2025 FIBA Intercontinental Cup

Result

Games

Final context

The 35th edition, played September 18-21, 2025, was hosted for a third consecutive year at the Singapore Indoor Stadium under the tournament's multi-year hosting arrangement there. The field again spanned multiple continents, including Unicaja of Spain (defending champion, Basketball Champions League winner), NBA G League United, Flamengo of Brazil, Illawarra Hawks of Australia (Oceania's representative, a role filled by the Tasmania JackJumpers the year before), Utsunomiya Brex of Japan, and Al Ahli Tripoli of Libya (representing Africa). Unicaja and NBA G League United both advanced to a rematch of the 2024 final, while Al Ahli Tripoli and Flamengo met in the other side of the bracket; Al Ahli went on to beat Flamengo 91-82 in the third-place game, led by Makur Maker (21 points, 12 rebounds) and Ivan Almeida (21 points), with Gui Deodato and Markeith Cummings each scoring 14 for Flamengo -- a result that delivered Africa's first-ever podium finish in the tournament's history. The final was tighter than the eventual scoreline suggested. Unicaja trailed 31-36 late in the first half before a dominant 23-5 third-quarter surge flipped the game, giving the Spanish club a commanding 56-41 lead heading into the fourth. NBA G League United answered with an early 6-0 run to open the final period, but could not sustain the pressure, and Unicaja closed out a 71-61 win, holding a double-digit cushion for the remainder of the game. Killian Tillie led Unicaja with 14 points, Tyler Kalinoski added 12, and Kendrick Perry contributed 11 points, 5 rebounds, and 5 assists; for the losing G League side, Jaden Shackelford scored a team-high 17 points and Faron Hunt added 14 points and 11 rebounds. No tournament MVP designation for this edition turned up in available reporting. The win made Unicaja back-to-back Intercontinental Cup champions. Cross-referenced against this file's own year-by-year champion listing, no other club has won in consecutive editions of the tournament's post-2016 single-elimination/Final Four era -- Iberostar Tenerife's three titles (2017, 2020, February 2023) and Flamengo's two (2014, 2022) were each separated by other champions in between -- making Unicaja's 2024-2025 double the first genuinely consecutive title defense of the modern era. For NBA G League United, back-to-back final defeats underscored the persistent gap between Europe's top club sides and the Americas' developmental-league representatives, even as the tournament's American slot continued to be filled by a G League selection rather than an NBA franchise, a pattern unbroken since the competition's relaunch in 2013.

Sources

• Wikipedia — 2025 FIBA Intercontinental Cup
• FIBA — Unicaja crowned FIBA Intercontinental Cup champions again