The Endesa League final It will be resolved with a Classicsomething quite common in recent years. The real MadridFor example, will play their eleventh league final of the last twelve (was not in the title match in the Valencia bubble) while Barcelona add ten in the same time (He missed the 2017 and 2018 finals.) But this ‘classic’ domain goes further. In these last twelve years, 23 of the 36 national titles disputed (adding League, Cup and Super Cup) have been resolved with a Madrid-Barça, which represents 63.9% of the total. What’s more, there have only been two finals without madridistas or azulgranas: Valencia-Gran Canaria (Taronja triumphed 69-63 in the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Super Cup in 2017) and the last Copa del Rey, which was resolved with the triumph Unicaja over Lenovo Tenerife (80-83) in Badalona.
Of the 30 finals with Clásico of the 21st century, Barça has won 14 titles (two Super Cups, eight Copas del Rey and four Leagues) and Madrid, 16 (seven Super Cups, three Cups and six Leagues). In addition, in four seasons (2013-14, 2014-15, 2020-21 and 2021-22) all the finals featured these two teams.
Beforeinstead, They were different times. If in the last twelve seasons 63.9% of the titles have been decided with a Clásico, in the previous twelve (since the 1999-2000 campaign), they were only 27.3%: nine titles out of 31. It was much more frequent that there were finals without Real Madrid and Barça. In the Super Cup, four tournaments in a row (between 2005 and 2008) were resolved without Classic and with Baskonia as champion against Granada, Unicaja, Bilbao Basket and Casademont Zaragoza. two leagues (2002 and 2006) They were decided with a confrontation between Baskonia and Unicaja (title for the team from Vitoria in 2002 and for the team from Malaga in 2006). And in the Cup, more of the same: five finals had a confrontation other than Madrid-Barça and, except for Estu-Valencia in 2000, Baskonia was in all of them.: against Joventut (Baskonista triumph in 2004 and defeat in 2008), Valencia Basket (Alava triumph in 2006) and Unicaja (Cup for Baskonia in 2009). Until the arrival of Unicaja this year, Madrid and Barça had shared the last 13 cup titles: seven for the blaugranas and six for the whites.
Baskonia has been the great alternative to Madrid and Barça. Since the 1999-2000 season, he has played in 20 finals and has won twelve: four Leagues (2002, 2008, 2010 and 2020), four Cups (2002, 2004, 2006 and 2009) and the four Super Cups that he won between 2005 and 2008. The other teams that can boast of having won a title in the last 24 seasons are Unicaja (seven finals in which he has won a League and two Cups), the Valencia (eight, with a League and a Super Cup), the youth (two Cup finals with the 2008 title), the granca (lost the Cup and won the Super Cup in 2016) and the Estu (lost the ACB final in 2004 and won the Cup in 2000). Teams that once broke the Madrid-Barça duopoly.