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Match des Champions (basketball)

super cup basketball game in France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ3298301 ↗
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The Match des Champions (English: Match of champions) or French Basketball Supercup, is an annual super cup basketball game in France. It was held from 2005 to 2017 as a single match between the champions of the top-tier level league in France, the LNB Élite , and the French Federation Cup winner. The competition was revived in 2025 as a final four tournament format, with the Leaders Cup and Élite 2 winners also invited.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005, 2017, 2025—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2005. The account is most persuasive where Match, Champions and basketball can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Match des Champions (basketball)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.