Basket Liga Kobiet (BLK), officially known as the Orlen Basket Liga Kobiet (OBLK) due to its sponsorship by Orlen, is a professional women's club basketball league in Poland. It constitutes the first and highest-tier level of the Polish league pyramid. The winning team of the final round are crowned the Polish Champions of that season.
The BLK, which is played under FIBA rules, currently consists of 10 teams (professional basketball's clubs). A BLK season is split into a league stage and a playoffs stage. At the end of the league stage, the top eight teams qualify for the playoff stage, while the remaining two face each other in a relegation play-out.
History
Founded in 1929, it has been carried out every year since except for 1936 and World War II. Wisła Kraków is the most successful team in the championship with 25 titles, followed by AZS Warsaw, Lotos Gdynia and ŁKS Łódź with fourteen, eleven and nine respectively. Gdynia holds the longest winning streak with eight titles in a row between 1998 and 2005.
Teams
2024–25 teams
2023–24 teams
2022–23 & 2023–24 teams
2020–21 teams
League championships
In 2022-23 European competitions
See also
- Sports in Poland
- Basketball in Poland
- Polish basketball league system
- Polish Basketball League
References
External links
- Official website
