Albanian A-1 League (Women)

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Albanian A-1 League
Founded1946
Country Flag of Albania.svg Albania
Confederation Flag of Europe.svg FIBA Europe (Europe)
DivisionsAlbanian A-1 League (Women)
Number of teams8
Level on pyramid1
Current champions Flamurtari (25th title)
(2022-23)
Most championships Tirana (41 titles)
TV partners TVSH and Supersport (highlights)

The Albanian Basketball League for women is a league competition featuring professional basketball clubs from Albania. It was founded in 1946 from the Albanian Basketball Association, several days after the latter was formed. It is the top level basketball league in Albanian from its foundation. The team with the most championships is BC Tirana with 41 championships. [1] [2]

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The Albanian Basketball League consists of 12 professional basketball clubs in Albania and it is one of the oldest basketball competitions in the Balkans having started in 1946. The sport rapidly grew in Albania and by the 1970s almost every city and town had its own basketball club and basketball field. After communism fell many of the basketball clubs folded as many players left the country to play for foreign teams. The basketball attendance decreased and the popularity of this sport declined worryingly. However, after 1993 basketball rose up again with many cities re-establishing their teams. Now in Albania there are twelve professional teams while there are plenty of amateur teams ready to enter the league.

History

The Albanian Basketball League is one of the oldest continuing basketball competitions in the region of the Balkans, having started in 1946. The league was formed less than two years after the Communist Party of Albania gained control of the country, and the sport gradually grew in popularity over the years before experiencing a rapid rise in popularity in the 1970s, leading to most cities and towns in Albania forming their own basketball clubs and building basketball grounds. Following the fall of communism in 1991 many basketball clubs were forced to fold due to lack of any investment, which led to the decline in the popularity of the sport as a whole in the country. However, since 1993 there has been some re-establishment of the folded teams as private investment along with some state funded has allowed teams to continue functioning.

Competition

The members of the Albanian Basketball League are grouped in two divisions: A1 League and B2 League. Each division has six teams and they have to play four times against each other in two different phases during the regular season. In every phase a club plays each of the others twice, once at their home stadium and once at that of their opponents. This makes a total of 20 games played per season in the regular season.

After the regular season ends the top four clubs qualify for the play-offs, where the team placed first faces the one placed fourth while the second and the third placed teams play each other. From these encounters qualifies the team that gets first two victories while games are played once home, once away until the two victories are reached. The teams that win their encounters qualify for the finals which are played in the clubs respective grounds, the game will once be played home and once away, depending on the draw. The team that gets first the three victories is crowned as champion.

Clubs that win get two points that the ones that lose get one point. At the end of the regular season the bottom two clubs miss the play-offs. The bottom club gets relegated while the fifth placed club will play the second placed of the B2 League. The team that wins the play-out has the right to play in A1 League.

Winners

SeasonChampionRunner upResult
1947 17 Nëntori
1948 17 Nëntori
1949 17 Nëntori
1950 17 Nëntori
1951 17 Nëntori
1952 17 Nëntori
1953 17 Nëntori
1954 17 Nëntori
1955 17 Nëntori
1956 17 Nëntori (*)
1957 17 Nëntori
1958 17 Nëntori
1959 17 Nëntori
1960 17 Nëntori
1961 17 Nëntori
1962 17 Nëntori
1963 17 Nëntori
1964 17 Nëntori
1966 17 Nëntori
1968 17 Nëntori (**)
1969 17 Nëntori
1970 17 Nëntori
1971 17 Nëntori
1972 17 Nëntori
1973 17 Nëntori
1974 17 Nëntori
1975 B.C. Apolonia
1976 17 Nëntori
1977 PBC Flamurtari
1978 BC Skënderbeu Korçë
1979 PBC Flamurtari
1980 PBC Flamurtari
1981 PBC Flamurtari
1982 17 Nëntori
1983 17 Nëntori
1984 PBC Flamurtari
1985 PBC Flamurtari
1986 17 Nëntori (***)
1987 17 Nëntori
1988 17 Nëntori
1989 Partizani Tirana
1990 PBC Flamurtari
1991 17 Nëntori
1992 PBC Tirana
1993 PBC Tirana
1994 PBC Tirana
1995 PBC Tirana
1996 PBC Flamurtari
1997 PBC Tirana
1998 PBC Tirana
1999 PBC Tirana (****)
2000 BC Skënderbeu Korçë
2001 PBC Flamurtari
2002 BC Luftëtari
2003 BC Luftëtari
2004 BC Luftëtari
2005 PBC Flamurtari (*)
2006 PBC Flamurtari
2007 PBC Flamurtari
2008 PBC Flamurtari
2009 PBC Flamurtari
2010 PBC Flamurtari
2011 PBC Flamurtari PBC Tirana 2-1
2012 B.C. Apolonia PBC Flamurtari 3-2
2013 PBC Flamurtari B.C. Apolonia 3-0
2014 PBC Flamurtari B.C. Apolonia 3-0
2015 PBC Flamurtari B.C. Apolonia 3-2
2016 PBC Flamurtari (**)
2017 PBC Flamurtari PBC Tirana 3-1
2018 PBC Flamurtari PBC Tirana 3-0
2019 PBC Tirana BC Tirana 3-0
2020---
2021 PBC Flamurtari BC Partizani 3-0
2022 PBC Flamurtari BC Partizani 3-0 [3]
2023 PBC Flamurtari BC Partizani 3-1 [4]


Championship winning teams

TeamWinners
KB Tirana 41
PBC Flamurtari 25
BC Luftëtari 3
B.C Apolonia 2
BC Skënderbeu Korçë 2
BC Partizani Tirana 1

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  2. ↑ Shkodra Sport
  3. ↑ Panorama Sport
  4. ↑ Panorama Sport

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