Campeonato_Argentino_de_Básquet

Campeonato Argentino de Básquet

Campeonato Argentino de Básquet

Basketball league

This article is about the provincial sides tournament. For the clubs tournament, see Campeonato Argentino de Clubes de Básquet.

The Campeonato Argentino de Básquet ("Argentine Basketball Championship" in English) is the oldest basketball competition still running in Argentina. The first edition of the tournament was held in 1928, having been played (with some interruptions) to present days. The Campeonato Argentino is played by teams representing Argentine's provincial sides.

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Due to being contested by provinces all over Argentina, his competition has been called "The most Argentine championship of all".[1]

History

The first game of the inaugural season, Santa Fe v. Córdoba at YMCA, 1928

The first edition of Campeonato Argentino was held in the clay court field of YMCA of Buenos Aires. Santa Fe, Córdoba and two teams from FABB took part of the tournament. Córdoba was the first team outside Buenos Aires to win a championship, in 1932 and 1933. Other provincial sides such as Santa Fe (1934-1935) and Santiago del Estero (1937, with Rafael Lledó as notable player) would win their first national titles also.[2][3]

Buenos Aires Province was the most winning team between 1966 and 1978, with Bahiense players Alberto Pedro Cabrera, Atilio Fruet and José De Lizaso, plus other players from La Plata, Gehrmann, Galliadi, Sfeir, Carlos González. Buenos Aires played 13 consecutive finals, winning 10 of them.[4]

Champions

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Titles by team

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References

  1. [1]
    El más Argentino de los campeonatos festeja 80 ediciones on CABB, 5 May 2014
  2. [2]
    100 años de básquetbol by Ricardo Orcasitas, El Gráfico, 7 Feb 2012
  3. [3]
    Linea de Tiempo del Básquet Argentino on CABB website
  4. [4]
    Origen, crecimiento y evolución del básquetbol en Argentina Archived 2016-05-28 at the Wayback Machine, Universidad Nacional de La Plata
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