2022 FIBA Asia Champions Cup

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2022 FIBA Asia Champions Cup
Dates26 September – 1 October 2022 (cancelled)
Seasons

The 2022 FIBA Asia Champions Cup was a cancelled international basketball club tournament of FIBA Asia. The competition would have been the 29th season of the FIBA Asia Champions Cup, and cancelled for the third consecutive year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [1] The competition would have taken place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates from 26 September to 1 October. [2] [3] The league would have featured 8 teams. [2]

Contents

The competition has been cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Qualification

The league champions of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA), Korean Basketball League (KBL), Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) and B.League qualify directly for the group stage. The four other teams would have qualified through the Sub-Zone Qualifiers. [2]

Team allocation

Group phase
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Liaoning Flying Leopards (1st) Flag of Japan.svg Utsunomiya Brex (1st) Flag of the Philippines.svg Unknown [a] Flag of South Korea.svg Seoul SK Knights (1st)
Qualifying rounds
Four other teams

Teams

The following teams had qualified for the 2022 FIBA Asia CC:

TeamQualified onQualified asPrevious appearancesBest performance
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Liaoning Flying Leopards 26 April 2022Champions of the 2021–22 CBA season 1988, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1998, 2018 Winner (1990)
Flag of South Korea.svg Seoul SK Knights 5 May 2022Champions of the 2021–22 KBL season 2018 Third place (2018)
Flag of Japan.svg Utsunomiya Brex 29 May 2022Champions of the 2021–22 B.League seasonDebut

Notes

  1. The Philippine Basketball Association has three conferences or tournaments within a single season. It was uncertain which conference would have been used to determine the qualifying Philippine team

References

  1. "FIBA Asia Champions Cup 2022中止のお知らせ" [Information about the cancellation of the 2022 FIBA Asia Champions Cup] (in Japanese). Utsunomiya Brex. 29 July 2022. Retrieved 1 October 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 "FIBA Asia Champions Cup 2022 dates confirmed". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  3. "FIBA Asia Champions Cup 2022出場中止のお知らせ" (in Japanese). Utsonomiya Brex. 7 July 2022. Retrieved 1 March 2024.