The Plaza 3×3 circuit CaixaBank has closed its 2022 edition exceeding all forecasts and notably above the figures registered a year ago. In total, 12 cities throughout Spain have experienced as many stops with more than 4,000 participants, 1,500 parties and 50,000 visitors from May to November. The tenth edition of this FEB – CaixaBank circuit has been an enormous success in terms of attendance, basketball and transmission of the values that pervade the largest free and outdoor 3×3 basketball circuit in Spain.
The 12 stops of this 2022 edition have been lived in Melilla, Madrid, Malaga, Palma, Pamplona, A Coruña, Santander, Barcelona, Alcalá de Henares, Zaragoza, Granada and Seville, complying in all of them with the health protocols that have guaranteed the health of participants and visitors. In total, since 2012, Plaza 3×3 CaixaBank has experienced 113 stops in 43 cities throughout Spain and has had 50,000 participants and 300,000 visitors since it started.
With the Absolute Teams and urban sports. Throughout this edition, the tenth anniversary, the circuit has coincided with the presence in the city of the Absolute Selections, Male (in Pamplona) current European champion, and Female (on the opening day held in Melilla, where the participants were visited by the entire team). In addition, for the second consecutive year, the stops in Madrid and Barcelona have been held within the framework of Madrid Urban Sports and Extreme Barcelona respectively, two of the most successful urban sports events in Spain.
FEB Ambassadors and distinguished visitors
Participants and visitors have been able to get up close to three of the great FEB Ambassadors: Fernando Romay, Carlos Jiménez -current Team Manager of the Men’s National Team- and Marta Fernández, who has been in charge of closing the tenth edition of the circuit on the closing day in Seville. With the FEB Ambassadors, the boys and girls registered for the tournament have been able to participate in various skill and shooting contests. Together with them, illustrious visitors such as the entire Women’s Team have also been protagonists.
The impulse of Universo Mujer and tribute to a pioneer Since its first edition in 2012, the circuit has been linked to the women’s basketball promotion program Universo Mujerwhich together with the central CaixaBank court, also gives its name to one of the courts at each stop, as a platform to promote the practice of basketball by girls and young people, who in this 2022 edition have represented around 30% of the Total number of participants, registered in all categories of the circuit, from Pre-Mini to Senior.
At the stop in Santander, the Plaza 3×3 CaixaBank paid tribute to Conchita Santamaría, former player and captain of the first women’s basketball team in the history of Santander, who at 99 years of age did not miss the day, receiving recognition from institutions, young people and the general public. The Town Halls and the Autonomous Institutions have been, for yet another year, a fundamental part of the success of the circuit, as has the collaboration of the different Autonomous Federations that have participated in this edition. For one of them, the Navarre Federation, the passage of Plaza 3×3 CaixaBank through Pamplona 2022 It meant the closing act of the celebration of its 75th Anniversary.
The FEB launched the Plaza 3×3 CaixaBank program in 2012, from its first edition with CaixaBank. Since it started, the circuit has already reached 113 stops, 50,000 participants and 300,000 visitors. All this in a total of 43 cities throughout Spain: A Coruña, Albacete, Alcalá de Henares, Alcázar de San Juan, Almendralejo, Almería, Ávila, Badajoz, Barcelona, Bilbao, Burgos, Cáceres, Castellón, Cartagena, Córdoba, Gijón, Guadalajara, Granada, Huelva, Jaén, Jerez de la Frontera, León, Leganés, L’Hospitalet, Logroño, Madrid, Málaga, Melilla, Murcia, Palma de Mallorca, Pamplona, Plasencia, San Sebastián, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Segovia, Seville, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Terrassa, Valencia, Zaragoza and Zarautz.