Latin Cup
SportBasketball
Founded1953
Ceased1966
ContinentEurope
Last
champion(s)		Italy Simmenthal Milano
(1st title)
Most titlesSpain Real Madrid
Italy Olimpia Milano
(1 title)

The Latin Cup (French: Coupe Latine; Italian: Coppa Latina ; Portuguese: Taça Latina or Copa Latina; Spanish: Copa Latina) was an international basketball tournament for club sides from the Latin European nations of France, Italy, Spain, and from Switzerland or Portugal, in a similar way than the Latin Cup of football.[1]

History

The basketball tournament did not start until 1953, being the immediate precedent of the precursor competition of the European Cup organized by FIBA in the 1957-58 season. The competition was organized by the Commission of International Organizations of Basketball - an organization belonging to the maximum basketball estate of the FIBA-, jointly with the national federations of the participating clubs.

In spite of the football precedent and the success, Latin Cup had only two editions. After the first celebrated the same year of its establishment, the second one took place on the occasion of the second edition of a competition sponsored by the FIBA and later named the International Christmas Tournament. It was decided that this second edition would be recognized as the second Latin Cup due to the origin of the participants, and in an attempt to relaunch the competition, held in December 1966 in the Pabellón de la Ciudad Deportiva del Real Madrid.[2]

A tournament in America has been held since 1989 [3] (organized in Panama by the Panamanian Basketball Federation, FEPABA), being a competition between national basketball teams also called Copa Latina.[4][5][6][7]

Results

Year Champion Second place Third place Fourth place Results / Notes
1953
Details		 Spain
Real Madrid		 Italy
Borletti Milano		 France
ASVEL		 Switzerland
Jonction		 Four team league stage.
1966
Details		 Italy
Simmenthal Milano		 Spain
Real Madrid		 France
ASVEL		 Portugal
Benfica		 Four team league stage.

Titles by club

Rank Club Titles Runner-up Champion Years
=1. Spain Real Madrid 1 1 1953
=1. Italy Olimpia Milano 1 1 1966

Titles by nation

Rank Country Titles Runners-up
1. Spain Spain 1 1
2. Italy Italy 1 1

References

  1. ^ Ésta se disputó entre 1949 y 1957 entre España, Francia, Italia y Portugal.
  2. ^ "HISTORIAS 2014: Una Copa Latina por Navidad".
  3. ^ "Baloncesto. Copa Latina". 8 July 1999.
  4. ^ "Carl Herrera encabeza equipo venezolano para Copa Latina". Archived from the original on 16 April 2013.
  5. ^ "Panamá derrota a Uruguay, Venezuela derrota a Cuba en Copa Latina de …". Archived from the original on 14 April 2013.
  6. ^ "Copa Latina comienza hoy en el Nuevo Panamá". Archived from the original on 16 April 2013.
  7. ^ "Cuba y Venezuela inaugurán la Copa Latina de Baloncesto". Archived from the original on 16 April 2013.
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