The Basketball Champions League is a seasonal basketball competition established in 2016. It is open to all member nations of FIBA Europe. After a regular season and playoffs, two teams face off in the final.
Founded | 2017 |
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Region | Europe (FIBA Europe) |
Number of teams | 2 |
Current champions | Telekom Baskets Bonn (1st title) |
Most successful club(s) | San Pablo Burgos, Canarias (2 titles each) |
2022–23 Basketball Champions League |
List of finals
edit† | Match was won after overtime |
- The "Season" column refers to the season the competition was held, and wikilinks to the article about that season.
- The wikilinks in the "Score" column point to the article about that season's final game.
Season | Winners | Score | Runners-up | Venue | Att. | Champions coach | Final Four MVP | Ref. | ||
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Nation | Team | Nation | Team | |||||||
2016–17 | Canarias | 63–59 | Banvit | Pabellón Insular Santiago Martín, La Laguna, Spain | 5,050 | Txus Vidorreta | Marius Grigonis | [1][2] | ||
2017–18 | AEK Athens | 100–94 | Monaco | O.A.C.A. Olympic Indoor Hall, Athens, Greece | 17,984 | Zvezdan Mitrović | Mike Green | [3] | ||
2018–19 | Virtus Bologna | 73–61 | Canarias | Sportpaleis, Antwerp, Belgium | 16,437 | Aleksandar Đorđević | Kevin Punter | [4] | ||
2019–20 | San Pablo Burgos | 85–74 | AEK Athens | O.A.C.A. Olympic Indoor Hall, Athens, Greece | 0 | Joan Peñarroya | Thad McFadden | |||
2020–21 | San Pablo Burgos | 64–59 | Karşıyaka | Trade Union Sport Palace, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia | 1,265 | Joan Peñarroya | Vítor Benite | |||
2021–22 | Canarias | 98–87 | Manresa | Bilbao Arena, Bilbao, Spain | 8,157 | Txus Vidorreta | Marcelo Huertas | |||
2022–23 | Baskets Bonn | 77–70 | Hapoel Jerusalem | Palacio de Deportes José María Martín Carpena, Málaga, Spain | 10,437 | Tuomas Iisalo | T. J. Shorts | [5] |
List of top scorers
editA team with an * denotes that they lost in the finals. The current record for most points in a BCL final is hold by T. J. Shorts who scored 29 points in the 2023 final.
Year | Player | Club | Points | Reference |
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2017 | Marius Grigonis | Canarias | 18 | [1][2] |
2018 | Mike Green | AEK Athens | 19 | |
2019 | Kevin Punter | Virtus Bologna | 26 | [4] |
2020 | Thad McFadden | San Pablo Burgos | 18 | |
2021 | Amath M'Baye | Karşıyaka* | 17 | |
2022 | Chima Moneke | Manresa* | 24 | |
2023 | T. J. Shorts | Baskets Bonn | 29 | [5] |
References
edit- ^ a b "Iberostar Tenerife crowned inaugural Basketball Champions League winners". BasketballCL.com. 2017-04-30. Retrieved 2017-06-14.
- ^ a b "Iberostar Tenerife v Banvit - 30 April".
- ^ "AS Monaco v AEK - 6 May".
- ^ a b "Segafredo Virtus Bologna v Iberostar Tenerife boxscore - Basketball Champions League 2018-19 - 5 May - Basketball Champions League 2018-19".
- ^ a b "Telekom Baskets Bonn celebrate their first Basketball Champions League title". FIBA.basketball. 2023-05-14. Retrieved 2023-05-14.