Kinidinnin Stéphane Konaté Sornan is an Ivorian retired basketball player. He played the majority of his career for the ABC Fighters and for the Ivory Coast national team. He is nicknamed "El Jefe".
Omar Abada is a Tunisian professional basketball player who plays for Al Ahly since 2023. Abada also plays for the Tunisia national basketball team.
Association Sportive Salé, commonly known as AS Salé, is a Moroccan basketball club from Salé. The club competes in the Division Excellence. Notable players of the team include senior men's Moroccan national basketball team members Abderrahim Najah, Zakaria El Masbahi and Soufiane Kourdou.
Adjehi Nonma Baru is an Ivorian professional basketball player. He also represents the Ivory Coast national basketball team. He played college basketball for College of Charleston Cougars men's basketball
The Ligue d'Or, formerly known as the Ivorian Basketball Championship, is the premier basketball league for clubs in Ivory Coast. The league consist out of twelve teams as of the 2024 season. The most successful team in the league's history is ABC Fighters, who have won a record 22 titles. The league was re-named the "Ligue d'Or" in 2024.
The Road to BAL, also known as the BAL Qualifying Tournaments, are the qualifying tournaments of the Basketball Africa League (BAL). While the main tournament is co-organised by FIBA and the NBA, the organization of the qualifiers is completely done by FIBA. The first qualifying rounds began on 16 October 2019 during the 2021 BAL qualification.
Louis Cyrille Jean Benoît She, better known as Abraham Sie, was an Ivorian basketball player. During his career he played for the Ivory Coast national basketball team.
Chadrack Lufile is a Congolese-Canadian professional basketball player who last played for the ABC Fighters of the Road to BAL. Internationally, he also plays for DR Congo.
Abdoul Karim Mané is a Senegalese-Canadian professional basketball player for the ABC Fighters. He grew up on the South Shore of Montreal and played for Vanier College in Montreal's Ville Saint-Laurent borough, where he was a consensus five-star recruit before forgoing his college eligibility to enter the 2020 NBA draft.
Fath Union Sport commonly called FUS or FUS Rabat, is a Moroccan basketball club based in Rabat. The team currently plays in the Division Excellence. The team is the basketball section of the multi-sports club with the same name. FUS is the most successful club in Moroccan history, having won a record eighteen Division Excellence titles and nine Moroccan Throne Cups. FUS made their debut in the Basketball Africa League (BAL) in 2024.
Société Omnisports de l'Armée, commonly known as SOA, is an Ivorian basketball club based in Yamoussoukro. The team competes in the Ivorian Basketball Championship and was founded in 1932. The basketball section is a part of the same-named multi sports club.
Liz Mills is an Australian basketball coach who, since 2011, has coached elite level men's club and national basketball teams in Africa. Mills is the former head coach of Bangui Sporting Club for the 2023 Road to BAL.
Nisre Mimi Zouzoua is an American-Ivorian basketball player who plays for the ABC Fighters and the Ivory Coast national team. Standing at 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m), he plays as a shooting guard.
The 2023 BAL season, also known as BAL Season 3, was the third season of the Basketball Africa League (BAL). The season began on 11 March 2023 and ended on 27 May 2023. The playoffs were played in the BK Arena in Kigali, which hosted the final stage for a third season in a row. The regular season was played in Dakar, Senegal and Cairo, Egypt, both venues hosted a conference for a second year in a row.
Stade Malien is a Malian basketball team based in Bamako. It is part of the multi-sports club, which also has a football team and rugby team. Founded in 1960, Stade plays in the Ligue 1, the highest level of basketball in Mali.
The qualification for the 2023 BAL season, also known as Road to BAL 2023, was the 3rd edition of the qualifying tournaments for the Basketball Africa League. The tournaments were organised by FIBA Africa and are held from 10 October to 27 November 2022. The format was similar to the previous two seasons, with a group phase and an elite 16 being held.
Bangui Sporting Club, also known as Bangui SC, is a Central African basketball team based in Bangui. The team plays in the Bangui Basketball League (LBBB) and has won the championship in 2022 and 2023.
Assémian Moularé is an Ivorian-French professional basketball player for Vichy-Clermont of the LNB Pro B. Born in France, he represents Ivory Coast internationally.
The qualification for the 2024 BAL season, also known as Road to BAL 2024, was the 4th edition of the qualifying tournaments for the Basketball Africa League (BAL). The tournaments were organised by FIBA Africa and are held from 3 October to 26 November 2023. The format was the same as to the previous seasons, with the competition divided in the group phase and the elite 16.
The qualification for the 2025 BAL season, also known as "Road to BAL 2025", were the qualifying tournaments for the 5th season of the Basketball Africa League (BAL). The tournaments were organised by FIBA Africa and began on 8 October and finished on 4 December 2024.
