SABA Championship explained

Sport:Basketball
SABA Championship
Current Season:2021 SABA Championship
Founded:2002
Country:SABA member nations
Continent:FIBA Asia (Asia)
Champion: (6th title)
Most Champs: (6 titles)

The SABA Championship is a basketball tournament for national teams organized by the South Asia Basketball Association, a sub-zone of the FIBA Asia. It serves as a qualifier for various FIBA Asia events such as the FIBA Asia Championship and the FIBA Asia Cup.[1] [2]

Starting immediately at the end of the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup, a new qualification format for 2021 FIBA Asia Cup, and for every continental championships thereafter, has been introduced, wherein home and away games will be done during the pre-qualifiers in order to determine the participants for the main qualifiers that will battle for the 16 berths of the continental championships.[3]

Summary

YearHostFinalThird-place game
width=15%Championwidth=9%Scorewidth=15%Second Placewidth=15%Third Placewidth=9%Scorewidth=15%Fourth Place
2002
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Guwahati
No playoffsNo playoffs
2013
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Dhaka
No playoffsNo playoffs
2014
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Kathmandu
No playoffsNo playoffs
2015
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Bengaluru
No playoffsNo playoffs
2016
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Bengaluru
No playoffsNo playoffs
2017
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Malé
No playoffsNo playoffs
2018
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Dhaka
No playoffsNo playoffs
2021
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Dhaka
No playoffsNo playoffs

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: SABA Championship 2015 to be held in India. 15 June 2015. BasketballSansar.
  2. Web site: SABA decides India will host the 4th SABA Championship / Qualifying Round 2015. 11 June 2015. Basketball Federation of India. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150615035833/http://indiabasketball.org/News/saba-decides-india-will-host-the-4th-saba-championship-qualifying-round-2015. 15 June 2015.
  3. Web site: Road to FIBA Basketball World Cup China 2019 and FIBA Asia Cup 2021.