# FIBA COCABA Championship

The COCABA (Confederación Centroamericana de Baloncesto) championship is a regional basketball qualifying tournament and the first of four possible steps that Central American national teams have to participate in order to qualify for major international basketball competitions.
The teams that place first, second or third (and sometimes fourth) in COCABA will move on to the Centrobasket Tournament which is a qualifier for the FIBA AmeriCup. Depending on their successes in the latter tournaments, they could qualify for the Summer Olympics or FIBA Basketball World Cup.

## Men's tournament
### Summaries

Summaries :
| Year | Host (Final phase/game) | Gold medal game | Gold medal game | Gold medal game | Bronze medal game | Bronze medal game | Bronze medal game |
| Year | Host (Final phase/game) | Gold | Score | Silver | Bronze | Score | Fourth place |
| 1999 | Costa Rica (San Jose) | Panama | 77–50 | Honduras | Costa Rica | 91–77 | Nicaragua |
| 2004 | El Salvador (San Salvador) | Panama | 89–61 | Guatemala | El Salvador | 95–74 | Honduras |
| 2006 | Mexico (?) | Mexico | Series 4–1 | Costa Rica | Belize | 98–92 | El Salvador |
| 2007 | El Salvador (San Salvador) | Mexico | Round robin | Costa Rica | El Salvador | Round robin | Guatemala |
| 2009 | Mexico (Quintana Roo) | Mexico | 106–103 | Belize | Panama | 86–69 | Costa Rica |
| 2011 | Mexico (Xalapa) | Not held tournament | Not held tournament | Not held tournament | Not held tournament | Not held tournament | Not held tournament |
| 2013 | El Salvador (San Salvador) | Mexico | Round robin | El Salvador | Costa Rica | Round robin | Honduras |
| 2015 | Costa Rica (San Jose) | Panama | 74–46 | Costa Rica | Nicaragua | 75–71 | Mexico |

### Performance by team

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Mexico | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 2 | Panama | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | Costa Rica | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 4 | El Salvador | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | Belize | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | Guatemala | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Honduras | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Nicaragua | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (8 entries) | Totals (8 entries) | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 |

### Participation details

| Team | 1999 | 2004 | 2006 | 2007 | 2009 | 2013 | 2015 | Total |
| Belize | – | 7th | 3rd | – | 2nd | – | – | 3 |
| Costa Rica | 3rd | 5th | 2nd | 2nd | 4th | 3rd | 2nd | 7 |
| El Salvador | – | 3rd | 4th | 3rd | 8th | 2nd | 6th | 6 |
| Guatemala | 5th | 2nd | 7th | 4th | 5th | – | 7th | 6 |
| Honduras | 2nd | 4th | 6th | 5th | 7th | 4th | 5th | 7 |
| Mexico | – | – | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 4th | 5 |
| Nicaragua | 4th | 6th | 5th | 6th | 6th | – | 3rd | 6 |
| Panama | 1st | 1st | – | – | 3rd | – | 1st | 4 |

## Women's tournament

Summaries :
| Year | Host (Final phase/game) | Gold medal game | Gold medal game | Gold medal game | Bronze medal game | Bronze medal game | Bronze medal game |
| Year | Host (Final phase/game) | Gold | Score | Silver | Bronze | Score | Fourth place |
| 2004 | Guatemala (Guatemala City) | Guatemala | Round Robin | Costa Rica | Mexico | Round Robin | Nicaragua |
| 2006 | El Salvador (San Salvador) | Not held tournament | Not held tournament | Not held tournament | Not held tournament | Not held tournament | Not held tournament |
| 2007 | El Salvador (San Salvador) | Guatemala | 70–59 | Costa Rica | El Salvador | ? | Honduras |
| 2009 | Guatemala (Cobán) | Mexico | Round Robin | Guatemala | Honduras | Round Robin | El Salvador |
| 2011 | El Salvador (San Salvador) | Not held women's tournament | Not held women's tournament | Not held women's tournament | Not held women's tournament | Not held women's tournament | Not held women's tournament |
| 2013 | El Salvador (San Salvador) | Mexico | Round Robin | El Salvador | Costa Rica | Round Robin | Honduras |
| 2015 | Costa Rica (Cartago) | Mexico | 57–49 | Guatemala | El Salvador | 57–39 | Costa Rica |
| 2022 | Mexico (Chihuahua) | Mexico | Round Robin | El Salvador | Guatemala | Round Robin | Costa Rica |
| 2023 | El Salvador (San Salvador) | El Salvador | Round Robin | Guatemala | Costa Rica | Round Robin | Panama |