Basketball team

Espanol de Talca

Club · Chile · LNB

«El Quijote»

214 Matches

44 wins

170 losses

15159–17906 Points

−2747 Difference

70.8 Average per match

Form L L L W W W

Basketball at Español de Talca grew out of a general sports club that had been established in the city in 1921. That came in 1979, when Talca's team joined as a founding member of the División Mayor del Básquetbol Chileno, and two years later it already had a national title, winning the Dimayor championship in 1981.

The club carries three nicknames rooted in that Spanish heritage. Its colours, red and yellow, reflect that origin. Home games are played at a gymnasium named after Manuel Herrera Blanco, one of the players who built the club's early identity on court alongside the Bravo brothers, Samuel and Francisco, known as "Tachuela."

The modern era brought a run few Chilean clubs could match: three Liga Nacional de Básquetbol titles in 2010, 2012–13 and 2016–17, the last of them delivered under coach Gabriel Schamberger. Between those championships came a sharper test. Relegated to the Second Division in 2019, the club won that competition outright the following season and returned to the top flight at the first attempt, in 2019–20.

None of that history has settled the Clásico Talquino. Rangers de Talca remains the rival that defines the city's basketball calendar, alongside Municipal Talca, and a repeat of the 2016–17 title has so far stayed out of reach.

Latest results

Fixtures and results

14 Oct	LNB	CD Las Ánimas H	96:91	W
9 Oct	LNB	Naviera Ulloa H	85:82	W
6 Oct	LNB	Universidad Catolica H	80:74	W
3 Oct	LNB	Colo Colo A	76:115	L
25 Sep	LNB	CD Las Ánimas A	77:81	L
23 Sep	LNB	Naviera Ulloa A	78:86	L

Standing

LNB

Group stage · Center

#	Team	M	W	L	Goals
1	Universidad de Concepcion	12	12	0	1154:895
2	Puente Alto CD	12	9	3	1040:930
3	Leones Quilpue	12	8	4	994:948
4	Boston C. C.	12	6	6	991:1112
5	Colo Colo	12	4	8	908:949
6	Universidad Catolica	12	2	10	929:1046
7	Espanol de Talca	12	1	11	890:1026