European Women's Basketball League
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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]
Current season, competition or edition: 2024–25 European Women's Basketball League | |
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| 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 |
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 |