Liga Uruguaya de Basketball

Liga Uruguaya de Basketball

Sport	Basketball
Founded	2003
No. of teams	14
Country	Uruguay
Most recent champion(s)	Malvín
Level on pyramid	1 out of 3
Relegation to	Torneo Metropolitano
International cup(s)	Liga de las Américas
Official website	www.fubb.org.uy/

The Liga Uruguaya de Básquetbol (also known as LUB) is the most important basketball league in Uruguay. It is organized by the Uruguayan Basketball Federation. The Uruguayan Basketball League began to compete in 2003. Before that date, the basketball championships were only metropolitan and no competitions brought together all the clubs in the country. Until the Liga Uruguaya de Básquetbol was created, the capital clubs participated in the Uruguayan Federal Tournament, while the clubs of the rest of the country competed in regional tournaments. The Uruguayan Federal Tournament was founded in 1915, making it amongst the oldest on the continent.

The first tournament had a dramatic end with a double in the last second that brought the Uruguayan Title to Defensor Sporting, repeated in the 2009-10 season. Other champions were Salto Uruguay in 2004, Trouville in 2005-06, Malvín in 2006-07 and 2010–11, Biguá in 2007-08 and 2008–09, Hebraica Macabi in 2011-12 and Aguada in 2012-13. There are only two teams that participated in all seasons; they are: Defensor Sporting and Trouville.

Format

Trophies of the Uruguayan Basketball League

The LUB 2012-13 will be played in three stages: Torneo Clasificatorio (Qualifying Tournament), Súper Liga (Super League) and play-off.

• In the Qualifying Tournament, teams will play in three separate leagues (Capital, Coast and South) according to their origin. In the Capital League the clubs will play each other twice, home and away, and the first eight of the table will play the Super League, while the last three will be relegated to the Second Division, to participate in the 2013 Metropolitano tournament. Elsewhere both the Coastal League and South Central League play their separate tournaments where the first two qualify for the Super League.
• The Super League will be contested by eight teams from the Capital League, two from the South League and two from the Coast League. They will play divided into two groups of six teams each group, two legs home and away. Group A will comprise: 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th of Capital League, 1st of South League and 2nd of Coast League. While Group B, will consist of 2nd, 4th, 6th and 8th of Capital League, 2nd of South League and 1st of Coast League. The four best placed teams from each group will qualify for the play-offs, using a system of a double table. The first table will consider only the points earned in the second phase of the Super League and the top four will advance to the play-offs. The remaining positions will be filled by clubs in Montevideo with the best score after adding half of the total in the Qualifying Tournament and the total obtained in the Super League. This system was established because teams outside the capital will only have to play a maximum of ten games to reach the Super League, while those in Montevideo will have played about thirty games.
• Finally, teams will compete in the play-offs, games being the best of five. The first stage is the quarterfinals. The qualifiers will play: A) 1st A vs. 4th B, B) 2nd A vs. 3rd B, C) 1st B vs. 4th A and D) 2nd B vs. 3rd A. The semifinal pairings will be: A) Winner vs. D) Winner and B) Winner vs. C) Winner. The winners of these matches will play the final, determining the winner as champion of LUB 2013-14.

Participating teams

Defensor Sporting and Trouville are the teams with the most participation, having competed in every championship of LUB. The teams compete for the Uruguayan Basketball League divided into zones (Capital Zone, South Zone and North Coast Zone) looking to qualify for the Super League to be crowned Uruguayan Champions.

2013-14 Season

Notes: All statistics are only for the Uruguayan Basketball League (Liga Uruguaya de Básquetbol) organized by the Uruguayan Basketball Federation (Federación Uruguaya de Basketball), federal tournaments are not included. The "stadium" column reflects the stadium where the team more times local officiates in their matches, but does not indicate that the equipment in question is owner.

Capital Zone

Team	City	Stadium	Capacity	Foundation	Seasons	Consecutive Seasons	Championships	2012-13 season
Aguada	Montevideo	Estadio Aguatero		28 February 1922	8	-	1	Champion
Atenas	Montevideo	Estadio Antonio María Borderes	1.565	11 August 1918	-	-	0	Promotion
Biguá	Montevideo	Villa Biarritz	1,200	14 April 1931	8	-	2	Quarterfinals
Bohemios	Montevideo	Estadio Alberto Casal	2,300	1 May 1932	5	-	0	Semifinal
Defensor Sporting	Montevideo	Estadio Alberto Casal (Bohemios)	2,300	14 September 1910	9	9	2	Vicechampion
Goes	Montevideo	Estadio Plaza de las Misiones	4,420	10 April 1934	-	-	0	Promotion
Hebraica Macabi	Montevideo	Estadio Antonio María Borderes (Atenas)	1,565	25 May 1939	5	-	1	Quarterfinals
Malvín	Montevideo	Gimnasio Juan Fco. Canil	1,500	28 January 1938	8	-	2	Semifinal
Montevideo	Montevideo	Gimnasio Hector Novick		2 December 1933	3	-	0	Octavos
Nacional	Montevideo	Gimnasio Óscar Magurno (Welcome)	1,500	14 May 1899	2	2	0	Qualifying
Olimpia	Montevideo	Estadio Albérico J. Passadore	1,200	17 September 1918	8	-	0	Octavos
Sayago	Montevideo	Gimnasio Roberto Moro		15 November 1923	7	-	0	Octavos
Tabaré	Montevideo			9 July 1931	6	-	0	Qualifying
Trouville	Montevideo	Gimnasio Club Trouville	1,500	11 April 1922	9	9	1	Quarterfinals
Unión Atlética	Montevideo			29 July 1921	8	-	0	Quarterfinals

Litoral Zone

Team	City	Stadium	Capacity	Foundation	Seasons	Consecutive Seasons	Championships	2012-13 season
Anastasia	Fray Bentos	Estadio Socios Fundadores		1959	-	-	0	-
Juventus	Salto				-	-	0	-
Paysandú Wanderers	Paysandú	Estadio 8 de Junio		1921	-	-	0	-
Allavena	Paysandú	Estadio 8 de Junio		1943	-	-	0	-
Pelotaris	Paysandú			1914	-	-	0	-
Universitario	Salto			1930	-	-	0	-

South Zone

Team	City	Stadium	Capacity	Foundation	Seasons	Consecutive Seasons	Championships	2012-13 season
Flores BBC	Trinidad			2011	-	-	0	-
Lagomar	Lagomar			1956	-	-	0	-
Lavalleja	Lavalleja			2011	-	-	0	-
Maldonado	Maldonado			2007	-	-	0	-
Plaza NH	Nueva Helvecia			1934	-	-	0	-
Remeros	Mercedes				-	-	0	-

Champions

The Uruguayan Basketball League began to compete in 2003. Before that date, the basketball championships were only federal, and no competition brought together all the clubs in the country.

Champions by season

Season	Champion	Result	Runner-up	MVP of the season	Champion Coach
2003	Defensor Sporting	3-2	Paysandú BBC	D. Castrillón (Defensor Sporting)	URU Gerardo Jauri
2004-05	Salto Uruguay	3-1	Paysandú BBC	L. Silveira (Salto Uruguay)	URU Javier Espíndola
2005-06	Trouville	3-0	Aguada	M. Bouzout (Trouville)	URU Alejandro González
2006-07	Malvín	3-1	Biguá	Fernando Martínez (Malvín)	URU Pablo López
2007-08	Biguá	3-0	Hebraica Macabi	Leandro García Morales (Biguá)	URU Marcelo Signorelli
2008-09	Biguá	3-0	Defensor Sporting	Leandro García Morales (Biguá)	ARG Néstor García
2009-10	Defensor Sporting	3-0	Malvín	Gustavo Barrera (Unión Atlética)	URU Gerardo Jauri
2010-11	Malvín	3-1	Biguá	Reque Newsome (Malvín)	URU Pablo López
2011-12	Hebraica Macabi	3-2	Malvín	Mauricio Aguiar (Hebraica y Macabi)	URU Marcelo Signorelli
2012-13	Aguada	4-3	Defensor Sporting	Leandro García Morales (Aguada)	URU Javier Espíndola

Total LUB titles by club

Liga Uruguaya de Básquetbol
Team	Championships	Runners
Biguá	2	2
Defensor Sporting	2	2
Malvín	2	2
Hebraica Macabi	1	1
Aguada	1	1
Salto Uruguay	1	0
Trouville	1	0
Paysandú BBC	0	2

External links

• FUBB
• Uruguayan league on Latinbasket.com (English)