2019–20 BCL Americas

Basketball Champions League Americas
Season	2019–20
Dates	28 October 2019 – TBD
Number of teams	12
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The 2019–20 Basketball Champions League Americas season is the 13th edition of the top-tier level professional club basketball competition in the Americas and first of the Basketball Champions League Americas (BCLA) since launched by FIBA in September 2019. The competition began in October 2019, with the group stage, and would have been concluded in April 2020. On 14 March 2020, FIBA suspended all its competition until further notice due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

San Lorenzo won the last FIBA Americas League tournament.

Team allocation

A total of 12 teams from 7 countries will participate in the 2019–20 Basketball Champions League Americas. The participating teams were announced on 1 October 2019.

Teams

League positions after eventual playoffs of the previous season shown in parentheses.

Group stage

San LorenzoLDA (1st)	Flamengo (1st)	Aguada (1st)	Capitanes (2nd)
Instituto (2nd)	Franca (2nd)	Biguá (WC)	Valdivia (1st)
Quimsa (CW)	Mogi das Cruzes (3rd)	Fuerza Regia (1st)	Real Estelí (WC)

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:

• 1st, 2nd, etc.: League position after Playoffs
• LDA: FIBA Americas League title holders
• CW: Preseason tournament winners
• WC: Qualified through Wild Card

Round and draw dates

The schedule of the competition is as follows.

Phase	Round	Dates
Group stage	Gameday 1	28 October–1 November 2019
	Gameday 2	24–29 November 2019
	Gameday 3	16–20 December 2019
Playoffs	Quarterfinals	14–21 January 2020
	Semifinals	9–14 March 2020
	Finals	April 2020

Group stage

The 12 teams are drawn into four groups of three, while taking into account geographic location. In each group, teams play against each other home-and-away, in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advance to the quarterfinals, while the remaining team in each group is eliminated. The group stage started on 28 October and will end on 20 December 2019.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		SLR	MDC	BIG
1	San Lorenzo	4	4	0	390	335	+55	8	Advance to quarterfinals		—	107–78	104–88
2	Mogi das Cruzes	4	2	2	339	355	−16	6			78–82	—	91–76
3	Biguá	4	0	4	345	384	−39	4			91–97	90–92	—

Source: BCL Americas

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		QUI	FRA	AGU
1	Quimsa	4	3	1	367	330	+37	7	Advance to quarterfinals		—	98–92	87–61
2	Franca	4	2	2	349	324	+25	6			74–82	—	95–94
3	Aguada	4	1	3	308	370	−62	5			103–100	50–88	—

Source: BCL Americas

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		FLA	INS	VAL
1	Flamengo	4	4	0	338	301	+37	8	Advance to quarterfinals		—	81–76	82–71
2	Instituto	4	2	2	325	308	+17	6			75–83	—	92–67
3	Valdivia	4	0	4	294	348	−54	4			79–92	77–82	—

Source: BCL Americas

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		RES	FUE	CAP
1	Real Estelí	4	4	0	381	331	+50	8	Advance to quarterfinals		—	90–65	99–85
2	Fuerza Regia	4	1	3	327	348	−21	5			92–97	—	77–64
3	Capitanes	4	1	3	335	364	−29	5			89–95	97–93	—

Source: BCL Americas
Notes:

Playoffs

	Quarterfinals						Semifinals						Finals
	Flamengo		90	103
	Fuerza Regia		67	76
							Flamengo		63	66
							Instituto		54	64
	Real Estelí	80	87	85
	Instituto	88	85	90
													Flamengo	0	0	0
														0	0	0
	Quimsa		90	96
	Mogi das Cruzes		84	83
							Quimsa	91	87	0
							San Lorenzo	84	100	0
	San Lorenzo	59	91	75
	Franca	75	76	73

Team 1 hosts games 2 and 3.

Quarterfinals

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
San Lorenzo	2–1	Franca	59–75	91–76	75–73
Quimsa	2–0	Mogi das Cruzes	90–84	96–83
Flamengo	2–0	Fuerza Regia	90–67	103–76
Real Estelí	1–2	Instituto	80–88	87–85	85–90

Semifinals

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
Quimsa	1–1	San Lorenzo	91–84	87–100	TBD
Flamengo	2–0	Instituto	63–54	66–64