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European Women's Basketball League

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European Women's Basketball League
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2022–23 European Women's Basketball League
SportBasketball
Founded2015
First season2015–16
No. of teams16
CountryEWBL members
Most titlesSlovakia Good Angels Košice, Latvia TTT Riga
(2 title)
Level on pyramid1
Official websiteewbl.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

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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

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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

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

List of champions

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Team Winners Runners-up Years won Years runner-up
Latvia TTT Riga
2
2
 2016, 2019 2017, 2018
Slovakia Good Angels Košice
2
–
 2017, 2018 –
Belarus Horizont Minsk
1
–
 2021 –
Czech Republic Žabiny Brno
1
–
 2022 –
Czech Republic Levhartice Chomutov
1
–
 2023 –
Poland Lotos Gdynia
–
1
 – 2016
Belarus BC Tsmoki-Minsk
–
1
 – 2019
Russia Nika Syktyvkar
–
1
 – 2021
Slovakia Piešťanské Čajky
–
1
 – 2022
Lithuania BC Neptunas Klaipeda
–
1
 – 2023

MVP by edition

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References

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  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. ^ a b "EEWBL changes name to European Women's basketball league". EWBL. 1 June 2018. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  10. ^ a b c "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. ^ a b "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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