FIBA Americas League

For the current continental top league, see Basketball Champions League Americas.
FIBA Americas League
Founded2007; 17 years ago (2007)
First season2007–08
Folded2019; 5 years ago (2019)
Replaced byBasketball Champions
League Americas (BCLA)
Number of teams16
Level on pyramid1
Most championshipsVenezuela Guaros de Lara
Argentina Peñarol
Argentina San Lorenzo (2 titles)
CEOUsie Richards
TV partnersDSports
WebsiteFIBA.basketball/ligamericas
2019 FIBA Americas League

The FIBA Americas League (Portuguese: FIBA Liga das Américas, Spanish: FIBA Liga de las Américas), officially abbreviated as 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.[1] The inaugural season started on 4 December 2007.[2] The FIBA Americas League was a recreation of the now defunct Pan American Club Championship, that existed from 1993 to 2000.[3]

The winner of 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, 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, the European Champions League.

  1. ^ "Basketball Champions League Americas is launched". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
  2. ^ "FIBA Americas League - Clubs gear up for tip off". FIBA. Archived from the original on January 9, 2008. Retrieved 2007-12-05.
  3. ^ Equipo de baloncesto salvadoreño jugará Liga de las Américas (in Spanish).