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: 2024–25 European Women's Basketball League
Sport	Basketball
Founded	2015
First season	2015–16
No. of teams	16
Country	EWBL members
Most titles	Good Angels Košice, TTT Riga (2 title)
Level on pyramid	1
Official website	ewbl.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	Final
	Winner	Score	Runner-up
2015–16[11][12]	TTT Riga	81–67	Lotos Gdynia
2016–17[13]	Good Angels Košice	67–44	TTT Riga
2017–18[14]	Good Angels Košice	74–71	TTT Riga
2018–19[15][16]	TTT Riga	73–63	BC Minsk
2019–20[17]	Playoffs cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020–21[18]	Horizont Minsk	70–60	Nika Syktyvkar
2021–22[19]	Žabiny Brno	57–51	Piešťanské Čajky
2022–23[20]	Levhartice Chomutov	77–73	BC Neptunas Klaipeda
2023–24[21]	Polonia Warszawa	66–56	Frankivsk Prykarpattya
2024–25[22]	Nyon Basket Feminin	82–80	SBŠ Ostrava

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	–
Horizont Minsk	1	–	2021	–
Žabiny Brno	1	–	2022	–
Levhartice Chomutov	1	–	2023	–
Lotos Gdynia	–	1	–	2016
BC Tsmoki-Minsk	–	1	–	2019
Nika Syktyvkar	–	1	–	2021
Piešťanské Čajky	–	1	–	2022
BC Neptunas Klaipeda	–	1	–	2023
Polonia Warsaw	1	0	2024	–
Frankivsk Prykarpattya	–	1	–	2024
Nyon Basket Feminin	1	0	2025	–
SBŠ Ostrava	–	1	–	2025