Northern European Basketball League

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Northern European Basketball League
North European Basketball League

Current season Game operations stopped in
2003
sport basketball
abbreviation NEBL
League foundation 1998
Teams highest participation 31 (2001/2002)
Country countries highest participation 19 (2001/2002)
Title holder UNICS Kazan - last champion 2003

Northern European Basketball League , or NEBL ( English North European Basketball League ) is a former basketball league, which was played from 1998 to 2003 .

history

The idea of installing an international and commercially successful league based on the model of the NBA in Europe was born in 1998. On the initiative of Šarūnas Marčiulionis , a promotional cup was held in 1999 with eight participating teams. This was followed by regular championships with up to 31 participating clubs at the top. Initially, it should be a competition only for Northern European countries Lithuania , Latvia , Estonia , Sweden and Finland .

The competition was later expanded to include the countries of Eastern and Central Europe, Poland , the Czech Republic and Russia . After countries from western ( Denmark , Germany , Belgium , the Netherlands and Great Britain ) and southern Europe ( Bulgaria , Macedonia , Romania , Serbia ) were added and even teams from Turkey and Israel took part, the competition finally lost its regional character.

After a few years, the draft horses ZSKA , Žalgiris and Maccabi lost their interest in the competition. In view of the reorganization of the European cup competitions by FIBA, it was decided in 2002 not to hold the competition any more. In the 2003/03 season, only the final four was played by the four best teams at the Northern Conference of the FIBA ​​Champions Cup.

The form of the Northern European Basketball League served as a model for the later Adriatic League (from 2001), Baltic Basketball League (from 2004), which can be described as the successor to the NEBL, or the VTB United League (from 2008).

Winners list

season winner Result loser Teams countries
1998-1999 LithuaniaLithuania Žalgiris Kaunas 83:81 LatviaLatvia Brocēni Rīga 8th 5
1999-2000 RussiaRussia CSKA Moscow 95:77 LithuaniaLithuania Lietuvos rytas Vilnius 14th 9
2000-2001 RussiaRussia Urals Great Perm 88:81 LithuaniaLithuania Žalgiris Kaunas 16 12
2001-2002 LithuaniaLithuania Lietuvos rytas Vilnius 79:74 RussiaRussia Urals Great Perm 31 19th
2002-2003 RussiaRussia UNICS Kazan 93:90 LithuaniaLithuania Lietuvos rytas Vilnius 4th 3

Web links

  1. ↑ В НАШЕЙ ЛИГЕ… / In our league… Retrieved on February 22, 2012 (Russian).