This is a list of current and defunct basketball leagues around the world.

Men

Intercontinental

Africa

International leagues

National leagues

🇨🇫 🇬🇭 🇪🇬 🇱🇷 🇱🇾 🇲🇦 🇲🇿 🇷🇼 🇸🇳 🇹🇳 🇺🇬

Americas

International leagues

National leagues

🇦🇷 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇨🇦 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇺🇸

College and university basketball

🇨🇦 🇺🇸

Youth leagues

🇻🇪

Asia

International leagues

National leagues

🇧🇭 🇨🇳 🇭🇰 🇮🇳 🇮🇷 🇮🇶 🇰🇿 🇯🇵 🇯🇴 🇲🇳 𝜙 (Philippine basketball is not divided into a tier-like league system) The Games and Amusements Board (GAB) issues professional licenses for players playing in professional leagues. GAB had instructed amateur leagues that are paying its players to be under its belt. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this hasn't been applied as the GAB has only allowed professional leagues (of any sport) to operate. 🇶🇦 🇰🇷 🇸🇾 🇹🇼 🇹🇭

College and university basketball

🇨🇳 𝜙 (many college leagues also offer high school basketball tournaments): 🇰🇷 🇹🇼

Youth leagues

🇨🇳 𝜙 🇹🇼

Europe

International leagues

Continental Leagues

Clubs participate pan-European leagues in two ways. Larger clubs play in Euroleague Basketball's system, with several of them having long-term licenses and others having annual licenses (irrespective of domestic league results), akin to the franchise model in North American sports. The Basketball Champions League (BCL) is the other way clubs participate, which is mostly based on sporting merit. A club usually opts to play in the EuroLeague instead of the BCL if it's eligible for both.

Subregional leagues

National leagues

🇦🇱 🇦🇹 🇦🇲 🇦🇿 🇧🇾 🇧🇪 & 🇳🇱 🇧🇦 🇧🇬 🇭🇷 🇨🇾 🇨🇿 🇩🇰 🇪🇪 🇫🇮 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇬🇷 🇭🇺 🇮🇸 🇮🇱 🇮🇹 🇱🇹 🇱🇺 🇲🇰 🇲🇪 🇳🇴 🇵🇱 🇵🇹 🇷🇺 🇷🇸 🇸🇰 🇸🇮 🇪🇸 🇸🇪 🇨🇭 🇹🇷 🇺🇦 🇮🇪

Oceania

🇦🇺 🇬🇺 🇳🇿

Women

Africa

National leagues 🇲🇦 🇹🇳

Americas

🇺🇸 College basketball Youth leagues 🇨🇦 University basketball

Asia

🇨🇳 🇭🇰 🇮🇳 🇮🇩 🇯🇵 𝜙 Filipino College Basketball 🇰🇷 (Taiwan) 🇹🇭

Europe

🇦🇱 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇧🇦 🇧🇬 🇨🇾 🇨🇿 🇫🇷 🇪🇪 🇫🇮 🇩🇪 🇭🇺 🇮🇸 🇮🇱 🇮🇹 lit. 🇱🇺 🇲🇰 🇲🇪 🇵🇱 🇷🇺 🇷🇸 🇸🇰 🇪🇸 🇸🇪 🇹🇷 🇺🇦

Oceania

🇦🇺 🇳🇿

Defunct leagues

Men

World

Africa

Americas

Subregional Leagues National Leagues 🇨🇦 🇺🇸

Asia

Subregional Leagues National Leagues 🇨🇳 🇮🇳 🇯🇵 𝜙 (Taiwan)

Europe

Subregional leagues National leagues 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇳🇱 🇷🇺 Former Yugoslavia

Oceania

🇦🇺 🇳🇿

Women

Americas

🇺🇸

Asia

🇨🇳 𝜙

Oceania

🇦🇺 🇳🇿