FIBA Americas League
Current season, competition or edition: 2017 FIBA Americas League
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| Sport | Basketball |
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| Founded | 2007 |
| CEO | Usie Richards |
| No. of teams | 16 |
| Country | FIBA Americas members |
| Continent | Americas |
| Most recent champion(s) |
Guaros de Lara (1st title) |
| Most titles |
Peñarol (2 titles) |
| TV partner(s) |
DirecTV (South America) Sky (Mexico and Central America) ESPN and ESPN Deportes (United States) SporTV (Brazil) Eurosport (Europe and Asia Pacific) |
| Level on pyramid | 1st-tier South America (South American pyramid) Central America Caribbean Mexico |
| Related competitions |
FIBA Intercontinental Cup |
| Official website | FIBA Americas.com |
The FIBA Americas League (Portuguese: FIBA Liga das Américas, Spanish: FIBA Liga de las Américas) is an international men's professional basketball club competition played annually by clubs of the Americas. It is organized by FIBA Americas. The first edition started on December 4, 2007.
The winner of the FIBA Americas League Final Four, the culminating tournament of each season's FIBA Americas League, is crowned as the champion of all of the FIBA Americas zone region. The tournament's final is called the Grand Final. It is the first-tier and most important professional international club basketball competition in the regions of South America (see: South American basketball pyramid), Central America, the Caribbean, and Mexico. In recent years, the winner of each season's FIBA Americas tournament, played against the winner of each season's European top-tier level EuroLeague competition, at the FIBA Intercontinental Cup, in order to determine an official club world cup champion. Currently, the champions of the FIBA Americas League contest the FIBA Intercontinental Cup against the champions of the European 3rd-tier level Champions League competition.
The Campeonato Sudamericano de Clubes (South American Club Championship), which was founded in 1946, was the first international competition that was played between basketball clubs from South America, and it was the first-tier and most important club competition in South America until 1995, when the new Liga Sudamericana de Básquetbol (South American League) supplanted it in importance from 1996 until 2007. With the emergence of the new FIBA Americas League in December 2007, the South American League became the second-tier international club championship in South America, beginning with the 2008 edition of the competition.
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