Soviet Women's Basketball Championship
The Soviet Women's Basketball Championship was the top women's basketball competition in the Soviet Union.
The championship was founded in 1937, and dominated by
In 1959 Dynamo Moscow represented the Soviet Union in the inaugural edition of the European Cup. That same year the championship was won by Latvian team Daugava Riga, which soon established itself as the championship's major powerhouse, winning every edition of the tournament in the 1960s. Daugava's hegemony loosened somewhat in the 1970s, losing the 1974 and 1978 championships to Spartak Leningrad and Spartak Moscow, but still the Latvians, led by Uljana Semjonova, won every other edition until 1984.[citation needed]
In the second half of the 1980s Russian teams took again the lead, with
In addition to its hegemony in the championship Daugava Riga won a record 18 European Cups between 1960 and 1982, including 12 titles in a row. It was only in 1972 when other Soviet teams had the chance to triumph in Europe with the foundation of the Ronchetti Cup. Spartak Leningrad, Spartak Moscow, CSKA Moscow, Dynamo Novosibirsk, Daugava Riga and Dynamo Kyiv won 12 editions of the tournament.[2]
History
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Title holders
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References
- ^ List of champions in Womenbasket.ru
- ^ List of champions in FIBA Europe's website