Basketball
Unicaja, Al Ahli Libio and Ussunomiya Brex Japanese group
Unicaja will defend its title with the FIBA 2025 Intercontinental Cup, which will be performed again in Singapore from September 18th to 21st. Surrounded by Group A, next to Utsunomiya Brex in Libya and Japan, B will be Flamengo from Brazil, Irowarula from the Irowarula from the Irowarula and the American Team Hawks.
For the second consecutive year during September, Singapore Cover Stadium will be holding the InterContinental Cup, hosted by FIBA. This is the trophy that played the FIBA Tournament Champions Club on up to six continents this year.
There, Unicaja was crowned in the final edition. This surpassed the top in the NBA G League United (75-60) final. This means the first of four titles harvested in the 2024/25 season. Copafi Bian InterContinental, Endesa Super Copa, Copa del Rey, and again, tickets (bcl), the latter half of the latter, tickets of the year.
The other teams competing for the trophy are Brazilian Flamengo, the winner of the FIBA Champions League 2024/25 and won the FIBA Intercontinental Cup in 2022. Japan’s Usomiya Brex won the Asian Champions League title last month. Australia’s Ilwarahawks, the latest champion of the National Basketball League (NBL). Alari SC Libya is the champion of the African Basketball League (Basketball African League) in his debut season. NBA G League United.
The Japanese team, Australia and Libya arrive as debutants of the FIBA Intercontinental Cup, but Unicaja will try to repeat the title with their second consecutive entry.
Each group will compete in all formats against everything, with the two winners meeting in the final on September 21st, while the other teams will compete against each other to decide between third and sixth place.
This means that for two seconds of each group, they face a match in third place, and the team finishing third in each group will play in the fifth general position.
schedule
FIBA confirmed the schedule for all matches in an official statement.
On September 18th, the G League will face Unicaja’s debut against Ahli SC at 11pm (Spanish period) and 2pm.
On September 19th, Illawarra will face Flamengo at 11:00am and Unikaja in front of Utz Nomiya Brex at 2pm.
On September 20th, the G League will face Utsunomiya Brex at 11:00am in front of the Illawarah Hawks at 2pm.
On September 21st, the fifth place match was 7am, 10am and 4th place with the grand finale at 1pm.
The 35th edition of the FIBA 2025 Intercontinental Cup are the following groups:
Group A: Al Ahli SC (Libya); Unicaja (Spain); ussunomiya brex (Japan)
Group B: Flamengo (Brazil); Illawarra Hawks (Australia); NBA G League United (USA).
Source: Mundo Deportivo
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