The Bulgarian Women's Basketball Cup is an annual cup competition for Bulgarian women's basketball clubs founded in 1951, six years after the national championship. Levski Sofia is the most successful team in the competition with 13 titles between 1969 and 1991, followed by Slavia Sofia with ten, WBC Montana with seven, Neftokhimik Burgas with six and Akademik Sofia and Minyor Pernik with five. [1]
Levski Sofia is a Bulgarian sports club based in Sofia. It was founded in 1911. The club is named after Vasil Levski, the national hero of Bulgaria.
PFC Slavia Sofia 1913 is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which currently competes in the top tier of the Bulgarian football league system, the First League. Slavia's home ground is the Stadion Aleksandar Shalamanov in Ovcha kupel with a capacity of 25,556. The team's colours are white and black. Established on 10 April 1913, Slavia is currently the oldest sports club in Sofia.
The Bulgarian Cup is a Bulgarian annual football competition. It is the country's main cup competition and all officially registered Bulgarian football teams take part in it.
The Bulgarian Supercup is the trophy won in a football match held between the football club that has won the Bulgarian first football division in the season that ended in the year of the match and the holder of the Bulgarian Cup at that time. In case the champion of Bulgaria has also won the cup, the Bulgarian Cup finalist competes with the champion in the match for the trophy.
BC Cherno More Ticha Varna is a Bulgarian basketball team based in Varna. The last time Cherno More won the championship was in 1999.
BC CSKA Sofia is a Bulgarian professional basketball club based in the capital Sofia and part of the CSKA Sofia sports club.
Basketball Club Levski Sofia, simply known as Levski, is a Bulgarian professional basketball club based in the capital Sofia. It is the basketball section of Levski Sofia sports club.
The EuroLeague Women is the pre-eminent basketball league in Europe for women's basketball clubs.
Vanya Voynova was a Bulgarian basketball player. She has played for Slavia Sofia from 1950 to 1968, winning the European Champions' Cup in 1959 and 1963 and Bulgarian league 12 times from 1953 to 1965. With the Bulgaria women's national basketball team, she has won silver in the 1959 World Championship, bronze in the 1964 World Championship, gold in the 1958 European Championship, silver in the 1960 European Championship and 1964 European Championship and bronze in the 1954 European Championship and 1962 European Championship. She has been inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2001 and FIBA Hall of Fame in 2007.
Bulgaria has established traditions in a great variety of sports.
The 1958–59 European Cup*1958–59 FIBA Women's European Champions Cup was the inaugural edition of the premier European women's basketball competition for clubs. Nine teams took part in the competition, representing Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, France, East Germany, West Germany, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.
WBC Slavia Sofia is a Bulgarian women's basketball section of the Slavia Sofia sport society. Men's basketball team of Slavia Sofia is not active.
The Bulgarian Women's Basketball Championship is the premier league for women's basketball clubs in Bulgaria. Slavia Sofia is the championship's most successful club with 15 titles between 1953 and 2004 followed by Akademik Sofia and Levski Sofia with eight titles, Lokomotiv Sofia with seven and Minyor Pernik with six, while Neftokhimik Burgas has been the most successful team in recent years with 5 titles since 2005.
SC Kremikovtsi was a Bulgarian women's basketball club from the Kremikovtsi district in Sofia. It won five national championships between 1989 and 1999 and appeared in the European Cup and the Ronchetti Cup.
WBC Lokomotiv Sofia are a Bulgarian women's basketball club based in the capital Sofia and part of the Lokomotiv Sofia sports club.
Jaklin Dencheva Zlatanova is a Bulgarian female basketball player currently competing for WBC Beroe in the Bulgarian League. Zlatanova is considered to be among the most talented athletes in the country which in the past used to be among the most successful nations in the European female basketball.
The Bulgarian Basketball Cup is an annual cup competition, organized by the Bulgarian Basketball Federation since 1951. The cup was not held in 1957, 1958, 1960 and 1961. BC CSKA Sofia is the all-time record holder with 17 titles.
The 2017–18 Bulgarian Basketball Cup was the 64th edition of the annual cup tournament in Bulgaria.It is managed by the Bulgarian Basketball Federation.The competition started on November 22, 2017, and ended with the Final on March 3, 2018. Rilski Sportist won their second cup. Yordan Bozov was named Final MVP.
The Bulgarian Basketball Super Cup is an annual cup competition, organized by the Bulgarian Basketball Federation since 2016. BC Levski Sofia is the all-time record holder with 3 titles.
The 2021 FIBA U16 European Challengers were international basketball competitions which took place from 16 to 21 August 2021, replacing the cancelled 2021 FIBA U16 European Championship. Top two teams from groups A, B and C qualified for the 2022 FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup.