European Women's Basketball League
| Current season, competition or edition: 2024–25 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
- ^ "Season 2019: five new teams in, classification games out". EWBL. 8 August 2018. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
- ^ "Liga basketbalistek bude mít jen jedenáct týmů a nové logo". iDNES (in Czech). 26 September 2018. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
- ^ "Eastern European Women's Basketball League". Sportowe Fakty (in Polish). Retrieved 11 October 2018.
- ^ Punčochář, Jiří (9 January 2018). "Žabiny si otestovaly Východoevropskou ligu. Chtějí ji hrát stabilně". iDNES (in Czech). Retrieved 11 October 2018.
- ^ "KEUS/Royal Eagles begint aan Europees avontuur in EEWBL". Dutch Basketball Association (NBB) (in Dutch). 22 September 2017. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
- ^ "Boiago Signs First Professional Contract in the EEWBL". OUA. 29 June 2017. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
- ^ "Webbsändning av Luleå Baskets matcher i EEWBL". Basketligan dam (in Swedish). 22 September 2017. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
- ^ "Basketbal:EEWBL: Good Angels úspešné aj proti Lulea Basket". Šport.sk (in Slovak). 2 December 2017. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
- ^ a b "EEWBL changes name to European Women's basketball league". EWBL. 1 June 2018. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
- ^ "About EWBL". EWBL. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "EWBL Basketball 2015-2016, News, Teams, Scores, Stats, Standings, Awards - eurobasket". Eurobasket. Retrieved March 17, 2025.
- ^ "Good Angels triumph in Košice". EWBL. 2 April 2017. Archived from the original on 29 December 2020. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "EWBL 2018-2019 playoff results". Flashscore. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
- ^ "EWBL 2018-2019 playoff results". Eurobasket. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
- ^ "EWBL 2019-20 playoff results". Eurobasket. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
- ^ "EWBL 2020-21 playoff results". Eurobasket. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
- ^ "EWBL 2021-22 playoff results". Eurobasket. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
- ^ "EWBL 2022-23 playoff results". Eurobasket. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
- ^ "Sosnowska and Williams unstoppable, first title for Polonia Warszawa". EWBL. March 18, 2024. Retrieved March 17, 2025.
- ^ "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