SABA Championship
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Current season, competition or edition: 2021 SABA Championship | |
Sport | Basketball |
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Founded | 2002 |
Country | SABA member nations |
Continent | FIBA Asia (Asia) |
Most recent champion(s) | India (6th title) |
Most titles | India (6 titles) |
The SABA Championship is a basketball tournament for national teams organized by the South Asia Basketball Association, a sub-zone of the FIBA Asia. It serves as a qualifier for various FIBA Asia events such as the FIBA Asia Championship and the FIBA Asia Cup.[1][2]
Starting immediately at the end of the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup, a new qualification format for 2021 FIBA Asia Cup, and for every continental championships thereafter, has been introduced, wherein home and away games will be done during the pre-qualifiers in order to determine the participants for the main qualifiers that will battle for the 16 berths of the continental championships.[3]
Summary
[edit]Year | Host | Final | Third-place game | ||||||
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Champion | Score | Second Place | Third Place | Score | Fourth Place | ||||
2002 Details |
Guwahati |
India |
No playoffs | Bangladesh |
No playoffs | ||||
2013 Details |
Dhaka |
Bangladesh |
No playoffs | Pakistan |
Nepal |
No playoffs | Maldives | ||
2014 Details |
Kathmandu |
India |
No playoffs | Bangladesh |
Sri Lanka |
No playoffs | Nepal | ||
2015 Details |
Bengaluru |
India |
No playoffs | Sri Lanka |
Nepal |
No playoffs | Bangladesh | ||
2016 Details |
Bengaluru |
India |
No playoffs | Maldives |
Nepal |
No playoffs | Bangladesh | ||
2017 Details |
Malé |
India |
No playoffs | Bangladesh |
Sri Lanka |
No playoffs | Nepal | ||
2018 Details |
Dhaka |
Sri Lanka |
No playoffs | Bangladesh |
Maldives |
No playoffs | Bhutan | ||
2021 Details |
Dhaka |
India |
No playoffs | Sri Lanka |
Bangladesh |
No playoffs | Maldives |
Medal table
[edit]Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | India | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
2 | Bangladesh | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
3 | Sri Lanka | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
4 | Nepal | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
5 | Maldives | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
6 | Pakistan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Totals (6 entries) | 8 | 9 | 6 | 23 |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "SABA Championship 2015 to be held in India". BasketballSansar. 15 June 2015.
- ^ "SABA decides India will host the 4th SABA Championship / Qualifying Round 2015". Basketball Federation of India. 11 June 2015. Archived from the original on 15 June 2015.
- ^ "Road to FIBA Basketball World Cup China 2019 and FIBA Asia Cup 2021" (PDF).