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Baltic Women's Basketball League

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Baltic Women's Basketball League
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2024-2025 Baltic Women's Basketball League
SportBasketball
Founded19 May 1994; 30 years ago (1994-05-19)
First season1994–95
No. of teams10
Country Estonia
 Latvia
 Lithuania
ContinentFIBA Europe
Most recent
champion(s)		Latvia TTT Riga
Most titlesLithuania Aistės-LSU Kaunas
(14 titles)
Official websitebwbl.lt

The Baltic Women's Basketball League (BWBL) is a top-level regional basketball league in Northern Europe. The league features women's teams from Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. Teams from Finland, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, and Sweden have competed in the past seasons.

History

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The Baltic Women's Basketball League was founded in 1994.[1][2] In its 15th season in 2008, the league contained 18 teams from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, and Kazakhstan.[3] By 2016, for the league's 26th season, the league had 10 teams from Belarus, Estonia, Poland, Russia, Ukraine and Lithuania.[4] After Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, teams from Belarus and Russia were banned from participation.[5]

In 2023, the Lithuanian Basketball Federation took over leadership of the league with the popular online betting company Betsafe, part of Betsson, signing a three year agreement to serve as its title sponsor.[6][7]

In 2024, it was announced that the league would introduce divisions for the first time with teams from all three of the Baltic States competing.[8]

Teams

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Division A Division B
Vilniaus "Kibirkštis" Lithuania Kauno "Aistės-LSMU" Lithuania
Klaipėdos "Neptūnas-Amberton" Lithuania Panevėžys Lithuania
Klaipėdos LCC Tarptautinis Universitetas Lithuania Vilniaus "Uniclub Bet-Oaks" Lithuania
Šiauliai-Vilmers Lithuania Kauno r. "Atletas" Lithuania
TTT Riga Latvia Akmenės kraštas Lithuania
Liepaja/LSSS Latvia Daugpilio universitetas Latvia
TSA/CITYTEED Tallinn Estonia TTT Riga Juniors Latvia
Latvijos U16 rinktinė Latvia

Champions

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Season Winners Score Runners-up Location MVP Ref
1994–95 Lithuania Telerina, Vilnius Lithuania Victoria, Kaunus [9]
1995–96 Lithuania Laisvė Kaunos Lithuania Vilnius Telekomas [9]
1996–97 Lithuania Laisvė Kaunos Lithuania Vilnius Telekomas [9]
1997–98 Latvia Rygos RTU-Klondaika Belarus Horizont Minsk [9]
1998–99 Belarus Horizont Minsk 71–58 Lithuania Arvi Veritas Marijampolė, Lithuania [9][10]
1999–00 Lithuania Vilnius Telekomas 73–38 Lithuania Arvi Veritas Vilnius, Lithuania [9]
2000–01 Lithuania Vilnius Telekomas 104–75 Latvia TTT Riga Riga, Latvia [9]
2001–02 Lithuania Vilnius Telekomas 76–65 Russia Baltiyskaya Zvezda St. Petersburg Vilnius, Lithuania [9]
2002–03 Lithuania Vilnius Telekomas 92–51 Finland Pantterit Helsinki, Finland [9]
2003–04 Lithuania Vilnius Telekomas 78–60 Lithuania Arvi Druskininkai, Lithuania [9]
2004–05 Lithuania Vilnius Telekomas 95–64 Lithuania Lajsve Vilnius, Lithuania [9]
2005–06 Lithuania Vilnius Telekomas 90–57 Ukraine TIM SKUF Druskininkai, Lithuania United States Katie Douglas [9]
2006–07 Lithuania Vilnius TEO 75–66 Lithuania Arvi Druskininkai, Lithuania [9]
2007–08 Lithuania Vilnius TEO 59–53 Latvia Cēsis Riga, Latvia United States Willnett Crockett [9]
2008–09 Lithuania Vilnius TEO 68–47 Latvia Cēsis Cēsis, Latvia United States Crystal Langhorne
2009–10 Lithuania Vilnius TEO 70–56 Lithuania Klaipėda Klaipėda, Lithuania United States Belarus Lindsey Harding
2010–11 Lithuania Kaunas VIČI-Aistės 85–72 Russia Spartak St. Petersburg SC A. Sabonisa

Kaunas, Lithuania

Lithuania Aušra Bimbaitė
2011–12 Lithuania Kaunas VIČI-Aistės 79–66 Belarus Horizont Minsk SC Olympia

Lida, Belarus

Lithuania Tatsiana Likhtarovich
2012–13 Belarus Olimpia Grodno[10] 74–49 Belarus Horizont Minsk Druskininkai, Lithuania Belarus Maryia Papova
2013–14 Lithuania BC Kibirkstis-Tiche 67–57 Belarus Horizont Minsk M. Riomerio universition basketball hall

Vilnius, Lithuania

Lithuania Mantė Kvederavičiūtė
2014–15 Belarus BC Tsmoki-Minsk 63–55 Latvia TTT Riga Olympic sports arena

Riga, Latvia

Belarus Viktoryia Hasper [10]
2015–16 Lithuania Marijampolės Sūduva 69–57 Belarus BC Tsmoki-Minsk Marijampolės ŽSM krepšinio salėMarijampolė, Lithuania Lithuania Iveta Salkauske
2016–17 Russia Dynamo-Farm Kursk 70–42 Estonia FCR Media/Rapla Druskininkai, Lithuania Russia Ekaterina Polyashova
2017–18 Russia Inventa-Farm Kursk 65–54 Belarus BC Tsmoki-Minsk Druskininkai, Lithuania Russia Evgeniia Frolkina
2018–19 Lithuania Aistės-LSU Kaunus 69–51 Latvia Riga Stradinš University Riga, Latvia [11]
2019–20 Season canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic with Latvia TTT Riga declared winner and Latvia BK Liepaja/LSSS declared second [12]
2020–21 Latvia TTT Riga 85–58 Latvia BK Liepaja/LSSS Estonia [13]
2021–22 Latvia TTT Riga 68-62 Lithuania Kibirkštis-MRU Vilnius, Lithuania [14]
2022–23 Latvia TTT Riga 69–68 Lithuania Kibirkštis-MRU [15]
2023–24 Latvia TTT Riga 77–66 Lithuania LCC International University Palanga, Lithuania [16]

References

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  1. ^ "New victory of our basketball team". interchem.ua. Retrieved 2024-11-05.
  2. ^ Mizeras, Renatas (2022-05-17). "Baltijos moterų krepšinio lyga". Lietuvos sporto enciklopedija (in Lithuanian). Retrieved 2024-11-05.
  3. ^ "Baltijos moterų lyga ruošiasi naujam sezonui". Krepšinis.lt (in Lithuanian). Retrieved 2024-11-05.
  4. ^ "Baltijos moterų krepšinio lygoje – 10 komandų iš šešių šalių | KaunoDiena.lt". kauno.diena.lt (in Lithuanian). 2016-08-24. Retrieved 2024-11-05.
  5. ^ Post, Kyiv (2022-05-18). "FIBA bans Russia, Belarus from Upcoming National Basketball Team Competitions". Kyiv Post. Retrieved 2024-11-05.
  6. ^ "Baltijos moterų krepšinio lygą perėmusi LKF surado jai rėmėją". www.lrytas.lt. Retrieved 2024-11-05.
  7. ^ "Betsafe becomes the title sponsor of the Women's Baltic Basketball League". womenbbl.com. Retrieved 2024-11-05.
  8. ^ "Baltijos moterų krepšinio lygoje – divizionai ir sugrįžęs Estijos klubas". sportas.lt. Retrieved 2024-11-05.
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Mizeras, Renatas (2022-05-17). "Baltijos moterų krepšinio lyga". Lietuvos sporto enciklopedija (in Lithuanian). Retrieved 2024-11-05.
  10. ^ a b c "G. Paugaitė tapo BWBL čempione". www.lrytas.lt. Retrieved 2024-11-05.
  11. ^ "Baltijos moterų krepšinio čempionate – užtikrinta „Aisčių-LSMU" pergalė". www.lrytas.lt. Retrieved 2024-11-05.
  12. ^ "Douglas Baltic Basketball League 2019-2020, News, Teams, Scores, Stats, Standings, Awards - eurobasket". www.eurobasket.com. Retrieved 2024-11-05.
  13. ^ "Eurobasket". www.eurobasket.com. Retrieved 2024-11-05.
  14. ^ "Eurobasket". www.eurobasket.com. Retrieved 2024-11-05.
  15. ^ "Eurobasket". www.eurobasket.com. Retrieved 2024-11-05.
  16. ^ "„TTT-Riga" su G. Meškonyte apgynė Baltijos čempionių titulą". www.lrytas.lt. Retrieved 2024-11-05.
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