Baltic Basketball League (BBL) 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.

De Baltische Basketbal Liga (BBL) is een internationale basketbalcompetitie voor clubs uit Estland, Letland en Litouwen. De competitie werd opgericht in 2004 en wordt gespeeld in een regular season en play-offs format.

De BBL wordt gezien als een van de sterkste basketbalcompetities in Noord-Europa en trekt veel topspelers uit de Baltische staten en daarbuiten. De winnaar van de BBL kwalificeert zich voor de FIBA Europe Cup.

Enkele van de meest succesvolle clubs in de geschiedenis van de BBL zijn Žalgiris Kaunas (Litouwen), BC Rytas (Litouwen) en VEF Rīga (Letland).

De BBL is een belangrijk evenement in de Baltische basketbalkalender en biedt fans de kans om de beste teams en spelers uit de regio te zien strijden om het kampioenschap.