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List of FIBA Intercontinental Cup finals

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Giovanni Gavagnin of Varese accepting the first official Intercontinental Cup trophy in 1966

The FIBA Intercontinental Cup (formerly the FIBA Club World Cup) is an international basketball competition that is organised by FIBA, the sport's global governing body. Currently, four teams qualify for each season, the winners of the Basketball Africa League (BAL), Basketball Champions League, Basketball Champions League Americas, NBA G League and the FIBA Asia Champions Cup (from 2024).

From to 1970 to 1980, there were no finals played as the league champions were decided through a league format, in which all teams played each other once and were ranked based on wins. The Intercontinental Cup was not organised between 1998 and 1995, and 1997 and 2012 as well.

Real Madrid holds the record for most championships, with five, with two of them coming after a direct confrontation in a final. Spain has been the most successful country with nine titles distributed among clubs from the country. Teams representing Europe have been most successful, winning 33 titles in total.

List of finals

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Season Champions Score Runners-up Final venue Host nation Attendance Ref(s)
Country Club Club Country
1965[a]  Brazil Corinthians
118–109
Real Madrid  Spain Ginásio do Ibirapuera, São Paulo  Brazil
10,000
[1]
1966  Italy Varese
66–59
Corinthians  Brazil Raimundo Saporta Pavilion, Madrid  Spain
5,000
[2]
1967  United States Akron Goodyear Wingfoots
78–72
Varese  Italy Palazzetto dello Sport, Rome  Italy
15,000
[3]
1968  United States Akron Goodyear Wingfoots
105–73
Real Madrid  Spain Spectrum, Philadelphia  United States
17,000
[4]
1969  United States Akron Goodyear Wingfoots
84–71
Spartak Brno  Czechoslovakia Macon Coliseum, Macon, Georgia  United States
2,000
[5]
1970–1980 No finals played as the Intercontinental Cup used a league format
1981  Spain Real Madrid
109–83
Sírio  Brazil Ginásio do Ibirapuera, São Paulo  Brazil
16,000
[6]
1985  Spain Barcelona 93–89 Monte Líbano  Brazil Palau Blaugrana, Barcelona  Spain 5,000 [7]
1986  Soviet Union Žalgiris 84–78 Ferro Carril Oeste  Argentina Estadio Obras Sanitarias, Buenos Aires  Argentina 5,930 [8]
1987  Italy Olimpia Milano 100–84 FC Barcelona  Spain Palatrussardi, Milan  Italy 7,000
1988–1995 Not held
1996  Greece Panathinaikos 83–89 Olimpia  Argentina Estadio Cubierto Newell's Old Boys, Rosario  Argentina 7,000
83–78 Olympic Indoor Hall, Athens  Greece 20,000
101–76 20,000
1997–2012 Not held
2013  Greece Olympiacos 81–70 Pinheiros  Brazil Ginásio José Corrêa, São Paulo  Brazil 4,500
86–69 3,000
2014  Brazil Flamengo 69–66 Maccabi Tel Aviv  Israel HBSC Arena, Rio de Janeiro  Brazil 7,000 [9]
90–77 14,500
2015  Spain Real Madrid 90–91 Bauru  Brazil Ginásio do Ibirapuera, São Paulo  Brazil 5,500 [10]
91–79 8,000
2016  Venezuela Guaros de Lara 74–69 Skyliners Frankfurt  Germany Fraport Arena, Frankfurt  Germany 5,002 [11]
2017  Spain Canarias 76–71 Guaros de Lara  Venezuela Santiago Martín, La Laguna  Spain 5,100 [12]
2019  Greece AEK 86–70 Flamengo  Brazil Carioca Arena 1, Rio de Janeiro  Brazil 6,000 [13]
2020  Spain Canarias
80–72
Virtus Bologna  Italy Santiago Martín, La Laguna (2)  Spain
3,000
[14][15]
2021  Spain San Pablo Burgos 82–73 Quimsa  Argentina Estadio Obras Sanitarias, Buenos Aires (2)  Argentina 0[b] [16]
2022  Brazil Flamengo 75–62 San Pablo Burgos  Spain Hassan Moustafa Sports Hall, Cairo  Egypt 2,000 [17][18]
2023 (I)  Spain Canarias
89–68
São Paulo  Brazil Santiago Martín, La Laguna (3)  Spain
4,887
[19]
2023 (II)  Brazil Franca
70–69
Baskets Bonn  Germany Singapore Indoor Stadium, Singapore  Singapore
8,000
[20]
2024  Spain Unicaja
75–60
NBA G League United  United States Singapore Indoor Stadium, Singapore  Singapore
8,205
[21][22]

Results

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Performance by head coach

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Lolo Sainz holds the record for most Intercontinental Cup titles won by a head coach, with four titles won with Real Madrid. He is followed by Hank Vaughn, who managed the Akron Goodyear Wingfoots during their three consecutive championships from 1967 to 1969.

Performance by head coach
Head coach Winner Runner-up Years won Years runner-up
Spain Lolo Sainz
4
1
1976, 1977, 1978, 1981 1975
United States Hank Vaughn
3
1967, 1968, 1969
Serbia Aleksandar Nikolić
2
1970, 1973
Brazil Cláudio Mortari 1 2 1979 1981, 2013
Brazil Gustavo de Conti 1 1 2022 2019
Spain Iván Déniz 1 1 2016 2017
United States Ibon Navarro
1
2023 (II)
Brazil Helinho
1
2023 (II)
Spain Txus Vidorreta
1
2023 (I)
Spain Joan Peñarroya 1
2021
Italy Luca Banchi 1 2019
Bosnia and Herzegovina Nenad Marković 1
2017
Spain Pablo Laso 1
2015
Brazil José Neto 1
2014
Greece Georgios Bartzokas 1
2013
Serbia Božidar Maljković
1
1996
Italy Franco Casalini
1
1987
Soviet Union Vladas Garastas
1
1986
Spain Manuel Flores
1
1985
Italy Valerio Bianchini
1
1984
Puerto Rico Flor Meléndez
1
1983
Italy Giancarlo Primo
1
1982
United States Rudy D'Amico
1
1980
Italy Arnaldo Taurisano
1
1975
United States Lefty Driesell
1
1974
Brazil Pedroca
2
1973, 1980
Italy Nico Messina
2
1976, 1977
Czech Republic Ivan Mrázek
1
1969
Italy Sandro Gamba
1
1974
Czech Republic Jaroslav Šíp
1
1970
Montenegro Bogdan Tanjević
1
1979
Netherlands Ton Boot
1
1982
Italy Gianni Asti
1
1983
Spain Pedro Ferrándiz
1
1968
Spain Antoni Serra
1
1984
Brazil Edvar Simões
1
1985
Argentina Luis Martínez
1
1986
Spain Aíto García Reneses
1
1987
Argentina Horacio Segul
1
1996
Israel Guy Goodes
1
2014
Brazil Guerrinha
1
2015
Canada Gordie Herbert
1
2016
Argentina Jorge Sebastián González
1
2021
Spain Paco Olmos
1
2022
Brazil Bruno Mortari
1
2023 (I)
Belgium Roel Moors
1
2023 (II)
United States Paul Hewitt
1
2024

Notes

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  1. ^ The 1965 FIBA Intercontinental Cup Test Tournament was a test tournament and is not recognised as an official edition of the competition.
  2. ^ The 2021 Intercontinental Cup was played behind closed doors due to restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

References

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  19. ^ "Home, sweet home: Lenovo Tenerife win third FIBA Intercontinental Cup in as many Finals". FIBA.basketball. 12 February 2023. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
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