Female youth basketball league
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Full name | Female youth basketball league |
sport | basketball |
abbreviation | WNBL |
Association | German Basketball Association |
League foundation | 2009 |
Teams | 24 |
Country countries | Germany |
Title holder | Girls Baskets Braunschweig / Wolfenbüttel |
Website | [1] |
The female youth basketball league ( WNBL ) is the highest German basketball league for women under the age of 18 (U18) and the German youth championship in this age group. As a training league oriented towards competitive sports, the WNBL serves to promote young talent and is intended to enable the players to have additional match practice at a high level against youngsters of about the same strength. It is a project of the German Basketball Federation (DBB). The WNBL enables an early concentration of performance and the accumulation of talents in order to increase the range of high-performance young players for the youth national teams, regional and national leagues.
history
The WNBL started the first season of the 2009/2010 season together with the JBBL.
Principles
In order to guarantee the goal of promoting young people, the teams can form syndicates and use players from third clubs. The NBBL has shown that this succeeds differently in the individual regional groups. Since the WNBL, like the NBBL and JBBL, is only additive, the players also take part in normal league operations depending on their level of performance.
Game operation
The preliminary round is played by 24 teams, which are divided into four groups according to geographical criteria. After a round-trip round, the four best-placed teams will form a playoff tree with the other North or South relay. The two semi-finalists of the respective tree meet in Final 4 and then play against the other teams for third place or for the championship title. The two last-placed teams now have to play against each other in the play-downs, again in a north and south relay. The two teams placed first will be able to stay up, while the other two teams in the relegation North or South have to fight with four promoted teams for two WNBL tickets each.
Previous masters
- 2010: SV Halle Junior Lions
- 2011: SG TV Saarlouis / BIT Trier
- 2012: BG Zehlendorf
- 2013: TSV Hagen 1860
- 2014: OSC Junior Panthers
- 2015: Herner TC
- 2016: Girls Baskets Braunschweig / Wolfenbüttel
- 2017: Girls Baskets Braunschweig / Wolfenbüttel
- 2018 TS Jahn Munich
- 2019 ChemCats Chemnitz
Season 2018/19
Northwest group
Herner TC , Metropol Girls (Recklinghausen / Bochum / Oberhausen), Osnabrück Junior Panthers , TG Neuss Junior Tigers , RheinStars Ladies (Hürth), BBC Osnabrück [A]
Northeast group
Girls Baskets Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, ChemCats Chemnitz , ALBA Berlin , SV Halle Junior Lions, Junior Hurricanes (Rotenburg / Scheeßel), TuS Lichterfelde
Group middle
Team Mittelhessen (Grünberg / Marburg), Dragons Rhöndorf (Bad Honnef), DJK Don Bosco Bamberg , Main Sharks (Würzburg), Rhein-Main Baskets (Langen), Team Südhessen (Weiterstadt)
Group south
Pfalz Towers (Speyer), BSG Basket Ludwigsburg , USC Freiburg , TS Jahn Munich [TV], SG Royals Südwest (Saarlouis), Basket Girls Rhein-Neckar (Heidelberg)
[TV] = defending champion [A] = promoted team
Season 2014/2015
In the 2014/2015 season, the league consisted of 28 teams that competed in four seasons:
Northwest group
evo New Basket Oberhausen, Herner TC, Metropol Girls Bochum / Recklinghausen, OSC Junior Panthers Osnabrück, TSV Hagen 1860, Rhein Girls Basket and SG Rhein Berg / Erft
Northeast group
Chemcats Chemnitz, Girls Baskets Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, Metropolitan Baskets Hamburg, SG ALBA / BG 2000 Berlin, SV Halle Junior Lions, Team Göttingen and TuS Lichterfelde
Southwest group
Basket-Girls Rhein-Neckar, Dragons Rhöndorf, Pfalz Towers, Rhein-Main Baskets, SG Weiterstadt-Kronberg, Team Mittelhessen and USC Freiburg
Southeast group
BSG Basket Ludwigsburg, Main Sharks, Team Oberfranken, TS Jahn Munich, TSV 1861 Nördlingen, TSV 1880 Wasserburg and TV 48 Schwabach
2013/2014 season
In the 2013/2014 season the league consisted of 29 teams that competed in four seasons:
Group north-west
Metropolitan Baskets Hamburg, BG ´89 Rotenburg / Scheeßel, OSC Junior Panthers Osnabrück, Herner TC, Metropol Girls, Bochum / Recklinghausen, Evo New Basket Oberhausen, TSV Hagen 1860
Group north-east
BG 2000 Berlin, TuS Lichterfelde Basketball eV, ALBA BERLIN Basketballteam eV, Girls Baskets Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, Team Göttingen, SV Halle Junior LIONS, Chemcats Chemnitz eV
Group middle
Rhein Girls Basket Neuss, SG Rhein Berg / Erft, Team Mittelhessen , Dragons Rhöndorf, (SV) Rhein-Main Baskets, Langen eV, Sportgemeinde 1886 eV Weiterstadt (SG Weiterstadt), Main Baskets, Team Upper Franconia
Group south
Basket Girls Rhein Neckar Heidelberg (USC Heidelberg 1899eV), PFALZ TOWERS, BSG Basket Ludwigsburg, TSV 1861 Nördlingen, TS Jahn Munich, USC Freiburg eV, TSV 1880 Wasserburg
2010/2011 season
In the 2010/2011 season, the league consisted of 29 teams that competed in four seasons.
Group north
TSV Hagen 1860 , BG Rotenburg / Scheeßel, evo New Basket Oberhausen , SC Rist Wedel , Herner TC , BG 2000 Berlin, Team Göttingen, TuS Lichterfelde
Group west
SG Rheinhessen, TV Bensberg , TV Saarlouis , Pfalz Towers Speyer, Rhein Girls Basket, Rhöndorfer TV, Team Mittelhessen Marburg / Grünberg
Group middle
SV Halle Junior Lions, Basket Girls Rhein Neckar, Basketball 4 Girls Chemnitz, Team Upper Franconia, SG 1886 Weiterstadt, Rhein-Main Baskets Langen
Group south
TuS Bad Aibling Fireballs, TSV Nördlingen Team Thalhofer , Grüner Stern Keltern, TSV Wasserburg , BSG Basket Ludwigsburg, TS Jahn Munich, USC Freiburg
Former teams
Paderborn Baskets (2009/10), Team Rhineland Cologne (2009/10), TG 1837 Hanau (2009/10)
Web links
- WNBL game operations on the website of the German Basketball Federation
- Girls Baskets create historical articles about the title defense by Braunschweig / Wolfenbüttel
- Information on the WNBL announcement with the changeover to the German u18 championship from the 2017/2018 season.
Individual evidence
- ↑ DBB Youth Convention decides on new league structure. DBB press release, March 30, 2009, last accessed on August 5, 2012.