1986–87 ACB season

ACB Primera División
Season	1986–87
Games played	262
Teams	16
Regular season
Relegated	Leche Rio Breogán Clesa Ferrol
Finals
Champions	FC Barcelona 1st ACB title 4th Spanish title
Runners-up	Ron Negrita Joventut
Semifinalists	CAI Zaragoza Real Madrid
← 1985–86 1987–88 →

The 1986–87 ACB season was the 4th season of the ACB Primera División, the top Spanish professional basketball league. It started on 13 September 1986 with the first round of the regular season and ended on 25 April 1987 with the finals.

FC Barcelona won their first ACB title, and their fourth Spanish title.

Format changes

Starting from this season, the promotions and relegations teams at the end of the season between ACB Primera División and Primera División B were reduced from three to two teams. For the championship playoffs, the semifinals and finals adopted the best-of-five playoff, instead of previous season's best-of-three playoff that were kept for the first round and quarterfinals. For the relegation playoffs, were reduced from two to one round and adopted the best-of-five playoff.

Teams

Promotion and relegation (pre-season)

A total of 16 teams contested the league, including 13 sides from the 1985–86 season and three promoted from the 1985–86 Primera División B.

Teams promoted from Primera División B

• Cajacanarias
• Cajabilbao
• Oximesa Granada

Venues and locations

Barcelona

Álava

Breogán

Bilbao

Estudiantes

Ferrol

Huesca

Oximesa

Real Madrid

Valladolid

Zaragoza

Barcelona teams:
Barcelona
Granollers
Joventut
Manresa
Sarriá

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Location of teams in 1986–87 ACB

Barcelona

Granollers

Joventut

Manresa

Sarriá

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Location of teams from Barcelona in 1986–87 ACB

Canarias

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Location of teams from the Canary Islands in 1986–87 ACB

Team	Home city	Arena
Cacaolat Granollers	Granollers	Municipal
CAI Zaragoza	Zaragoza	Palacio de Deportes
Caja Álava	Vitoria-Gasteiz	Mendizorrotza
Cajabilbao	Bilbao	La Casilla
Cajacanarias	San Cristóbal de La Laguna	San Benito
Clesa Ferrol	Ferrol	A Malata
Estudiantes Caja Postal	Madrid	Antonio Magariños
		Palacio de Deportes
FC Barcelona	Barcelona	Palau Blaugrana
Fórum Filatélico Valladolid	Valladolid	Huerta del Rey
Gin MG Sarriá	Barcelona	Palau dels Esports
Leche Rio Breogán	Lugo	Municipal
Magia de Huesca	Huesca	Municipal
Oximesa Granada	Albolote	José Antonio Murado
Real Madrid	Madrid	Palacio de Deportes
Ron Negrita Joventut	Badalona	Club Joventut Badalona
TDK Manresa	Manresa	Congost

First phase

Group Odd

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Real Madrid	14	12	2	1337	1151	+186	26	Qualification to Group A1
2	Ron Negrita Joventut	14	12	2	1295	1190	+105	26
3	Estudiantes Caja Postal	14	7	7	1310	1275	+35	21
4	Cajabilbao	14	7	7	1214	1247	−33	21
5	Magia de Huesca	14	5	9	1152	1221	−69	19	Qualification to Group A2
6	Caja Álava	14	5	9	1135	1208	−73	19
7	Leche Río Breogán	14	5	9	1168	1237	−69	19
8	Fórum Filatélico Valladolid	14	3	11	1159	1241	−82	17

Source: Linguasport

Group Even

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	FC Barcelona	14	12	2	1394	1153	+241	26	Qualification to Group A1
2	CAI Zaragoza	14	11	3	1322	1173	+149	25
3	Cajacanarias	14	9	5	1316	1265	+51	23
4	Cacaolat Granollers	14	8	6	1225	1249	−24	22
5	Gin MG Sarriá	14	6	8	1231	1255	−24	20	Qualification to Group A2
6	TDK Manresa	14	4	10	1153	1300	−147	18
7	Oximesa Granada	14	3	11	1145	1281	−136	17
8	Clesa Ferrol	14	3	11	1103	1213	−110	17

Source: Linguasport

Second phase

Group A1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	FC Barcelona	14	11	3	1473	1260	+213	25	Qualification to quarterfinals
2	Ron Negrita Joventut	14	11	3	1379	1320	+59	25
3	CAI Zaragoza	14	8	6	1306	1291	+15	22
4	Real Madrid	14	8	6	1350	1295	+55	22
5	Estudiantes Caja Postal	14	6	8	1324	1363	−39	20	Qualification to first round
6	Cajabilbao	14	5	9	1290	1399	−109	19
7	Cajacanarias	14	4	10	1339	1380	−41	18
8	Cacaolat Granollers	14	3	11	1192	1345	−153	17

Source: Linguasport

Group A2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	TDK Manresa	14	9	5	1244	1227	+17	23	Qualification to first round
2	Oximesa Granada	14	9	5	1187	1181	+6	23
3	Caja Álava	14	8	6	1296	1264	+32	22
4	Magia de Huesca	14	8	6	1234	1225	+9	22
5	Fórum Filatélico Valladolid	14	7	7	1215	1195	+20	21	Qualification to relegation playoffs
6	Leche Río Breogán	14	7	7	1250	1224	+26	21
7	Gin MG Sarriá	14	6	8	1242	1262	−20	20
8	Clesa Ferrol	14	2	12	1151	1241	−90	16

Source: Linguasport

Playoffs

Main article: 1987 ACB Playoffs

Championship playoffs

	First round								Quarterfinals								Semifinals								Finals
									A1–1 FC Barcelona				99	101
									A1–8 Cacaolat Granollers				79	76
	A1–8 Cacaolat Granollers			96	93	96
	A2–1 TDK Manresa			89	105	93
																	A1–1 FC Barcelona		91	89	91	87
																	A1–4 Real Madrid		90	80	95	78
									A1–4 Real Madrid			104	115	98
									A1–5 Estudiantes			95	121	86
	A1–5 Estudiantes				107	87
	A2–4 Magia de Huesca				89	85
																									A1–1 FC Barcelona		104	90	95	101
																									A1–2 Joventut		97	72	98	99
									A1–2 Joventut				91	116
									A1–7 Cajacanarias				90	97
	A1–7 Cajacanarias			97	81	98
	A2–2 Oximesa Granada			90	88	97
																	A1–2 Joventut			89	91	100
																	A1–3 CAI Zaragoza			77	85	95
									A1–3 CAI Zaragoza				109	87
									A2–3 Caja Álava				93	86
	A1–6 Cajabilbao			83	95	90
	A2–3 Caja Álava			93	89	97

Source: Linguasport

Relegation playoffs

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5
Fórum Filatélico Valladolid	3–0	Clesa Ferrol	76–65	89–86	98–91	0	0
Leche Rio Breogán	1–3	Gin MG Sarriá	93–85	76–82	96–98	94–106	0

Source: Linguasport

Final standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Qualification or relegation
1	FC Barcelona (C)	38	31	7	Qualification to European Champions Cup
2	Ron Negrita Joventut	37	29	8	Qualification to European Cup Winners' Cup
3	CAI Zaragoza	33	21	12	Qualification to Korać Cup
4	Real Madrid	35	23	12
5	Estudiantes Caja Postal	33	16	17
6	Cajacanarias	33	15	18
7	Cacaolat Granollers	33	13	20
8	Caja Álava	33	15	18
9	Cajabilbao	31	13	18
10	TDK Manresa	31	14	17	Qualification to Korać Cup
11	Oximesa Granada	31	13	18
12	Magia de Huesca	30	13	17
13	Fórum Filatélico Valladolid	31	13	18
14	Gin MG Sarriá	32	15	17
15	Leche Rio Breogán (R)	32	13	19	Relegation to Primera División B
16	Clesa Ferrol (R)	31	5	26

Source: Linguasport
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

External links

• Official website (in Spanish)
• Linguasport (in Spanish)