The 2014 FIBA Asia Champions Cup will be the 25th staging of the FIBA Asia Champions Cup, the international basketball club tournament of FIBA Asia. The tournament was supposed to be held in Kuwait on June 5–13, 2014, but FIBA Asia, through a communique to the National Federations representing the qualified teams, had announced that the tournament will be rescheduled after the 2014 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship for Women sometime in the third-fourth week of October, after they (National Federations) mentioned that they require their top players to be available for the National Team's preparations for the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup and the 2014 Asian Games.
Qualification The qualifications for the 2014 FIBA Asia Champions Cup are still ongoing; it started this early 2014 with the Gulf region, West Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, Central Asia and South Asia each conducting tournaments.
Format The following are eligible to participate:
The organizing country. The three best-placed teams from the 2013 FIBA Asia Champions Cup will qualify the same number of teams from their respective sub-zones. The best team from the sub-zones of East Asia, Gulf, Southeast Asia and West Asia and the winner from the sub-zones of South Asia and Central Asia.
Berths Zone Automatic Additional berths from 2013 FIBA Asia Champions Cup TotalHost team 1 1Central Asia 1 0 1East Asia 1 0 1Gulf 1 1 2South Asia 1 0 1Southeast Asia 1 0 1West Asia 1 2 3
2013 FIBA Asia Champions Cup
RankTeamNote West Asia (+1) Gulf (+1) West Asia (+2)45 6 7 8
Qualified teams Host Automatic berth Additional berth from 2013 FIBA Asia Champions Cup Central Asia (1) East Asia (1) Gulf (1+1+1) South Asia (1) Southeast Asia (1) West Asia (1+2) Belent Ashgabat Malaysia BC Mahram Tehran Al-Sadd ASU Al-Ahli Al-Kahraba
Central Asia Turkmenistan's Belent Ashgabat will be the CABA subzone's representative to the 2014 FIBA Asia Champions Cup.
East Asia
Gulf Qatar's Al-Sadd and UAE's Al-Ahli have qualified to represent Gulf subzone, and a team representing Kuwait has qualified automatically as the hosts.
South Asia
Southeast Asia The 2014 SEABA Champions Cup was the qualification for Southeast Asia in the 2014 FIBA Asia Champions Cup. It was a single game between Malaysia and Singapore and was held on April 26, 2014, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. After intense and hard-fought three quarters, the home team pulled out a 17–9 scoring in the final frame to claim the lone SEABA spot, 59–47.
Qualified at the 2014 FIBA Asia Champions Cup
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West Asia The 2014 WABA Champions Cup was the qualifying tournament for the 2014 FIBA Asia Champions Cup. The three best teams qualify for 2014 FIBA Asia Champions Cup. The tournament was held from March 8 to March 13, 2014, in Tehran, Iran.
Preliminary round
Group A TeamPldWLPFPAPDPts Mahram Tehran220194113+814 Al-Wahda211123166–433 Al-Ittihad202113151–382
Group B TeamPldWLPFPAPDPts Petrochimi Bandar Imam330292193+996 Al-Kahraba321238243–55 ASU312218235–174 Al-Jaish303197274−773
Final round
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
3rd place
Final
Final standing Qualified at the 2014 FIBA Asia Champions Cup
RankTeam Mahram Tehran Petrochimi Bandar Imam ASU4 Al-Kahraba5 Al-Ittihad6 Al-Jaish7 Al-Wahda
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