| Organising body | FGB |
|---|---|
| Country | Guinea |
| Number of teams | 6 (2021) |
| Current champions | Centre Fédéral (1st title) (2025) |
| Most championships | SLAC (6 titles) |
TheLigue 1 is the top tier men'sbasketball league inGuinea. The defending champion isSLAC, which won its sixth title in 2021. Most games of the league are played in the Palais des Sports next to theStade du 28 Septembre inConakry.
Since 2021, the league has not been organised because of a dispute between theGuinean Basketball Federation (FGBB) and Guinea's Ministry of Sport. In February 2023, President of the FGBB Sakoba Keita announced his plans to professionalize the league by allowing teams to have a corporate status and by introducing a minimum salary for players.[1]
In October 2023, instead of organising a league, the federation organised a qualification tournament to decide the country's representative in theRoad to BAL.SLAC won the tournament.[2]
In the 2021 season, the league featured six teams:[3]
| Season | Champions | Runners-up | Final score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020–21 | SLAC | Horoya Athletic Club | 86–44[7] |
| 2025 | Centre Fédéral | Jorfof |
| Season | Representative | Road to BAL | Main competition | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W | L | Result | Qualified | W | L | Result | |||
| 2021 | SLAC | 1 | 2 | First phase | DNQ | ||||
| 2022 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Quarter-finalist | ||||
| 2023 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | Conference round | ||||
| 2024 | 1 | 2 | Elite 16 | DNQ | |||||
| Total | 9 | 8 | 2/4 | 3 | 7 | ||||
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