Baltic Basketball League

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Baltic Basketball League

Current season Baltic Basketball League 2015/16
sport basketball
League foundation 2004
Teams 19th
Country countries EstoniaEstonia Estonia Latvia Lithuania Sweden
LatviaLatvia 
LithuaniaLithuania 
SwedenSweden 
Title holder LithuaniaLithuania BC Vytautas
Record champions LithuaniaLithuania Žalgiris Kaunas (6)
Website bbl.net

The Baltic Basketball League is a basketball league from the Baltic states of Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania . In addition, the team BK Barsy Atyrau from Kazakhstan is currently taking part, which plays all of its games away from home. The BBL was founded in 2004 based on the model of the Adria League . Teams from Sweden, Finland and Russia have also participated in recent years.

Game mode

In the current game mode for the 2015/16 season, 14 teams in two groups will play each against each other in one round. The five best in each group and the better sixth placed qualify for the play-off round of 16. In addition, there are five teams in the play-offs that previously took part in European competitions such as the FIBA Europe Cup .

Participants (season 2016/17)

Group A Group B Play-off
EstoniaEstonia KK Rapla EstoniaEstonia BC Rakvere Tarvas LithuaniaLithuania KK Šiauliai
EstoniaEstonia KK Pärnu EstoniaEstoniaTTÜ KK LatviaLatvia BK Ventspils
EstoniaEstonia BC Tallinna Kalev LatviaLatvia BK Liepājas Lauvas LithuaniaLithuania Juventus Utena
LatviaLatvia BK Valmiera LatviaLatvia BK Jēkabpils EstoniaEstonia Tartu skirt
LatviaLatvia BK Barons Rīga LatviaLatvia BK Jurmala LithuaniaLithuania BC Pieno žvaigždės
LithuaniaLithuania Lietkabelis Panevėžys LithuaniaLithuania BC Vytautas
LithuaniaLithuania KK Nevėžis Kėdainiai KazakhstanKazakhstan BK Barsy Atyrau

Basketball champion

Baltic League winners by team
space team gold silver bronze total
1 LithuaniaLithuania Žalgiris Kaunas 5 3 0 8th
2 LithuaniaLithuania Lietuvos Rytas 3 4th 1 8th
3 LithuaniaLithuania KK Šiauliai 3 0 1 4th
4th LithuaniaLithuania BC Vytautas 1 2 0 3
5 LatviaLatvia BK Ventspils 1 1 3 5
6th EstoniaEstonia Tartu skirt 0 1 2 3
7th LatviaLatvia VEF Rīga 0 1 0 1
8th LatviaLatvia ASK Riga 0 0 2 2
9 LatviaLatvia Barons Rīga 0 0 1 1
FinlandFinland Tampereen Pyrintö 0 0 1 1
LithuaniaLithuania Juventus Utena 0 0 1 1
LithuaniaLithuania Lietkabelis Panevėžys 0 0 1 1
Baltic League winners by country
space country gold silver bronze total
1 LithuaniaLithuania Lithuania 12 10 4th 25th
2 LatviaLatvia Latvia 1 2 6th 9
3 EstoniaEstonia Estonia 0 1 3 4th

Ladies BBL

There is also the Baltic Women Basketball League (BWBL) with currently 10 teams.

Web links

Individual evidence