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| Sport | Basketball |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1999 |
| No. of teams | 7 |
| Country | FIBA Americas member nations |
| Continent | FIBA Americas (Americas) |
| Most recent champion |  Panama (3rd title) |
| Most titles |  Mexico (4 titles) |
| Related competitions | Centrobasket FIBA AmeriCup |
| Official website | FIBA Americas |
TheCOCABA (Confederación Centroamericana de Baloncesto) championship is a regionalbasketball qualifying tournament and the first of four possible steps thatCentral American national teams have to participate in order to qualify for major international basketball competitions.
The teams that place first, second or third (and sometimes fourth) in COCABA will move on to theCentrobasket Tournament which is a qualifier for theFIBA AmeriCup. Depending on their successes in the latter tournaments, they could qualify for theSummer Olympics orFIBA Basketball World Cup.
| Year | Host (Final phase/game) | Gold medal game | Bronze medal game | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | Score | Silver | Bronze | Score | Fourth place | ||
| 1999 |  Costa Rica(San Jose) | Panama | 77–50 |  Honduras | Costa Rica | 91–77 |  Nicaragua |
| 2004 |  El Salvador(San Salvador) | Panama | 89–61 |  Guatemala | El Salvador | 95–74 | Honduras |
| 2006 | Mexico (?) | Mexico | Series 4–1 | Costa Rica |  Belize | 98–92 | El Salvador |
| 2007 | El Salvador (San Salvador) | Mexico | Round robin | Costa Rica | El Salvador | Round robin | Guatemala |
| 2009 | Mexico (Quintana Roo) | Mexico | 106–103 | Belize | Panama | 86–69 | Costa Rica |
| 2011 | Mexico (Xalapa) | Not held tournament | |||||
| 2013 | El Salvador (San Salvador) | Mexico | Round robin | El Salvador | Costa Rica | Round robin | Honduras |
| 2015 | Costa Rica (San Jose) | Panama | 74–46 | Costa Rica | Nicaragua | 75–71 | Mexico |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mexico | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 2 | Panama | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | Costa Rica | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 4 | El Salvador | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 |  Belize | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | Guatemala | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Honduras | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 8 | Nicaragua | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (8 entries) | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 | |
| Team | 1999 | 2004 | 2006 | 2007 | 2009 | 2013 | 2015 | Total |
| Belize | – | 7th | 3rd | – | 2nd | – | – | 3 |
| Costa Rica | 3rd | 5th | 2nd | 2nd | 4th | 3rd | 2nd | 7 |
| El Salvador | – | 3rd | 4th | 3rd | 8th | 2nd | 6th | 6 |
| Guatemala | 5th | 2nd | 7th | 4th | 5th | – | 7th | 6 |
| Honduras | 2nd | 4th | 6th | 5th | 7th | 4th | 5th | 7 |
| Mexico | – | – | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 4th | 5 |
| Nicaragua | 4th | 6th | 5th | 6th | 6th | – | 3rd | 6 |
| Panama | 1st | 1st | – | – | 3rd | – | 1st | 4 |
| Year | Host (Final phase/game) | Gold medal game | Bronze medal game | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | Score | Silver | Bronze | Score | Fourth place | ||
| 2004 | Guatemala (Guatemala City) | Guatemala | Round Robin | Costa Rica | Mexico | Round Robin | Nicaragua |
| 2006 | El Salvador (San Salvador) | Not held tournament | |||||
| 2007 | El Salvador (San Salvador) | Guatemala | 70–59 | Costa Rica | El Salvador | ? | Honduras |
| 2009 | Guatemala (Cobán) | Mexico | Round Robin | Guatemala | Honduras | Round Robin | El Salvador |
| 2011 | El Salvador (San Salvador) | Not held women's tournament | |||||
| 2013 | El Salvador (San Salvador) | Mexico | Round Robin | El Salvador | Costa Rica | Round Robin | Honduras |
| 2015 | Costa Rica (Cartago) | Mexico | 57–49 | Guatemala | El Salvador | 57–39 | Costa Rica |
| 2022 | Mexico (Chihuahua) | Mexico | Round Robin | El Salvador | Guatemala | Round Robin | Costa Rica |
| 2023 | El Salvador (San Salvador) | El Salvador | Round Robin | Guatemala | Costa Rica | Round Robin | Panama |
| 2025 | Nicaragua (Managua) | Mexico | 75–56 | El Salvador | Nicaragua | 59–49 | Panama |
