Baltic Basketball League


Baltic Basketball League was the Baltic states basketball league founded in 2004. The league mainly focused on teams from the Baltic states, but teams from Sweden, Russia, Kazakhstan, Finland, and Belarus have participated in the Baltic League. After the 2017–18 season, the league announced that it was suspending its operations.

History

For the 2015–16 season, the format of the BBL included a regular season composed by two groups of seven teams that competed in a round-robin competition system, with each team facing their opponent twice. The teams qualified for the eight-finals based on their ranking after the regular season. Out of the five teams who participated in FIBA Europe Cup competition – Ventspils, Juventus, Šiauliai, Tartu Ülikool/Rock and Pieno žvaigždės – the latter three did not qualify for the FIBA Europe Cup playoffs and thus started playing at the start of the BBL playoffs, seeded respectively first, second and third based on last season's results. All play-off games are played in home-and-away series.
Baltic Basketball League also featured a Baltic Basketball League Cup competition before the beginning of the regular season since 2008.

Teams

These are the teams that participated in 2017–18 season:
GroupTeamCity, CountryArenaHead coach
Group A AVIS RaplaRapla, EstoniaSadolin Sports Hall Aivar Kuusmaa
Group A Port of PärnuPärnu, EstoniaPärnu Sports Hall Heiko Rannula
Group A Betsafe/LiepājaLiepāja, LatviaLiepāja Olympic Center Agris Galvanovskis
Group A JūrmalaJūrmala, LatviaJūrmala State Gymnasium Mārtiņš Gulbis
Group A ŠiauliaiŠiauliai, LithuaniaŠiauliai Arena Antanas Sireika
Group A VytautasPrienai/Birštonas, LithuaniaPrienai Arena Virginijus Šeškus
Group A Tsmoki-Minsk IIMinsk, BelarusThe team will play away Rostislav Vergun
Group B University of TartuTartu, EstoniaUniversity of Tartu Sports Hall Priit Vene
Group B TLÜ/KalevTallinn, EstoniaKalev Sports Hall Gert Kullamäe
Group B TTÜTallinn, EstoniaTTÜ Sports Hall Rait Käbin
Group B Valmiera/ORDOValmiera, LatviaVidzeme Olympic Center Kristaps Valters
Group B OgreOgre, LatviaOgres 1st Secondary school Arturs Visockis-Rubenis
Group B Pieno žvaigždėsPasvalys, LithuaniaPieno žvaigždės Arena Gediminas Petrauskas
Group B Barsy AtyrauAtyrau, KazakhstanThe team will play away Aleksandar Vrzina

Baltic League champions

Elite Division champions

Challenge Cup champions

BBL Cup winners

Baltic League awards

Regular season MVP

Finals MVP

Statistical leaders

Statistics include regular season and play-off games

Points per game

Rebounds per game

Assists per game