Australian Womens Basketball League

During the 20102011 season the womens national basketball league had 77944 total spectators watch a game live.

Australian womens basketball league. Several wnbl teams have nbl counterparts. Australian athletes have gone overseas to play professional sport. All clubs had finalised their preparations for the sbl season that was originally set to begin back in march. The league was founded in 1981 and is the womens counterpart to the national basketball league.

There are over 450000 registered basketball players in australia with many hundreds of thousands more who play socially. The womens national basketball league is the pre eminent professional womens basketball league in australia. The league comprises both a womens and mens competition and is run by the states governing body basketball western australia. The current league champions are the university of ca.

The adelaide lightning melbourne boomers perth lynx southside flyers and sydney uni flames are the current wnbl teams sharing a market with an nbl team. Wnbl the home page of the womens national basketball league the longest running female sporting competition in australia. The sbl is one of six major state based semi professional leagues in australia and sits under the countrys two professional leagues the nbl and wnbl. It is a game that can be played by anybody men women adults children old young the able bodied and the disabled.

The australian womens national basketball team is nicknamed the opals after the brightly coloured gemstone common to the country. You are on wnbl women 20192020 basketball australia pagelive basketball scores at basketball 24 offer basketball live scores and results providing also basketball quarter results h2h stats odds comparison and other live score information from australia wnbl women 20192020 and many other basketball competitions. It is currently composed of eight teams. The time is now upon us for the first state league basketball action of 2020 in western australia and theres great excitement surrounding the west coast classic with all 12 womens teams in action this weekend.

Amongst these are lauren jackson erin phillips kristi harrower belinda snell penny taylor and liz cambage all of whom have played basketball in the united states.