Australian Basketball Association
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ABA logo
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| Formerly |
South Eastern Conference 1965–1970 South Eastern Basketball League 1981–1987 South East Australian Basketball League 1988–1991 Continental Basketball Association 1992–1998 Australian Basketball Association 1999–2008 |
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| Sport | Basketball |
| Founded | 1965 |
| Ceased | 2008 |
| Country |
 Australia
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| Continent | FIBA Oceania (Oceania) |
| Level on pyramid | 2 |
| Related competitions |
Big V Premier League QBL SEABL Waratah League |
The Australian Basketball Association (ABA) was a second-tiered semi-professional men's and women's basketball entity in Australia which sat under the professional National Basketball League (NBL) and Women's National Basketball League (WNBL). The association incorporated five regional leagues – the Big V (Victoria), Premier League (South Australia), Queensland Basketball League (Queensland), South East Australian Basketball League (Southeast Australia), and Waratah League (New South Wales) in both men's and women's competitions.
The Australian Basketball Association's (ABA) roots can be traced back as far as 1965, when just eight clubs competed in the South Eastern Conference (SEC). The SEC continued for six seasons until in 1971, the Australian Club Championships gained pre-eminence.
In 1981, the SEC was reborn as the South Eastern Basketball League (SEBL) when the Australian Club Championships ceased to operate due to the rise of Australia's first truly national competition, the National Basketball League. The SEBL was divided into a South and East Conference format in 1986, a league that now consisted of 21 teams from New South Wales, ACT, Tasmania and Victoria. That same year, Queensland's State Basketball League was founded. In 1988, the SEBL was renamed the South East Australian Basketball League (SEABL), and in 1990, a women's competition was introduced. In 1992, the SEABL was renamed the Continental Basketball Association (CBA), and in 1994, the CBA expanded to a three-conference competition with Queensland's "North" conference merging with the South and East conferences. 1994 marked the first year in Australian state basketball league history that teams from outside the original south-east concept competed in an end of season national tournament.
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