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Wikipedia - Women's British Basketball League
The Women's British Basketball League (WBBL) is the top-level women's basketball league in Great Britain, founded on 5 June 2014 as the women's counterpart to the British Basketball League (BBL). The league's headquarters are in Leicester alongside the offices of the men's BBL.
Like the BBL, the organisation uses a franchise-based system so there is no promotion and relegation between the WBBL and the English Women's Basketball League, which forms the lower divisions. Along with the WBBL Championship and the post-season Play-offs, it also runs two knockout competitions featuring all WBBL member teams - the WBBL Cup and WBBL Trophy.
History
Officially approved by the British Basketball League and England Basketball, the newly created Women's British Basketball League was announced to the public on 5 June 2014, and the 2014–15 season was the league's first full season of competition.
The initial line-up included pre-existing teams from England and Wales, competing in a franchise-based organisation similar to the men's British Basketball League model, with no promotion or relegation in operation with the lower leagues. All eight teams from the pre-existing English Basketball League Division One (Women) competition were selected as member clubs, as well as the two finalists from the 2014 Division Two (Women) Play-offs, Brixton Lady TopCats and Leeds Beckett University. Since the league's inauguration, both Leeds and Brixton have resigned from the league, but three new clubs have joined in that time, including the league's first member club from Scotland.
De British Women's Basketball League (WBBL) is een professionele basketbalcompetitie in het Verenigd Koninkrijk voor vrouwen. De liga werd opgericht in 1987 en is de hoogste afdeling van het Britse damesbasketbal. De WBBL bestaat uit 12 teams die gedurende het seizoen een volledige competitie spelen. Het seizoen loopt van september tot april, waarbij elk team 22 wedstrijden speelt. De top vier teams aan het eind van het reguliere seizoen plaatsen zich voor de play-offs, die worden gespeeld in het format best-of-three. De winnaar van de play-offs wordt gekroond tot kampioen van de WBBL.
De huidige kampioen van de WBBL is de London Lions, die hun eerste titel wonnen in 2021. Andere voormalige kampioenen zijn de Sevenoaks Suns, de Team Northumbria en de Sheffield Hatters.
De WBBL is een van de sterkste damesbasketbalcompetities in Europa. De liga heeft een aantal talentvolle Britse spelers voortgebracht, waaronder Temi Fagbenle, Jo Leedham en Chantelle Handy.