2012–13 LEB Oro season


The 2012–13 LEB Oro season was the 17th season of the Liga Española de Baloncesto, a Spanish basketball league. It was named Adecco Oro as its sponsored identity. The champion of the regular season would be promoted to Liga ACB. The teams between second and ninth position will play a best of five games play off, where the winner would be promoted too to the higher division.

Competition format

Eligibility of players

All teams must have in their roster:
  • A minimum of six players who played in Spain during three season being between 15 and 20 years old.
  • A maximum of two non-EU players. This players can be replaced by players from the EU or ACP countries.
  • A maximum of three players from the EU or ACP countries.
Teams can not sign any player after February 28, 2012.

Regular season

Each team of every division has to play with all the other teams of its division twice, once at home and the other at the opponent's stadium.
Like many other leagues in continental Europe, the Liga LEB takes a winter break once each team has played half its schedule. One feature of the league that may be unusual to North American observers is that the two halves of the season are played in the same order—that is, the order of each team's first-half fixtures is repeated in the second half of the season, with the only difference being the arenas used. This procedure is typical in Europe; it is also used by La Liga in football.
Since the first round of the second leg, if two or more teams have accumulated the same number of winning games, the criteria of tie-breaking are these:
  1. Head-to-head winning games.
  2. Head-to-head points coefficient.
  3. Total points coefficient.
After the first leg of the season, the two top qualified teams will play the Copa Príncipe de Asturias and the leader will be the host team.
At the final of the season:
  • The regular season winner promotes directly to Liga ACB.
  • Teams qualified between 2nd and 9th, will join the promotion play-offs to ACB.
  • Teams qualified in positions 12th and 13th will play the relegation playoffs.
  • Team qualified in last position is relegated directly to LEB Plata.

Team information

New teams in the league:
Teams that left the league:
TeamCityArenaCapacityFoundedHead coach
Cáceres Patrimonio de la HumanidadCáceresMultiusos Ciudad de Cáceres6,5002007

Regular season

League table

= Copa Príncipe de Asturias champion

Positions by round

Team\Round
0102030405060708091011121314151617181920212223242526
Ford Burgos31464322222211122222222221
River Andorra73222111111122211111111112
Lucentum Alicante6111085543333333334333333333
Palencia Baloncesto14333454554544443444444444
CB Breogán47746766446456755555555555
Cáceres Patrimonio de la Humanidad1310121212111010101211121171098991171011766
Força Lleida CE12139119101111998888561010810696677
Lobe Huesca81213131413131212111210109879111069671088
Leyma Natura Básquet Coruña52111235775671091271213131212131199
FC Barcelona Regal B1166586778810111212121112868107991010
Planasa Navarra108119799911109995686679111110121111
Knet9957108886677611111011711788881212
Club Ourense Baloncesto1414141413141414131414141413131313131212131312131313
Club Melilla Baloncesto2581011121213141313131314141414141414141414141414

Copa Príncipe de Asturias

At the half of the league, the two first teams in the table play the Copa Príncipe de Asturias at home of the winner of the first half season. If this team doesn't want to host the Copa Príncipe, the second qualified can do it. If nobody wants to host it, the Federation will propose a neutral venue.
The Champion of this Cup joined the play-offs as first qualified if it finishes the league between the 2nd and the 5th qualified. The Copa Príncipe was played on February 1, 2013.

Playoffs

Relegation playoffs

The loser of a best-of-five series will be relegated to LEB Plata.

Awards and trophies

All LEB Oro team

MVP of the regular season

Coach of the season

  • Andreu Casadevall

LEB Oro Rising star