Basketball League Belgium

EuroMillions Basketball League

Current season	Euromillions League 2019/20
sport	basketball
abbreviation	SU
Association	KBBB
League foundation	1928
Teams	10
Country countries	Belgium
Title holder	BC Ostend
Record champions	BC Ostend (20 ×)
Website	euromillionsbasketball.be
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The Basketball League Belgium is the English-language and general name for the top division in the Belgian men's basketball club . The organizing organization of the closed, professional league bears the same English name in multilingual Belgium, while the league itself is marketed as the Euromillions League with the help of name sponsors . Since 2016, ten teams have belonged to the closed division again.

history

The top division is currently a closed league without promoted and relegated teams and had recently been reduced from ten participating teams to eight due to the withdrawal of licenses for teams like Euphony Bree in 2008 and the withdrawal of the Gent Dragons in 2012. In 2013 there was an increase to ten clubs. Telenet Oostende is the record champion with 18 championships . For a long time, the league was marketed under the name of the Belgian insurance company Ethias , before the national lottery took over as name sponsor in 2014 and the league as the Scooore League for two years ! and has been marketed as the Euromillions League since 2016 .

mode

The teams will play a double round in the round-robin tournament ( English Round Robin ), so that when current number of eight teams, each club 28 games in the regular season has completed. The championship title is then played out in play-offs . In the last two events in 2011 and 2012, the two leading teams had a bye in the first round after regular time, while the teams in places three to six after the main round in a " best-of-three " series had the other two Semi-finalists played off. In the semifinals, the team that won two wins in a maximum of three games won again. The final series for the championship was then held in a " best-of-five " series, in which the team won the title that had won three wins first.

Attendees

Since 2016

• Filou Ostend
• Belfius Mons-Hainaut
• Spirou Basket
• Kangoeroes Basket Mechelen
• Telenet Giants Antwerp
• Basic-Fit Brussels
• Hubo Limburg United
• VOO Liège
• Stella Artois Leuven Bears
• Crelan Okapi Eel Star

• Belfius Mons-Hainaut

Past participants

• Bree BBC
• Gent Dragons
• Racing Basket Mechelen
• VOO Verviers-Pepinster

Title holder

1928: Brussels AC 1929: Daring BC 1930: Brussels AC 1931: Brussels AC 1932: Daring BC 1933: Brussels AC 1934: Daring BC 1935: Amicale Sportive 1936: Amicale Sportive 1937: Fresh Air BC 1938: Fresh Air BC 1939: Royal IV BC 1940: not held 1941: not held 1942: Royal IV BC 1943: not held 1944: not held 1945: not held 1946: Semailles BC 1947: Semailles BC 1948: Semailles BC 1949: Semailles BC 1950: Semailles BC 1951: Semailles BC 1952: Royal IV BC

1953: Royal IV 1954: Royal IV 1955: Hellas Gent 1956: Antwerp BC 1957: Royal IV BC 1958: Royal IV BC 1959: Antwerp BC 1960: Antwerp BC 1961: Antwerp BC 1962: Antwerp BC 1963: Antwerp BC 1964: Antwerp BC 1965: Racing Mechelen 1966: Racing Mechelen 1967: Racing Mechelen 1968: Standard Liège 1969: Racing Mechelen 1970: Standard Liège 1971: Fruit Lier bus 1972: Bus Fruit Lier 1973: R. Ford Antwerpse BC 1974: Racing Mechelen 1975: Racing Mechelen 1976: Racing Mechelen 1977: Standard Liège

1978: Fresh Air 1979: Fresh Air 1980: Racing Mechelen 1981: Sunair BC Oostende 1982: Sunair Oostende 1983: Sunair Oostende 1984: Sunair Oostende 1985: Sunair Oostende 1986: Sunair Oostende 1987: Racing Maes Pils Mechelen 1988: Sunair Oostende 1989: Racing Maes Pils Mechelen 1990: Racing Maes Pils Mechelen 1991: Racing Maes Pils Mechelen 1992: Racing Maes Pils Mechelen 1993: Racing Maes Pils Mechelen 1994: Racing Maes Pils Mechelen 1995: Sunair Oostende 1996: Spirou BC Charleroi 1997: Spirou Charleroi 1998: Spirou Charleroi 1999: Spirou Charleroi 2000: Racing Basket Antwerp 2001: Telindus BC Oostende 2002: Telindus Oostende

2003: Spirou BC Charleroi 2004: Spirou Charleroi 2005: Euphony Bree 2006: Telindus BC Oostende 2007: Telindus Oostende 2008: Spirou Charleroi 2009: Spirou Charleroi 2010: Spirou Charleroi 2011: Spirou Charleroi 2012: Telenet BC Oostende 2013: Telenet BC Oostende 2014: Telenet BC Oostende 2015: Telenet BC Oostende 2016: Telenet BC Oostende 2017: Telenet BC Oostende 2018: BC Oostende 2019: FILOU Ostend 2020: FILOU Ostend

International competitions

The Belgian league has been a member of the Union des Ligues Européennes de Basketball (ULEB) since 1999 . For the main round of the highest European club competition ULEB Euroleague , which has existed since 2000, the Spirou BC Charleroi has qualified four times and the BC Ostend as Telindus Oostende once in 2001. You never got beyond the preliminary round. In the previously existing FIBA ​​Europa League, Racing Basket Mechelen only narrowly failed in 1994 when it made it to the quarter-final play-offs of the eight best teams. In the first years of the European Cup , when only the defending champion and thus only one team from a country were eligible to participate, the Belgian champions regularly reached the round of the best eight teams. In 1969, the Standard Liege basketball team made it into the semi-finals of the four best teams, in which they had no chance against defending champion Real Madrid .

In other European competitions, Racing Mechelen reached the final in the Korać Cup in 1973 and Union Quaregnon-Mons as Dexia Mons-Hainaut the final in the FIBA EuroCup 2007/08 . A title win did not succeed.

Web links

• Official homepage of the Euromillions Basketball League

Individual evidence

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