Baltic Women's Basketball League

Baltic Women's Basketball League
Current season, competition or edition:
2024-2025 Baltic Women's Basketball League
SportBasketball
Founded19 May 1994; 30 years ago (1994-05-19)
First season1994–95
No. of teams10
Country Estonia
 Latvia
 Lithuania
ContinentFIBA Europe
Most recent
champion(s)		 TTT Riga
Most titles Aistės-LSU Kaunas
(14 titles)
Official websitebwbl.lt

The Baltic Women's Basketball League (BWBL) is a top-level regional basketball league in Northern Europe. The league features women's teams from Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. Teams from Finland, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, and Sweden have competed in the past seasons.

History

The Baltic Women's Basketball League was founded in 1994. In its 15th season in 2008, the league contained 18 teams from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, and Kazakhstan. By 2016, for the league's 26th season, the league had 10 teams from Belarus, Estonia, Poland, Russia, Ukraine and Lithuania. After Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, teams from Belarus and Russia were banned from participation.

In 2023, the Lithuanian Basketball Federation took over leadership of the league with the popular online betting company Betsafe, part of Betsson, signing a three year agreement to serve as its title sponsor.

In 2024, it was announced that the league would introduce divisions for the first time with teams from all three of the Baltic States competing.

Teams

Division A Division B
Vilniaus "Kibirkštis" Kauno "Aistės-LSMU"
Klaipėdos "Neptūnas-Amberton" Panevėžys
Klaipėdos LCC Tarptautinis Universitetas Vilniaus "Uniclub Bet-Oaks"
Šiauliai-Vilmers Kauno r. "Atletas"
TTT Riga Akmenės kraštas
Liepaja/LSSS Daugpilio universitetas
TSA/CITYTEED Tallinn TTT Riga Juniors
Latvijos U16 rinktinė

Champions

Season Winners Score Runners-up Location MVP Ref
1994–95 Telerina, Vilnius Victoria, Kaunus
1995–96 Laisvė Kaunos Vilnius Telekomas
1996–97 Laisvė Kaunos Vilnius Telekomas
1997–98 Rygos RTU-Klondaika Horizont Minsk
1998–99 Horizont Minsk 71–58 Arvi Veritas Marijampolė, Lithuania
1999–00 Vilnius Telekomas 73–38 Arvi Veritas Vilnius, Lithuania
2000–01 Vilnius Telekomas 104–75 TTT Riga Riga, Latvia
2001–02 Vilnius Telekomas 76–65 Baltiyskaya Zvezda St. Petersburg Vilnius, Lithuania
2002–03 Vilnius Telekomas 92–51 Pantterit Helsinki, Finland
2003–04 Vilnius Telekomas 78–60 Arvi Druskininkai, Lithuania
2004–05 Vilnius Telekomas 95–64 Lajsve Vilnius, Lithuania
2005–06 Vilnius Telekomas 90–57 TIM SKUF Druskininkai, Lithuania Katie Douglas
2006–07 Vilnius TEO 75–66 Arvi Druskininkai, Lithuania
2007–08 Vilnius TEO 59–53 Cēsis Riga, Latvia Willnett Crockett
2008–09 Vilnius TEO 68–47 Cēsis Cēsis, Latvia Crystal Langhorne
2009–10 Vilnius TEO 70–56 Klaipėda Klaipėda, Lithuania Lindsey Harding
2010–11 Kaunas VIČI-Aistės 85–72 Spartak St. Petersburg SC A. Sabonisa

Kaunas, Lithuania

Aušra Bimbaitė
2011–12 Kaunas VIČI-Aistės 79–66 Horizont Minsk SC Olympia

Lida, Belarus

Tatsiana Likhtarovich
2012–13 Olimpia Grodno 74–49 Horizont Minsk Druskininkai, Lithuania Maryia Papova
2013–14 BC Kibirkstis-Tiche 67–57 Horizont Minsk M. Riomerio universition basketball hall

Vilnius, Lithuania

Mantė Kvederavičiūtė
2014–15 BC Tsmoki-Minsk 63–55 TTT Riga Olympic sports arena

Riga, Latvia

Viktoryia Hasper
2015–16 Marijampolės Sūduva 69–57 BC Tsmoki-Minsk Marijampolės ŽSM krepšinio salėMarijampolė, Lithuania Iveta Salkauske
2016–17 Dynamo-Farm Kursk 70–42 FCR Media/Rapla Druskininkai, Lithuania Ekaterina Polyashova
2017–18 Inventa-Farm Kursk 65–54 BC Tsmoki-Minsk Druskininkai, Lithuania Evgeniia Frolkina
2018–19 Aistės-LSU Kaunus 69–51 Riga Stradinš University Riga, Latvia
2019–20 Season canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic with TTT Riga declared winner and BK Liepaja/LSSS declared second
2020–21 TTT Riga 85–58 BK Liepaja/LSSS Estonia
2021–22 TTT Riga 68-62 Kibirkštis-MRU Vilnius, Lithuania
2022–23 TTT Riga 69–68 Kibirkštis-MRU
2023–24 TTT Riga 77–66 LCC International University Palanga, Lithuania

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