Edition of the FIBA Asia Champions Cup
International basketball competition
2014 FIBA Asia Champions Cup25th Asia Champions Cup |
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Host country | Kuwait |
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Dates | TBD |
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Teams | 10 |
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Venue(s) | TBD (in TBD host cities) |
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2014 FIBA Asia Champions Cup |
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The 2014 FIBA Asia Champions Cup will be the 25th staging of the
FIBA Asia Champions Cup, the international
basketball
club tournament of
FIBA Asia. The tournament was supposed to be held in
Kuwait on June 5–13, 2014,
[1] but
FIBA Asia, through a communique to the National Federations representing the qualified teams, had announced that the tournament will be rescheduled after the
2014 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship for Women sometime in the third-fourth week of October, after they (National Federations) mentioned that they require their top players to be available for the National Team's preparations for the
2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup and the
2014 Asian Games.
[2]
Qualification
The qualifications for the 2014 FIBA Asia Champions Cup are still ongoing; it started this early 2014 with the
Gulf region,
West Asia,
Southeast Asia,
East Asia,
Central Asia and
South Asia each conducting tournaments.
Format
The following are eligible to participate:
[3]
- The organizing country.
- The three best-placed teams from the
2013 FIBA Asia Champions Cup will qualify the same number of teams from their respective sub-zones.
- The best team from the sub-zones of East Asia, Gulf, Southeast Asia and West Asia and the winner from the sub-zones of South Asia and Central Asia.
- Berths
Zone |
Automatic |
Additional berths from 2013 FIBA Asia Champions Cup |
Total
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Host team |
1 |
— |
1
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Central Asia |
1 |
0 |
1
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East Asia |
1 |
0 |
1
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Persian Gulf |
1 |
1 |
2
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South Asia |
1 |
0 |
1
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Southeast Asia |
1 |
0 |
1
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West Asia |
1 |
2 |
3
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2013 FIBA Asia Champions Cup
Qualified teams
Central Asia
Turkmenistan's
Belent Ashgabat will be the CABA subzone's representative to the 2014 FIBA Asia Champions Cup.
[4]
East Asia
Persian Gulf
Qatar's
Al-Sadd and
UAE's
Al-Ahli have qualified to represent
Gulf subzone, and a team representing
Kuwait has qualified automatically as the hosts.
[5]
[6]
South Asia
Southeast Asia
The 2014
SEABA Champions Cup was the qualification for
Southeast Asia in the 2014 FIBA Asia Champions Cup. It was a single game between Malaysia and Singapore and was held on April 26, 2014, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
[7] After intense and hard-fought three quarters, the home team pulled out a 17–9 scoring in the final frame to claim the lone
SEABA spot, 59–47.
[8]
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Qualified at the 2014 FIBA Asia Champions Cup
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West Asia
The 2014
WABA Champions Cup was the qualifying tournament for the 2014 FIBA Asia Champions Cup. The three best teams qualify for 2014 FIBA Asia Champions Cup. The tournament was held from March 8 to March 13, 2014, in
Tehran,
Iran.
[9]
Preliminary round
Group A
Group B
ASU
![Jordan](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Flag_of_Jordan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Jordan.svg.png) |
79–57 |
Al-Jaish |
Scoring by quarter: 8–24, 23–9, 22–12, 26–12 |
Final round
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
3rd place
Al-Kahraba
![Iraq](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Flag_of_Iraq.svg/23px-Flag_of_Iraq.svg.png) |
65–79 |
ASU |
Scoring by quarter: 18–16, 18–23, 17–16, 12–24 |
Final
Final standing
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Qualified at the 2014 FIBA Asia Champions Cup
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References