SABA Championship
Current season, competition or edition: 2021 SABA Championship | |
| Sport | Basketball |
|---|---|
| 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 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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).