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Baltic Women's Basketball League

Current season, competition or edition: 2024-2025 Baltic Women's Basketball League
Sport	Basketball
Founded	19 May 1994; 30 years ago (1994-05-19)
First season	1994–95
No. of teams	10
Country	Estonia  Latvia  Lithuania
Continent	FIBA Europe
Most recent champion(s)	TTT Riga
Most titles	Aistės-LSU Kaunas (14 titles)
Official website	bwbl.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

References

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External links

• Official website
• Profile at eurobasket.com

• Baltic Women's Basketball League
• Multi-national women's basketball leagues in Europe
• 1994 establishments in Europe
• Sports leagues established in 1994
• Sport in the Baltic states
• Basketball leagues in Lithuania
• Basketball leagues in Estonia
• Basketball leagues in Latvia
• Multi-national professional sports leagues