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:
2018–19 European Women's Basketball League
SportBasketball
Founded2015
Inaugural season2015–16
No. of teams16
CountryEWBL members
Most recent
champion(s)		 TTT Riga
(2nd title)
Most titles Good Angels Košice, 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]
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

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 –
Lotos Gdynia
–
1
 – 2016
Tsomki-Minsk
–
1
 – 2019

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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