European Women's Basketball League

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European Women's Basketball League
Sport Basketball
Founded2015
First season2015–16
No. of teams 16
CountryEWBL members
Most titles Flag of Slovakia.svg Good Angels Košice, Flag of Latvia.svg TTT Riga
(2 title)
Level on pyramid1
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]

Contents

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]

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

YearHostFinalBronze final
WinnerScoreRunner-upThird placeScoreFourth place
2015–16
Details [11] 		Flag of Latvia.svg
Riga 		Flag of Latvia.svg
TTT Riga 		81–67 Flag of Poland.svg
Lotos Gdynia 		Flag of Kazakhstan.svg
Astana Tigers 		58–54 Flag of Belarus.svg
Tsmoki-Minsk
2016–17
Details [12] 		Flag of Slovakia.svg
Košice 		Flag of Slovakia.svg
Good Angels Košice 		67–44 Flag of Latvia.svg
TTT Riga 		Flag of Russia.svg
Dynamo Moscow 		88–69 Flag of Poland.svg
Lotos Gdynia
2017–18
Details [13] 		Flag of Latvia.svg
Riga 		Flag of Slovakia.svg
Good Angels Košice 		74–71 Flag of Latvia.svg
TTT Riga 		Flag of Russia.svg
Dynamo Moscow 		76–62 Flag of Sweden.svg
Udominate Basket
2018–19
Details [14] 		Flag of Russia.svg
Rostov on Don 		Flag of Latvia.svg
TTT Riga 		73–63 Flag of Belarus.svg
Tsmoki-Minsk 		Flag of Russia.svg
Rostov Don 		74–65 Flag of the Czech Republic.svg
Zabiny Brno
2019–20
Details 		Curtailed and voided due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020–21
Details 		Flag of Belarus.svg
Minsk 		Flag of Belarus.svg
Horizont Minsk 		70–60 Flag of Russia.svg
Nika Syktyvkar 		Flag of Latvia.svg TTT Riga and Flag of Ukraine.svg Prometey
2021–22
Details 		Flag of Slovakia.svg
Piešťany 		Flag of the Czech Republic.svg
Žabiny Brno 		57–51 Flag of Slovakia.svg
Piešťanské Čajky 		Flag of Lithuania.svg
Kibirkštis Vilnius 		87–69 Flag of the Czech Republic.svg
SBŠ Ostrava
2022–23
Details 		Flag of Poland.svg
Warsaw 		Flag of the Czech Republic.svg
Levhartice Chomutov 		77–73 Flag of Lithuania.svg
BC Neptunas Klaipeda 		Flag of Poland.svg
SKK Polonia Warsaw 		100–53 Flag of Ukraine.svg
BC Frankivsk-Prykarpattya

List of champions

TeamWinnersRunners-upYears wonYears runner-up
Flag of Latvia.svg TTT Riga
2
2
2016, 20192017, 2018
Flag of Slovakia.svg Good Angels Košice
2
–
2017, 2018–
Flag of Belarus.svg Horizont Minsk
1
–
2021–
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Žabiny Brno
1
–
2022–
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Levhartice Chomutov
1
–
2023–
Flag of Poland.svg Lotos Gdynia
–
1
–2016
Flag of Belarus.svg BC Tsmoki-Minsk
–
1
–2019
Flag of Russia.svg Nika Syktyvkar
–
1
–2021
Flag of Slovakia.svg Piešťanské Čajky
–
1
–2022
Flag of Lithuania.svg BC Neptunas Klaipeda
–
1
–2023

MVP by edition

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References

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  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. 1 2 "EEWBL changes name to European Women's basketball league". EWBL. 1 June 2018. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  10. 1 2 3 "About EWBL". EWBL. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  11. ↑ "Undefeated TTT win first crown, Kristen Mann is MVP". EWBL. 17 April 2016. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  12. ↑ "Good Angels triumph in Košice". EWBL. 2 April 2017. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  13. 1 2 "Good Angels shock TTT with buzzer-beater by Darxia Morris". EWBL. 18 March 2018. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  14. ↑ "Good Angels shock TTT with buzzer-beater by Darxia Morris". EWBL. 18 March 2019. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  15. ↑ "Champions and winners 2016". EWBL. 19 April 2016. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  16. ↑ "Champions and winners 2017". EWBL. 5 April 2017. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
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