List of Basketball Champions League finals

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List of Basketball Champions League finals
Founded2017; 7 years ago (2017)
RegionEurope (FIBA Europe)
Number of teams2
Current championsGermany Telekom Baskets Bonn
(1st title)
Most successful club(s)Spain San Pablo Burgos,
Spain Canarias
(2 titles each)
2022–23 Basketball Champions League

The Basketball Champions League is a seasonal basketball competition established in 2016. It is open to all member nations of FIBA Europe. After a regular season and playoffs, two teams face off in the final.

List of finals[edit]

Key
Match was won after overtime
  • The "Season" column refers to the season the competition was held, and wikilinks to the article about that season.
  • The wikilinks in the "Score" column point to the article about that season's final game.
List of Basketball Champions League finals
Season Winners Score Runners-up Venue Att. Champions coach Final Four MVP Ref.
Nation Team Nation Team
2016–17 Spain Canarias 63–59 Turkey Banvit Pabellón Insular Santiago Martín, La Laguna, Spain 5,050 Txus Vidorreta Marius Grigonis [1][2]
2017–18 Greece AEK Athens 100–94 France Monaco O.A.C.A. Olympic Indoor Hall, Athens, Greece 17,984 Zvezdan Mitrović Mike Green [3]
2018–19 Italy Virtus Bologna 73–61 Spain Canarias Sportpaleis, Antwerp, Belgium 16,437 Aleksandar Đorđević Kevin Punter [4]
2019–20 Spain San Pablo Burgos 85–74 Greece AEK Athens O.A.C.A. Olympic Indoor Hall, Athens, Greece 0 Joan Peñarroya Thad McFadden
2020–21 Spain San Pablo Burgos 64–59 Turkey Karşıyaka Trade Union Sport Palace, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia 1,265 Joan Peñarroya Vítor Benite
2021–22 Spain Canarias 98–87 Spain Manresa Bilbao Arena, Bilbao, Spain 8,157 Txus Vidorreta Marcelo Huertas
2022–23 Germany Baskets Bonn 77–70 Israel Hapoel Jerusalem Palacio de Deportes José María Martín Carpena, Málaga, Spain 10,437 Tuomas Iisalo T. J. Shorts [5]

List of top scorers[edit]

A team with an * denotes that they lost in the finals. The current record for most points in a BCL final is hold by T. J. Shorts who scored 29 points in the 2023 final.

Year Player Club Points Reference
2017 Lithuania Marius Grigonis Spain Canarias 18 [1][2]
2018 United States Mike Green Greece AEK Athens 19
2019 United States Kevin Punter Italy Virtus Bologna 26 [4]
2020 Georgia (country) Thad McFadden Spain San Pablo Burgos 18
2021 France Amath M'Baye Turkey Karşıyaka* 17
2022 Nigeria Chima Moneke SpainManresa* 24
2023 United States T. J. Shorts Germany Baskets Bonn 29 [5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Iberostar Tenerife crowned inaugural Basketball Champions League winners". BasketballCL.com. 2017-04-30. Retrieved 2017-06-14.
  2. ^ a b "Iberostar Tenerife v Banvit - 30 April".
  3. ^ "AS Monaco v AEK - 6 May".
  4. ^ a b "Segafredo Virtus Bologna v Iberostar Tenerife boxscore - Basketball Champions League 2018-19 - 5 May - Basketball Champions League 2018-19".
  5. ^ a b "Telekom Baskets Bonn celebrate their first Basketball Champions League title". FIBA.basketball. 2023-05-14. Retrieved 2023-05-14.