2014 FIBA Asia Champions Cup explained
Type: | Asia Champions Cup |
Year: | 2014 |
Size: | 200 |
Host: | Kuwait |
Dates: | TBD |
Teams: | 10 |
Federations: | 44 |
Venues: | TBD |
Cities: | TBD |
Website: | 2014 FIBA Asia Champions Cup |
Prevseason: | 2013 |
Nextseason: | 2015 |
The 2014 FIBA Asia Champions Cup will be the 25th staging of the FIBA Asia Champions Cup, the international basketball club tournament of FIBA Asia. The tournament was supposed to be held in Kuwait on June 5–13, 2014,[1] but FIBA Asia, through a communique to the National Federations representing the qualified teams, had announced that the tournament will be rescheduled after the 2014 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship for Women sometime in the third-fourth week of October, after they (National Federations) mentioned that they require their top players to be available for the National Team's preparations for the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup and the 2014 Asian Games.[2]
Qualification
The qualifications for the 2014 FIBA Asia Champions Cup are still ongoing; it started this early 2014 with the Gulf region, West Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, Central Asia and South Asia each conducting tournaments.
Format
The following are eligible to participate:[3]
- The organizing country.
- The three best-placed teams from the 2013 FIBA Asia Champions Cup will qualify the same number of teams from their respective sub-zones.
- The best team from the sub-zones of East Asia, Gulf, Southeast Asia and West Asia and the winner from the sub-zones of South Asia and Central Asia.
- Berths
width=40% | Zone ! | width=20% | Automatic ! | width=20% | Additional berths from 2013 FIBA Asia Champions Cup ! | width=20% | Total |
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Host team | 1 | | 1 |
Central Asia | 1 | 0 | 1 |
East Asia | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Persian Gulf | 1 | 1 | 2 |
South Asia | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Southeast Asia | 1 | 0 | 1 |
West Asia | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
2013 FIBA Asia Champions Cup
See main article: 2013 FIBA Asia Champions Cup.
width=40 | Rank | width=180 | Team | width=250 | Note |
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| | West Asia (+1) |
| | Persian Gulf (+1) |
| | West Asia (+2) |
4 | | |
5 | | |
6 | | |
7 | | |
8 | | | |
Qualified teams
width=10px bgcolor=#ccffcc | | Host |
width=10px bgcolor=#ccccff | | Automatic berth |
width=10px bgcolor=#ffffcc | | Additional berth from 2013 FIBA Asia Champions Cup
| |
width=150 | Central Asia (1) ! | width=150 | East Asia (1) ! | width=150 | Persian Gulf (1+1+1) ! | width=150 | South Asia (1) ! | width=150 | Southeast Asia (1) ! | width=150 | West Asia (1+2) |
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Belent Ashgabat | | | | Malaysia BC | Mahram Tehran |
| | Al-Sadd | | | ASU |
| | Al-Ahli | | | Al-Kahraba | |
Central Asia
Turkmenistan's Belent Ashgabat will be the CABA subzone's representative to the 2014 FIBA Asia Champions Cup.[4]
Persian Gulf
Qatar's Al-Sadd and UAE's Al-Ahli have qualified to represent Gulf subzone, and a team representing Kuwait has qualified automatically as the hosts.[5] [6]
Southeast Asia
The 2014 SEABA Champions Cup was the qualification for Southeast Asia in the 2014 FIBA Asia Champions Cup. It was a single game between Malaysia and Singapore and was held on April 26, 2014, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.[7] After intense and hard-fought three quarters, the home team pulled out a 17–9 scoring in the final frame to claim the lone SEABA spot, 59–47.[8]
width=10px bgcolor=#ccffcc | | Qualified at the 2014 FIBA Asia Champions Cup | |
width=180 | Team | width=30 | Pld | width=30 | W | width=30 | L | width=30 | PF | width=30 | PA | width=30 | PD | width=30 | Pts |
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| 1 | 1 | 0 | 59 | 47 | +12 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 47 | 59 | –12 | 1 | |
West Asia
The 2014 WABA Champions Cup was the qualifying tournament for the 2014 FIBA Asia Champions Cup. The three best teams qualify for 2014 FIBA Asia Champions Cup. The tournament was held from March 8 to March 13, 2014, in Tehran, Iran.[9]
Preliminary round
Group A
width=180 | Team | width=30 | Pld | width=30 | W | width=30 | L | width=30 | PF | width=30 | PA | width=30 | PD | width=30 | Pts |
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Mahram Tehran | 2 | 2 | 0 | 194 | 113 | +81 | 4 |
Al-Wahda | 2 | 1 | 1 | 123 | 166 | –43 | 3 |
Al-Ittihad | 2 | 0 | 2 | 113 | 151 | –38 | 2 | |
Group B
width=200 | Team | width=30 | Pld | width=30 | W | width=30 | L | width=30 | PF | width=30 | PA | width=30 | PD | width=30 | Pts |
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Petrochimi Bandar Imam | 3 | 3 | 0 | 292 | 193 | +99 | 6 |
Al-Kahraba | 3 | 2 | 1 | 238 | 243 | –5 | 5 |
ASU | 3 | 1 | 2 | 218 | 235 | –17 | 4 |
Al-Jaish | 3 | 0 | 3 | 197 | 274 | −77 | 3 | |
Final round
Final
Final standing
width=10px bgcolor=#ccffcc | | Qualified at the 2014 FIBA Asia Champions Cup | |
Notes and References
- Web site: 2014 FIBA Asia Events. FIBA Asia. 30 December 2013.
- Web site: Champions Cup postponed facilitating SPAIN 2014 preparations. 14 May 2014. FIBA Asia. 14 May 2014.
- Web site: FIBA ASIA Internal Regulations. FIBA Asia. 77. 23 April 2014.
- Web site: Champions Cup postponed facilitating SPAIN 2014 preparations. 14 May 2014. FIBA Asia. 14 May 2014.
- Web site: Malaysia qualify to represent SEABA in FIBA Asia Champions Cup. 27 April 2014. FIBA Asia. 28 April 2014.
- Web site: Champions Cup postponed facilitating SPAIN 2014 preparations. 14 May 2014. FIBA Asia. 14 May 2014.
- Web site: Chey leads team to seek President to stay. https://web.archive.org/web/20140417023340/http://www.maba.com.my/article.php?lang=En&catID=7&pgID=12&acID=154. dead. 17 April 2014. 22 March 2014. MABA. 23 April 2014.
- Web site: Malaysia reclaims victory from Singapore in SEABA Champions Cup. 27 April 2014. Malaysia Basketball Association. 3 May 2014.
- Web site: WABA: Mahram down Petrochimi for top honors; ASU take bronze. 14 March 2014. FIBA Asia. 23 April 2014.