{"id":249487,"date":"2026-11-09T14:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T12:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-bal-elite-16-qualifiers-tip-off-in-abidjan\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T14:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T12:30:16","slug":"cote-divoire-bal-elite-16-qualifiers-tip-off-in-abidjan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-bal-elite-16-qualifiers-tip-off-in-abidjan\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: Bal &#8216;Elite 16&#8217; Qualifiers Tip Off in Abidjan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The race for the remaining places in the 2027 Basketball Africa League (BAL) season continues this month, with Kenya and C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire set to host the Elite 16 qualification tournaments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The West Division tournament tips off in Abidjan on Monday, November 9, and runs through November 15, while Nairobi will host the East Division competition from November 23-29, according to the FIBA Regional Africa Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Under the qualification format, the top two teams from each division, alongside the best&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611090188.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The race for the remaining places in the 2027 Basketball Africa League (BAL) season continues this month, with Kenya and C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire set to host the Elite 16 qualification tournaments. The West Division tournament tips off in Abidjan on Monday, November 9, and runs through November 15, while Nairobi will host the East Division competition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":249488,"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":[1087],"tags":[2554,258,256,38465,5958,6183,6555,5959,6842,1218,257,7318,254,19096],"class_list":["post-249487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-abidjan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bal","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-elite","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-qualifiers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tip"],"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\/249487","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}