The 2025 BAL season, also known as BAL Season 5, will be the 5th season of the Basketball Africa League (BAL). It will be the first season in which the playoffs of the league will be held outside of Rwanda.[1]
| 2025 BAL season | |
|---|---|
| League | Basketball Africa League |
| Sport | Basketball |
| Duration | TBA |
Petro de Luanda will be the defending champions, having won the previous season. The winners will earn the right to play in the 2025 FIBA Intercontinental Cup.
Qualification
editRoad to BAL teams
editThe following teams are eligible to play in the Road to BAL qualifying tournaments, based on their results in domestic leagues and championships.
| Association | Team | Qualifying
date |
Qualification method | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Cameroon
|
Kadji Sports Academy | 22 May 2024 | 2023–24 Elite Messieurs champions | [2] |
 Gabon
|
Moanda | 3 April 2024 | 2024 Gabonese Basketball Cup champions | [3] |
 Mozambique
|
Costa do Sol | 20 December 2023 | 2023 LMB season champions | [4] |
 Tanzania
|
JKT | [data missing] | 2023 National Basketball Leaguechampions | [citation needed] |
 Madagascar
|
GNBC | 30 October 2023 | 2024 N1A champions | [5] |
 Zambia
|
Matero Magic | 6 January 2024 | 2023–24 Zambia Basketball League champions | [6] |
Teams
editPetro de Luanda were the first team to qualify, as they won the 2023–24 Angolan Basketball League on 12 May 2024 to qualify for a record-extending fifth time.[7] Al Ittihad Alexandria will make its debut, becoming the third Egyptian club to play in the league.[8]
| Team | Method of qualification | Date of qualification | Previous appearances (winners in bold) |
Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Petro de Luanda
|
2023–24 Angolan Basketball League champions | 12 May 2024 | 4 (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024) | [7] |
 Al Ittihad Alexandria
|
2023–24 Egyptian Basketball Premier League champions | 13 June 2024 | 0 (debut) | [8] |
 US Monastir
|
2023–24 Championnat Pro A champions | 27 June 2024 | 4 (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024) | [9] |
 TBD
|
2024 Nationale 1 champions | |||
 TBD
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2024 RBL season champions | |||
 TBD
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2024 NBBF Premier League champions | |||
 TBD
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Road to BAL East Division top three teams | |||
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Road to BAL West Division top three teams | |||
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References
edit- ^ "Basketball Africa League and Rwanda Development Board announce multi-year extension to play BAL games in Kigali". NBA.com: NBA Communications. 19 June 2023. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- ^ "KSA de Douala are 2024 Champions!". www.afrobasket.com. 22 May 2024. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
- ^ "Basket-ball/ Coupe du Gabon 2024 : Moanda BB et Naba au pinacle". L'UNION | L'actualité du Gabon (in French). 3 April 2024. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
- ^ Nhamurave, Samuel. "basquetebol: costa do sol sagra-se campeão 20 anos depois" (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 27 December 2023.
- ^ Raherinjatovo, Donné (30 October 2023). "BASKETBALL-N1A HOMMES - La GNBC d'Analamanga sur le trône". L'Express de Madagascar (in French). Retrieved 4 November 2023.
- ^ "Magic wins unprecented 11th title". Times of Zambia. 8 January 2024. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
- ^ a b Da Silva, Juscelino (12 May 2024). "Jornal de Angola - Notícias - Basquetebol: Petro de Luanda revalida título e conquista o Penta". Jornal de Angola (in Portuguese). Retrieved 13 May 2024.
- ^ a b "الاتحاد السكندري يهزم الأهلي ويتوج بلقب دوري السوبر لكرة السلة". btolat.com (in Arabic). 13 June 2024. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
- ^ "Basketball : Union sportive monastirienne championne de Tunisie". Réalités Online. 27 June 2024. Retrieved 30 June 2024.