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The FIBA World Club Championship is a new
annual basketball
competition to be contested by the FIBA
(Fédération Internationale de Basketball) men's club tournament
winners. The inaugural tournament will span five days in October
2010 and will include eight teams: the FIBA club tournament
champions of Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania, as
well as the runners-up from the Americas and Europe, and a team
from the host country. The 2010 tournament will be co-hosted by the
Chinese cities of Chengdu
and Nanjing.[1]
A relatively modest prize of 1 million USD has been announced for
the winning team.[2]
As it currently stands the FIBA World Club Championship cannot
be considered a true top-tier championship as it will lack
representation from the top teams of Europe (the FIBA EuroChallenge
is a third-tier championship)[3], North
America (although the NBA may compete starting in 2011), and China
(China will send a team as the host country in 2010, but the CBA has not participated
in the FIBA Asia Champions Cup for
several years).
This will be the first major intercontinental club basketball
competition since 1999, when the last McDonald's
Championship was held. That tournament itself followed
in the footsteps of the Intercontinental
Cup which was held annually by FIBA from
1966-1987.
Format
For the 2010 tournament, the winning teams of the five FIBA
continental club tournaments will meet the runners-up of the FIBA Americas and
FIBA Europe zones,
and one club from host country China. Although
specifics of the playing format haven't been released at this
point, FIBA has indicated the tournament will consist of 10 games,
suggesting that it will not proceed by simple single-elimination
(which would last only seven games).
FIBA spokesman Marcos Beltra has indicated that although no NBA team will compete
in the 2010 championship, FIBA intends to invite the NBA champions
to participate starting in 2011. The McDonald's Championship also
consisted of the continental winners and an invited team from the
NBA—and was won by the NBA team each of the nine years it ran.[1]
Qualifying Tournaments
2 teams each
1 team each
Champions
| Year |
Final |
Third Place |
Venue |
| Winner |
Score |
Runner-up |
Third place |
Score |
Fourth place |
2010
Details |
Winner |
TBD |
Runner-Up |
Third Place |
TBD |
Fourth Place |
Stadium,
City |
Notes and
references
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