ABA Club Championship

The ABA Club Championship was an Asian basketball tournament for professional clubs, organised by the Asian Basketball Association (ABA) under Dr. Carl Men Ky Ching. The ABA is not to be confused with FIBA Asia which Dr. Ching had also once presided. The tournament was first held in 1992. It was named Asian Basketball Super League from 1999 to 2001,^[1] and came to a climax in 2000. The tournament was suspended between 2002 and 2006,^[2] and has been held annually in China between 2007 and 2013. Unlike the FIBA Asia Champions Cup of today, most of ABA Club Championship's participants were from the Far East.

Summary

Year	Dates	Host City	Champion	Final	Runner-up	Third-place	Most Valuable Player
1999[3]	13/06-29/06	Shenzhen Zhongshan Hong Kong Tokyo Taipei	Chinese All-Stars Chinese Taipei's All-Stars (Finals suspended)
2000[4]	08/06-13/07	More than 20 cities in 5 different countries and regions （Finals held in Beijing）	NBA Ambassadors	Best-of-3 95–78 103–111 103–68	Chinese All-Stars
2001[5]	13/09-24/09	Taipei Shanghai Suzhou Hangzhou Dongguan Macau	Seoul Samsung Thunders	Best-of-3 74–64 80–76	Isuzu Giga Cats
2007[6]	26/09-01/10	Dongguan	Seoul Samsung Thunders	Round-robin	Iranian All-Stars	Air21 Express	Lee Won-soo (Samsung)
2008[7]	14/09-18/09	Dongguan	Guangdong Southern Tigers	80–71	Rera Kamuy Hokkaido	Seoul Samsung Thunders	Du Feng (Guangdong)
2009[8]	20/09-23/09	Lanzhou	Mahram Tehran	80–68	Beijing Olympian	Seoul Samsung Thunders	Samad Nikkhah Bahrami (Mahram)
2010[9]	15/09-20/09	Haining	Seoul Samsung Thunders	83–82	Smart Gilas Pilipinas	Iranian All-Stars	Eric Sandrin (Samsung)
2011[10]	27/09-30/09	Guangzhou	Pauian Archiland	72–69	Dongguan Leopards	Ryukyu Golden Kings	Jeremy Lin (Dongguan)
2012	07/09-11/09	Shenzhen[11]	Guangdong Southern Tigers	91–87	Guangzhou Liusui	Seoul Samsung Thunders	Zhu Fangyu (Guangdong)
	24/09-28/09	Kaohsiung[12][13]	Changwon LG Sakers	82–78	Pauian Archiland	Guangdong Southern Tigers	Yang Woo-sub (LG)
2013	18/09-21/09	Wenzhou[14]	Iranian All-Stars	70–60	Ulsan Mobis Phoebus	Zhejiang Lions	Saeid Davarpanah (Iran)
	24/09-26/09	Nanning[15][16]	Changwon LG Sakers	87–78	Iranian All-Stars	Guangxi Rhino	Davon Jefferson (LG)

See also

• FIBA Asia
• FIBA Asia Champions Cup

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