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Argentine Basketball Confederation

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Argentine Basketball Confederation
Confederación Argentina de Básquetbol
SportBasketball
JurisdictionArgentina
AbbreviationCAB (formerly CABB)
Founded30 August 1929; 95 years ago (1929-08-30)
AffiliationFIBA
Affiliation dateFIBA: 18 June 1932; 92 years ago (1932-06-18)
FIBA Americas: 11 October 1975; 49 years ago (1975-10-11)
Regional affiliationFIBA Americas
HeadquartersBuenos Aires
LocationMontevideo 496
PresidentSergio Gatti[1]
Vice president(s)Oscar Ledesma Abdala[1]
SecretarySantiago Losada[1]
Official website
argentina.basketball
Argentina

The Argentine Basketball Confederation (Spanish: Confederación Argentina de Básquetbol,[a] also known as CAB,[2] formerly CABB)[3] is the governing body of basketball in Argentina. It is also one of the founding members of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), in 1932.

It is a member of the FIBA Americas, and it is responsible for the Men's and the Women's national teams. Currently there are approximately 1,200 clubs registered with the association, as well as 130,500 male and 11,000 female players.

Composition

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The CAB is composed of 24 Provincial Federations, as well as the "Asociación de Clubes de Básquetbol" which organises the first and second division league championships. On the other hand, the CAB itself organises the third division of club basketball, "Liga Federal de Básquetbol". The body also organises women's championship as "Liga Federal Femenina de Básquetbol".

In youth divisions, the CAB organises U19, U17 and other youth championships, including a female tournament.[4]

Unlike men's basketball, the women's division consists of only one national federation.[5]

See also

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ The word básquetbol is specific to Rioplatense Spanish, the standard Spanish dialect of Argentina. In most other forms of Spanish, this word would be baloncesto.

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Consejo Directivo". argentina.basketball (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 February 2025.
  2. ^ "CAB | Misión y Valores". argentina.basketball (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 February 2018.
  3. ^ "CABB | Misión y Valores". argentina.basketball (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2 March 2021.
  4. ^ "Campeonatos". Archived from the original on 19 April 2014. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
  5. ^ La Federación Femenina nucleará a todas las Asociaciones de la rama femenina en el país on CABB website (archived 3 May 2014)
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