Angolan Basketball League
basketball league
The Angolan Men's Basketball League, (in Portuguese: Campeonato Nacional de Basquetebol em Séniores Masculinos), for sponsorship reasons known as the Unitel Basket, is the top tier men's basketball league in Angola.
Primeiro de Agosto and Petro de Luanda have been the most successful clubs in Angola with a total of 19 titles won each.
The champions of each Unitel Basket season qualify directly for the Basketball Africa League (BAL).
Sponsorship names
In 2014, the Angolan Basketball Federation signed a sponsoring deal with Angola's Banco de Investimento e Crédito, which it claimed to be more favourable than the one with Banco Africano de Investimentos. Such agreement caused the league to be renamed as BIC Basket.
The league was formerly known as BAI Basket, BIC Basket and Unitel Basket, named after its major sponsors, formerly Banco Africano de Investimentos (BAI), Banco de Investimento e Crédito (BIC) and Unitel, the competition is organized by the Angolan Basketball Federation.
BAI Basket (until 2024)
BIC Basket: (2014–2017)
Unitel Basket: (2017–present)
Teams
Current teams
The following fourteen teams play in the 2024–25 season:
Former teams
Note: † denotes a team that has been dissolved.
Before independence
It wasn't until 1963 that the Portuguese national basketball championship began to include clubs from the províncias ultramarinas (overseas provinces) of Angola and Mozambique. This new format began with one team from each of the three locations and then changed to two teams from the host and one from each of the remaining two locations, who played a round-robin (then double round-robin) tournament to determine the champion of Portugal, with the championship taking place alternatively at each of the three capitals: Luanda (Angola), Lourenço Marques (Mozambique) and Lisbon/Porto (Portugal). From 1963 to 1974, 12 championships were held, with only one Angolan club succeeding to win the championship: Benfica de Luanda in 1967
Total league championships
List of champions and finals
MVP award winners and statistical leaders
Performance by club
The following table lists the performance of all teams that have won or were runners-up in the Angolan Basketball League.
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