| Sport | Basketball |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2002 |
| Country | SABA member nations |
| Continent | FIBA Asia (Asia) |
| Most recent champion |  India (6th title) |
| Most titles | India (6 titles) |
TheSABA Championship is abasketball tournament for national teams organized by theSouth Asia Basketball Association, a sub-zone of theFIBA Asia. It serves as a qualifier for various FIBA Asia events such as theFIBA Asia Championship and theFIBA Asia Cup.[1][2]
Starting immediately at the end of the2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup, a new qualification format for2021 FIBA Asia Cup, and for every continental championships thereafter, has been introduced, wherein home and away games will be done during the pre-qualifiers in order to determine the participants for the main qualifiers that will battle for the 16 berths of the continental championships.[3]
| Year | Host | Final | Third-place game | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Champion | Score | Second Place | Third Place | Score | Fourth Place | ||||
| 2002 Details | Guwahati | India | No playoffs |  Bangladesh | No playoffs | ||||
| 2013 Details | Dhaka | Bangladesh | No playoffs |  Pakistan |  Nepal | No playoffs |  Maldives | ||
| 2014 Details |  Kathmandu | India | No playoffs | Bangladesh |  Sri Lanka | No playoffs | Nepal | ||
| 2015 Details | Bengaluru | India | No playoffs | Sri Lanka | Nepal | No playoffs | Bangladesh | ||
| 2016 Details | Bengaluru | India | No playoffs | Maldives | Nepal | No playoffs | Bangladesh | ||
| 2017 Details | Malé | India | No playoffs | Bangladesh | Sri Lanka | No playoffs | Nepal | ||
| 2018 Details | Dhaka | Sri Lanka | No playoffs | Bangladesh | Maldives | No playoffs |  Bhutan | ||
| 2021 Details | Dhaka | India | No playoffs | Sri Lanka | Bangladesh | No playoffs | Maldives | ||
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | India | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 2 | Bangladesh | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| 3 | Sri Lanka | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 4 | Nepal | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | Maldives | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | Pakistan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals (6 entries) | 8 | 9 | 6 | 23 | |
