Basketball League Belgium

The Ethias League is the top division in basketball club of gentlemen in Belgium. The first Belgian basketball league is named after its main sponsor, the Belgian insurance group Ethias. The highest league is currently a closed league without and losers and was last reduced by the withdrawal of licenses of teams like Euphony Bree in 2008 and the withdrawal of Ghent Dragons 2012 from ten participating teams to eight. Record champion with 15 championships Basket Racing Mechelen belonging after a merger with a rival league in 1995 as Antwerp Giants League continues.

Mode

The teams will play in a double round in round-robin tournament (English Round Robin ), so that if his current number of eight teams, each club has completed 28 games in the regular season. The championship title will then be played in play-offs. In the last two sweeps in 2011 and 2012, the two leading teams had after the regular season a bye in the first round, while the teams ranked three to six after the main round in a " Best-of- Three" series, the other two semi-finalists playing off. In the semifinal round again won the team that had won three games in a maximum of the first two victories. The final series for the championship was held in a " Best-of -Five " series, in which the team won the title, had won the first three wins.

Participant

2012/13 season

  • Okapi Aalstar
  • Antwerp Giants
  • Spirou Charleroi BC
  • Stella Artois Leuven Bears
  • Belgacom Liège Basket
  • Belfius Mons -Hainaut
  • Telenet Oostende
  • VOO Verviers- Pepinster

Title holders

  • 2003: Spirou Charleroi BC
  • 2004: Spirou Charleroi
  • 2005: Euphony Bree
  • 2006: Telindus BC Oostende
  • 2007: Telindus Oostende
  • 2008: Spirou Charleroi
  • 2009: Spirou Charleroi
  • 2010: Spirou Charleroi
  • 2011: Spirou Charleroi
  • 2012: Telenet BC Oostende
  • 2013: Telenet BC Oostende

International Competitions

The Belgian league is since 1999 a member of the Union of Ligues Européennes de Basketball ( ULEB ). For the main round of the existing European club competition since 2000 highest ULEB Euro League so far the Spirou Charleroi BC could qualify four times and the BC Oostende Oostende Telindus than once in 2001. We each did not come out the first round. In the previously existing FIBA Europe League Racing Mechelen Basket failed 1994 just wide of the way into the quarter-final play-offs, the best eight teams. In the first years of the European Cup of Champions, as in addition to the defending national champion and the only that only a team of a country was eligible, the Belgian champions regularly achieved the round of the last eight teams. 1969 managed the basketball team of Standard Liege of the way into the semifinals of the top four teams in which you had no chance against the defending champion Real Madrid.

In other European competitions Racing Mechelen in 1973 reached the final of the Korać Cup as well as Union Quaregnon -Mons as Dexia Mons -Hainaut in the final of FIBA EuroCup 2007/08. A title win each failed.

  • Basketball League
  • Basketball in Belgium
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