2026 Basketball Champions League Americas Final
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Event2025–26 BCL Americas
Date18 April 2026
The Estadio Obras Sanitarias hosted the Final. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Event | 2025–26 BCL Americas | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | 18 April 2026 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Venue | Estadio Obras Sanitarias, Buenos Aires | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Francisco Cáffaro | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referees | Roberto Vázquez (PUR), Julio Anaya (PAN), Carlos Peralta (ECU) | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2026 BCL Americas Final was the final game of the 2025–26 Basketball Champions League Americas, the seventh season of the league under its new entity and the 19th of the Pan-American premier basketball league organised by FIBA. It was played at the Estadio Obras Sanitarias in Buenos Aires] on 18 April 2026. The game was played between Brazilian club Sesi Franca and the Argentinean club Boca Juniors.
Boca Juniors won its first continental title and also they qualified for 2026 FIBA Intercontinental Cup.[1] Francisco Cáffaro was the team's key player and won the league's MVP award.[2]
In the following table, finals until 2020 were in the FIBA Americas League and South American Championship eras.
| Team | Previous final appearances (bold indicates winners) |
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| 2025 | |
| 14 (1974, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2023) | |
Road to the final
- (H): Home game
- (A): Away game
- (N): Neutral venue
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| Opponent | Result | Group phase | Opponent | Result | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 88–71 (Paysandú) | Gameday 1 | 89–93 (OT) (Concepción) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 61–80 (Paysandú) | Gameday 2 | 85–79 (Concepción) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 92–77 (H) | Gameday 3 | 120–62 (H) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 84–88 (H) | Gameday 4 | 110–80 (H) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 101–54 (Belo Horizonte) | Gameday 5 | 89–68 (Córdoba) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 77–67 (Belo Horizonte) | Gameday 6 | 79–80 (Córdoba) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Group B first place
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Group phase | Group D first place
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| Opponent | Series | Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3 | Playoffs | Opponent | Series | Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2–0 | 90–74 (A) | 75–68 (H) | – | Quarterfinals | 2–1 | 98–90 (A) | 101–110 (H) | 103–91 (H) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 81–58 (H) | Semifinals | 83–71 (N) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||