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Liga Portuguesa de Basquetebol

Liga Portuguesa de Basquetebol
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Country  Portugal
Confederation FIBA Europe
Founded 2008; 9 years ago (2008)
First season 2008–09
Number of teams 12
Level on pyramid 1
Relegation to Proliga
Domestic cup(s) Cup
League Cup
Supercup Super Cup
International cup(s) Champions League
FIBA Europe Cup
Current champions Porto
(12th title)
Most championships Benfica
(26 titles)
TV partners TVI
Benfica TV
Porto Canal
Website fpb.pt
(Portuguese)
2016–17 season

The Liga Portuguesa de Basquetebol (English: Portuguese Basketball League) is the top men's professional club basketball league in Portugal. From the 2008–09 season onward, the competition has been organized once again by the Federação Portuguesa de Basquetebol (Portuguese Basketball Federation) after previously not having been for 13 seasons. This was caused by the fold of the LCB, after many years of financial problems, with the league now being a semi-professional league.

Between the seasons 1965–66 and 1973–74 the league champions were determine by a tournament between the winners of the Campeonato Metropolitano (representing Portugal) and the champions of Portugal's then-colonies Mozambique and Angola, as a similar fashion to the Portuguese Roller Hockey First Division, which was also played during those seasons. However, the first of these tournaments never came to be, due to a protest launched by the Mozambican team, Sporting de Lourenço Marques.


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