League: | Basketball Africa League |
Sport: | Basketball |
Prevseason Year: | 2024 |
Duration: | TBA |
Prevseason Link: | 2024 BAL season |
Nextseason Link: | 2026 BAL season |
Nextseason Year: | 2026 |
The 2025 BAL season, also known as BAL Season 5, will be the 5th season of the Basketball Africa League (BAL). It will be the first season in which the playoffs of the league will be held outside of Rwanda.[1]
Petro de Luanda will be the defending champions, having won the previous season. The winners will earn the right to play in the 2025 FIBA Intercontinental Cup.
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The following teams are eligible to play in the Road to BAL qualifying tournaments, based on their results in domestic leagues and championships.
Association | Team | Qualifyingdate | Qualification method | ||
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Cameroon | Kadji Sports Academy | 2023–24 Elite Messieurs champions | [2] | ||
Gabon | Moanda | 2024 Gabonese Basketball Cup champions | [3] | ||
Kenya | Nairobi City Thunder | 2023–24 KBF Premier League champions | [4] | ||
Al Ahli Tripoli | 2023–24 Libyan Division I Basketball League champions | [5] | |||
Mozambique | Costa do Sol | 20 December 2023 | 2023 LMB season champions | [6] | |
Tanzania | JKT | 2023 National Basketball League champions | |||
Madagascar | GNBC | 30 October 2023 | 2024 N1A champions | [7] | |
Bravehearts | 2023–24 BASMAL National Championship winners | ||||
Zambia | Matero Magic | 6 January 2024 | 2023–24 Zambia Basketball League champions | [8] |
The defending champions Petro de Luanda were the first team to qualify, as they won the 2023–24 Angolan Basketball League on 12 May 2024 to qualify for a record-extending fifth time.[9] Al Ittihad Alexandria will make its debut, becoming the third Egyptian club to play in the league.[10] ASCVD became the third Senegalese club to qualify following their Nationale 1 title.
Team | data-sort-type="text" | Method of qualification | data-sort-type="date" | Date of qualification | data-sort-type="number" | Previous appearances (winners in bold) | |
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Petro de Luanda | data-sort-value="a" | 2023–24 Angolan Basketball League champions | data-sort-value="1" | 4 (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024) | |||
Al Ittihad Alexandria | 2023–24 Egyptian Basketball Premier League champions | 0 (debut) | |||||
US Monastir | 2023–24 Championnat Pro A champions | data-sort-value="1" | 4 (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024) | [11] | |||
ASCVD | 2024 Nationale 1 champions | 27 June 2024 | 0 (debut) | [12] | |||
TBD | 2024 RBL season champions | TBD | |||||
TBD | 2024 NBBF Premier League champions | TBD | |||||
TBD | Road to BAL East Division top three teams | TBA | |||||
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TBD | Road to BAL West Division top three teams | TBA | |||||
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