{"id":102738,"date":"2025-06-03T18:28:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T18:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/bal-2025-quarterfinals-petro-de-luanda-vs-apr"},"modified":"2025-06-03T18:45:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T18:45:53","slug":"bal-2025-quarterfinals-petro-de-luanda-vs-apr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/bal-2025-quarterfinals-petro-de-luanda-vs-apr","title":{"rendered":"Bal 2025 Quarterfinals: Petro de Luanda vs. Apr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>Rwandan champions APR will June 7 face Angolan giants Petro de Luanda in the quarterfinals of the Basketball African League (BAL) playoffs which will take place in Pretoria, South Africa from June 6-14.<\/p>\n<p>The BAL playoffs fixture draw released on Tuesday, June 3, saw James Maye Jr\u2019s army side pitted against the Angolan champions who traveled to South Africa to defend the championship they won in Kigali on 2024 after beating Libya\u2019s Al Ahli Tripoli in the final. They would be the first team to retain the title since BAL inception in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>APR qualified for the playoffs after finishing second in the Nile Conference held in Kigali from May 17-25 while Petro de Luanda booked their playoffs ticket after finishing second in the Sahara Conference that took place in Dakar, Senegal in April.<\/p>\n<p>APR, Cape Verde\u2019s Kriol Star and Egypt\u2019s Al Ittihad are making their debut in the BAL playoffs. During the 2024 season, APR failed to qualify for the playoffs after finishing at the bottom of the Sahara Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Al Ittihad will rub shoulders with Al Ahli SC of Libya in what promises of be the clash of the quarterfinal round considering that they are the only teams which qualified for the BAL playoffs undefeated.<\/p>\n<p>Full BAL quarterfinal playoffs draw:<\/p>\n<p>June 6<\/p>\n<p>Kriol Star Vs FUS de Rabat<\/p>\n<p>Al Ahli SC Vs Al Ittihad<\/p>\n<p>June 7<\/p>\n<p>Petro de Luanda Vs APR<\/p>\n<p>US Monastir Vs Rivers Hoopers<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Rwanda<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. Rwandan champions APR will June 7 face Angolan giants Petro de Luanda in the quarterfinals of the Basketball African League (BAL) playoffs which will take place in Pretoria, South Africa from June 6-14. The BAL playoffs fixture draw released on Tuesday, June 3, saw James Maye Jr\u2019s army side pitted against the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":102737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[3354,758],"class_list":["post-102738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-bal-playoffs","tag-rwanda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bal 2025 Quarterfinals: Petro de Luanda vs. Apr - Rwanda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rwandan champions APR will June 7 face Angolan giants Petro de Luanda in the quarterfinals of the Basketball African Lea ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/bal-2025-quarterfinals-petro-de-luanda-vs-apr\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bal 2025 Quarterfinals: Petro de Luanda vs. Apr\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rwandan champions APR will June 7 face Angolan giants Petro de Luanda in the quarterfinals of the Basketball African Lea ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/bal-2025-quarterfinals-petro-de-luanda-vs-apr\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rwanda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-06-03T18:28:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-06-03T18:45:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/sm_1748963672.580598.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"666\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/bal-2025-quarterfinals-petro-de-luanda-vs-apr#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/bal-2025-quarterfinals-petro-de-luanda-vs-apr\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Bal 2025 Quarterfinals: Petro de Luanda vs. Apr\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-06-03T18:28:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-06-03T18:45:53+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/bal-2025-quarterfinals-petro-de-luanda-vs-apr\"},\"wordCount\":255,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/bal-2025-quarterfinals-petro-de-luanda-vs-apr#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/sm_1748963672.580598.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"BAL Playoffs\",\"Rwanda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/bal-2025-quarterfinals-petro-de-luanda-vs-apr#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/bal-2025-quarterfinals-petro-de-luanda-vs-apr\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/bal-2025-quarterfinals-petro-de-luanda-vs-apr\",\"name\":\"Bal 2025 Quarterfinals: Petro de Luanda vs. Apr - 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