List of FIBA Intercontinental Cup finals

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).

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

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
  Lolo Sainz
4
1
1976, 1977, 1978, 1981 1975
  Hank Vaughn
3
1967, 1968, 1969
  Aleksandar Nikolić
2
1970, 1973
  Cláudio Mortari 1 2 1979 1981, 2013
  Gustavo de Conti 1 1 2022 2019
  Iván Déniz 1 1 2016 2017
  Ibon Navarro
1
2023 (II)
  Helinho
1
2023 (II)
  Txus Vidorreta
1
2023 (I)
  Joan Peñarroya 1
2021
  Luca Banchi 1 2019
  Nenad Marković 1
2017
  Pablo Laso 1
2015
  José Neto 1
2014
  Georgios Bartzokas 1
2013
  Božidar Maljković
1
1996
  Franco Casalini
1
1987
  Vladas Garastas
1
1986
  Manuel Flores
1
1985
  Valerio Bianchini
1
1984
  Flor Meléndez
1
1983
  Giancarlo Primo
1
1982
  Rudy D'Amico
1
1980
  Arnaldo Taurisano
1
1975
  Lefty Driesell
1
1974
  Pedroca
2
1973, 1980
  Nico Messina
2
1976, 1977
  Ivan Mrázek
1
1969
  Sandro Gamba
1
1974
  Jaroslav Šíp
1
1970
  Bogdan Tanjević
1
1979
  Ton Boot
1
1982
  Gianni Asti
1
1983
  Pedro Ferrándiz
1
1968
  Antoni Serra
1
1984
  Edvar Simões
1
1985
  Luis Martínez
1
1986
  Aíto García Reneses
1
1987
  Horacio Segul
1
1996
  Guy Goodes
1
2014
  Guerrinha
1
2015
  Gordie Herbert
1
2016
  Jorge Sebastián González
1
2021
  Paco Olmos
1
2022
  Bruno Mortari
1
2023 (I)
  Roel Moors
1
2023 (II)
  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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  6. ^ "Intercontinental Cup 1981". www.linguasport.com. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
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  13. ^ "AEK beat Flamengo in Final to win FIBA Intercontinental Cup". FIBA.basketball. 18 February 2019. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
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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.
  20. ^ "Incredible! Lucas Dias beats the buzzer for Franca to win the FIBA Intercontinental Cup". FIBA.basketball. 24 September 2023. Retrieved 24 September 2023.
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