CESAFI
| Abbreviation | CESAFI |
|---|---|
| Formation | 2001 |
| Type | Collegiate sports league |
| Headquarters | Cebu City |
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Region served
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Cebu |
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Membership
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12 member schools |
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President
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Dionisio Miranda |
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Commissioner
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Felix Tiukinhoy, Jr. |
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Main organ
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Board of Trustees |
| Website | cesafi |
| Sport | Basketball |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2001 |
| No. of teams |
19 teams:
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| Most recent champion(s) |
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| Most titles |
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The Cebu Schools Athletic Foundation, Inc. (CESAFI) is a sports association of 12 schools, colleges and universities in Cebu, Philippines. The CESAFI was established in 2001.
Before CESAFI's creation, there was already a collegiate league in Cebu, named the Cebu Amateur Athletic Association (CAAA). The league was created sometime in the 1930s and was the country's second college sports league, only preceded by the National Collegiate Athletic Association which was created in 1924, and way before the creation of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines in 1938. The CAAA was regarded as the best college sports league outside Metro Manila and the third most prestigious one after the UAAP and NCAA, both of which are based in Manila. The CAAA has had a rich history from the 1930s until it dissolved in 2000, producing top Filipino basketball players such as Ramon Fernandez of USC, regarded as the greatest Filipino basketball player of all time, Abet Guidaben, Jojo Lastimosa, Zaldy Realubit, Bernie Fabiosa and Dondon Ampalayo of USJ-R, Dondon Hontiveros and Biboy Ravanes of UC, Boy Cabahug, Al Solis and Manny Paner of UV.
The CAAA took an unexpected turn, when in 1999 league commissioner Felix Tiukinhoy, Jr. barred a player of Salazar Colleges of Science and Institute of Technology. The school filed a case against Tiukinhoy and the CAAA. To avoid a lengthy court process, Tiukinhoy decided to dissolve the CAAA and create a new league, which was named as the Cebu Schools Athletic Foundation, Inc. or CESAFI, which was basically the same league but with a different name with the same teams except for Salazar College, which were expelled from the new league. For unknown reasons, the Southwestern University (Now named as Southwestern University-Phinma), who were the champions of the last season of CAAA, decided to pull out from the new league after the first season. However, on 2006, SWU eventually returned to the CESAFI.
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