European Women's Basketball League

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]

European Women's Basketball League
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2022–23 European Women's Basketball League
SportBasketball
Founded2015
Inaugural season2015–16
No. of teams16
CountryEWBL members
Most titlesSlovakia Good Angels Košice, Latvia TTT Riga
(2 title)
Level on pyramid1
Official websiteewbl.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 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
Levharti Chomutov		 77–73 Lithuania
BC Neptunas Klaipeda		 Poland
SKK Polonia Warsaw		 100–53 Ukraine
BC Frankivsk-Prykarpattya

List of champions
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 Levharti 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

References
  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. "EEWBL changes name to European Women`s basketball league". EWBL. 1 June 2018. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  10. "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. "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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