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Women's British Basketball League. The Women's British Basketball League ( WBBL) is the top-level women's basketball league in Great Britain, founded on 5 June 2014 as the women's counterpart to the British Basketball League (BBL). The league's headquarters are in Leicester alongside the offices of the men's BBL.
The 2021-22 WBBL Trophy was a straight knockout competition featuring all thirteen clubs. The top 3 teams from the 2020-21 WBBL Championship ( Sevenoaks Suns, Leicester Riders and London Lions) received a bye to the quarter-finals. The remaining teams were seeded based on their finishing positions in the 2020-21 WBBL Championship.
The British Basketball League ( BBL) is a former men's professional basketball league in Great Britain. Since its establishment in 1987 the BBL represented the highest level of basketball competition within the United Kingdom. The organisation that operated the competition, Basketball League Limited, folded in July 2024 after the British ...
The Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) is a women's basketball league in England, covering semi-professional and amateur levels of the game. This is effectively seen as the second tier of women's basketball in the United Kingdom, along with the less celebrated Scottish Women's National League . The EBL was established in 2003 by ...
In 2024, the Lions reached the 2023–24 EuroCup Women final, the first British team to do so, following a streak of 14 victories. On 10 April 2024, the Lions won their second leg against Beşiktaş and won the EuroCup title. Home venue. Barking Abbey School (2008–present) Copper Box (2017–present) Season-by-season records
2022–23 season. The Liga Femenina de Baloncesto, also known as Liga Femenina Endesa for sponsorship reasons, is the highest level of league competition for women's basketball in Spain. It is the women's equivalent of the men's Liga ACB and is run by the Spanish Basketball Federation. The league was founded in 1964 and is played under FIBA rules.
The Caledonia Gladiators are a professional basketball club based in East Kilbride, Scotland. The Gladiators compete as the sole Scottish-based team in the British Basketball League, the top tier of domestic basketball in the United Kingdom . Founded in 1998, the club has previously been based in Edinburgh and Glasgow, before being rebranded as ...
In June 2021, Alex Petheram Co-Chairman of Gloucester City A.F.C. announced the launch of professional basketball in Gloucester along with the appointment of Jay Marriott as CEO and coach. As part of this, the Kings (men) and Queens (women) were announced as the city's new professional basketball teams. [1] [2] In the same month, the Queens ...