2021 BAL qualification
The 2020 BAL Qualifying Tournaments were the inaugural qualifying tournaments of the Basketball Africa League, the newly launched premier basketball league of Africa jointly organized by the NBA and FIBA. While the NBA will co-organise from the regular season, the qualifiers are completely organised by FIBA Africa.
A total of 31 teams from 31 countries participate in the qualifying tournaments in order to determine which six teams will play in the 2020 BAL regular season, along with six directly placed six teams. The qualifying tournaments are divided into the [|First round] and [|Second round], which run from 16 October until 21 December 2019.
Team allocation
A total of 31 teams from 31 countries played in the qualifying tournaments. League positions after eventual playoffs of the previous season shown in parentheses. On 9 October 2019, the official list of participating teams in the qualifying rounds was announced by FIBA.;Notes
First round
In the first round, thirtytwo teams participate in six groups divided over two geographical divisions. Groups were selected by geographical criteria. The winners and runners-up of each group qualify for the [|second round] while four other teams were invited with wild cards, chosen by FIBA.The first games were played at 15 October and the last on 3 November 2019.
West Division
Group A
Venue: Bamako, Mali----
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Group B
Venue: Cotonou, Benin----
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Group C
Venue: Libreville, Gabon----
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Division West
Group D
Venue: Dar es Salaam, TanzaniaGroup E
Venue: Johannesburg, South Africa----
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Group F
Venue: Antananarivo, Madagascar----
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Second round
In the Second Round, the sixteen teams that advanced from the first round teams play in four groups of four, divided over two geographical divisions. The top two teams of each group advance to the semi-finals. Winners of each semi-finals qualify for the regular season while the losers play in a third place game for the final regular season spot. On 7 November, FIBA announced the four wild card receivers.The Division West tournament will be played at the Kigali Arena in the Rwandan city of Kigali. The Division East tournament is played in the Multipurpose Sports Complex in Yaoundé, Cameroon. The Elite 16 will start on 26 November and end 22 December 2019.
Qualified teams
The draw was held on 21 November in Abidjan.| Division | Group | Winners | Runners-up | Wild cards |
| West | A |  West Division – Group GGroup A---- ---- Group B---- ---- Final roundQualification finalsSemi-finalsThird place gameFinalEast Division – Group HGroup AGroup BFinal round;Qualification finalsSemi-finalsThird place gameFinalStatistical leadersIndividual statistics leadersIndividual game highs |