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21-560: The league usually includes some national domestic champions, and some runners-up, from the best national leagues and basketball countries on the South American continent. Depending on the country, places may be awarded on the basis of performance in the previous season's national domestic league, or over the previous two or three national domestic seasons. The tournament has been played since 1996, aside from 2003, 2020 and 2021. The South American Championship of Champions Clubs , which

42-695: The 1996 FIBA Intercontinental Cup . With the emergence of the new panamerican competition called the FIBA Americas League , in December 2007, the FIBA South American League became the second-tier international club championship in South America, beginning with the 2008 edition of the competition. The winner was also allocated a spot in the following year's FIBA Americas League . On 24 September 2019, FIBA launched

63-692: The European Champions League . In 1993, the Campeonato Panamericano de Clubes de Básquetbol ( Pan American Basketball Club Championship ) was created as a Pan American tournament, running from 1993 until 2000. In December 2007, the FIBA Americas League was introduced in the second attempt of a panamerican basketball club competition. The FIBA Americas League was formed in 2007, as a professional intercontinental men's basketball club competition, under

84-645: The 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 , Central America , the Caribbean , and Mexico . From 2013 to 2015,

105-651: The LDA , was the premier intercontinental basketball club competition played annually by clubs of the entire Americas . Organized by FIBA Americas , the competition was replaced by the Basketball Champions League Americas (BCLA) in September 2019. The inaugural season started on 4 December 2007. The FIBA Americas League was a recreation of the now defunct Pan American Club Championship , that existed from 1993 to 2000. The winner of

126-651: The EuroLeague, to decide on the world club champion. It was then decided by FIBA World that the tournament would be played every year from then on for the foreseeable future. Pinheiros was the first team to represent Americas in the Intercontinental Cup. Since 2016, the FIBA Americas League champions play against the champions of one of the two European second-tier level competitions, the FIBA Champions League . Another goal in creating

147-471: The NBA. Under the original format, 16 participating clubs were divided in four groups, of four teams each. The top two clubs of each group qualified for the quarterfinals. The quarterfinals winners then played a four-team group stage, in a yet to be determined host city. Under the current format, the 16 participating clubs are divided in four groups, of four teams each. The top two clubs of each group qualify for

168-480: The South American Championship lost its importance and it was abolished. The competition was hosted in one or more cities. In the first round, the eight clubs were divided in two groups of four teams each. The two best placed teams of each group advanced to the semifinals. In the semifinals, the first placed team of a group played against the other group's runner-up. The final was contested by

189-602: The competition, which derives its name and branding from the European Basketball Champions League . The competition replaced the FIBA Americas League as premier league in the Americas. The competition will consist of twelve teams, which have to qualify through their domestic leagues. The inaugural season is expected to start in October 2019. The 2020 and 2021 seasons were cancelled because of

210-550: The dormant FIBA Intercontinental Cup , so that clubs from the FIBA Americas region could once again directly compete against top EuroLeague teams in official games, and so that an official world cup championship could once again be contested. FIBA World decided to revive the FIBA Intercontinental Cup in 2013 , deciding that the champions of the FIBA Americas League would play against the champions of

231-505: The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic . In 2022, the league returned. South American Basketball Championship of Champions Clubs The Campeonato Sudamericano de Clubes Campeones de Básquetbol ( Portuguese : Campeonato Sul-Americano de Clubes Campeões de Basquetebol , English: South American Basketball Championship of Champion Clubs ), or Campeonato Sudamericano de Clubes de Básquetbol (South American Basketball Club Championship),

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252-536: The historical South American Basketball Championship becoming now the second tier. The champions of the FIBA South American League would automatically earn a spot to the biennial World club competition of the McDonald's Championship which was supported by FIBA . Atenas in 1997 and Vasco da Gama in 1999 were the only two teams that represented South America in the competition which also included NBA champions. Atenas also represented South America as champions in

273-486: The increased level of competition that would come from the creation of a multinational super league in the FIBA Americas region. The only North American teams participating in the competition (2007–2019) were the former USBL champions Miami Tropics and an All-Star selection team from the Premier Basketball League . Another one of the main goals in the creation of the league was to eventually revive

294-414: The league was to form a league system of teams that could form a partnership with the EuroLeague and NBA on playing friendly games during the preseason , in the same way that the EuroLeague and NBA teams were already playing against each other during the preseason. This was finally realized in the 2014–15 preseason, when teams from the FIBA Americas League played against teams from both the EuroLeague and

315-580: The organization of FIBA Americas , with the goal of creating a world-class top level multinational basketball league in the Americas Region including teams from North America this time (apart from the NBA ). The league was modeled after the EuroLeague , Europe's top-tier level multinational club basketball league. The main reason for creating the league was the promotion and growth of the sport, and

336-1101: The semifinal winners. 1946: [REDACTED] Roberto Lovera ( Club Atlético Olimpia ) 1953: [REDACTED] Aristides Isusi ( Club Olimpia ) 140 pts 1958: [REDACTED] Héctor Costa ( Sporting Club Uruguay ) 124 pts 1966: [REDACTED] Wlamir Marques ( Corinthians ) 1989: [REDACTED] Al Smith ( Trotamundos B.B.C. ) - Sam Shepherd of Trotamundos was MVP 1995: [REDACTED] Billy Law (Rio Claro) 1998: [REDACTED] Charles Byrd ( Vasco da Gama ) 161 pts 2000: [REDACTED] Victor David Diaz ( Trotamundos B.B.C. ) 99 pts 2003: [REDACTED] Jervaughn Scales (Gimnasia) 2004: [REDACTED] Paolo Quinteros ( Boca Juniors ) 138 pts 2006: [REDACTED] Maurice Spillers ( Boca Juniors ) (also MVP) 2007: [REDACTED] Evandro Fernandes Pinto ( Minas Tenis Clube ) 113 pts 2008: [REDACTED] Leandro Garcia Morales (Bigua) 94 pts FIBA Americas League The FIBA Americas League ( Portuguese : FIBA Liga das Américas , Spanish : FIBA Liga de las Américas ), officially abbreviated as

357-496: 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. Since 2016, the champions of the FIBA Americas League contest the FIBA Intercontinental Cup against the champions of one of the two European second-tier level competitions,

378-523: Was an international men's professional basketball cup competition that took place between South American sports clubs . It was originally organized by the South American Basketball Confederation, and then later by FIBA Americas . It was played annually between the league champions in each country, plus the winner of the previous edition. The South American Championship of Champion Clubs was founded in 1946, and it

399-518: Was founded in 1946, was the first international club tournament played between basketball clubs from South America, and it was the first-tier and most important club competition in South America . In 1993, the Pan American Club Championship was launched including also Central American teams and was held annually until 2000. The FIBA South American League was founded in 1996 and became the top South American competition, with

420-488: Was launched, with a format that looked more of one of a European completion and not a single tournament. The competition was finally discontinued in the year 2008, after the new top-tier panamerican FIBA Americas League had been recently formed in December 2007 and meant that each South America country's top teams would qualify to the new league and not the FIBA South American League . Subsequently

441-429: Was the first international tournament in South America. It was played in a round robin format , usually hosted by a single city. From 1965 until 1987 the champion teams (and on many occasions the runners-up too) participated in the FIBA Intercontinental Cup represented South America. The competition was the first-tier and most important club competition in South America until 1996 when the FIBA South American League

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