Liga Portuguesa de Basquetebol
The Liga Portuguesa de Basquetebol, also known as Liga Betclic for sponsorship reasons, is the top men's professional club basketball List of [basketball leagues#Europe|league] in Portugal.
History
From the 2008–09 season onward, the competition has been again organised by the Federação [Portuguesa de Basquetebol] after not having been for 13 seasons. This was caused by the fold of the LPB after many years of financial problems, with the league now being a semi-professional league.Between the 1965–66 and 1973–74 seasons, the league champions were determined by a tournament between the winners of the Campeonato Metropolitano and the champions of the then Portuguese colonies Mozambique and Angola, as a similar fashion to the Portuguese Roller Hockey First Division, which was also played during those seasons. However, the first of these tournaments never came to be because of a protest launched by Mozambican team Sporting de Lourenço Marques.
Portuguese champions
''Source''Campeonato Metropolitano champions
- 1965–66: Benfica (basketball)|Benfica]
- 1966–67: Académica de Coimbra
- 1967–68: Ass. Desp. do Banco Pinto de Magalhães
- 1968–69: Sporting CP
- 1969–70: Benfica
- 1970–71: Benfica
- 1971–72: Porto
- 1972–73: Benfica
- 1973–74: Benfica
Records
- Benfica became the second team in basketball history to achieve a perfect regular season in the 2008–09 season, after Maccabi Tel Aviv in the 1970s.