Basketball Betting - German League
History - Winners - Standings 07/08 - Teams - Calendar 08/09
Basketball Bundesliga - German League History
In Germany the BBL or Basketball Bundesliga is the top level club competition to choose the national champion.
In 1939 the first basketball league was organized. The LSV club won the first title. Then in 1966 the Basketball Bundesliga was created as a pro player league. Today, eighteen teams compete in the championship.
The team with the most title wins is the Bayer Giants Leverkusen, 14 championships total. Since 1997 ALBA Berlin has been the leading team with 7 titles total.
2008/09 Teams
| Team | City/Area |
| ALBA Berlin | Berlin |
| Artland Dragons | Quakenbrück |
| Bayer Giants Leverkusen | Leverkusen |
| BG 74 Göttingen | Göttingen |
| Brose Baskets (formerly GHP Bamberg) | Bamberg |
| Deutsche Bank Skyliners | Frankfurt |
| Eisbären Bremerhaven | Bremerhaven |
| EnBW Ludwigsburg | Ludwigsburg |
| EWE Baskets Oldenburg | Oldenburg |
| Giants Nördlingen | Nördlingen |
| Giessen 46ers | Gießen |
| Köln 99ers | Cologne |
| New Yorker Phantoms Braunschweig | Braunschweig |
| Paderborn Baskets | Paderborn |
| Ratiopharm Ulm | Ulm |
| TBB Trier | Trier |
| Telekom Baskets | Bonn |
| WALTER TIGERS Tübingen | Tübingen |
Teams that were relegaded to 2nd Bundesliga in the past seasons:
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