| Continent: | South America |
| Year: | 1963 |
| Host: | Peru |
| Dates: | February 14 - March 4 |
| Teams: | 9 |
| Venues: | 1 |
| Cities: | 1 |
| Champions: | Brazil |
| Title Number: | 6 |
| Prevseason: | 1961 |
| Nextseason: | 1966 |
The South American Basketball Championship 1963 was the 19th edition of this regional tournament. It was held from February 14 to March 4 in Lima, Peru. Nine teams competed.
The final standings were determined by a round robin, where the 9 teams played against each other once.
| width=20 | Rank | width=220 | Team | width=20 | Pts | width=20 | W | width=20 | L | width=20 | PF | width=20 | PA | width=20 | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 634 | 410 | +224 | |||||||||
| 2 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 565 | 436 | +129 | |||||||||
| 3 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 552 | 474 | +78 | |||||||||
| 4 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 552 | 497 | +55 | |||||||||
| 5 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 469 | 446 | +23 | |||||||||
| 6 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 478 | 551 | -73 | |||||||||
| 7 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 474 | 518 | -44 | |||||||||
| 8 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 428 | 583 | -155 | |||||||||
| 9 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 364 | 601 | -237 |