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Regional Basketball League (Lithuania)

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Sport
  
Basketball

Country
  
Lithuania

Level on pyramid
  
3rd tier

Founded
  
2005

No. of teams
  
32

Most recent champion(s)
  
Molėtai Ežerūnas-Karys

Promotion to
  
NKL

Number of teams
  
32


RKL (Lithuanian: Regioninė Krepšinio Lyga, English: Regional Basketball League) is a third Lithuania basketball league. Regional Basketball League started their activity in 2005. RKL consists of 32 basketball teams from 28 Lithuania cities. Regions divided to four groups: Aukštaitija, Žemaitija, Suvalkija and center of Lithuania. Each group has eight basketball teams. In the 2006-2007 RKL season, there was some differences as the regions was divided to two groups: East and West of Lithuania and the number of participants was 28 (14 teams for each group). There is B Division of RKL, which is the 4th tier basketball league of Lithuania.

League champions

  • 2005-2006 season (debut): Mažeikių Mažeikiai
  • 2006-2007 season: Utenos Juventus
  • 2007-2008 season: Šiaulių ABRO-Saulė (second place Plungės SM-Inesa, third place Biržų Rinkuškių alus)
  • 2008-2009 season: Radviliškio Radviliškis
  • 2009-2010 season: Molėtų Ežerūnas-Karys (second place Plungės Sporto mokykla, third place Raseinių Raseiniai, fourth place Panevėžio Bangenės-Aiveros)
  • 2010-2011 season: BC Ežerūnas-Karys
  • 2011-2012 season: BC Olimpas Plungė
  • 2012-2013 season: BC Trakai
  • 2013-2014 season: BC Rasai
  • 2014-2015 season: BC Telšiai
  • 2015-2016 season: KTU Kaunas

    • References

    Regional Basketball League (Lithuania) Wikipedia
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