European Women's Basketball League

European Women's Basketball League

Sport	Basketball
Founded	2015
First season	2015–16
No. of teams	16
Country	EWBL members
Most titles	Good Angels Košice, TTT Riga (2 title)
Level on pyramid	1
Official website	ewbl.eu

The European Women's Basketball League, shortly EWBL, formerly known as Eastern European Women's Basketball League or EEWBL, is a top-level professional regional basketball league, featuring female clubs from EWBL members (Belarus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Ukraine, Turkey). ^{[1] [2]}

History

The competition was founded in 2015 under the name Eastern European Women's Basketball League (EEWBL), as a women's regional tournament for Eastern European countries. ^{[3] [4]} As the competition expanded to countries outside Eastern Europe, ^{[5] [6] [7] [8]} it was re-named European Women's Basketball League (EWBL) ahead of the 2018–19 season. ^[9]

Expansion

Since the inaugural season, the league have the following changes to the number of teams and the countries participating. ^[9]

• 2015–16 - 8 teams from 6 countries (Belarus, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland).
• 2016–17 - 12 teams from 9 countries (Belarus, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine and Turkey).
• 2017–18 - 16 teams from 10 countries (Belarus, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Netherlands, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden and Turkey).
• 2018–19 - 16 teams from 10 countries (Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Russia, Slovakia and Sweden).

Format

The league has a regular season followed by a final four. The regular season is divided in three stages, each stage is played at a different location and each team play more than one opponent per stage. That reduces the clubs financial travel and accommodation costs for clubs (compared to traditional home and away league format). The best teams of the regular season qualify for the final four stage. ^[10]

Summary

Year	Final
	Winner	Score	Runner-up
2015–16 [11] [12]	TTT Riga	81–67	Lotos Gdynia
2016–17 [13]	Good Angels Košice	67–44	TTT Riga
2017–18 [14]	Good Angels Košice	74–71	TTT Riga
2018–19 [15] [16]	TTT Riga	73–63	BC Minsk
2019–20 [17]	Playoffs cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020–21 [18]	Horizont Minsk	70–60	Nika Syktyvkar
2021–22 [19]	Žabiny Brno	57–51	Piešťanské Čajky
2022–23 [20]	Levhartice Chomutov	77–73	BC Neptunas Klaipeda
2023–24 [21]	Polonia Warszawa	66–56	Frankivsk Prykarpattya
2024–25 [22]	Nyon Basket Feminin	82–80	SBŠ Ostrava

List of champions

Team	Winners	Runners-up	Years won	Years runner-up
TTT Riga	2	2	2016, 2019	2017, 2018
Good Angels Košice	2	–	2017, 2018	–
Horizont Minsk	1	–	2021	–
Žabiny Brno	1	–	2022	–
Levhartice Chomutov	1	–	2023	–
Lotos Gdynia	–	1	–	2016
BC Tsmoki-Minsk	–	1	–	2019
Nika Syktyvkar	–	1	–	2021
Piešťanské Čajky	–	1	–	2022
BC Neptunas Klaipeda	–	1	–	2023
Polonia Warsaw	1	0	2024	–
Frankivsk Prykarpattya	–	1	–	2024
Nyon Basket Feminin	1	0	2025	–
SBŠ Ostrava	–	1	–	2025

References

1. "Season 2019: five new teams in, classification games out". EWBL. 8 August 2018. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
2. "Liga basketbalistek bude mít jen jedenáct týmů a nové logo". iDNES (in Czech). 26 September 2018. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
3. "Eastern European Women's Basketball League". Sportowe Fakty (in Polish). Retrieved 11 October 2018.
4. Punčochář, Jiří (9 January 2018). "Žabiny si otestovaly Východoevropskou ligu. Chtějí ji hrát stabilně". iDNES (in Czech). Retrieved 11 October 2018.
5. "KEUS/Royal Eagles begint aan Europees avontuur in EEWBL". Dutch Basketball Association (NBB) (in Dutch). 22 September 2017. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
6. "Boiago Signs First Professional Contract in the EEWBL". OUA . 29 June 2017. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
7. "Webbsändning av Luleå Baskets matcher i EEWBL". Basketligan dam (in Swedish). 22 September 2017. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
8. "Basketbal:EEWBL: Good Angels úspešné aj proti Lulea Basket". Šport.sk (in Slovak). 2 December 2017. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
9. "EEWBL changes name to European Women's basketball league". EWBL. 1 June 2018. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
10. "About EWBL". EWBL. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
11. "Undefeated TTT win first crown, Kristen Mann is MVP". EWBL. 17 April 2016. Archived from the original on 29 December 2020. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
12. Eurobasket https://www.eurobasket.com/EWBL/basketball_2015-2016.aspx?women=1 . Retrieved March 17, 2025.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
13. "Good Angels triumph in Košice". EWBL. 2 April 2017. Archived from the original on 29 December 2020. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
14. "Good Angels shock TTT with buzzer-beater by Darxia Morris". EWBL. 18 March 2018. Archived from the original on 17 January 2020. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
15. "EWBL 2018-2019 playoff results". Flashscore. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
16. "EWBL 2018-2019 playoff results". Eurobasket. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
17. "EWBL 2019-20 playoff results". Eurobasket. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
18. "EWBL 2020-21 playoff results". Eurobasket. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
19. "EWBL 2021-22 playoff results". Eurobasket. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
20. "EWBL 2022-23 playoff results". Eurobasket. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
21. "Sosnowska and Williams unstoppable, first title for Polonia Warszawa". EWBL. March 18, 2024. Retrieved March 17, 2025.
22. "Coffee's dagger helps Nyon Basket to win maiden title, Miriam Uro-Nilie is MVP". EWBL. March 13, 2025. Retrieved March 17, 2025.

External links

• Official website
• Profile at eurobasket.com