Field Set for Africa’s Elite Basketball League

By: Gyang Dakwo

The 12-team field for the fourth Basketball Africa League (BAL) season, 2024, is now complete as the curtains came down on the Division East Elite 16, on Sunday, November 26, in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Three other three tickets for the BAL had earlier emerged from the West Division, where Central African Republic’s Bangui Sporting Club, Morocco’s FUS Rabat and Libya’s Al Al Ahly Benghazi finished in the top three places.

The six teams that successfully completed the BAL qualifiers on the high note will join six other teams that benefit from automatic qualification.
Those teams are the champions of Angola (Petro de Luanda), Egypt (Al Ahly Sporting Club), Nigeria (Rivers Hoopers), Senegal, Rwanda (APR), (AS Douanes) and Tunisia (US Monastir

The BAL qualifiers, which took placed across five African cities, began on Friday, October 6 in Antananarivo and finished on Sunday, November 26 in Johannesburg.

The 2024 BAL season will play a record 48 games across four African countries – South Africa, Egypt, Senegal and Rwanda – over four months, marking the first BAL games in South Africa and the first time the league will play in four different countries.

The fourth BAL’s line-up is as follows:

Al Ahly Sporting Club – Egypt
AS Douanes – Senegal
Petro de Luanda – Angola
US Monastir – Tunisia
APR – Rwanda
Rivers Hoopers – Nigeria
Bangui Sporting Club – CAR
FUS Rabat – Morocco
Al Alhy Benghazi – Libya
Cape Town Tigers – South Africa
City Oilers – Uganda
Dynamo Basket Club – Burundi.