UNES FC Barcelona


UNES FC Barcelona is a Spanish wheelchair basketball team. It is part of both the FC Barcelona family and the UNES Unió Esportiva.
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History

From 2001 until 2009, the team agreed collaboration terms with Fundació Institut Guttmann. The latter is a hospital in Catalonia that provides treatment and rehabilitation for people with spinal injury, brain damage, and other neurological disabilities. It is named after Dr. Sir Ludwig Guttmann, founder of the Paralympics and a pioneer of wheelchair sports. Club Esportiu Institut Guttmann was founded in 1967 and is the oldest disabled sports club in Spain. As well as a basketball team it also has boccia, hockey, and wheelchair tennis teams, and promotes athletics, weightlifting, archery, and table tennis.
In 2009, UNES Unió Esportiva collaborates with FC Barcelona which manages the main wheelchair basketball squad.
In 2011, the club resigned to its berth in División de Honor, where it competed since 2000.
In 2012 UNES FC Barcelona won the 2011-12 Primera División.

Honours

Season by season

SeasonTierLeaguePosCopa del Rey
2000–011Div. Honor10th
2001–021Div. Honor6thQuarterfinalist
2002–031Div. Honor7thQuarterfinalist
2003–041Div. Honor7thQuarterfinalist
2004–051Div. Honor4thQuarterfinalist
2005–061Div. Honor6thQuarterfinalist
2006–071Div. Honor6th4th position
2007–081Div. Honor4th4th position
2008–091Div. Honor3rd4th position
2009–101Div. Honor9th
2010–111Div. Honor9th
2011–1231ª División1st
2012–132Div. Honor B5th
2013–1421ª División
2014–1521ª División4th
2015–1621ª División
2016–1721ª División3rd
2017–1832ª División4th
2018–1932ª División