{"id":200279,"date":"2025-06-16T19:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T17:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-al-ahli-tripoli-crowned-2025-bal-champions\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T19:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T17:41:07","slug":"libya-al-ahli-tripoli-crowned-2025-bal-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-al-ahli-tripoli-crowned-2025-bal-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya: Al Ahli Tripoli Crowned 2025 BAL Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><em>Saturday<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><em>Final<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\"><em>Al Ahli Tripoli 88-67 Petro de Luanda<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Al Ahli Tripoli beat Petro de Luanda 88-67 on Saturday, at SunBet Arena in Pretoria, South Africa, to win the 2025 Basketball Africa League (BAL) title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">With the win, Al Ahli Tripoli became the first Libyan team to win the BAL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Petro de Luanda finished runners-up for the second time in BAL history.<\/p>\n<p><!--\/.outer-ad-container.gpt-outer-ad-container.gpt-inread-outer-ad-container.inread-a-container--><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">It&#8217;s also the first time that a conference winner, won the BAL and the first time that a BAL Coach of the Year led a team to the Championship&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506160685.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday Final Al Ahli Tripoli 88-67 Petro de Luanda Al Ahli Tripoli beat Petro de Luanda 88-67 on Saturday, at SunBet Arena in Pretoria, South Africa, to win the 2025 Basketball Africa League (BAL) title. With the win, Al Ahli Tripoli became the first Libyan team to win the BAL. Petro de Luanda finished runners-up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":200280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[258,256,30431,38465,14490,11771,4711,892,257,254,897],"class_list":["post-200279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahli","tag-bal","tag-crowned","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tripoli"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}