Albanian A-1 League (Women)

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Albanian A-1 League
Founded1946
Country
Supersport
(highlights)

The Albanian Basketball League for women is a league competition featuring professional

BC Tirana with 41 championships.[1][2]

The Albanian Basketball League consists of 12 professional

Balkans having started in 1946. The sport rapidly grew in Albania and by the 1970s almost every city and town had its own basketball club and basketball field. After communism fell many of the basketball clubs folded as many players left the country to play for foreign teams. The basketball attendance decreased and the popularity of this sport declined worryingly. However, after 1993 basketball rose up again with many cities re-establishing their teams. Now in Albania
there are twelve professional teams while there are plenty of amateur teams ready to enter the league.

History

The Albanian Basketball League is one of the oldest continuing basketball competitions in the region of the Balkans, having started in 1946. The league was formed less than two years after the Communist Party of Albania gained control of the country, and the sport gradually grew in popularity over the years before experiencing a rapid rise in popularity in the 1970s, leading to most cities and towns in Albania forming their own basketball clubs and building basketball grounds. Following the fall of communism in 1991 many basketball clubs were forced to fold due to lack of any investment, which led to the decline in the popularity of the sport as a whole in the country. However, since 1993 there has been some re-establishment of the folded teams as private investment along with some state funded has allowed teams to continue functioning.

Competition

The members of the Albanian Basketball League are grouped in two divisions: A1 League and B2 League. Each division has six teams and they have to play four times against each other in two different phases during the regular season. In every phase a club plays each of the others twice, once at their home stadium and once at that of their opponents. This makes a total of 20 games played per season in the regular season.

After the regular season ends the top four clubs qualify for the play-offs, where the team placed first faces the one placed fourth while the second and the third placed teams play each other. From these encounters qualifies the team that gets first two victories while games are played once home, once away until the two victories are reached. The teams that win their encounters qualify for the finals which are played in the clubs respective grounds, the game will once be played home and once away, depending on the draw. The team that gets first the three victories is crowned as champion.

Clubs that win get two points that the ones that lose get one point. At the end of the regular season the bottom two clubs miss the play-offs. The bottom club gets relegated while the fifth placed club will play the second placed of the B2 League. The team that wins the play-out has the right to play in A1 League.

Winners

Season Champion Runner up Result
1947
17 Nëntori
1948
17 Nëntori
1949
17 Nëntori
1950
17 Nëntori
1951
17 Nëntori
1952
17 Nëntori
1953
17 Nëntori
1954
17 Nëntori
1955
17 Nëntori
1956
17 Nëntori
(*)
1957
17 Nëntori
1958
17 Nëntori
1959
17 Nëntori
1960
17 Nëntori
1961
17 Nëntori
1962
17 Nëntori
1963
17 Nëntori
1964
17 Nëntori
1966
17 Nëntori
1968
17 Nëntori
(**)
1969
17 Nëntori
1970
17 Nëntori
1971
17 Nëntori
1972
17 Nëntori
1973
17 Nëntori
1974
17 Nëntori
1975 B.C. Apolonia
1976
17 Nëntori
1977
PBC Flamurtari
1978
BC Skënderbeu Korçë
1979
PBC Flamurtari
1980
PBC Flamurtari
1981
PBC Flamurtari
1982
17 Nëntori
1983
17 Nëntori
1984
PBC Flamurtari
1985
PBC Flamurtari
1986
17 Nëntori
(***)
1987
17 Nëntori
1988
17 Nëntori
1989
Partizani Tirana
1990
PBC Flamurtari
1991
17 Nëntori
1992
PBC Tirana
1993
PBC Tirana
1994
PBC Tirana
1995
PBC Tirana
1996
PBC Flamurtari
1997
PBC Tirana
1998
PBC Tirana
1999
PBC Tirana
(****)
2000
BC Skënderbeu Korçë
2001
PBC Flamurtari
2002 BC Luftëtari
2003 BC Luftëtari
2004 BC Luftëtari
2005
PBC Flamurtari
(*)
2006
PBC Flamurtari
2007
PBC Flamurtari
2008
PBC Flamurtari
2009
PBC Flamurtari
2010
PBC Flamurtari
2011
PBC Flamurtari
PBC Tirana
 2-1
2012 B.C. Apolonia
PBC Flamurtari
3-2
2013
PBC Flamurtari
B.C. Apolonia 3-0
2014
PBC Flamurtari
B.C. Apolonia 3-0
2015
PBC Flamurtari
B.C. Apolonia 3-2
2016
PBC Flamurtari
(**)
2017
PBC Flamurtari
PBC Tirana
 3-1
2018
PBC Flamurtari
PBC Tirana
 3-0
2019
PBC Tirana
 BC Tirana 3-0
2020 - - -
2021
PBC Flamurtari
 BC Partizani 3-0
2022
PBC Flamurtari
 BC Partizani 3-0[3]
2023
PBC Flamurtari
 BC Partizani 3-1[4]


Championship winning teams

Team Winners
KB Tirana 41
PBC Flamurtari
25
BC Luftëtari 3
B.C Apolonia 2
BC Skënderbeu Korçë
 		2
BC Partizani Tirana 1

References

  1. ^ "Historia e kupave ne basketboll femra". Archived from the original on 2012-04-04. Retrieved 2011-12-17.
  2. ^ Shkodra Sport
  3. ^ Panorama Sport
  4. ^ Panorama Sport

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