Angolan Basketball League

The Angolan Men's Basketball League, (in Portuguese: Campeonato Nacional de Basquetebol em Séniores Masculinos) is the top tier men’s basketball league in Angola. Formerly known as BAI Basket, BIC Basket, and now Unitel Basket, named after its major sponsors, formerly Banco Africano de Investimentos, Banco de Investimento e Crédito and now Unitel, the competition is organized by the Angolan Basketball Federation.

For the women's league, see Angola Women's Basketball League.

Angolan Basketball League

Organising body	Angolan Basketball Federation
Founded	1977 (1977)
Country	Angola
Confederation	FIBA Africa
Level on pyramid	1
Domestic cup(s)	Angolan Cup
Supercup	Angolan Supercup
International cup(s)	Basketball Africa League (BAL)
Current champions	Petro de Luanda (13th title) (2019)
Most championships	1º de Agosto (18 titles)

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.[1]

Primeiro de Agosto has been the most successful club in Angola with a total 17 titles won, followed by Petro de Luanda, with 12, ASA, 3, Recreativo do Libolo and Sporting Clube de Luanda, 2, whereas Clube Ferroviário de Luanda have won a title.

Current teams

The teams in the 2019–20 season:

Club	Location	Venue	Capacity
ASA	Luanda	Pavilhão da Cidadela	6,873
Helmarc Academia		Pavilhão Multiusos do Kilamba	1,500
Interclube		Pavilhão 28 de Fevereiro	700
Marinha		Pavilhão Victorino Cunha	2,000
Petro de Luanda		Pavilhão da Cidadela	6,873
Primeiro de Agosto		Pavilhão Victorino Cunha	1,500
Universidade Lusíada		Pavilhão Anexo	1,500
Vila Clotilde		Pavilhão Anexo	1,500
Kwanza		Pavilhão Victorino Cunha	1,500

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 [2]

Season	Location	Champion	Score	Runner-up	Score	Third	Score	Fourth
1962-63	Lisboa	Benfica de Lisboa	64–53	Desportivo de L.Marques	89–26	Atlético de Nova Lisboa
1963-64	Luanda	Benfica de Lisboa	54–44	Desportivo de L.Marques	–	?
1964-65	Lourenço Marques	Benfica de Lisboa	59–54	Sporting de Lourenço Marques	–	Sporting de Luanda
1965-66	Lisboa	Sporting de Lourenço Marques	79–78	Benfica de Lisboa	76–69	Sporting de Portugal	90–51	Sporting de Benguela
1966-67	Luanda	Benfica de Luanda	–	Académica de Coimbra	–	Sporting de Lourenço Marques	–	Ferroviário de Moçâmedes
1967-68	Lourenço Marques	Sporting de Lourenço Marques	70–58	Desportivo de L.Marques	70–54	Banco Pinto Magalhães	81–63	Benfica de Luanda
1968-69	Lisboa	Sporting de Portugal	80–52   74–45	Desportivo de L.Marques	65–52   61–52	Académica de Coimbra	64–62   81–61	Sporting de Luanda
1969-70	Luanda	Benfica de Lisboa	63–68   78–77	Sporting de Lourenço Marques	41–69   75–65	Benfica de Luanda	74–68   74–46	Belenenses de Luanda
1970-71	Lourenço Marques	Sporting de Lourenço Marques	69–65   62–65	Desportivo de L.Marques	60–54   65–61	Sporting de Portugal	88–64   60–79	Benfica de Luanda
1971-72	Porto	F.C. do Porto	99–84   84–85	Sporting de Lourenço Marques	99–93   78–93	Académica de Coimbra	94–77   88–72	Benfica de Luanda
1972-73	Luanda	Sporting de Lourenço Marques	89–101   102–77	Benfica de Lisboa	84–75   86–71	Sporting de Luanda	55–50   71–62	F.C. de Luanda
1973-74	Lourenço Marques	C.D. Malhangalene	78–82   80–66	Sporting de Lourenço Marques	–   –	Benfica de Lisboa	97–82   85–65	F.C. de Luanda

Total league championships [3]

Team	Won	Years won
Sporting de Lourenço Marques	4	1966, 1968, 1971, 1973
Benfica de Lisboa	4	1963, 1964, 1965, 1970
C.D. Malhangalene	1	1974
F.C. do Porto	1	1971
Sporting de Portugal	1	1969
Benfica de Luanda	1	1967

BAI/BIC Basket seasons and finals

Season	Date	Ref	Champion	Series	Score							Runner-up	Champion Coach
1999			Petro de Luanda	4–0					—	—	—	Primeiro de Agosto	Wlademiro Romero
2000	Nov 20–Jun 17		Primeiro de Agosto	4–2	102–98	96–103	82–68	82–70	90–102	73–85	—	Petro de Luanda	Mário Palma
2001			Primeiro de Agosto	4–2	66–61	61–57	80–79	60–78	59–64	68–78	—	Petro de Luanda	Mário Palma
2002	Feb 22–		Primeiro de Agosto	4–0	79–52	90–55	59–85	56–70	—	—	—	Interclube	Mário Palma
2003			Primeiro de Agosto	4–0	81–78	84–77	48–68	72–83	—	—	—	Petro de Luanda	Mário Palma
2004			Primeiro de Agosto	4–2	96–93	96–89	66–68	75–74	95–99	74–82	—	Petro de Luanda	Mário Palma
2005			Primeiro de Agosto	4–1	107–97	90–71	75–84	72–77	92–76	—	—	Interclube	Jaime Covilhã
2006	Feb 3–Jun 10		Petro de Luanda	Round Robin								Primeiro de Agosto	Alberto de Carvalho
2007			Petro de Luanda	88–78 [4]								Primeiro de Agosto	Alberto de Carvalho
2008	Nov 21–May 16		Primeiro de Agosto	Round Robin[5]								Petro de Luanda	Luís Magalhães
2009	Nov 20–May 16	[6]	Primeiro de Agosto	Final Four								Petro de Luanda	Luís Magalhães
2010	Nov 13–Jun 15	[7]	Primeiro de Agosto	Final Four[8]								Recreativo do Libolo	Luís Magalhães
2011	Nov 26–May 28	[9]	Petro de Luanda	Final Four[10]								Recreativo do Libolo	Alberto Babo
2012	Nov 25–May 17		Recreativo do Libolo	Final Four[11]								Primeiro de Agosto	Raúl Duarte
2013	Nov 16–May 21		Primeiro de Agosto	Final Four								Recreativo do Libolo	Paulo Macedo
2014	Nov 15–May 22	[12]	Recreativo do Libolo	Final Four								Primeiro de Agosto	Norberto Alves
2015	Nov 20–Jun 16	[13]	Petro de Luanda	4–3	100–95	95–100	99–81	89–90	77–78	88–97	90–84	Recreativo do Libolo	Lazare Adingono
2016	Nov 20–Jun 7	[14]	Primeiro de Agosto	4–1	113–83	82–70	91–89	72–86	93–83	—	—	Recreativo do Libolo	Ricard Casas
2017	May 18–25		Recreativo do Libolo	4–0	97–96	87–85	105–103	96–87	—	—	—	Petro de Luanda	Hugo López

MVP award winners and statistical leaders

Season	Champion	MVP	Top Scorer	Rebounds	Assists
1997–98	Petro de Luanda	Carlos Almeida (PET)
1998–99	Petro de Luanda
1999–00	Primeiro de Agosto
2000–01	Primeiro de Agosto
2001–02	Primeiro de Agosto	Gerson dos Santos (VIL)
2002–03	Primeiro de Agosto	Miguel Lutonda (PRI)	Eduardo Mingas (INT)	Eduardo Mingas (INT)	Miguel Lutonda (PRI)
2003–04 [15]	Primeiro de Agosto	Eduardo Mingas (INT)	Eduardo Mingas (INT) 18.6	Eduardo Mingas (INT) 9.6	Carlos Quibato (ASA) 4.9
2004–05	Primeiro de Agosto
2005–06 [16]	Petro de Luanda	Francisco Jordão (PET)	Francisco Jordão (PET)	Eduardo Mingas (PET) 69/31	Shannon Crooks (PET)
2006–07 [17]	Petro de Luanda	Carlos Morais (PET)	Olímpio Cipriano (PRI)	Lifetu Selengue (INT)	Armando Costa (PRI)
2007–08 [18]	Primeiro de Agosto	Olímpio Cipriano (PRI)	Olímpio Cipriano (PRI)	Joaquim Gomes (PRI)	Armando Costa (PRI)
2008–09	Primeiro de Agosto
2009–10	Primeiro de Agosto	Joaquim Gomes (PRI)	Reggie Moore (LIB) 20.53	Eduardo Mingas (PET)	Paulo Santana (PET)
2010–11 [19]	Petro de Luanda	Olímpio Cipriano (LIB)	Carlos Morais (PET)	Miguel Kiala (PET) 75/48	Olímpio Cipriano (LIB)
2011–12	Recreativo do Libolo	Olímpio Cipriano (LIB)	Olímpio Cipriano (LIB)	Hermenegildo Mbunga (PET)	Armando Costa (PRI)
2012–13	Primeiro de Agosto	Cedric Isom (PRI)	Carlos Morais (PET) 21.66	Eduardo Mingas (INT) 176/12	Cedric Isom (PRI) 4.8
2013–14	Recreativo do Libolo	Eduardo Mingas (LIB)	Roderick Nealy (PET)	Felizardo Ambrósio (PRI)	Paulo Santana (PET)
2014–15 [20]	Petro de Luanda	Manny Quezada (PET)	Leonel Paulo (PET) 17.6	Jason Cain (PET) 11	Manny Quezada (PET) 3.9
2015–16	Primeiro de Agosto	Gildo Santos (PRI)	Carlos Morais (PET)	Jason Cain (PET)	Gerson Domingos (INT)
2016–17	Recreativo do Libolo	Olímpio Cipriano (LIB)	Manny Quezada (PRI)	Eduardo Mingas (LIB)	Je'Kel Foster (LIB)

Total league championships[21]

Team	Won	Years won
Primeiro de Agosto	18	1981, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1991, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2016
Petro de Luanda	12	1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2015
Benfica do Libolo	3	2012, 2014, 2017
ASA [22]	3	1980, 1996, 1997
Sporting de Luanda	2	1982, 1984
Ferroviário de Luanda	1	1979

League details (2000s)

Club
	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
–	–	–	–	10	–	–	9	11	12	12	8	12	12	10	10	10	10	9	–	–	–	–	–
Amigos de Viana	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	12	10	10	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅
ASA	⋅	⋅				⋅	4	4	4		4	5	5	6	7	4	7	√
Banca de Cabinda	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	5	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅
Benfica do Libolo	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅		4										9	2	5	0
C.P.P.L.	⋅	⋅	⋅	10	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅
CDUAN	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	6	7	7	7	⋅	12	9	7	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅
Desportivo da Huíla	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	8	8	7	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	3
Desportivo da Nocal	⋅	⋅	⋅	7	⋅	⋅	9	8	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅
FC de Cabinda	⋅	⋅	⋅	8	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅
Helmarc	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅		1
Imbondeiro de Viana	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	11	12	12	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅
Interclube	⋅	⋅		4	4	⋅			6	6	5		4	4	4	5	4	4
Lusíada	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	6	9	9	8	7	7	5	6	Q	6	√
Marinha	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	Q	5	√
Misto de Cabinda	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	5	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅
Petro de Luanda			4			⋅														16	4		1
Primeiro de Agosto												4								16	11	3	1
Progresso do Sambizanga	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	8	9	Q	9	√	⋅
PROMADE	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	5	5	6	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅
Santos FC	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	11	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅
Sporting de Benguela	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	5	?	10	⋅	⋅
Sporting de Cabinda	⋅	⋅	⋅	6	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	6	6	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅
Sporting de Luanda	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	8	10	11	11	⋅	8	8	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅
Vila Clotilde	⋅	⋅	⋅	9	⋅	⋅	7	9	10	10	⋅	9	10	9	8	Q	8	√
Vila Estoril	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	10	11	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅	⋅
# Teams	2000 –	2001 –	2002 –	2003 10	2004 –	2005 –	2006 9	2007 11	2008 12	2009 12	2010 8	2011 12	2012 12	2013 10	2014 10	2015 10	2016 10	2017 9	2018 9

League details (1980s)

Club
	1982
Ferrovia	4
Leões de Luanda
Primeiro de Agosto
Selecção Huambo	5
TAAG
# Teams	1982

See also

• Angola 2nd Division Basketball
• Angola Cup
• Angola Super Cup
• Federação Angolana de Basquetebol

External links

• Official Website (in Portuguese)
• Eurobasket.com League Page

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