Eastern European Women's Basketball League

European Women's Basketball League
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2018–19 European Women's Basketball League
Sport Basketball
Founded 2015
Inaugural season 2015–16
No. of teams 16
Country EWBL members
Most recent
champion(s)		 Slovakia Good Angels Košice
(2st title)
Most titles Slovakia Good Angels Košice
(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 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

List of champions

Team Winners Runners-up Years won Years runner-up
Slovakia Good Angels Košice
2
–
 2017, 2018 –
Latvia TTT Riga
1
2
 2016 2017, 2018
Poland Lotos Gdynia
–
1
 – 2016

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. 1 2 "EEWBL changes name to European Women`s basketball league". EWBL. 1 June 2018. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  10. 1 2 3 "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. 1 2 "Good Angels shock TTT with buzzer-beater by Darxia Morris". EWBL. 18 March 2018. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  14. ↑ "Champions and winners 2016". EWBL. 19 April 2016. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  15. ↑ "Champions and winners 2017". EWBL. 5 April 2017. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
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