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Oct 23

Four teams from four countries: EWBL lineup and format for Season 10

The 2025 European Women`s Basketball league season will start on Sunday, October 27, at the Hala Ostravská univerzita in Ostrava, Czech Republic.

FORMAT

Four teams from four countries – Czech Republic, Poland, Switzerland and Ukraine – will play two round regular season from October 27, 2024 until February 19, 2025. The best two teams will qualify for final – a single game to be played on higher seedeed team`s court.

SCHEDULE, Central European time

Sunday, October 27, Ostrava

17:00 SBŠ Ostrava – Nyon Basket

Live stats https://fibalivestats.dcd.shared.geniussports.com/u/EYBL/2585641/

Friday, November 8, Warsaw

19:25 Polonia Warszawa – SBŠ Ostrava

https://fibalivestats.dcd.shared.geniussports.com/u/EYBL/2585642/

Wednesday, December 4, Warsaw

20:30 Polonia Warszawa – Nyon Basket

https://fibalivestats.dcd.shared.geniussports.com/u/EYBL/2585643/

Thursday, December 5, Warsaw

17:00 Nyon Basket – BC Frankivsk

https://fibalivestats.dcd.shared.geniussports.com/u/EYBL/2585644/

Friday, December 6, Warsaw

20:30 BC Frankivsk – Polonia Warszawa

https://fibalivestats.dcd.shared.geniussports.com/u/EYBL/2585645/

Friday, January 10, Nyon

20:00 Nyon Basket – SBŠ Ostrava

https://fibalivestats.dcd.shared.geniussports.com/u/EYBL/2585648/

Saturday, January 11, Nyon

14:00 SBŠ Ostrava – BC Frankivsk

https://fibalivestats.dcd.shared.geniussports.com/u/EYBL/2585646/

Sunday, January 12, Nyon

16:00 BC Frankivsk – Nyon Basket

https://fibalivestats.dcd.shared.geniussports.com/u/EYBL/2585647/

Friday, January 31, Ostrava

16:30 SBŠ Ostrava – BC Frankivsk

Saturday, February 1, Ostrava

17:00 BC Frankivsk – Polonia Warszawa

Sunday, February 2, Ostrava

12:00 Polonia Warszawa – SBŠ Ostrava

Wednesday, February 19, Nyon

19:30 Nyon Basket – Polonia Warszawa

TEAMS, as of October 23, 2024

SBŠ Ostrava: seventh year in the league, starting from 2018. Best results: qualified to the 2022 Final Four and finished in the fourth place; sixth place in 2023; posted a 2-2 record in the previous season.

SKK Polonia Warszawa: third year in the league, ended the first regular season with a 7-0 record and hosted the 2023 EWBL Final Four at the Centrum Sportu Wilanow in Warsaw. Best results: 2023 bronze medalist, 2024 EWBL champion with a 5-0 record.

Frankivsk Prykarpattya: third year in the league, posted a 4-3 record in the first regular season and advanced to the 2023 Final Four. Best results: fourth place in 2023; played in the 2024 EWBL final and finished with a silver medal.

Nyon Basket: first year in the league. Women`s basketball club was founded in 1950. Nyon system has nine teams, including six youth teams. Title case: five Swiss championships (1973, 1979, 1984, 2018, 2019), two Swiss cups (1979, 1984), Swiss Supercup (2024); vice-champions 2022-2024.

UP NEXT

First game: preview on October 26

PARTICIPANTS

Polish clubs in the league: Basket Gdynia (2015-2017), AZS UMCS Lublin (2016-2017), Polonia Warszawa (from 2022).

Czech clubs in the league: Žabiny Brno (2017-2020, 2021-2022), SBŠ Ostrava (from 2018), Levharti Chomutov (2022-2023).

Ukrainian clubs in the league: Avangard Kyiv (2016-2017), Prometey (2020-2021), Frankivsk Prykarpattya (from 2022).

Swiss clubs in the league: Nyon Basket (from 2024).

Lithuanian clubs in the league: Kibirkštis Vilnius (from 2015, withdrew in fall 2022), Hoptrans Sirenos Kaunas (2017-2018), Neptūnas Klaipeda (2022-2023), Šiauliai/Vilmers (2022-2023).

Latvian clubs in the league: TTT Rīga (2015-2019, 2020-2021, 2022-2023), Liepāja (2016-2018, 2019-2022), Rīga Stradiņš University (2022-2023).

Slovak clubs in the league: Young Angels Košice (2016-2022), Pieštanske Čajky (2017-2022).

Belarus clubs in the league: Olimpia Grodno (2015-2016, 2018-2022), Horizont Minsk (from 2015 until February 24, 2022), Tsmoki Minsk (from 2015 until February 24, 2022).

EWBL links

2024 final https://www.ewbl.eu/post/sosnowska-and-williams-unstoppable-first-title-for-polonia-warszawa

Polonia Warszawa https://www.ewbl.eu/post/there-is-a-city-welcome-polonia-warszawa

SBŠ Ostrava https://www.ewbl.eu/post/23-years-and-counting-sb%C5%A1-ostrava-keep-aiming-higher

Frankivsk Prykarpattya https://www.ewbl.eu/post/lineup-completed-welcome-frankivsk-prykarpattya

Nyon Basket website https://www.nyonbasketfeminin.ch

Final Four history

Rīga 2016: TTT Rīga, Basket 90 Gdynia, Astana Tigers, Tsmoki Minsk

Košice 2017: Good Angels Košice, TTT Rīga, Dynamo Moscow, Basket 90 Gdynia

Rīga 2018: Good Angels Košice, TTT Rīga, Dynamo Moscow, Udominate Basket

Rostov on Don 2019: TTT Rīga, Tsmoki Minsk, Rostov Don SFEDU, Žabiny Brno

Brno 2020: season five cancelled (Žabiny Brno-Tsmoki, Novosibirsk-Pieštany)