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SBL Cup

Founded	2004; 21 years ago (2004)
No. of teams	6
Country	Switzerland
Confederation	FIBA Europe
Most recent champion(s)	Fribourg Olympic (5th title)
Related competitions	Swiss Basketball League Swiss Basketball Cup
Official website	swissbasketball.ch/sbl-cup/

The SBL Cup is the national professional league cup competition that is organised by the Swiss Basketball League (SBL), which is the top-tier level basketball division in Switzerland. The competition was introduced in 2004, and is the second cup competition that SBL teams play in, along with the Federation Swiss Cup. Formerly, the competition was known as the Swiss Basketball League Cup.

Format

Six teams from a given SBL regular season qualify, with the two highest seeds having a bye in the quarter-finals. A final four tournament, at a host city, is played to determine the winner of the SBL Cup.

Finals

Key

2018–present

Year	Host city	Winners	Runners-up	Score	MVP
2022		Fribourg Olympic	SAM Massagno	84–73	Natan Jurkovitz
2021	Montreux	Lions de Genève	SAM Massagno	78–60	Ive Ivanov
2020	Montreux	Fribourg Olympic	Union Neuchatêl	63–54	Xavier Pollard
2019		Lions de Genève	SAM Massagno	67–53	Terry Smith
2018	Clarens	Fribourg Olympic	Lugano Tigers	93–86 †	Babacar Touré

2004–2017

See also

• Swiss Basketball League (SBL)
• Swiss Basketball Cup (Federation Cup)

References

1. "Schedule | Swiss Basketball". swissbasketball.ch. Archived from the original on 2018-04-30.
2. "SBL Cup Men : Fribourg Olympic revient de nulle part et remporte pour la septième fois le titre" (in French). Retrieved 2022-06-27.
3. "SBL Cup Men : Les Lions de Genève titrés pour la quatrième fois" (in French). Retrieved 14 August 2021.
4. https://swiss.basketball/news/2020/02/02/sbl-cup-men-fribourg-olympic-titre-pour-la-6eme-fois

• Basketball competitions in Switzerland
• Basketball cup competitions in Europe