The Liga Sudamericana de Baloncesto (LSB), or FIBA Liga Sudamericana de Baloncesto ( Portuguese: ''Liga Sul-Americana de Basquete'', English: ''South American Basketball League''), also commonly known as FIBA South American League, is the second-tier level

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competition at the club level, with the first-tier level now considered the panamerican competition of the Champions League. The competition is organized by the South American Basketball Association (ABASU), which operates as a regional sub-zone of

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, following the dissolution of the ''South American Basketball Confederation'' (CONSUBASQUET). The winner of each year's competition gets a place at the upcoming edition of the

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. The league usually includes some national domestic champions, and some runners-up, from the best national leagues and basketball countries on the South American continent. Depending on the country, places may be awarded on the basis of performance in the previous season's national domestic league, or over the previous two or three national domestic seasons. The tournament has been played since 1996, aside from 2003, 2020 and 2021.

History

The South American Championship of Champions Clubs, which was founded in 1946, was the first international club tournament played between basketball clubs from South America, and it was the first-tier and most important club competition in South America. In 1993, the Pan American Club Championship was launched including also Central American teams and was held annually until 2000.
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which was supported by

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were the only two teams that represented South America in the competition which also included

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champions. Atenas also represented South America as champions in the 1996 FIBA Intercontinental Cup. With the emergence of the new panamerican competition called the FIBA Americas League, in December 2007, the FIBA South American League became the second-tier international club championship in South America, beginning with the 2008 edition of the competition. The winner was also allocated a spot in the following year's FIBA Americas League. On 24 September 2019, FIBA launched the competition, which derives its name and branding from the European Basketball Champions League. The competition replaced the FIBA Americas League as premier league in the Americas. The competition will consist of twelve teams, which have to qualify through their domestic leagues. The inaugural season is expected to start in October 2019. The 2020 and 2021 seasons were cancelled because of the effects of the

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. In 2022, the league returned.

FIBA South American League levels on the South American pyramid

* 1st-tier: (2001 – 2007) * 2nd-tier: (1996 – 2000, 2008 – Present)

Names of the top-tier level South American / Latin American competition

* CONSUBASQUET era: (1946–2007) ** Campeonato Sudamericano de Clubes Campeones de Básquetbol ( English: South American Basketball Championship of Champions Clubs): (1946–1992) ** Campeonato Panamericano de Clubes de Básquetbol ( English: Pan American Basketball Club Championship): (1993–2000) ** Liga Sudamericana de Básquetbol (LSB) ( English: South American Basketball League): (2001–2007) *

era: (2007–present) ** FIBA Americas League: (2007 – 2019) **

: (2019 – present)

Title holders

* 1996 Olimpia * 1997

* 1998

* 1999

* 2000

* 2001 Estudiantes * 2002 Libertad * 2003 ''Not held'' * 2004

* 2005 Unitri Uberlândia * 2006 Ben Hur * 2007 Libertad * 2008 Regatas Corrientes * 2009

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(I) * 2009

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(II) * 2010

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* 2011 Obras Sanitarias * 2012 Regatas Corrientes * 2013

* 2014 Bauru * 2015

* 2016

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* 2017 Guaros de Lara * 2018 Franca * 2019

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* 2022 Bauru * 2023 Instituto * 2024 Nacional

Grand Finals

Titles by club

Titles by country

Statistical leaders per season

The season usually started in February and ended in May until 2009 (I). Then after the South American Champions Cup folded, it to moved to October until November.

Top scorers

Since the beginning of the 1996 season (Points Per Game): *2007 Cleotis Brown III ( Libertad de Sunchales): 17.4 *2008 Leandro García Morales ( Club Atlético Aguada): 23.5 *2009 (I)

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( Flamengo Basketball): 24.9 *2009 (II) Guilherme Giovannoni ( Brasilia): 23.7 *2010

( Flamengo Basketball): 25.6 *2011

( Flamengo Basketball): 18.8 *2012 Paulinho Boracini (Pinheiros): 22.3 *2013 Leandro García Morales ( Club Atlético Aguada): 25.9 *2014 Guilherme Giovannoni ( Brasilia): 22 *2015 Jeremiah Wood ( Club San Martín de Corrientes): 18.5 *2016 Leandro García Morales ( Hebraica Macabi): 23.3 *2017 Heissler Guillent ( Guaros de Lara): 16.8 *2018 Marquinhos Vieira ( Flamengo Basketball): 22 *2019 Samuel Yeager ( Piratas de los Lagos ): 26.9 *2022 Charles Mitchell ( Regatas Corrientes): 18.1 *2023 Emilio Cappare Guzmán ( Caballeros de Culiacan): 20.7 *2024 Derrick Woods (ABA Ancud): 20.5

Most rebounds

Since the beginning of the 1996 season (rebounds Per Game): *2007 Robert Battle ( Libertad de Sunchales): 10.9 *2008 Shilton dos Santos (

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): 8.6 *2009 (I) Roberto Sebastian Lopez ( Regatas de Corrientes): 8.2 *2009 (II) Murilo Becker ( Minas Tênis Clube): 9.8 *2010 Ricardo Luis Probst ( Minas Tênis Clube): 9.8 *2011 Federico Kammerichs (Regatas): 11.6 *2012 Juan Pedro Gutiérrez (Obras Sanitarias): 9.3 *2013 Murilo Becker ( Minas Tênis Clube): 10 *2014 Bruno Fiorotto (Limeira): 9.5 *2015 Mathías Calfani ( Club Malvín): 8.5 *2016 Justin Douglas Williams (

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): 13 *2017 Néstor Colmenares ( Guaros de Lara): 8.8 *2018 Pablo Espinoza ( Instituto Atlético Central Córdoba): 8.6 *2019 Erik Thomas ( Ferro Carril Oeste ): 7.4 *2022 Eloy Vargas ( Club Atlético Aguada): 11.6 *2023 Eloy Vargas ( Titanes de Barranquilla): 11 *2024 Derrick Woods (ABA Ancud): 10.8Season 2024
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Most assists

Since the beginning of the 1996 season (assists Per Game): *2007 Helio Rubens Garcia Filho ( Unitri/Uberlândia ): 5.9 *2008 Facundo Sucatzky ( Minas Tênis Clube): 5.8 *2009 (I) Valtinho da Silva ( Brasilia): 5 *2009 (II) Valtinho da Silva ( Brasilia): 8 *2010 Nezinho dos Santos ( Brasilia): 5.3 *2011 Nezinho dos Santos ( Brasilia): 5.3 *2012 Nezinho dos Santos ( Brasilia): 6.5 *2013 Nezinho dos Santos ( Brasilia): 6 *2014 Fúlvio de Assis ( Brasilia): 7.5 *2015 Diego Ciorciari ( Club San Martín de Corrientes): 5 *2016 Maximiliano Stanic (

): 8 *2017 Leandro Vildoza ( Estudiantes Concordia): 4 *2018 Gegê Chaia ( Minas Tênis Clube): 7.2 *2019 Cordero Bennett (

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): 5 *2022 Jhornan Zamora ( Titanes de Barranquilla): 6.3 *2023 Joshua Webster ( Club Gimnasia & Esgrima Comodoro Rivadavia): 5.6 *2024 Lucas Perez (San Lorenzo): 8.8