| BAL Finals | |
| Organiser: | Basketball Africa League |
| Founded: | 2021 |
| First: | 2021 |
| Champions: | Petro de Luanda (1st title) |
| Most Champs: | 4 teams (1 title each) |
| Current: | 2022 BAL Finals |
The Basketball Africa League (BAL) is a seasonal basketball league established in 2019 and first held in 2021. The league is open to national champions of FIBA Africa member countries. The finals of each season are played in a single-game format, which is held at an arena that is chosen by the BAL organisation.
The data below does not include the FIBA Africa Club Champions Cup, the predecessor of the BAL that was held from 1972 to 2019.
The first parentheses in the champions and runners-up columns indicate the teams' playoff seed. The second parentheses indicate the number of times that teams have appeared in an BAL Finals as well as each respective team's BAL Finals record to date.
| Season | Year | Champions | Coach | Result | Runners-up | Coach | Arena | Attendance | Reference | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2021 |  Zamalek (2) (1, 1–0) | Augustí Julbe | align=center | 76–63 |  US Monastir (1) (1, 0–1) | Mounir Ben Slimane | Kigali Arena, Kigali, Rwanda | align=center | align=center | [1] | |
| 2 | 2022 | US Monastir (2) (2, 1–1) | Miodrag Perišić | align=center | 83–72 | Petro de Luanda (2) (1, 0–1) | José Neto | BK Arena, Kigali, Rwanda (2) | [2] [3] [4] | |||
| 3 | 2023 | Al Ahly (2) (1, 1–0) | Augustí Julbe | 80–65 | AS Douanes (2) (1, 0–1) | Pabi Gueye | BK Arena, Kigali, Rwanda (3) | [5] | ||||
| 4 | 2024 | Petro de Luanda (6) (2, 1–1) | Sergio Valdeolmillos | 107–94 | Al Ahly Ly (7) (1, 0–1) | Ivan Jeremić | BK Arena, Kigali, Rwanda (4) | [6] |
| Club | Titles | Runners-up | Years won | Years runners-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Monastir | 1 | 1 | 2022 | 2021 |
| Petro de Luanda | 1 | 1 | 2024 | 2022 |
| Al Ahly | 1 | 0 | 2023 | |
| Zamalek | 1 | 0 | 2021 | |
 AS Douanes | 0 | 1 | 2023 | |
 Al Ahly Ly | 0 | 1 | 2024 | |
Teams from three nations have been to a BAL final, and teams from two countries have won the competition thus far.
| Nation | Titles | Runners-up | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Egypt | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Angola | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Senegal | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Libya | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Club | Titles | Runners-up | Years won | Years runners-up | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Augustí Julbe | 2 | 0 | 2021, 2023 | ||
 Miodrag Perišić | 1 | 0 | 2022 | ||
| Sergio Valdeolmillos | 1 | 0 | 2024 | ||
| Mounir Ben Slimane | 0 | 1 | 2021 | ||
 José Neto | 0 | 1 | 2022 | ||
| Pabi Guèye | 0 | 1 | 2023 | ||
| Ivan Jeremić | 0 | 1 | 2024 |
The finals are played in a pre-determined venue, from 2021 to 2023 this was the BK Arena (formerly the Kigali Arena) in Kigali as the BAL agreed with the Rwandan Ministry of Sports. Later, the BAL and the Rwanda Development Board (RDB) agreed to host the finals of 2024, 2026 and 2028 as well.[7]
Clubs denoted in italics lost the finals in the given year.
| 2021 | Michael Fakuade | Zamalek | 15 | |||
| 2022 | Gerson Gonçalves | Petro de Luanda | 28 | |||
| 2023 | Nuni Omot | Al Ahly | 22 | |||
| 2024 | Nick Faust | Petro de Luanda | align=center rowspan="2" | 24 | align=center rowspan="2" | [8] |
| Majok Deng | Al Ahly Ly |
| No. of championships | Player | Position | Seasons | Championship teams | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Played | Winning Percentage | |||||
| 2 |  Solo Diabate | G | 4 | Zamalek (2021) US Monastir (2022) | [9] | |
| Michael Fakuade | F | 2 | Zamalek (2021) Al Ahly (2023) | |||