Английская Википедия: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]
History
The competition was founded in 2015 under the name Шаблон:Em, 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 Шаблон:Em 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
List of champions
Team | Winners | Runners-up | Years won | Years runner-up |
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Шаблон:Flagicon TTT Riga | Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Center | 2016, 2019 | 2017, 2018 |
Шаблон:Flagicon Good Angels Košice | Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Center | 2017, 2018 | – |
Шаблон:Flagicon Horizont Minsk | Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Center | 2021 | – |
Шаблон:Flagicon Žabiny Brno | Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Center | 2022 | – |
Шаблон:Flagicon Levhartice Chomutov | Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Center | 2023 | – |
Шаблон:Flagicon Lotos Gdynia | Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Center | – | 2016 |
Шаблон:Flagicon BC Tsmoki-Minsk | Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Center | – | 2019 |
Шаблон:Flagicon Nika Syktyvkar | Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Center | – | 2021 |
Шаблон:Flagicon Piešťanské Čajky | Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Center | – | 2022 |
Шаблон:Flagicon BC Neptunas Klaipeda | Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Center | – | 2023 |
MVP by edition
- 2015–16 - Шаблон:Flagicon Kristen Mann[10][15]
- 2016–17 - Шаблон:Flagicon Zuzana Žirková[10][16]
- 2017–18 - Шаблон:Flagicon Zuzana Žirková[13]
References
External links
- Official website
- Profile at eurobasket.com
Шаблон:Women's professional basketball leagues
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