The 2025 European Women`s Basketball league final between SBŠ Ostrava and Nyon Basket will take place on Wednesday, March 12, at the Hala Ostravska Univerzita in Ostrava, eastern Czechia.
SBŠ Ostrava posted a 5-1 record and earned the first seed.
Nyon Basket registered four consecutive wins after a 0-2 start and secured the second seed.
SBŠ Ostrava defeated Nyon Basket, 88-76, on Sunday, October 27, at Ostrava.
Nyon Basket took revenge, 94-77, on Friday, January 10, at the Centre sportif du Rocher.
Both teams will play for the EWBL trophy for the first time.
Tipoff at 17.00 Central European time.
Vítejte v Ostravě! Bienvenue à Ostrava! Welcome to Ostrava!
STANDINGS, as of February 17, 2025
SBŠ Ostrava 5-1, +90 Qualified
Nyon Basket 4-2, +93 Qualified
Polonia Warszawa 3-3, +36
Frankivsk Prykarpattya 0-6, -219
FINALISTS
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 2024. Iveta Rašková is the head coach from 2020.
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.
BIG PICTURE
Czechia is one of four Women`s EuroBasket 2025 hosting countries. Czech clubs have won EuroLeague Women titles – Brno Gambrinus in 2006 and USK Praha in 2015.
Switzerland qualified for the Women`s EuroBasket 2025 for the first time since 1956. Swiss champion Elfic Fribourg posted a 3-3 record at the 2025 EuroCup Women, Group D.
Ostrava hosted the 2010 Women`s World Cup together with Brno and Karlovy Vary.
Lausanne, Switzerland will host the 2025 FIBA U19 World Cup for Men on June 28-July 6.
The Internation Basketball federation was founded on June 18, 1932, in Geneva by: Argentina, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Portugal, Romania and Switzerland.
EWBL 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)
Maladziechna 2021: Horizont Minsk, Nika Syktyvkar, TTT Rīga, Prometey Kamianske
Pieštany 2022: Žabiny Brno, Pieštanske Čajky, Kibirkštis Vilnius, SBŠ Ostrava
Warszawa 2023: Levharti Chomutov, Neptūnas Klaipeda, Polonia Warszawa, Frankivsk
Warszawa 2024: Polonia Warszawa, Frankivsk Prykarpattya
Champions and winners 2023
23 years and counting: SBŠ Ostrava keep aiming higher
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