EASL is the champions league of professional basketball in East Asia. It is Where Champions Clash and the top teams across the region match up to determine the best of the best. The qualifying EASL participants are the champions and runners-up from the top basketball leagues in Chinese Taipei, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines. Hong Kong and Macau.

Each season features a 30-game Group Stage held October to February, with six games (three home, three away) for each of the 10 teams. The four winningest teams in the Group Stage qualify for the Final Four weekend in March, which crowns the champion of East Asia. EASL is organized under an exclusive agreement with FIBA, the international basketball federation.

Our Mission

EASL’s mission is to elevate the game of basketball in Asia. It is in the vanguard of a revolution in Asian basketball, spurred by new investment and modernization, and supported by improving infrastructure. EASL is at the center of this story of renewal and growth. It provides a platform where Asia’s best leagues, teams and players can compete, develop and collaborate to raise the game.

EASL is a modern, sophisticated sports entertainment product, aimed at capturing the imaginations of the hundreds of millions of Asian fans hungry for homegrown hoops heroes. It fills the surging demand for a primetime battle for regional supremacy in the region’s most popular sport.

EASL Core PRINCIPLES

Crowning East Asia’s Champion

EASL is a competition for the best clubs from the best leagues in East Asia, to decide the regional champion.

Thrilling Sports Entertainment

EASL serves fans with thrilling sports entertainment: An incredible live game experience, broadcast and streamed to millions via television and digital media.

Elevating Asian Basketball

EASL is an engine for growth in Asian basketball; a stage for the region’s leagues, teams and players to compete, collaborate and develop together.