The Liga Uruguaya de Básquetbol (abbreviated as LUB;

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: ''Uruguayan Basketball League'') is the highest professional club

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(FUBB). The Uruguayan Basketball League competition began in 2003. Before that time, the Uruguayan basketball championships were only local metropolitan, and no competitions brought together all the clubs in the country. Until the Liga Uruguaya de Básquetbol was created, the capital clubs participated in the

Campeonato Uruguayo Federal de Básquetbol The Campeonato Uruguayo Federal de Básquetbol (CFB) ( English: Uruguayan Federal Basketball Championship) was the top-tier level men's basketball national club competition in Uruguay. It was organized by the Uruguayan Basketball Federation (FU ...

(Uruguayan Federal Basketball Championship), while the clubs of the rest of the country competed in regional tournaments. The Uruguayan Federal Basketball Championship was founded in 1915, making it among the oldest on the continent. The first LUB competition had a dramatic end, with a win in the last second, that brought the Uruguayan League title to

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, whom also repeated in the 2009–10 season. So far, Defensor Sporting will be the only one to appear in all of the league's seasons, after the relegation of Trouville in the 2024–25 season.

Format

The LUB is currently played in four stages: Torneo (Qualifying Tournament), Fase Campeonato (Championship Phase) or Reclasificatorio (Requalifier), play-in and play-off. * In the Qualifying Tournament, the metropolitan clubs play each other twice, home and away, and the first six of the table play in the Championship Phase, where all is guaranteed to participate in the playoffs. The last six play the Requalifier. * The Championship Phase is contested by six teams. The clubs play each other once, where home-field advantage will be won in the head-to-head of the Qualifier. It only serves to organize the positions for playoffs. * The Requalifier was contested by six teams also. The clubs play each other once, where home-field advantage will be won in the head-to-head of the Qualifier. The last two are relegated to the Second Division, to participate in the

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and the top four advance to the first round of play-in. The winners play against the finalists of OBL (a tournament with the top-two teams of

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, Salto and Soriano regional leagues). * The play-in consist of two rounds, with series being best of three series. The first stage is played as: A) 1st of Requalifier vs. 4th of Requalifier, B) 2nd of Requalifier vs. 3rd of Requalifier. The second stage pairings are: C) 1st of OBL vs. B) Winner, D) 2nd of OBL vs. A) Winner. * Finally, teams competed in the playoffs, with series being best of five. The first stage was the quarterfinals. The qualifiers are played as: E) 1st vs. D) Winner, F) 2nd vs. C) Winner, G) 3rd vs. 6th and H) 4th vs. 5th. The semifinal pairings were: E) Winner vs. H) Winner and F) Winner vs. G) Winner. The winners of these matches played in the finals in best-of-seven serie, with the winner being crowned as the league champions of the LUB. * The finalists will play the

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and the losers of the semifinals, the

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Participating teams

Defensor Sporting and Trouville are the teams with the most league appearances, having so far competed in every season of the LUB.

2024–25 season teams

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Champions by season

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Total LUB titles by club

Awards

Top Scorer

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References

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