National Basketball League (Lithuania)

For other organizations with a similar name, see National Basketball League (disambiguation) and NBL (disambiguation).

National basketball League

Founded	2005 (2005)
First season	2005–06
Country	Lithuania
Confederation	FIBA Europe
Number of teams	14
Level on pyramid	2
Promotion to	LKL
Relegation to	RKL
Website	nklyga.lt

The National Basketball League (NKL) (Lithuanian: Nacionalinė krepšinio lyga) is the second-tier basketball minor league in Lithuania It is placed below the top division Lietuvos krepšinio lyga (LKL). The competition currently consists of 14 teams. The champions of the league have the option to promote to the LKL, this rarely happens however.

Current teams

Ereliai

Delikatesas

Jonava

Ežerūnas

Kuršiai

Gargždai

Telšiai

Sūduva-Mantinga

Šilutė

Vytis

Lūšis

Perlas

Tauragė

Neptūnas-Akvaservis

Žalgiris-2

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2019/20 NKL club locations

Team	Arena	Capacity	City	Founded
BC Delikatesas	Saulės elementary school sport hall	200	Joniškis	1994
BC Ereliai	Mažeikiai Venta school sport hall	800	Mažeikiai	2005
BC Ežerūnas	Molėtai arena	500	Molėtai	2009
BC Gargždai-SC	VPK Sport hall	200	Gargždai	2014
BC Kuršiai	Palanga arena	1000	Palanga	2018
BC Lūšis	L.Ivinskio gymnasium hall	100	Rietavas	2008
BC Neptūnas-Akvaservis	Klaipėda KKRC	400	Klaipėda	1987
BC Perlas	Lietuvos rytas Arena	2500	Vilnius	2003
BC Jonava	Jonava Arena	2200	Jonava	1999
BC Sūduva-Mantinga	Marijampolė ŽSM sport hall	600	Marijampolė	2006
BC Šilutė	Šilutės Vydūno gymnasium	500	Šilutė	1990
BC Tauragė	Sport Center "Bastilija"	400	Tauragė	2010
BC Telšiai	Telšiai Sport Arena	750	Telšiai	2012
BC Vytis	Šakiai JKSC sport hall	800	Šakiai	2005
BC Žalgiris-2	Žalgiris training facility	500	Kaunas	1999

League champions

Season	Champion	Runner-up	Third Place
2005–06	Akademija-MRU Vilnius	Nafta-Uni-Laivitė Klaipėda	Puntukas-Jarimpeksas Anykščiai
2006–07	Nafta-Uni-Laivitė Klaipėda	Dextera Jonava	Meresta Pakruojis
2007–08	Žalgiris-Arvydas Sabonis school Kaunas	Naglis-Adarkis Palanga	Dextera Jonava
2008–09	Rūdupis Prienai	Meresta Pakruojis	Mažeikiai
2009–10	Naglis-Adarkis Palanga	Malsta Jonava	Mažeikiai
2010–11	Pieno žvaigždės Pasvalys	Mažeikiai	Nafta-Universitetas Klaipėda
2011–12	LKKA-Atletas Kaunas"	Statyba Vilnius	Žalgiris-Arvydas Sabonis school Kaunas
2012–13	Mažeikiai“	Dzūkija Alytus	Žalgiris-2 Kaunas
2013–14	Mažeikiai	Trakai	Tiumenas-Ežerūnas Molėtai
2014–15	Nafta-Uni-Akvaservis Klaipėda	Ežerūnas-Karys Molėtai	Sūduva-Mantinga Marijampolė
2015–16	Sūduva-Mantinga Marijampolė	Žalgiris-2 Kaunas	Palanga
2016–17	Sūduva-Mantinga Marijampolė	Nafta-Uni-Akvaservis Klaipėda	Vytis Šakiai
2017–18	Neptūnas-Akvaservis Klaipėda	Žalgiris-2 Kaunas	Vytis Šakiai
2018–19	Sūduva-Mantinga Marijampolė	Vytis Šakiai	BC Telšiai
2019–20	Sūduva-Mantinga Marijampolė	BC Telšiai	BC Šilutė

External links

• Official website of National Basketball League (in Lithuanian)