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European Women's Basketball League
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2024–25 European Women's Basketball League
File:European Women's Basketball League logo.jpg
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 Final
Winner Score Runner-up
2015–16[11][12] Latvia
TTT Riga 		81–67 Poland
Lotos Gdynia
2016–17[13] Slovakia
Good Angels Košice 		67–44 Latvia
TTT Riga
2017–18[14] Slovakia
Good Angels Košice 		74–71 Latvia
TTT Riga
2018–19[15][16] Latvia
TTT Riga 		73–63 Belarus
BC Minsk
2019–20[17] Playoffs cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020–21[18] Belarus
Horizont Minsk 		70–60 Russia
Nika Syktyvkar
2021–22[19] Czech Republic
Žabiny Brno 		57–51 Slovakia
Piešťanské Čajky
2022–23[20] Czech Republic
Levhartice Chomutov 		77–73 Lithuania
BC Neptunas Klaipeda
2023–24[21] Poland
Polonia Warszawa 		66–56 Ukraine
Frankivsk Prykarpattya
2024–25[22] Switzerland
Nyon Basket Feminin 		82–80 Czech Republic
SBŠ Ostrava

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
Poland Polonia Warsaw
1
0
 2024 –
Ukraine Frankivsk Prykarpattya
–
1
 – 2024
Switzerland Nyon Basket Feminin
1
0
 2025 –
Czech Republic SBŠ Ostrava
–
1
 – 2025

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