Intercontinental Cup (basketball)
| FIBA Intercontinental Cup | |
| Association | FIBA |
| founding | 1966 |
| Teams | 4th |
| Title holder |
 CB 1939 Canarias
|
| Record winner |
Real Madrid (5)
|
| Website | www.fiba.com |
The Intercontinental Cup is an international basketball cup competition held by the Fédération Internationale de Basketball (FIBA). Basketball clubs from all continents can take part in it.
history
The origins of the Intercontinental Cup go back to a friendly match from 1965 in São Paulo between the then winner of the European Cup of National Champions Real Madrid and that of the South American Cup of Masters Corinthians . The game ended with a 118: 109 for the Brazilians.
The first intercontinental tournament officially held by FIBA finally took place in Madrid from September 6th to 9th, 1966 . Pallacanestro Varese secured victory with a 66:59 in the final against Corinthians São Paulo . Hosts Real Madrid and the Chicago Jamaco Saints from the US National AAU Basketball League / National Alliance of Basketball Leagues (NABL) also took part in the competition. The tournament, which was played in the knockout system (with semifinals and final), was subsequently dominated by the Akron Goodyear Wingfoots , who also played in the NABL and secured three titles in a row from 1967 to 1969.
From 1970 the world federation changed the mode of the Intercontinental Cup, which from then on was held as a round-robin tournament. Due to the lack of interest and the lack of agreement among the participants in finding a date, no tournament took place in 1971 and in 1972 it was not club teams but the national teams of Poland, Brazil, the Soviet Union and the United States that took part. In 1973 the contest was in honor of the FIBA Secretary General Renato William Jones in FIBA Intercontinental Cup "William Jones" renamed. From then on, club teams from various continental associations were eligible to participate. The representative of the United States no longer came from the NABL in 1974, but was now a college team from the NCAA Division I, in addition, clubs from Europe and Latin America and one or two teams from the host country usually started. In 1975 and 1976, with Hit Trésor Bangui ( Central African Republic ) and ASFA Dakar ( Senegal ), teams from Africa also took part in the competition for the first time.
In 1981 FIBA expanded the tournament to all continental associations and renamed it the FIBA Club World Cup . A total of ten teams took part, four from South America, two from Europe, one representative each from Africa, Oceania and Asia and the Clemson Tigers from the United States. After a preliminary round consisting of two groups of five, the best six teams met in a round-robin tournament. Real Madrid secured victory at this Club World Cup. For the time being, however, there was only one event under this mode and so the competition took place again from 1982 to 1984 as an Intercontinental Cup with clubs from Europe, South America and a team from the NCAA.
In 1985 CD Maxaquene ( Mozambique ) and the Philippine national team were invited, the tournament was again called FIBA Club World Cup . After a preliminary round of two groups of five, the four best teams met in the knockout system . FC Barcelona secured the victory . In the following two events the tournament kept its name, but again only clubs from Europe, South America and the United States contested it.
The establishment of the McDonald's Championship , held from 1987 to 1999 , a meeting of various FIBA club teams and occasionally national teams, each with a team from the NBA , led to the discontinuation of the less attractive Intercontinental Cup. From 1988 to 2012 the competition was held only once; in 1996, the winner of the European Cup Panathinaikos Athens and the winner of the Liga Sudamericana Olimpia Basketball Club met . The Greeks decided the best-of-three playoff with 2-1.
After a 15-year hiatus, FIBA and ULEB decided in 2013 to revive the tournament. The winners of the ULEB Euroleague and the FIBA Americas League met under the name FIBA-Euroleague Intercontinental Cup .
Due to disputes between ULEB and FIBA, the winner of the ULEB Euroleague did not represent European basketball in 2016, but the winner of the less important FIBA Europe Cup . Since 2017, the respective winner of the Basketball Champions League has been qualified for the Intercontinental Cup by FIBA-Europe.
From 2019, the mode changed again. In addition to the winners of the Basketball Champions League (FIBA Europe) and FIBA Americas League (FIBA Americas), the champions of the NBA G-League and a host team from the venue designated by the world association were now qualified for the tournament. The competition was held in Final Four mode, with semi-finals and final.
Names
- FIBA Intercontinental Cup: 1966–1972
- FIBA Intercontinental Cup "William Jones": 1973–1980
- FIBA Club World Cup "William Jones": 1981
- FIBA Intercontinental Cup "William Jones": 1982–1984
- FIBA Club World Cup "William Jones": 1985–1987
- FIBA Intercontinental Cup: 1996
- FIBA Euroleague Intercontinental Cup: 2013–2015
- FIBA Intercontinental Cup: since 2016
Intercontinental Cup winner
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Title by team
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Most valuable player
| year | MVP | team |
|---|---|---|
| 1977 |
 Walter Szczerbiak
|
real Madrid |
| 1987 |
Juan Antonio San Epifanio
|
FC Barcelona |
| 2013 |
 Vasilios Spanoulis
|
Olympiacos Piraeus |
| 2014 |
 Nicolás Laprovíttola
|
Flamengo Rio de Janeiro |
| 2015 |
Sergio Llull
|
real Madrid |
| 2016 |
Zach Graham
|
Guaros de Lara |
| 2017 |
Mike Tobey
|
CB 1939 Canarias |
| 2019 |
Jordan Theodore
|
AEK Athens |
| 2020 |
 Marcelo Huertas
|
CB 1939 Canarias |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Especial Mundial: O Mundial é nosso! In: basquetepinheirense.wordpress.com. August 16, 2013. Retrieved September 29, 2015 (Portuguese).
Web links
- Intercontinental Cup in the linguasport.com database