FIBA Asia
Basketball governing authority in Asia
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| 2024 | The WASL expanded further, with additional teams from Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Bahrain joining the competition, demonstrating the league's growing regional significance. |
| 2024 | Lebanon's Al Riyadi wins the FIBA West Asia Super League championship. |
| November 2024 | United Arab Emirates's Shabab Al Ahli won the WASL Gulf League, defeating Saudi Arabia's Al Ittihad Jeddah 2-0 in the finals |
| 2023 | Kuwait SC won the inaugural Gulf League championship. |
| 2023 | FIBA introduced an annual Most Valuable Player award for the West Asia Super League, with Thon Maker of Al Riyadi winning the inaugural award in the 2023–24 season. |
| 2023 | New teams like Al Sadd (Qatar), Tamil Nadu (India), and Al Ahli Amman (Jordan) were introduced to the tournament, expanding the league's regional and international reach. |
| 2023 | The league continued its second season with a slightly modified lineup of clubs, maintaining representation from key West Asian basketball markets. |
| December 2023 | Second edition of the FIBA West Asia Super League (WASL) held in Doha, Qatar, with 18 teams participating. Lebanon's Al Riyadi won the championship by defeating Lebanon's Sagesse 100-90 in an overtime final. |
| December 14 2023 | Highest attendance recorded in a WASL game was 13,000 people during the match between Al Ittihad Aleppo and Sagesse. |
| November 16 2023 | Karrar Hamzah of Al Naft set a league record with 8 steals in a game against Al Ittihad Aleppo. |
| October 2023 | Lebanon's Al Riyadi Beirut retains the WASL West Asia League championship, defeating Iran's Shahrdari Gorgan 2-1 in the finals for the 2023-24 season. |
| October 2023 | Kuwait Club retains the WASL Gulf League championship, defeating Manama 2-1 in the finals for the 2023-24 season. |
| June 2023 | First season of the FIBA West Asia Super League concluded, with champions and runners-up qualifying for the Basketball Champions League Asia. |
| June 17 2023 | Manama from Bahrain won the inaugural championship at the first-ever Final Eight tournament hosted in Dubai. |
| May 2023 | The inaugural season concluded with multiple league competitions. |
| March 9 2023 | Édgar Sosa of Al Naft set a league record by scoring 46 points in a single game against Al Riyadi Club Beirut. |
| March 6 2023 | Hussain Albalooshi, aged 17, became the youngest player to appear in a WASL game, playing for Shabab Al Ahli Basketball against Al Bashaer. |
| December 19 2022 | The inaugural season of the West Asia Super League began, featuring eighteen teams competing in the 2022–23 season. Aaron Clyde of Al Bashaer scored the first points in the league. |
| October 2022 | Kuwait Club wins the WASL Gulf League championship by defeating Manama 2-0 in the finals for the 2022-23 season. |
| October 2022 | Lebanon's Al Riyadi Beirut wins the WASL West Asia League championship by defeating Iran's Shahrdari Gorgan 2-0 in the finals for the 2022-23 season. |
| March 31 2022 | FIBA officially announced the creation of the West Asia Super League, with eVulpa, a United Arab Emirates-based company, appointed as the commercial rights partner. |
| 2018 | FIBA Asia expanded youth championships, including FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship and Under-16 Championship, to include FIBA Oceania members, increasing regional basketball collaboration. |
| 2018 | FIBA Asia Under-16 Championship expanded to include FIBA Oceania members, increasing the tournament's international participation. |
| 2018 | FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship for Women began including FIBA Oceania members, broadening the women's youth tournament's regional reach. |
| 2017 | FIBA Asia expanded the FIBA Asia Cup and FIBA Women's Asia Cup to include FIBA Oceania members, broadening the tournament's regional participation. |
| 2017 | FIBA Oceania was added as the 7th sub-zone to FIBA Asia, expanding the organization's geographical coverage to include Oceanian basketball associations. |
| 2017 | FIBA Asia Under-16 Championship for Women began including FIBA Oceania members, expanding the tournament's participation. |
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