| 2022–23 FIBA WASL season | |
| League: | FIBA West Asia Super League |
| Sport: | Basketball |
| Duration: | 19 December 2022 – 17 June 2023 |
| No Of Teams: | 18 |
| Season: | Gulf League |
| Season Champs: | Kuwait Club (1st title) |
| Second Place: |  Manama |
| Season2: | West Asia League |
| Season Champs2: |  Al Riyadi Beirut (1st title) |
| Second Place2: |  Shahrdari Gorgan |
| Finals: | Final Eight |
| Finals Venue: | Sheikh Saeed Bin Maktoum Sports Hall, Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
| Finals Champ: | Manama (1st title) |
| Finals Runner-Up: | Kuwait Club |
| Nextseason Link: | 2023–24 FIBA West Asia Super League |
| Nextseason Year: | 2023–24 |
The 2022–23 FIBA West Asia Super League was the inaugural season of the West Asia Super League (WASL), organised by FIBA Asia. The league featured eighteen teams.[1] The season began on 19 December 2022 and finished on 17 June 2023 with the final game of the Final Eight, which was hosted in Dubai.
The league was split in two subdivisions, the West Asia League and the Gulf League, with both of them having a finals to determine the subdivision winners.
Manama won the inaugural title after defeating Kuwait Club in the championship game. Following their win, Manama was invited for the 2023 FIBA Intercontinental Cup.
The season exists out of 18 teams. Eight teams in the Western Asia region compete in home and away games for the sub-zonal title, while eight teams in the Gulf region do the same. The top three teams from each division advance to the Final round. There they are joined by the champions of the Kazakhstan Basketball Championship and the invited Indian representative. The two teams that advance to the championship game qualify for the 2023 FIBA Asia Champions Cup.[2]
The Chennai Heat as the Indian National Basketball League champions, were supposed to play in the Final 8, but withdrew.[3]
| Final 8 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Astana (1st) | | |||
| Group phase | ||||
| West Asia | Gulf | |||
| Beirut Club (1st) | Al Ittihad Aleppo (1st) | Al Hilal (1st) | Al Sadd (1st) | |
| Al Riyadi (2nd) | Al Karamah (2nd) | Al Nassr (2nd) | Shabab Al Ahli (1st) | |
| Shahrdari Gorgan (1st) | Orthodox Amman (1st) | Kuwait (1st) | Al Bashaer (1st) | |
| Zob Ahan Isfahan (2nd) | Al Naft (1st) | Kazma (2nd) | Manama (1st) | |
The draw was held on 28 October in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon.[4]
See main article: article and 2022–23 FIBA WASL West Asia League. The West Asia League began on 21 December 2022 and ended on 17 May 2023.
See main article: article and 2022–23 FIBA WASL Gulf League. The Gulf League began on 19 December 2022 and ended on 15 May 2023 with the last game of the finals.
In the Final Eight, the top three teams from the West Asia and the Gulf League were joined by the proposed teams from South and Central Asia (India and Kazakhstan). On 23 May FIBA announced that the Sheikh Saeed Bin Maktoum Sports Hall in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, would host the inaugural Final Eight.[5]
The final stage began on 9 June and finished on 17 June with the WASL championship game.