Season six of the Basketball Africa League (BAL) will tip off on Friday, March 27, on the SunBet Enviornment in Pretoria, South Africa.
The 2026 BAL finals will happen at BK Enviornment in Kigali, Rwanda, on Sunday, Could 31.
The 2026 BAL season will characteristic the highest 12 membership groups from 12 African international locations taking part in 42 video games in Pretoria, Rabat, Morocco, and Kigali.
“Returning to South Africa, Morocco and Rwanda for our sixth season speaks to the sturdy sporting cultures and quickly rising basketball ecosystems in these international locations,” Amadou Gallo Fall, BAL president, acknowledged.
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In response to him, the 12 groups will probably be divided into two conferences of six groups every.
Every convention will play a 15-game group section throughout which every crew will face the opposite 5 groups in its convention as soon as.
The Kalahari Convention group section will happen from Friday, March 27, to Sunday, April 5, in Pretoria.
The Sahara Convention group section will happen from Friday, April 24 – Sunday, Could 3, on the Prince Moulay Abdellah Sports activities Complicated in Rabat.
Eight groups from throughout the 2 conferences will qualify for the Playoffs in Kigali from Friday, Could 22 – Could 31.
“The BAL continues to encourage followers throughout the continent and drive alternatives and international recognition for African expertise,” Fall acknowledged.
Anibal Manave, FIBA Africa president, acknowledged that the league will showcase competitors and vitality on and off the courtroom to a world viewers when the season ideas off.
“As we strategy the tip-off of the sixth Basketball Africa League season, we will rejoice the league’s rising influence and the best way this competitors continues to raise the sport throughout the area,” Manave acknowledged.
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Along with the video games, the BAL will rejoice the convergence of basketball and African tradition by music, style, way of life and leisure that surrounds the sport.
The league can even collaborate with its companions to host basketball improvement and social influence programming within the three host markets in addition to Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal, together with youth, coach and referee clinics, kids’s literacy and academic initiatives, and media networking.
On June 14, 2025, Libya’s Alahli Tripoli turned the primary Libyan crew to win the BAL Finals after earlier champions from Angola, Egypt and Tunisia.
The 2025 BAL season reached followers in 214 international locations and territories in 17 languages, set an attendance report of greater than 140,000 followers, and generated greater than 1.2 billion impressions throughout NBA and BAL social media channels.
