2022 FIBA Asia Champions Cup

2022 FIBA Asia Champions Cup
Dates	26 September – 1 October 2022 (cancelled)

The 2022 FIBA Asia Champions Cup was a cancelled international basketball club tournament of FIBA Asia. The competition would have been the 29th season of the FIBA Asia Champions Cup, and cancelled for the third consecutive year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] The competition would have taken place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates from 26 September to 1 October.[2][3] The league would have featured 8 teams.[2]

The competition has been cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Qualification

The league champions of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA), Korean Basketball League (KBL), Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) and B.League qualify directly for the group stage. The four other teams would have qualified through the Sub-Zone Qualifiers.[2]

Team allocation

• 1st, 2nd, etc.: Place in the domestic competition
• TH: Title holder
• CW: Cup winner
• QT: National qualification tournament

Group phase
Liaoning Flying Leopards (1st)	Utsunomiya Brex (1st)	Unknown [a]	Seoul SK Knights (1st)
Qualifying rounds
Four other teams

Teams

The following teams had qualified for the 2022 FIBA Asia CC:

Team	Qualified on	Qualified as	Previous appearances	Best performance
Liaoning Flying Leopards	26 April 2022	Champions of the 2021–22 CBA season	1988, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1998, 2018	Winner (1990)
Seoul SK Knights	5 May 2022	Champions of the 2021–22 KBL season	2018	Third place (2018)
Utsunomiya Brex	29 May 2022	Champions of the 2021–22 B.League season	Debut

Notes

1. The Philippine Basketball Association has three conferences or tournaments within a single season. It was uncertain which conference would have been used to determine the qualifying Philippine team

References

1. "FIBA Asia Champions Cup 2022中止のお知らせ" [Information about the cancellation of the 2022 FIBA Asia Champions Cup] (in Japanese). Utsunomiya Brex. 29 July 2022. Retrieved 1 October 2022.
2. "FIBA Asia Champions Cup 2022 dates confirmed". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
3. "FIBA Asia Champions Cup 2022出場中止のお知らせ" (in Japanese). Utsonomiya Brex. 7 July 2022. Retrieved 1 March 2024.