Centrobasket
Current season, competition or edition: 2016 Centrobasket | |
| Sport | Basketball |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1965 |
| Inaugural season | 1965 |
| No. of teams | 10 |
| Country | FIBA Americas member nations |
| Continent | FIBA Americas (Americas) |
| Most recent champion(s) |
M:  Mexico (3rd title) W:  Cuba (16th title) |
| Most titles |
M:  Puerto Rico (10 titles) W: Cuba (16 titles) |
| Qualification |
FIBA COCABA Championship FIBA CBC Championship |
| Related competitions | FIBA Americas Championship |
| Official website | FIBA Americas |
The Centrobasket is a FIBA-sponsored international basketball tournament where national teams from Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean participate. These countries make up the Central American and Caribbean Confederation (CONCENCABA). The top three or four teams typically earn berths to the FIBA Americas Championship, from which they can qualify for the FIBA Basketball World Cup or Olympics. Teams qualify for these tournaments by finishing high (usually first or second place) in the previous Centrobasket or by placing high at the FIBA COCABA Championship for Mexico and the seven Central American countries and at the FIBA CBC Championship for the 24 Caribbean countries. In total, 32 countries have an opportunity to qualify their national teams for Centrobasket, yet all of them do not enter teams regularly.
Celebration of the tournament typically is every two years. Initially played only in odd years, the tournament has, in recent years, it has moved to even years since 2004. The tournament was not held in either 1979 or 1983, but with those exceptions, the tournament has been held every other year, excepting for subsequent tournaments in 2003 and 2004.
Eight teams participate at the tournament, divided into two groups. The first round of the tournament consists of a round-robin, and then, in the second round, teams compete to define their final position at the tournament's standing.
Panama and Puerto Rico have been multiple medal winners at this event, both considered the strongest teams in the region, even though the Puerto Rican team almost never sends its best players for this competition (it mostly sends its second team). To date, Puerto Rico has earned large number of medals in every tournament that it has participated in.
Men's Centrobasket Summaries
Participation details
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 1975 |
 1977 |
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 1997 |
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2003 |
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2006 |
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2010 |
2012 |
2014 |
Total |
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 Antigua and Barbuda | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7th | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7th | 7th | - | - | - | - | - | 3 |
 Bahamas | - | - | - | - | - | 5th | - | - | 8th | - | 8th | - | - | 5th | - | - | - | 5th | - | - | - | - | 5th | 7th | 7 |
 Barbados | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6th | - | - | 7th | - | 6th | - | - | - | - | - | 3 |
 Belize | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7th | - | - | - | - | - | 7th | - | - | 2 |
 British Virgin Islands | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8th | - | - | 1 |
 Costa Rica | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7th | 5th | - | 7th | - | 8th | - | 8th | - | 8th | 8th | - | 9th | 9th | 9 |
| Cuba | 3rd | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 3rd | 3rd | - | 3rd | 3rd | 5th | 3rd | 3rd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 6th | - | 5th | 6th | 4th | 4th | 8th | 4th | 22 |
| Dominican Republic | - | - | 5th | 4th | 7th | 4th | 1st | 5th | 6th | 4th | 5th | - | 4th | 2nd | 3rd | 3rd | 5th | 2nd | 1st | 5th | 3rd | 2nd | 1st | 3rd | 21 |
| El Salvador | - | 5th | - | 5th | - | - | 5th | - | 7th | - | 10th | - | - | - | 7th | - | - | - | - | - | 7th | - | - | 10th | 8 |
 Guatemala | - | 6th | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6th | 8th | - | - | - | - | - | 3 |
 Guyana | - | - | - | 7th | 8th | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
 Haiti | - | - | - | - | - | 6th | - | 8th | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| Honduras | - | 7th | - | - | - | - | 6th | - | 9th | - | - | - | - | - | 6th | - | 8th | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 |
 Jamaica | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8th | - | - | - | - | 7th | - | 5th | 3rd | 8th | 5 |
| Mexico | 1st | 4th | - | - | 2nd | 1st | 4th | 4th | 4th | 3rd | 4th | 2nd | 5th | - | 4th | 5th | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 4th | 5th | 6th | 6th | 1st | 21 |
 Nicaragua | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10th | - | 1 |
| Panama | 4th | 1st | 1st | - | 4th | - | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 4th | 3rd | 4th | - | 4th | 3rd | - | 3rd | 1st | 6th | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 20 |
| Puerto Rico | 2nd | - | 3rd | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 3rd | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 23 |
 Trinidad and Tobago | - | - | - | 6th | - | - | - | - | - | 6th | 9th | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10th | - | - | 4 |
 U.S. Virgin Islands | 5th | 3rd | - | - | 6th | - | - | 7th | 5th | - | 6th | - | 6th | - | 5th | 6th | 4th | 4th | - | 2nd | 2nd | 9th | 7th | 6th | 16 |
 Venezuela | - | - | 4th | 3rd | 5th | - | - | 6th | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 |
Women's tournament
References
- FIBA Archive
- Panama History
- Puerto Rico & Dominican Republic History
- Cuba History
- Virgin Islands Partial History for first two competitions
- Caribbean Basketball Confederation
- Todor66.com Centrobasket