Rules & Regulations
The 11th Asia Pacific Cup will follow FIBA rules (as a FIBA sanctioned tournament) with modifications as listed below and by clicking on the button below (Rules for 2024) all other Tournament Rules & Regulations are listed.
The 11th Asia Pacific Basketball Youth Cup (SINGAPORE) followed FIBA rules with modification as follows;
Timing for all round games and consolidation games will be 4 x 8 minutes quarters with one timeout of one minute per quarter per team. Clock will stop in the last two minutes of last quarter.
Time outs will not be allowed to carry over to subsequent quarters.
A 24 second shot clock will be played in all U16 & U18 games.
Timing in all Cup Championship games & 3rd Place to be 4 x 8 minutes fully stopped with 24 second clock. (Full FIBA rules including normal timeouts).
Defense for U12 & U14 Boys and Girls must be man to man defense. Full court man to man defense is allowed, however, NO full court or half court zone formations will be allowed.
Defense for U16 & U18 Boys and Girls can play both zone or man to man defense.
Any overtime in rounds will be only 3 minutes whilst in Finals it will be 5 minutes.
Ball sizes will be size 5 for U12 girls, size 6 for all U14, U16 & U18 girls and U12 boys with size 7 for U14, U16 & U18 Boys.
Please click on Modified Rules below to see the full list.
Tournament Format
Teams will be competing in a round robin format in each age group pools followed by playoff matches as listed in the 5v5 Teams button in the top menu.
3 points will be awarded for a win, 1 point for a loss.
If there is a tie then FIBA head to head rules will be applied to determine final positions in the round games.
