Campeonato Sudamericano de Clubes

Campeonato Sudamericano de Clubes
Sport	Basketball
Founded	1946
Ceased	2008;10 years ago
Continent	South America
Last; champion(s)	Biguá
Most titles	Sírio (8 titles)
Level on pyramid	1st tier – South America ; (1946–1995); 2nd tier – South America ; (1996–2007); 3rd tier – South America ; (2008)

Last updated March 17, 2019

The Campeonato Sudamericano de Clubes (Portuguese : Campeonato Sul-Americano de Clubes, English: South American Club Championship) was an international men's professional basketball cup competition that took place between South American clubs. It was originally organized by the South American Basketball Confederation, and then later by FIBA Americas. It was played annually between the league champions in each country, plus the winner of the previous edition.

Portuguese is a Western Romance language originating in the Iberian Peninsula. It is the sole official language of Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Angola, and São Tomé and Príncipe. It also has co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea and Macau in China. As the result of expansion during colonial times, a cultural presence of Portuguese and Portuguese creole speakers are also found in Goa, Daman and Diu in India; in Batticaloa on the east coast of Sri Lanka; in the Indonesian island of Flores; in the Malacca state of Malaysia; and the ABC islands in the Caribbean where Papiamento is spoken, while Cape Verdean Creole is the most widely spoken Portuguese-based Creole. A Portuguese-speaking person or nation may be referred to as "Lusophone" in both English and Portuguese.

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball through the defender's hoop while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop. A field goal is worth two points, unless made from behind the three-point line, when it is worth three. After a foul, timed play stops and the player fouled or designated to shoot a technical foul is given one or more one-point free throws. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but if regulation play expires with the score tied, an additional period of play (overtime) is mandated.

South America is a continent in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It may also be considered a subcontinent of the Americas, which is how it is viewed in the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking regions of the Americas. The reference to South America instead of other regions has increased in the last decades due to changing geopolitical dynamics.

History

The South American Club Championship, which was founded in 1946, was the first international competition that was played between basketball clubs from South America, and it was the first-tier and most important club competition in South America until 1996, when the South American League supplanted it in importance. With the emergence of the new FIBA Americas League in December 2007, the South American Club Championship became the third-tier international club championship in South America. The competition was finally discontinued in the year 2008.

The South American professional club basketball system or South American professional club basketball pyramid is a series of interconnected competitions for professional basketball clubs in South America. The system has a hierarchical format with a promotion and relegation system between competitions at different levels. There are currently two different competitions on the pyramid – the 1st tier FIBA Americas League, and the 2nd tier FIBA South American League. The 1st-tier level FIBA Americas League is organized by FIBA Americas, and the 2nd-tier level FIBA South American League is organized by the South American Basketball Association (ABASU), which operates as a regional sub-zone of FIBA Americas.

The FIBA Americas League, officially abbreviated as the LDA, is the only intercontinental basketball club competition played annually by clubs of the entire Americas. It is organized by FIBA Americas. The first edition started on 4 December 2007. The FIBA Americas League is a recreation of the now defunct Pan American Club Championship, that existed from 1993 to 2000.

Format

The competition was hosted in one or more cities. In the first round, the eight clubs were divided in two groups of four teams each. The two best placed teams of each group advanced to the semifinals. In the semifinals, the first placed team of a group played against the other group's runner-up. The final was contested by the semifinal winners.

List of champions

Finals

Year	Host	Champion	Runner-up
1946	Buenos Aires	Olimpia	Gimnasia y Esgrima (VdP)
1953	Antofagasta	Olimpia Flamengo Santa Fé^[1]^[2]^[3]
1956	Montevideo	Defensor	Ateneo de la Juventud
1958	Guayaquil	Defensor	San Lorenzo
1961	Asunción	Sírio	Olimpia
1964	São Paulo	Corinthians	Tabaré
1967	Antofagasta	Thomas Bata	Welcome
1968	Montevideo	Sírio	Welcome
1969	Quito	Corinthians	LDU Quito
1970	Punta Arenas	Sírio	Atenas
1971	Arequipa	Sírio	Sportiva Italiana
1972	São Paulo	Sírio	Olimpia
1974	Mercedes, Salto, Montevideo	Franca	CA Peñarol
1975	La Paz	Franca	Obras Sanitarias
1977	Corrientes, Buenos Aires	Franca	Palmeiras
1978	São Paulo	Sírio	Franca
1979	Isla Margarita	Sírio	Guaiqueríes de Margarita
1980	Cúcuta	Franca	Sírio
1981	Asunción, Encarnación	Ferro C. Oeste	São José dos Campos
1982	Buenos Aires, Montevideo	Ferro C. Oeste	Obras Sanitarias
1983	Buenos Aires, Montevideo	Peñarol	Monte Líbano
1984	Tarija, Sucre	Sírio	River Plate
1985	Limeira, Jundiaí	Monte Líbano	San Andrés
1986	Buenos Aires	Monte Líbano	Ferro C. Oeste
1987	Valparaíso, Santiago de Chile	Ferro C. Oeste	Monte Líbano
1988	Caracas	Trotamundos	Atenas
1989	Asunción	Trotamundos	Biguá
1990	Guayaquil	Franca	San Pedro Pascual
1991	Franca	Franca	Atenas
1992	Montevideo	Biguá	Franca
1993	Córdoba	Atenas	Franca
1994	Lima	Atenas	Olimpia (VT)
1995	Bucaramanga	Rio Claro	Hebraica y Macabi
1996	Concepción, Talca	Independiente	Rio Claro
1998	Tarija	Vasco da Gama	Welcome
1999	Rio de Janeiro	Vasco da Gama	Bauru
2000	Valencia	Trotamundos	Vasco da Gama
2001	Isla Margarita	Delfines de Cabimas	Espartanos de Margarita
2002	Valdivia	Delfines de Miranda	Valdivia
2003	Maracaibo	Delfines de Miranda	Gimnasia y Esgrima (CR)
2004	Asunción	Boca Juniors	Delfines de Miranda
2005	Rafaela	Boca Juniors	Unitri/Uberlândia
2006	Barquisimeto	Boca Juniors	Guaros de Lara
2007	Brasília	Minas Tênis	Boca Juniors
2008	Guayaquil	Biguá	Libertad

Titles by club

Titles	Club	Years won
8	Sírio	1961, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1978, 1979, 1984
6	Franca	1974, 1975, 1977, 1980, 1990, 1991
3	Ferro C. Oeste	1981, 1982, 1987
	Trotamundos	1988, 1989, 2000
	Delfines de Miranda	2001, 2002, 2003
	Boca Juniors	2004, 2005, 2006
2	Defensor	1956, 1958
	Corinthians	1964, 1969
	Monte Líbano	1985, 1986
	Biguá	1992, 2008
	Atenas	1993, 1994
	Vasco da Gama	1998, 1999
1	Olimpia	1946
	Olimpia	1953
	Flamengo	1953
	Santa Fé	1953
	Thomas Bata	1967
	Peñarol	1983
	Rio Claro	1995
	Independiente	1996
	Minas	2007

Titles by country

Titles	Country
23	Brazil
10	Argentina
6	Uruguay
6	Venezuela
1	Paraguay
1	Chile

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References

↑ Urusubasket (February 22, 2012.) Páginas de la Historia Retrieved September 2, 2012. (in Spanish)
↑ Troche, José María Los 60 años del básquetbol en el Paraguay (Oct. 12, 2004) Retrieved September 2, 2012. (in Spanish)
↑ Jornal do Brasil, (Dec. 23, 1953) Basket-ball em marcha (in portuguese).

External links

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[1] Urusubasket (February 22, 2012.) Páginas de la Historia Retrieved September 2, 2012. (in Spanish)

[2] Troche, José María Los 60 años del básquetbol en el Paraguay (Oct. 12, 2004) Retrieved September 2, 2012. (in Spanish)

[JB-3] Jornal do Brasil, (Dec. 23, 1953) Basket-ball em marcha (in portuguese).