Liga Uruguaya de Básquetbol explained

Liga Uruguaya de Básquetbol
First:	2003
Confed:	FIBA Americas
Teams:	14
Relegation:	Liga de Ascenso
Levels:	1
Confed Cup:	BCL Americas Liga Sudamericana de Baloncesto
Champions:	Hebraica Macabi (4th title)
Season:	2022-23
Most Champs:	Malvín (5 titles)
Tv:	Tenfield
Current:	2023–24 LUB season

The Liga Uruguaya de Básquetbol^{[1] [2]} (abbreviated as LUB; English: Uruguayan Basketball League) is the most important professional club basketball league in Uruguay. It is organized by the Uruguayan Basketball Federation (FUBB). The Uruguayan Basketball League competition began in 2003. Before that time, the Uruguayan basketball championships were only local metropolitan, and no competitions brought together all the clubs in the country. Until the Liga Uruguaya de Básquetbol was created, the capital clubs participated in the Campeonato Uruguayo Federal de Básquetbol (Uruguayan Federal Basketball Championship), while the clubs of the rest of the country competed in regional tournaments. The Uruguayan Federal Basketball Championship was founded in 1915, making it among the oldest on the continent.

The first LUB competition had a dramatic end, with a win in the last second, that brought the Uruguayan League title to Defensor Sporting, whom also repeated in the 2009–10 season. Some of the other League champions were: Salto Uruguay in 2004, Trouville in 2005–06, Malvín in 2006–07 and 2010–11, Biguá in 2007–08 and 2008–09, Hebraica Macabi in 2011–12, and Aguada in 2012–13. So far, there are only two teams that have appeared in all of the league's seasons; they are: Defensor Sporting and Trouville.

Format

The LUB is currently played in four stages: Torneo (Qualifying Tournament), Ronda Título (Title Round) or Reclasificatorio (Requalifier), play-in and play-off.

• In the Qualifying Tournament, the metropolitan clubs play each other twice, home and away, and the first six of the table play in the Title Round, where all is guaranteed to participate in the playoffs. The last six play the Requalifier,
• The Title Round is contested by six teams. The clubs play each other twice. It only serves to organize the positions for playoffs.
• The Requalifier was contested by six teams also. The last two are relegated to the Second Division, to participate in the Liga de Ascenso, the top two advance to the second round of play-in; and the third and four play the first round of play-in, against the finalists of OBL (a tournament with the top-two teams of Salto and Soriano regional leagues.
• The play-in consist of two rounds, with series being best of three series. The first stage is played as: A) 3rd of Requalifier vs. 2nd of OBL, B) 4th of Requalifier vs. 1st of OBL. The second stage pairings are: C) 1st of Requalifier vs. A) Winner, D) 2nd of Requalifier vs. B) Winner.
• Finally, teams competed in the playoffs, with series being best of five. The first stage was the quarterfinals. The qualifiers are played as: E) 1st vs. D) Winner, F) 2nd vs. C) Winner, G) 3rd vs. 6th and H) 4th vs. 5th. The semifinal pairings were: E) Winner vs. H) Winner and F) Winner vs. G) Winner. The winners of these matches played in the finals in best-of-seven serie, with the winner being crowned as the league champions of the LUB.
• The finalists will play the BCL Americas and the losers of the semifinals, the Liga Sudamericana de Baloncesto.

Participating teams

Defensor Sporting and Trouville are the teams with the most league appearances, having so far competed in every season of the LUB.

2023–24 season teams

Notes: All statistics are only for the Uruguayan Basketball League (Liga Uruguaya de Básquetbol), which is organized by the Uruguayan Basketball Federation (Federación Uruguaya de Basketball). Uruguayan Federal tournaments are not included. The "arena" column reflects the arena where the team plays most of its home games, but does not indicate that the team in question is the owner.

Club	City	Arena	Capacity	Foundation	Seasons	Championships
Aguada	Montevideo	Estadio Propio Aguatero	3,738	1922	19	3
Biguá		Gimnasio Biguá de Villa Biarritz^[3]	1,200	1931	19	4
Cordón		Gimnasio Julio C. Zito Barrella	710	1944	14	0
Defensor Sporting		Estadio Óscar Magurno^[4] | align="center" |800| align="center" |1910| align="center" |20| align="center" |2|- align=left |Hebraica Macabi|Gimnasio Unión Atlética^[5] | align="center" |750| align="center" |1939| align="center" |16| align="center" |4|- align=left |Goes|Estadio Plaza de las Misiones| align="center" |1,800| align="center" |1934| align="center" |12| align="center" |0|- align=left |Larre Borges|Estadio Romeo Schinca| align="center" |900| align="center" |1927| align="center" |9| align="center" |0|- align=left |Malvín|Gimnasio Juan Francisco Canil| align="center" |900| align="center" |1938| align="center" |19| align="center" |5|- align=left |Nacional|Polideportivo del Gran Parque Central| align="center" |800|align="center" |1899| align="center" |8| align="center" |0|- align=left |Peñarol|Estadio Cr. Gastón Güelfi| align="center" |4700| align="center" |1891| align="center" |4| align="center" |0|- align=left |Racing|rowspan=2| Mercedes|Gimnasio Agrimensor Mario Eduardo Bellini^[6] | align="center" |400| align="center" |1937| align="center" |1| align="center" |0|- align=left |- align=left |Remeros de Mercedes|Gimnasio Agrimensor Mario Eduardo Bellini| align="center" |400| align="center" |1916| align="center" |1| align="center" |0|- align=left |Trouville| Montevideo|Estadio Club Trouville| align="center" |780| align="center" |1922| align="center" |20| align="center" |1|- align=left |Urupan| Pando|Gimnasio Santiago A. Cigliuti| align="center" |700| align="center" |1924| align="center" |4| align="center" |0|} Champions by season The Uruguayan Basketball League competition began in 2003. Before that time, the Uruguayan Federal Championships were only local, and no competition brought together all the clubs in the country. Season Champion Result Runner-up Champion Coach 2003 Defensor Sporting 3–2 Paysandú Gerardo Jauri 2004–05 Salto Uruguay 3–1 Paysandú Javier Espíndola 2005–06 Trouville 3–0 Aguada Alejandro González 2006–07 Malvín 3–1 Biguá Pablo López 2007–08 Biguá 3–0 Hebraica Macabi Marcelo Signorelli 2008–09 Biguá 3–0 Defensor Sporting Che García 2009–10 Defensor Sporting 3–0 Malvín Gerardo Jauri 2010–11 Malvín 3–1 Biguá Pablo López 2011–12 Hebraica Macabi 3–2 Malvín Marcelo Signorelli 2012–13 Aguada 4–3 Defensor Sporting Javier Espíndola 2013–14 Malvín 4–1 Defensor Sporting Pablo López 2014–15 Malvín 4–1 Trouville Pablo López 2015–16 Hebraica Macabi 4–2 Defensor Sporting Leonardo Zylbersztein 2016–17 Hebraica Macabi 4–3 Aguada Leonardo Zylbersztein 2017–18 Malvín 4–3 Aguada Pablo López 2018–19 Aguada 4–3 Malvín Miguel Volcan 2019–20 Aguada 3–1 Trouville Adrián Capelli 2021 Biguá 3–2 Nacional Hernán Laginestra Biguá Peñarol Diego Cal Hebraica Macabi Nacional Leonardo Zylbersztein Aguada Peñarol Germán Cortizas Total LUB titles by club Club Championships Runners-up Year(s) won Malvín 5 3 2007, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2018 Aguada 4 3 2013, 2019, 2020, 2024 Biguá 4 2 2008, 2009, 2021, 2022 Hebraica Macabi 4 1 2012, 2016, 2017, 2023 Defensor Sporting 2 4 2003, 2010 Trouville 1 2 2006 Salto Uruguay 1 0 2005 Peñarol 0 2 Nacional 0 2 Paysandú 0 2 Awards See main article: Uruguayan Basketball League MVP. See main article: Uruguayan Basketball League Finals MVP. See also Uruguayan Federal Basketball Championship (1915–2003) Liga Femenina de Básquetbol Uruguayan Basketball Champions Uruguayan Basketball Federation (FUBB) External links FUBB Liga Uruguaya on Basket Uruguay Uruguayan Basketball League at Latinbasket.com ]

Notes and References

1. News: Competitions. fubb.org.uy. es. April 17, 2020.
2. News: Uruguay tiene todo listo para atravesar la etapa más importante de la Liga Uruguaya de Basquetbol. fiba.basketball. FIBA. March 26, 2019. April 17, 2020.
3. Since these venues do not have an official name, they are mentioned as Gimnasio (Stadium) "club name".
4. Defensor's venue was not authorized to host home games, so they played in the Welcome's court.
5. Hebraica's venue was not authorized to host home games, so they played in the Unión Atlética's court.
6. Racing's venue was not authorized to host home games, so they played in Remeros de Mercedes' court.