2023 EASL Champions Week

2023 EASL Champions Week
Tournament details
CountryJapan
Dates1–5 March 2023
Season2023
Teams8
Final positions
ChampionsSouth Korea Anyang KGC
Runner-upSouth Korea Seoul SK Knights
Third placeHong Kong Bay Area Dragons
Fourth placeJapan Ryukyu Golden Kings
Tournament statistics
Best playerUnited States Omari Spellman (Anyang)[1]
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The 2023 EASL Champions Week was the first regular season of the East Asia Super League, an international basketball club competition involving teams from domestic leagues in Japan, South Korea, Philippines and Taiwan, as well as a franchise team representing Greater China.[2][3] The Champions Week was held from 1 to 5 March 2023.[4]

The Champions Week was conceptualized after the regular season was postponed. The regular season was originally scheduled to be held from 12 October 2022 to February 2023, under a home and away format and a Final Four knockout stage.[5]

The winners received USD 250,000, while the runners-up and third-place teams received USD 100,000 and USD 50,000, respectively.[6][7]

Originally held as a preseason tournament, it was retroactively designated as the first season by its organizers with the succeeding league tournament as the second season.[8]

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  3. ^ Naredo, Camille (2 December 2021). "PBA wants to prove it is best in Asia through EASL". ABS-CBN News. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  4. ^ Ulanday, John Bryan (8 December 2022). "EASL tuloy na sa Marso sa Japan" [EASL resumes in March in Japan]. Pilipino Star Ngayon (in Filipino). Philippine Star. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
  5. ^ "East Asia Super League Debuts Season 1 of Premier Home-and-Away Pan-Regional League in 2022". East Asia Super League. Archived from the original on 22 February 2022. Retrieved 22 February 2022. The newly formed Bay Area Chun Yu Phoenixes and the championship team from Chinese Taipei's P.LEAGUE+, are the Greater China representatives.
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