2024 BAL: All Participating Teams Confirmed

2024 BAL: All Participating Teams Confirmed

Sampson Adedeji

The 12 teams that will compete in the 2024 edition of the Basketball Africa League (BAL) have finally been confirmed, BSNSports.com.ng reports.

Burundi's Dynamo Basketball Club secured the last of three tickets that were up for grabs joining Cape Town Tigers who finished the qualifier unbeaten and Ugandan champions City Oilers who captured the first two passes to the BAL.

Division qualifiers, where Central African Republic's Bangui Sporting Club, Morocco's FUS Rabat and Libya's Al Ahly Benghazi finished in the top three to qualify.

The six teams, three from each of the West and East Divisions, will join six others which have automatic qualification. 

They include champions of Angola (Petro de Luanda), Egypt (Al Ahly SC), Nigeria (Rivers Hoopers), Senegal (AS Douanes), Rwanda (APR), and Tunisia (US Monastir).

Overall, five of the 12 teams confirmed for the BAL 2024 will be making their debut appearance at the competition. 

They include Dynamo, APR, Bangui Sporting Club, FUS Rabat and Al Ahly Benghazi.

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.