2019–20 BCLA season


The 2019–20 Basketball Champions League Americas season is the 13th edition of the top-tier level professional club basketball competition in the Americas and first of the Basketball Champions League Americas since launched by FIBA in September 2019. The competition began in October 2019, with the group stage, and would have been concluded in April 2020. On 14 March 2020, FIBA suspended all its competition until further notice due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
San Lorenzo won the last FIBA Americas League tournament.

Team allocation

A total of 12 teams from 7 countries will participate in the 2019–20 Basketball Champions League Americas. The participating teams were announced on 1 October 2019.

Teams

League positions after eventual playoffs of the previous season shown in parentheses.
San LorenzoLDA Flamengo Aguada Capitanes
Instituto Franca Biguá Valdivia
Quimsa Mogi das Cruzes Fuerza Regia Real Estelí

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
The schedule of the competition is as follows.
PhaseRoundDates
Group stageGameday 128 October–1 November 2019
Group stageGameday 224–29 November 2019
Group stageGameday 316–20 December 2019
PlayoffsQuarterfinals14–21 January 2020
PlayoffsSemifinals9–14 March 2020
PlayoffsFinalsApril 2020

Group stage

The 12 teams are drawn into four groups of three, while taking into account geographic location. In each group, teams play against each other home-and-away, in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advance to the [|quarterfinals], while the remaining team in each group is eliminated. The group stage started on 28 October and will end on 20 December 2019.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Playoffs

Team 1 hosts games 2 and 3.

Quarterfinals

Semifinals