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Basketball league
Burundian Basketball Championship
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Organising body
| FEBUBA
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Founded
| 2022 (as Viva Basketball League)
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Country
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Burundi
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Number of teams
| 10
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Level on pyramid
| 1
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International cup(s)
| Basketball Africa League
(BAL)
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Current champions
| Dynamo
(2023)
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Most championships
| Urunani
(8 titles)
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The
Burundian Basketball Championship
(in French: Championnat National du Burundi), for sponsorship reason the
Viva Basketball League
, is a semi-professional
basketball
league that is the highest level of the sport in
Burundi
. The league is organised by the Federation de Basketball du Burundi (FEBABU).
In 2022, the league signed a 4-year sponsorship contract with
malt drink
producer Viva; the winners of the league win a prize money of 10 million
FBu
(approximately $4,800).
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Current teams
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The following 10 teams played in the 2020 season.
List of winners
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- 2012: Urunani
- 2013: Urunani
- 2014: Urunani
- 2015:
- 2016: Dynamo
- 2017:
- 2018: New Star
- 2019: Dynamo
- 2021: New Star
- 2022: Urunani
- 2023: Dynamo
Finals
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National Championship
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Viva Basketball League (2022?present)
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In international competitions
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FIBA Africa Clubs Champions Cup
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Urunani
is the only Burundian team to have played in the
FIBA Africa Club Champions Cup
, the top-tier competition on the African continent. They played in the
2011 tournament
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and in the
2013 tournament
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Heroes Cup
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The Heroes Cup (in French: Coupe des Heros) is an cup competition that is held to celebrate the
Independence of Burundi
, and is organised by the foundation "Pax Burundi".
References
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External links
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Men's leagues
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Men's cups
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Women's
leagues
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- Algeria
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- DR Congo
- Egypt
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Ivory Coast
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nigeria
- South Africa
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Swaziland
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Zimbabwe
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Women's cups
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