ion Belaustegui Manuel Colón Alberto Entrerríos Rubén Garabaya Juanín García Fernando Hernández José Javier Hombrados Demetrio Lozano Iker Romero Juancho Pérez Eric Gull

Petar Metličić Kasper Hvidt Csaba Bartók Ivo Díaz Kristian Kjelling Dragan Škrbić Uroš Zorman Magnus Andersson Staffan Olsson Carlos Lima

Season by season

Season Tier Division Pos. Notes 1980–81 2 1ª Div. Nacional 2 1981–82 2 1ª Div. Nacional 1 Promoted 1982–83 1 Div. Honor 13 Relegated 1983–84 2 1ª Div. Nacional 2 1984–85 2 1ª Div. Nacional 1 Promoted 1985–86 1 Div. Honor 12 Relegated 1986–87 2 1ª Div. Nacional 7 1987–88 2 1ª Div. Nacional 12 1988–89 2 1ª Div. Nacional 10 Relegated 1989–90 3 1ª Div. B 2 Promoted 1990–91 2 1ª Div. Nacional 4 1991–92 2 1ª Div. Nacional 3 1992–93 2 1ª Div. Nacional 3 1993–94 2 1ª Div. Nacional 1 Promoted 1994–95 1 ASOBAL 12 1995–96 1 ASOBAL 6 1996–97 1 ASOBAL 2

Season Tier Division Pos. Notes 1997–98 1 ASOBAL 3 (regular season) 1/2 (playoff) 1998–99 1 ASOBAL 2 (regular season) runner-up (playoff) 1999–00 1 ASOBAL 2 (regular season) 1/2 (playoff) 2000–01 1 ASOBAL 1 Champion 2001–02 1 ASOBAL 3 2002–03 1 ASOBAL 3 2003–04 1 ASOBAL 4 2004–05 1 ASOBAL 3 2005–06 1 ASOBAL 5 2006–07 1 ASOBAL 3 2007–08 1 ASOBAL 3 2008–09 1 ASOBAL 5 2009–10 1 ASOBAL 4 2010–11 1 ASOBAL 3 2011–12 1 ASOBAL

External links

• CB Ademar León Official Website
• (Spanish) Documentacion para entrenadores de Balonmano
• (Spanish) Revista digital de la Liga Asobal