# 2020–21 Valencia Basket season

The 2020–21 season is Valencia Basket's 35th in existence and the club's 25th consecutive season in the top flight of Spanish basketball and the sixth season in the EuroLeague. It is the third consecutive season under head coach Jaume Ponsarnau.
Times up to 24 October 2020 and from 28 March 2021 are CEST (UTC+2). Times from 25 October 2020 to 27 March 2021 are CET (UTC+1).

## Overview
### Pre-season

Although many of its players have been training in the city for days or even weeks, either individually or in small groups, August 19 marked the first time that Valencia Basket brought all of them together for the first collective practice of the 2020–21 season. That group of 14 players under the direction of head coach Jaume Ponsarnau included five newcomers: Martin Hermannsson, Klemen Prepelič, Nikola Kalinić, Derrick Williams and Jaime Pradilla.
Valencia planned to continue working daily, with the exception of the Sunday, on its way to a first preseason game against Joventut on Friday, August 28. The fans in Spain's third-largest city were delighted, too, that the team's very first Turkish Airlines EuroLeague game was at home against LDLC ASVEL on October 1, the opening night of the season!

## Players
### Squad information

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.

### Depth chart

| Pos. | Starting 5 | Bench 1 | Bench 2 |
| C | Bojan Dubljević | Mike Tobey | |
| PF | Derrick Williams | Louis Labeyrie | Jaime Pradilla |
| SF | Nikola Kalinić | Fernando San Emeterio | Joan Sastre |
| SG | Klemen Prepelič | Martin Hermannsson | Vanja Marinković |
| PG | Guillem Vives | Sam Van Rossom | |
Colours: Blue = homegrown player; Red = non–FIBA Europe player

### Transactions
#### In

| No. | Pos. | Name | Age | Moving from | Type | Ends | Date |
| 3 | SG | Klemen Prepelič | 27 | Real Madrid | End of contract | June 2022 | 4 July 2020 |
| 21 | PF | Derrick Williams | 29 | Fenerbahçe Beko | End of contract | June 2021 | 8 July 2020 |
| 24 | PG | Martin Hermannsson | 25 | ALBA Berlin | End of contract | June 2022 | 10 July 2020 |
| 12 | SF | Nikola Kalinić | 28 | Fenerbahçe Beko | End of contract | June 2021 | 18 July 2020 |
| 4 | PF | Jaime Pradilla | 19 | Casademont Zaragoza | Transfer | June 2024 | 27 July 2020 |

#### Out

| No. | Pos. | Name | Age | Moving to | Type | Date |
| 3 | SG | Jordan Loyd | 26 | Crvena zvezda mts | End of contract | 2 July 2020 |
| 12 | PF | Brock Motum | 29 | Galatasaray Doğa Sigorta | End of contract | 4 July 2020 |
| 5 | PF | Maurice Ndour | 28 | Rytas | End of contract | 8 July 2020 |
| 42 | SF | Aaron Doornekamp | 34 | Iberostar Tenerife | End of contract | 15 July 2020 |
| 6 | SG | Alberto Abalde | 24 | Real Madrid | Transfer | 21 July 2020 |
| 1 | PG | Quino Colom | 32 | Crvena zvezda mts | Transfer | 16 December 2020 |

## Competitions
### Overview

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Win % |
| Liga ACB | 20 September 2020 | 10 June 2021 | Round 1 | Semifinalist | 42 | 27 | 0 | 15 | 3,569 | 3,380 | +189 | 064.29 |
| EuroLeague | 1 October 2020 | 8 April 2021 | Round 1 | 9th | 34 | 19 | 0 | 15 | 2,783 | 2,762 | +21 | 055.88 |
| Copa del Rey | 11 February 2021 | 11 February 2021 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinalist | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 74 | 85 | −11 | 000.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 77 | 46 | 0 | 31 | 6,426 | 6,227 | +199 | 059.74 |
Source: Competitions

### Liga ACB
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Qualification or relegation |
| 2 | Barça | 36 | 32 | 4 | 3162 | 2621 | +541 | Qualification to playoffs |
| 3 | Lenovo Tenerife | 36 | 27 | 9 | 3147 | 2861 | +286 | Qualification to playoffs |
| 4 | Valencia Basket | 36 | 24 | 12 | 3107 | 2917 | +190 | Qualification to playoffs |
| 5 | TD Systems Baskonia | 36 | 23 | 13 | 2952 | 2814 | +138 | Qualification to playoffs |
| 6 | Hereda San Pablo Burgos | 36 | 22 | 14 | 3130 | 2995 | +135 | Qualification to playoffs |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
| Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | W | L | PF | PA | PD | W | L | PF | PA | PD |
| 36 | 24 | 12 | 3107 | 2917 | +190 | 12 | 6 | 1618 | 1492 | +126 | 12 | 6 | 1489 | 1425 | +64 |
Source: Competitive matches

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 |
| Ground | A | H | A | A | H | R | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | A | H | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | R | H | A | H | A | A | H |
| Result | L | W | W | L | L | R | W | W | L | L | W | L | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | L | W | L | L | L | L | W | W | R | W | W | W | W | L | W |
| Position | 12 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 |

#### ACB Playoffs

Win  Loss

##### Semifinals
### EuroLeague
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Qualification |
| 7 | Fenerbahçe Beko | 34 | 20 | 14 | 2661 | 2679 | −18 | Qualification to playoffs |
| 8 | Zenit Saint Petersburg | 34 | 20 | 14 | 2670 | 2547 | +123 | Qualification to playoffs |
| 9 | Valencia Basket | 34 | 19 | 15 | 2762 | 2743 | +19 | |
| 10 | TD Systems Baskonia | 34 | 18 | 16 | 2742 | 2619 | +123 | |
| 11 | Žalgiris | 34 | 17 | 17 | 2630 | 2645 | −15 | |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
| Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | W | L | PF | PA | PD | W | L | PF | PA | PD |
| 34 | 19 | 15 | 2783 | 2762 | +21 | 12 | 5 | 1399 | 1347 | +52 | 7 | 10 | 1384 | 1415 | −31 |
Source: Competitive matches

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 |
| Ground | H | A | H | H | A | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | H | A | A | H | A | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | A | A | H | A | H | H | A | H |
| Result | W | W | L | L | W | L | W | L | W | W | W | L | W | W | L | W | L | L | L | W | L | L | L | W | W | W | L | L | W | W | W | L | W | W |
| Position | 7 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 |