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: 2022–23 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 |
History
editThe 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
editThe 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
edit| Year | Host | Final | Bronze final | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Score | Runner-up | Third place | Score | Fourth place | ||
| 2015–16 Details[11] |
Riga |
 TTT Riga |
81–67 |  Lotos Gdynia |
 Astana Tigers |
58–54 |  Tsmoki-Minsk |
| 2016–17 Details[12] |
Košice |
 Good Angels Košice |
67–44 | TTT Riga |
 Dynamo Moscow |
88–69 | Lotos Gdynia |
| 2017–18 Details[13] |
Riga |
Good Angels Košice |
74–71 | TTT Riga |
Dynamo Moscow |
76–62 |  Udominate Basket |
| 2018–19 Details[14] |
 Rostov on Don |
TTT Riga |
73–63 | Tsmoki-Minsk |
Rostov Don |
74–65 |  Zabiny Brno |
| 2019–20 Details |
Curtailed and voided due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | ||||||
| 2020–21 Details |
 Minsk |
Horizont Minsk |
70–60 | Nika Syktyvkar |
TTT Riga and  Prometey
| ||
| 2021–22 Details |
Piešťany |
Žabiny Brno |
57–51 | Piešťanské Čajky |
 Kibirkštis Vilnius |
87–69 | SBŠ Ostrava |
| 2022–23 Details |
 Warsaw |
Levhartice Chomutov |
77–73 | BC Neptunas Klaipeda |
SKK Polonia Warsaw |
100–53 | BC Frankivsk-Prykarpattya |
List of champions
edit| 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 |
MVP by edition
edit- 2015–16 -
Kristen Mann[10][15] - 2016–17 -
Zuzana Žirková[10][16] - 2017–18 - Zuzana Žirková[13]
References
edit- ^ "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.
- ^ a b c "About EWBL". EWBL. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
- ^ "Undefeated TTT win first crown, Kristen Mann is MVP". EWBL. 17 April 2016. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
- ^ "Good Angels triumph in Košice". EWBL. 2 April 2017. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
- ^ a b "Good Angels shock TTT with buzzer-beater by Darxia Morris". EWBL. 18 March 2018. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
- ^ "Good Angels shock TTT with buzzer-beater by Darxia Morris". EWBL. 18 March 2019. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
- ^ "Champions and winners 2016". EWBL. 19 April 2016. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
- ^ "Champions and winners 2017". EWBL. 5 April 2017. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
External links
edit- Official website
- Profile at eurobasket.com