These are the other names that Sevilla Basketball had

Hereda Sevilla Baloncesto, which in recent seasons had competed under the name Betis Baloncesto , surprised its fans and the entire Spanish basketball world on Thursday with the announcement of its new corporate identity and the recovery of a popular brand, Baloncesto Sevilla , which the historic Seville-based entity founded in 1987 displayed between 2014 and 2016, before the arrival of Real Betis Balompié on the scene. The name Baloncesto Sevilla carries the added value of recovering the green and red colors that have identified the club since its foundation in the late 1980s, when it began its journey in Amate before moving to San Pablo.

As the club itself recalls on its social media, the club has had various names over its 38 years of existence, depending on its main sponsor or owner. The institution was born under the name Club de Baloncesto SA, Clubasa, being the embryo of the first professional basketball team in Seville. The club emerged thanks to an initiative driven primarily by the Seville Provincial Council, coinciding with the City Council's inauguration of the San Pablo Municipal Sports Palace , although it initially played in Amate. The Dribling stadium in Primera B was purchased, and its majority shareholder and owner was Caja San Fernando, hence its familiar name for many years as 'El Caja'. Many Sevillians have continued to call it that, even during its Betis era. Under that name, it began wearing green, then red became its main color, and then it returned to green.

Being Club Deportivo Baloncesto Sevilla in the Commercial Registry, as Caja San Fernando , it competed until 2007. During that period, possibly the most cherished and memorable in its history, the team was promoted to the ACB, was runner-up in the League twice, once in the Copa del Rey, and participated in European competitions, including the Euroleague . This was undoubtedly the period of greatest growth for the club, reaching its peak with those league finals in the 1990s, with Asa Petrovic and Javier Imbroda on the bench, against Aíto García Reneses' Barça.

In 2007, after the decline in results at the beginning of the 21st century, the first major change occurred: Cajasol took over from Caja San Fernando. And in the 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 campaigns, the characteristic green and red of the shirts disappeared, transforming into a black kit that doesn't bring back fond memories precisely because they were two seasons of poor results in which they ultimately struggled to save the league until Juan Carlos Ollero, from the presidency, made a much-needed change of direction.

As Cajasol, the club achieved its greatest European success to date: finishing runner-up in the Eurocup in Treviso in 2011, the culmination of a three-year period with Joan Plaza in charge. In the 2011-2012 season, the club underwent its third name change, which was fleeting, by the way: Banca Cívica was its name that season, taking over from Cajasol and swapping the blue of its kits for an unforgettable pink or magenta , with the away kit in white.

The Cajasol name was revived for the next two years (both with Aíto, 2012-2013 and 2013-2014, the last time it reached the play-offs) in which the quality of its best talents (Satoransky, Porzingis, Balvin, Sastre...) was enhanced until the sale of the club, then owned by CaixaBank, to the American investment group Jefferson Capital Funding gave way to a few years of great instability in which its demise was feared. Without a main sponsor, the historic Caja became simply Baloncesto Sevilla . And so, once again with green and red as the main shades of its new corporate identity, it competed for two years until the bank transferred it to Real Betis Balompié , to the rescue. in 2016 when his continuity was seriously endangered.

From that moment on, it became the sports section of the Heliopolitan club , soon integrating into its structure and, to begin with, adopting the commercial name of Betis Energía Plus , descending sportingly to LEB Oro both in 2017 and 2018. With that name it was promoted to the Liga Endesa a year later, in 2019, and in the following three seasons, all of them in the top flight, it played as Coosur Real Betis thanks to the sponsorship of the Andalusian oil company.

As the alliance with that sponsor ended in the summer of 2022, during the 2022-23 campaign the team was called Real Betis Baloncesto and this has been its name both last season, when it was under the management of the Mexican conglomerate Yox Holding for a few months, and this last one, 2024-25, with the Hereda Group being the new owner when its sale was formalized in July 2024.

Although a sponsorship agreement was signed with Betis as the main sponsor for five years in the purchase and sale, the new owner, Pedro Fernández, decided to disassociate himself from the Betis brand after achieving promotion to the ACB in early June. This was done in order to identify the project as a team for all Sevillians. The city's team, without distinction, with the aim of attracting the relevant institutions. This explains this umpteenth twist with the adoption of the Baloncesto Sevilla brand, which could undergo yet another change, as it is normal for an agreement to be reached with a main sponsor, which may or may not be the Cajasol Foundation, to serve as the commercial name . Under its new name, the Sevillian club is committed to continuing to add chapters to its history. And it wants to do so in the ACB, once again with Cajasol.

The club is satisfied because, in general, they consider this initiative to have been well received. However, it has also generated debate and controversy , especially on social media. Some Betis fans are upset by the change, but others also see the reinstatement of the new brand as positive. And there are Sevilla fans who celebrate the disassociation from Betis. Of course, there are also basketball fans, whether Sevilla fans, Betis fans, with other football affiliations or none at all, who maintain they will not support the club again because they feel represented by Caja 87. Don't forget that there are season ticket holders for both clubs, and, of course, there are those for whom their affection for Baloncesto Sevilla doesn't care about colors, owners, or sponsors, remaining firm in their convictions despite the many ups and downs this entity has suffered in the last ten years, and who want to continue competing and dreaming on the courts .