2019 FIBA Americas League

FIBA Americas League
Season	2019
Dates	18 January – 31 March 2019
Games played	40
Teams	16
Finals
Champions	San Lorenzo (2nd title)
Runners-up	Guaros de Lara
Third place	Paulistano
Fourth place	Capitanes de la Ciudad de México
Awards
Grand Final MVP	Dar Tucker
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The 2019 FIBA Americas League was the 12th edition of the top-tier level intercontinental professional club basketball competition in the Americas and last for the FIBA Americas League. Sixteen teams from across the Americas competed over three rounds, to determine the champion.

San Lorenzo won its second continental title, giving them the right to play in the 2020 FIBA Intercontinental Cup.

Team allocation

	Teams entering in this round	Teams advancing from previous round
Group phase (16 teams)	16 qualified teams
Semifinal Phase (8 teams)		4 group winners from the group phase 4 group runners-up from the group phase
Final Four (4 teams)		2 group winners from the semifinal phase 2 group runners-up from the semifinal phase

Teams

Group phase
San Lorenzo TH (1st)	Mogi das Cruzes (2nd)	Soles de Mexicali (1st)	Capitanes de Arecibo (1st)
San Martín de Corrientes (2nd)	Franca LSC	Capitanes de la Ciudad de México (2nd)	Leones de Ponce (4th)
Atenas (3rd)	Las Animas (1st)	Libertadores de Querétaro (WC) [Note WC]	Malvín (1st)
Paulistano (1st)	Titanes de Barranquilla (1st)	Real Estelí	Guaros de Lara (1st)

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:

• 1st, 2nd, etc.: League position after Playoffs
• TH: Americas League title holders
• LSC: Liga Sudamericana winners
• WC: Qualified through Wild Card

Notes

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Note Wild Cards (WC): As Panamanian champions Universitarios declined to participate, FIBA invited Libertadores de Querétaro to the competition. ^[1]

Group phase

Sixteen teams participated in the group phase, in which each team faced the other teams in the group once. Each group tournament was held at the arena of a host team. The two highest-placed teams in each group advance to the semifinal phase. Games were played from 18 January until 10 February 2019.

Group A

Venue: São Paulo, Brazil

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Paulistano (H)	3	3	0	262	180	+82	6	Advance to semifinal phase
2	Atenas	3	1	2	217	227	−10	4
3	Malvín	3	1	2	214	253	−39	4
4	Titanes de Barranquilla	3	1	2	231	284	−53	4

Source: FIBA
(H) Hosts

Group B

Venue: Mexico City, Mexico

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Franca	3	3	0	285	224	+61	6	Advance to semifinal phase
2	Capitanes (H)	3	2	1	254	246	+8	5
3	Soles de Mexicali	3	1	2	225	249	−24	4
4	Real Estelí	3	0	3	235	280	−45	3

Source: FIBA
(H) Hosts

Group C

Venue: Valdivia, Chile

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	San Lorenzo	3	3	0	267	207	+60	6	Advance to semifinal phase
2	Las Animas (H)	3	2	1	252	271	−19	5
3	San Martín de Corrientes	3	1	2	211	215	−4	4
4	Mogi das Cruzes	3	0	3	254	291	−37	3

Source: FIBA
(H) Hosts

Group D

Venue: Ponce, Puerto Rico

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Guaros de Lara	3	3	0	259	245	+14	6	Advance to semifinal phase
2	Capitanes de Arecibo	3	2	1	261	252	+9	5
3	Libertadores de Querétaro	3	1	2	272	287	−15	4
4	Leones de Ponce (H)	3	0	3	281	289	−8	3

Source: FIBA
(H) Hosts

Semifinal phase

The eight teams which advance from the group phase, played in this stage in which each team faced the other teams in the group once. Each group tournament was held at the arena of a host team. The two highest-placed teams in each group advance to the final four. Games were played from 8 March until 17 March 2019.

Group E

Venue: Franca, Brazil

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Paulistano	3	3	0	275	231	+44	6	Advance to Final Four
2	Capitanes de la Ciudad de México	3	2	1	253	246	+7	5
3	Franca (H)	3	1	2	255	243	+12	4
4	Atenas	3	0	3	219	282	−63	3

Source: FIBA
(H) Hosts

Group F

Venue: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Guaros de Lara	3	3	0	245	209	+36	6	Advance to Final Four
2	San Lorenzo (H)	3	2	1	241	181	+60	5
3	Capitanes de Arecibo	3	1	2	228	254	−26	4
4	Las Animas	3	0	3	186	256	−70	3

Source: FIBA
(H) Hosts

Final Four

The final four tournament decided the champion of the 2019 season. The tournament was held from 30 March and 31 March 2019 in the Polideportivo Roberto Pando in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

	Semifinals				Grand Final
	30 March
	Paulistano	58
					31 March
	San Lorenzo	76
					San Lorenzo	64
	30 March
					Guaros de Lara	61
	Guaros de Lara	81
	Capitanes de la Ciudad de México	66
					Third place
					31 March
					Paulistano	100
					Capitanes de la Ciudad de México	78

References

1. Libertadores de Querétaro jugará el Grupo D en substitución de Universitarios de Panamá