27 September 2022 | Basketball

City Oilers will start the road to the 2023 Basketball Africa League (BAL) in front of their own fans.

The Oilers were handed the rights to host Group C of the First Round of the qualifiers due October 25-30.

Burundi’s Urunani BBC, home to former Oilers big man Landry Ndikuman, Hawassa City BBC (Ethiopia), Army Basket Club (Tanzania), and Matero Magic (Zambia) will be making the trip to Kampala.

Oilers missed out on the playoffs the first time after defeats to Patriots (Rwanda) and Maputo (Mozambique) in the 2019 qualifiers and withdrew from the second edition competition at the Elite 16, citing COVID-19 in South Africa.

Oilers earned the right to compete as champions of Uganda when the last National Basketball League finals were last held in 2019.

This year’s Road to BAL will start in four African cities including Kampala where Group C will be hosted.

Group A will be hosted in Niamey (Niger), Group B in Yaounde (Cameroon) and Group D in Antananarivo (Madagascar).

Teams that finish in the first two places in Groups A, B, C, and D will qualify for the Elite 16 Round, where they will join the six teams that qualified for the 2022 BAL season through the Road to BAL qualifier.

The remaining teams to complete the Elite 16 Round line-up will be announced by FIBA Africa at a later date.

The top six-placed teams from the Elite 16 will then qualify for the 2023 BAL Season where they will join the champions from Angola, Egypt, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, and Tunisia.

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