Unicaja Malaga
- Leagues Played
- Spain Liga ACB 416 Euroleague 78 Euro Cup 73 Basketball Champions League 61 Club Friendlies 40 Spain Copa del Rey 16 Spain ACB Supercopa 7 FIBA Intercontinental Cup 3 Basketball Champions League Qual 2
- Links
- unicajabaloncesto.com Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube TikTok 2=unicajabaloncesto.com Wikipedia
- Related Teams
- Unicaja Malaga 2 Unicaja Malaga Women
Results
| Spain Liga ACB | 06/17 19:15 | 2 |
[4] Unicaja Malaga v
Real Madrid
[1] 
|
L | 79-86 | |
| Spain Liga ACB | 06/15 15:00 | 2 |
[4] Unicaja Malaga v
Real Madrid
[1]
|
W | 86-84 | |
| Spain Liga ACB | 06/13 19:15 | 2 |
[1] Real Madrid
v
Unicaja Malaga [4]
|
L | 90-75 | |
| Spain Liga ACB | 06/11 19:15 | 2 |
[1] Real Madrid
v
Unicaja Malaga [4]
|
L | 99-81 | |
| Spain Liga ACB | 06/08 16:30 | 3 |
[4] Unicaja Malaga v
Barcelona
[5] 
|
W | 97-95 | |
| Spain Liga ACB | 06/06 17:00 | 3 |
[5] Barcelona
v
Unicaja Malaga [4]
|
W | 59-81 | |
| Spain Liga ACB | 06/03 19:15 | 3 |
[4] Unicaja Malaga v
Barcelona
[5]
|
L | 97-101 | |
| Spain Liga ACB | 05/30 19:00 | 34 |
[4] Unicaja Malaga v
Joventut
[6] 
|
L | 78-83 | |
| Spain Liga ACB | 05/25 10:00 | 33 |
[14] Forca Lleida
v
Unicaja Malaga [4]
|
W | 69-98 | |
| Spain Liga ACB | 05/18 10:30 | 32 |
[4] Unicaja Malaga v
UCAM Murcia
[10] 
|
W | 104-93 | |
| Basketball Champions League | 05/11 17:00 | 1 |
[2] Galatasaray
v
Unicaja Malaga [1]
|
W | 67-83 | |
| Basketball Champions League | 05/09 18:00 | 2 |
AEK
v
Unicaja Malaga
|
W | 65-71 |
Wikipedia - Baloncesto Málaga
Baloncesto Málaga S.A.D., also known as Unicaja for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball club based in Málaga, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB and the Champions League.
Founded in 1977, the team is sponsored by the Spanish bank Unicaja and has carried that sponsorship name since 1992. They play their home games at the Palacio de Deportes José María Martín Carpena, shortly known as the "Martín Carpena". Unicaja has won one Liga ACB title, in 2006, as well as three Copas del Rey, one EuroCup, two Basketball Champions League, one FIBA Korać Cup and one FIBA Intercontinental Cup title.
History
Unicaja was originally founded in 1977, as CB Caja de Ronda. In 1992, the club merged another ACB team in the city of Málaga, CB Maristas de Málaga, which was originally founded in 1953 as Ademar Basket Club. Over the years, the club has featured players like: Nacho Rodríguez, Berni Rodríguez, Carlos Cabezas, Jorge Garbajosa, Marcus Brown, Sergei Babkov, Michael Ansley, Louis Bullock, and Kenny Miller, as well as numerous other well-known players. The club won its first title, when it won the European-wide third tier level FIBA Korać Cup in the 2000–01 season. They then won the Spanish King's Cup title in 2005. The next year, in the 2005–06 season, Unicaja won its first-ever Spanish League championship.
The club finished its best years to date, by qualifying for the 2007 Euroleague Final Four, where it was defeated in the semifinals by CSKA Moscow, and thus finished in third place in the EuroLeague. In October 2007, Unicaja faced the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies in a friendly match, and they defeated the Grizzlies, by a score of 102–99. That was one of the 17 times that an NBA team has lost to a foreign club. Pau Gasol and Juan Carlos Navarro, two of the greatest Spanish basketball players of all time, played for Memphis in that historical game.
Málaga participated in the European-wide top-tier level league, the EuroLeague, for 15 consecutive seasons (2001–02 season to 2015–16 season). However, in the summer of 2015, it lost its EuroLeague A-licence. Therefore, in the 2016–17 season, Unicaja participated in the second tier level EuroCup. The club immediately won the EuroCup title, in its first season in the league, after winning over Valencia Basket in the league's Finals.
In the 2023–24 season, Unicaja switched from Euroleague Basketball-organised competitions to FIBA's Basketball Champions League. It won the championship after defeating Canarias in the final, which took place in Belgrade. As European champions, Unicaja then played in the 2024 FIBA Intercontinental Cup in Singapore, and won its first world-level title.
In the following 2024–25 season, Unicaja once again won the BCL championship, after defeating Galatasaray in the final of the Final Four in Athens. They became the second team to win consecutive league titles, following San Pablo Burgos.