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Sport | Basketball |
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Founded | 1971 |
First season | 1971 |
Ceased | 2015 |
Replaced by | FIBA Asia Cup |
No. of teams | 2 |
Country | FIBA Oceania member nations |
Continent | FIBA Oceania (Oceania) |
Last champion(s) | ![]() |
Most titles | ![]() |
Related competitions | Al Ramsay Shield |
Official website | www.FIBAOceania.com |
FIBA Oceania Championship was the Oceania basketball championships that took place every two years between national teams of the continent. Through the 2015 edition, the Oceania Championship was also a qualifying tournament for the Basketball World Cups and Olympic Games.[1]
The first edition of the tournament was held in 1971.[2] When only Australia and New Zealand competed, the tournament was usually a best-of-three playoff; if other teams competed, a round-robin and a knockout stage was employed.[1] In 2009, the Oceania Basketball Federation changed this format to a two-game, home-and-away playoff between the two countries, with aggregate score as the tiebreaker should the teams split the series.[3]
Beginning in 2017, all FIBA continental championships for men were held on a four-year cycle, and the continental championships would no longer be part of the qualifying process for either the World Cup or Olympics.[4] The 2015 Oceanian Championships were the last to be held as from 2017, the tournament merged with the former FIBA Asia Championship to give way to a competition now known as the FIBA Asia Cup.[5][6]
Now, after the merge of the FIBA Asia and Oceania Championships into the 'FIBA Asia Cup'...