The Liga Portuguesa de Basquetebol ( en, Portuguese Basketball League), also known as Liga
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for sponsorship reasons, is the top men's professional club
basketball
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league in Portugal.
History
From the 2008–09 season onward, the competition has been again organised by the
Federação Portuguesa de Basquetebol (Portuguese Basketball Federation) after not having been for 13 seasons. This was caused by the fold of the LPB after many years of financial problems, with the league now being a semi-professional league.
Between the 1965–66 and 1973–74 seasons, the league champions were determined by a tournament between the winners of the Campeonato Metropolitano (representing Portugal) and the champions of the then Portuguese colonies Mozambique and Angola, as a similar fashion to the
Portuguese Roller Hockey First Division
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, which was also played during those seasons. However, the first of these tournaments never came to be because of a protest launched by Mozambican team Sporting de Lourenço Marques.
Teams
Portuguese champions
''Source''
Campeonato Metropolitano champions
*1965–66:
Benfica
*1966–67:
Académica de Coimbra
*1967–68: Ass. Desp. do Banco Pinto de Magalhães
*1968–69:
Sporting CP
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*1969–70:
Benfica (2)
*1970–71:
Benfica (3)
*1971–72:
Porto
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*1972–73:
Benfica (4)
*1973–74:
Benfica (5)
Liga de Clubes de Basquetebol champions
Liga Portuguesa de Basquetebol champions
Performance by club
Records
*Benfica became the second team in basketball history to achieve a perfect regular season (100% wins) in the 2008–09 season, after Maccabi Tel Aviv in the 1970s.
References
External links
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Eurobasket.com league page
{{National championships in Portugal
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Basketball leagues in Europe
Professional sports leagues in Portugal