Real Estelí Baloncesto
Real Estelí Baloncesto is a Nicaraguan basketball team based in Managua. Founded in 2018, it is the basketball section of the Real Estelí FC football club, which was founded in 1959. The team entered the Liga Superior [de Baloncesto (Nicaragua)|Liga Superior de Baloncesto] for its debut season in 2018 season.
Real Estelí's home arena is the Alexis Arguello Sports Complex, which was opened in 2017 and has a capacity of 8,057 people.
History
The first game of the team in the LSB was played on 9 February 2018 against Leones de Managua.In 2019, head coach David Rosario took over the team. Before he joined Estelí, Rosario had been the three-time Baloncesto Superior Nacional champion with Capitanes de Arecibo. In the same year, Real Estelí played in the inaugural season of the newly founded, Basketball [Champions League Americas]. Real reached the quarterfinals. A year later, the team won its first LSB championship after defeating Brumas de Jinotega in the playoff finals.
In April 2021, Real Estelí played in the Final Eight of the 2020–21 BCL Americas and hosted the tournament in Managua. The team managed to reach the final for the first time in club history, where it narrowly lost to Flamengo 80–84.
Real Estelí qualified for the 2021–22 BCL Americas season, which was its fourth in a row. El Tren del Norte was allotted into Group A alongside Cangrejeros de Santurce and the Edmonton Stingers.
On 3 December 2021, the club repeated as LSB champions after beating Brunas de Jinotega in the final. The following 2022 season, Real Estelí captured their fourth title.
Honours
National
Liga Superior de Baloncesto- Champions : 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024
- Champions : 2022
International
BCL Americas- Runner-up : 2020–21
- Winners : 2018
Performance in international competitions
Champions Runners-up Third place Fourth placeBasketball Champions League Americas
Below are all the seasons of Real Estelí in the BCL Americas competition.Champions Runners-up
| Season | League | Result | ||
| 2019–20 | BCL Americas | Quarter-finals | 5–2 | .714 |
| 2020–21 | BCL Americas | 2021 [BCL Americas Final|Runners-up] | 6–3 | .667 |
| 2021–22 | BCL Americas | Quarter-finalist | 3–4 | .429 |
| 2022–23 | BCL Americas | Quarter-finalist | 4–4 | .500 |
| 2023–24 | BCL Americas | Quarter-finalist | 4–5 | .444 |
| 2024–25 | BCL Americas | Quarter-finalist | 5–3 | |
| Totals | 0 titles | 27–21 |
Notable players
- Set a club record or won an individual award as a professional player.- Played at least one official international match for his senior national team at any time.