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The British Basketball League Championship, often shortened to the BBL Championship, is the top-level men's professional basketball league in the United Kingdom. Established in 1987, the competition is administered by the British Basketball League and comprises 10 teams from both England and Scotland. Each team plays a 36-game regular season ...
The BBL Championship is the flagship competition of the British Basketball League and features all member teams playing a double round robin (home and away) league season, [40] from September through to April. [41] Matches are played according to FIBA rules and games consist of four-quarters of 10 minutes each.
On 19 February 2015, Cricket Australia announced that a Women's Big Bash League (WBBL) would commence in the 2015–16 season, with teams aligned to the men's competition. It was announced that the teams would share the names and colours of the existing men's BBL teams, meaning that there would be two teams from Sydney and Melbourne and one ...
The 37th BBL Trophy takes a new format for the 2023–24 season. Wholly played within the month of January and during a break in Championship matches, two five team groups were randomly drawn from the 10 member clubs. Each club will play the other once, home or away.
The 2021–22 BBL Championship of the 2021–22 BBL season, the 35th season of the British Basketball League started on 29 October 2021 to 24 April 2022. [ 1 ] On 6 April 2022, Leicester Riders were crowned league champions and won their 6th BBL Championship title.
London Lions were acquired by 777 Partners, after they purchased the club from Macaulay, ending his 27-year ownership. 777 Partners also purchased 45% of the British Basketball League (BBL) for £7m in December 2021. The balance of BBL is owned by the 10 clubs that compete in the BBL, including London, therefore, effectively 777 controls the BBL.
The BBL Trophy retained the same, 16-team bracket format as introduced for the 2018–19 season. The eleven BBL teams were joined in the first round draw by five invited teams; Solent Kestrels, Derby Trailblazers, Thames Valley Cavaliers, Hemel Storm and Reading Rockets, all from the English Basketball League. [8] [9]
The BBL Championship will return to the three game series format used prior to the 2019–20 season, for a 30-game regular season. There will be 21 Rounds between 3 December 2020 and 30 April 2021. There will be 21 Rounds between 3 December 2020 and 30 April 2021.