William Jones Cup

For the FIBA Intercontinental Cup "William Jones" or FIBA Club World Cup "William Jones", see FIBA Intercontinental Cup. For the Guyanese cricket competition also called the Jones Cup, see Guystac Trophy

R. William Jones Cup

Most recent season or competition: 2018 William Jones Cup
Sport	Basketball
Founded	1975; 44 years ago (1975)
Inaugural season	1977
No. of teams	M: 10 W: 6
Country	Taiwan
Most recent champion(s)	M: 3D Global Sports (2nd title, 3rd title for country) W:  New Zealand (1st title for country)
Most titles	M:  United States (15 titles) W:  South Korea (12 titles)
Related competitions	FIBA Stanković Continental Champions' Cup
Official website	William Jones Cup (in Chinese)

The R. William Jones Cup (simplified Chinese: 威廉·琼斯盃国际篮球邀请赛; traditional Chinese: 威廉·瓊斯盃國際籃球邀請賽; pinyin: wēi lián qióng sī bēi guó jì lán qiú yāo qǐng sài), also known as the Jones Cup, is an international basketball tournament organized by the Chinese Taipei Basketball Association (CTBA) held annually since 1977 in Taiwan.

It was named in honor of basketball promoter Renato William Jones, who was one of the founders of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA). Like the Olympics and the FIBA Basketball World Cup, it has both men's and women's versions. Despite lacking the prestige of the Olympic tournament and the FIBA World Championship, it is a tournament that achieves interest in the world. Like the FIBA Stanovic Continental Champions Cup, The Renato Williams Jones Cup serves as a preparation for major tournaments: such as the Olympic Basketball Tournament, the FIBA World Cup, and the continental tournaments. Also, The Renato Williams Jones Cup serves and promote basketball in the world. The men's version is currently being dominated by American teams since the tournament's inaugural staging while the women's version is being jointly dominated by South Korean, American and Taiwanese teams. It also invites professional club, collegiate and national teams from around the world, although the participants are mainly from the Asian European Egyptian and North American regions.

In both tournaments, each country can only be represented by one team, which could be its national team, youth team, club team, or an all-star selection, except for the hosts Taiwan, which could opt to have two teams.

Since the tournament is not sanctioned by FIBA, the Chinese Taipei national team is referred as "Republic of China" by the organizers.

In 2003, the tournament was cancelled due to the SARS epidemic in Asia but was resumed the following year.

Contents

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  1 History
  


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  2 Champions
  
  
  
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    2.1 Men's tournament
    
  
  
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    2.2 By country
    
  
  
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    2.3 Women's tournament
    
  
  
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    2.4 By country
    
  
  
  
  


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  3 Notes
  


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  4 References
  

History

The tournament was conceived in 1977 as a tribute to Englishman Renato William Jones, who was FIBA secretary-general for 44 years who was instrumental in the granting of zone commission status for Asia at the 1964 FIBA World Congress in Tokyo. Jones also attended the Asian Basketball Championships in 1963 which was held Taipei.^[1]

The invitational tournament organized by the Chinese Taipei Basketball Association was made following the admission of the People’s Republic of China as a regular member of the ABC in 1975.^[1]

Champions

Men's tournament

No.	Year	Champion	Second place	Third place
1st	1977	Athletes in Action - Eastern Unit	Eastern Washington	Flying Camel
2nd	1978	American Buluside	South Korea	American College
3rd	1979	Not held
4th	1980	Sweden	United States	Panama
5th	1981	Northern Cement	Sweden	France
6th	1982	United States	Canada	France
7th	1983	Vanderbilt University[2]	Murray International Metals[3]	Italy
8th	1984	United States	Canada	Netherlands
9th	1985	San Miguel Beer	United States	Sweden
10th	1986	United States	South Korea	Japan
11th	1987	West Germany	United States	Australia
12th	1988	United States	Australia	South Korea
	1989	Not held
13th	1990	Mexico	Poland	A-10 All-Stars[4]
14th	1991	United States	Soviet Union	South Korea
15th	1992	Marathon Oil	USK Praha	United States
16th	1993	University of Hawaii	Hung Kuo	Spartak
17th	1994	United States	Yulong	Hungary
18th	1995	United States	Slovakia	Hung Kuo
19th	1996	Canada	Russia	United States
20th	1997	Kangoo Jumps	BC Lietuvos Rytas	Guanghua
21st	1998	Philippine Centennial Team	Republic of China	South Korea
22nd	1999	South Korea	Republic of China	New Zealand
23rd	2000	New Zealand	South Korea	Republic of China
24th	2001	Republic of China	South Korea	Lokomotiv Novosibirsk
25th	2002	Great Mates	University of Alberta	Japan
	2003	Not held
26th	2004	Republic of China White	Canada	Perth Wildcats
27th	2005	Passing Lane	Republic of China	Philippines
28th	2006	Athletes in Action	Republic of China	Qatar
29th	2007	Jordan	Lebanon	Philippines
30th	2008	Jordan	United States	Australia
31st	2009	Iran	Jordan	Lebanon
32nd	2010	Iran	Lebanon	Japan
33rd	2011	Iran	South Korea	Philippines
34th	2012	Philippines	Mahram Tehran	UPG
35th	2013	Iran	Republic of China	South Korea
36th	2014	Ulsan Mobis Phoebus	Republic of China Blue	Egypt
37th	2015	Iran	Philippines	Republic of China A (Blue)
38th	2016	Mighty Sports [5]	South Korea	Republic of China A
39th	2017	Team Canada 150[note 1]	Atletas All-Star Lithuania	South Korea
40th	2018	3D Global Sports	Iran B	South Korea

By country

Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
United States	15	5	6	26
Iran	5	2	0	7
Philippines	5	1	3	9
Canada	3	4	0	7
Republic of China	2	8	5	15
South Korea	2	6	6	14
Jordan	2	1	0	3
Australia	1	1	2	4
Sweden	1	1	1	3
New Zealand	1	0	1	2
Mexico	1	0	0	1
West Germany	1	0	0	1
Lebanon	0	2	1	3
Lithuania	0	2	0	2
Russia	0	1	1	2
Czechoslovakia	0	1	0	1
Poland	0	1	0	1
Scotland	0	1	0	1
Soviet Union	0	1	0	1
Slovakia	0	1	0	1
Japan	0	0	3	3
France	0	0	2	2
Egypt	0	0	1	1
Hungary	0	0	1	1
Italy	0	0	1	1
Netherlands	0	0	1	1
Panama	0	0	1	1
Qatar	0	0	1	1
Ukraine	0	0	1	1

Women's tournament

Year	Champion	Second place	Third place
1977	Korean All-Stars	Cathay Life	Christa Dream
1978	Not held
1979	United States	Korean All-Stars	China Airlines
1980	South Korea	Republic of China	United States
1981	South Korea	United States	Republic of China
1982	Canada	United States	Australia
1983	South Korea	Italy	Netherlands
1984	United States	Brazil	Italy
1985	United States	Canada	South Korea
1986	Not held
1987	United States	South Korea	West Germany
1988	South Korea	United States	Republic of China
1989	Not held
1990	Hungary	Republic of China	Brazil
1991	South Korea	Japan	United States
1992	American All-Stars	Australia Youth	Japan
1993	Cathay Life	Japan	United States
1994	United States	South Korea	Al Hasa
1995	Cathay Life	South Korea	United States
1996	United States	Slovakia	Australia
1997	South Korea	United States	Cathay Life
1998	United States	Republic of China	Japan
1999	Republic of China	New Zealand	Australia
2000	United States	Japan	Republic of China
2001	Not held
2002	Russia	Republic of China	Japan
2003	Not held
2004	Republic of China Blue	South Korea	Republic of China White
2005	Republic of China	New Zealand	Zhejiang Huadong
2006	Japan	Republic of China	Italy
2007	Australia	Chinese Taipei Blue	United States
2008	Republic of China	Australia	South Korea
2009	South Korea	Republic of China	Japan
2010	South Korea	Republic of China	University All-Stars
2011	Republic of China	Japan	Chinese Taipei University
2012	Cathay Life	Chunghwa Telecom	Japan
2013	South Korea	Japan	Republic of China
2014	Canada	DENSO Iris	South Korea
2015	South Korea	Japan B	Republic of China A
2016	South Korea	Japan	Republic of China A
2017	Japan U24	Republic of China Blue	New Zealand
2018	New Zealand	Japan B	Republic of China A

By country

Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
South Korea	12	5	3	20
United States	9	4	5	18
Republic of China	8	11	12	31
Japan	2	9	5	16
Canada	2	1	0	3
Australia	1	2	3	6
New Zealand	1	2	1	4
Russia	1	0	0	1
Hungary	1	0	0	1
Italy	0	1	2	3
Brazil	0	1	1	2
Slovakia	0	1	0	1
West Germany	0	0	1	1
China	0	0	1	1
Kazakhstan	0	0	1	1
Netherlands	0	0	1	1
France	0	0	1	1

Notes

1. 
   ^ The team is not the Canadian national team. The team was organized by the 3D Global Sports Canada group and played as "Team Canada 150" for the 2017 edition to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Canadian Confederation.^[6][7]
   

References

1. 
   ^ ^ab Henson, Joaquin (29 August 2012). "All about the Jones Cup". Sporting Chance. The Philippine Star. Retrieved 9 March 2016..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
   


2. 
   ^ "U.S. clips New Zealand in Jones Cup basketball". Taipei: Lawrence Journal-World. Associated Press. 2 July 1983. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
   


3. 
   ^ "Sport in Brief - Basketball". The Glasgow Herald. 6 July 1983. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
   


4. 
   ^ "Rutger's player stars in victory". Taipei: Gadsden Times. 24 July 1990. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
   


5. 
   ^ "Mighty Sports dethrones Iran for Jones Cup title". ABS-CBN Sports. June 30, 2016. Retrieved July 17, 2017.
   


6. 
   ^ "3D Canada Brings On Kyle Julius as Head Coach for 39th William Jones Cup". Asia Basket. Eurobasket News. 10 June 2017. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
   


7. 
   ^ "Canadian Roster Announced for The 39th William Jones Cup". 3D Global Sports Canada. 21 June 2017. Retrieved 23 June 2017. In honour Canada's 150th anniversary, 3D will have “Canada 150” stitched on their game jerseys. The team will be presented as 3D Global Sports Canada at this year’s 39th William Jones Cup.
   

v t e William Jones Cup tournaments
1970s	1977 1978 1979
1980s	1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
1990s	1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
2000s	2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
2010s	2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

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