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2019–20 Slovak Basketball League
The 2019–20 Slovak Basketball League season was the 28th season of the top-tier basketball competition in Slovakia. It started on 5 October 2019 and ended prematurely on 13 March 2020 without any declared champion due to the coronavirus pandemic. Competition format Ten teams joined the regular season, consisted in playing against each other four times home-and-away in double a round-robin format. The eight first qualified teams advance to the playoffs. Teams The same nine teams of the previous season repeated participation in the league. Regular season League table Results Playoffs Seeded teams played games 1, 3, 5 and 7 at home. Quarterfinals were played in a best-of-five games format while semifinals and final with a best-of-seven one. Bracket Quarter-finals Semi-finals Finals Slovak clubs in European competitions Slovak clubs in Regional competitions References External linksSlovak Extraliga official website {{DEFAULTSORT:2019-20 Slovak Sl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018–19 Slovak Basketball League
The 2018–19 Slovak Basketball League season will be the 27th season of the top-tier basketball competition in Slovakia. Levickí Patrioti are the defending champions. Competition format Ten teams joined the regular season, consisted in playing against each other four times home-and-away in double a round-robin format. The eight first qualified teams advance to the playoffs. Teams After the resignation of Košice, runner-up of the previous season, to continue playing in the league, Lučenec, champion of the 1.Liga, replaced them. Also, VŠEMvs Karlovka Bratislava resigned to the league thus reducing the number of teams to nine. Regular season League table Results Playoffs Seeded teams played games 1, 3, 5 and 7 at home. Quarterfinals were played in a best-of-five games format while semifinals and final with a best-of-seven one. Bracket Quarter-finals Semi-finals Finals Slovak clubs in European competitions References External linksSlovak Extraliga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Handlová
Handlová (german: Krickerhau, hu, Nyitrabánya, before 1913 ) is a town in the Prievidza District, Trenčín Region in the middle of Slovakia. It is made up of the three parts Handlová, Nová Lehota and Morovno. Geography It is located in the ''Handlovka'' brook valley, surrounded by the mountain ranges of Vtáčnik in the west and Žiar in the south, east and north, in the historical region of Hauerland. It is away from Prievidza and from Žiar nad Hronom. Besides the main settlement, it also has "parts" of Morovno (north-west) and Nová Lehota (south), both annexed 1976. History The town was established in 1376 and was inhabited by German settlers which were later known as the Carpathian Germans. The first known settler in Handlová was Peter Kricker from Kremnica, who came here together with 200 others to establish a settlement on a site called Krásny les (Beautiful Forest). At first the settlers lived just from crops and pastoral farming. Only much later, in the 18th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Levicki Patrioti
BK Patrioti Levice, commonly known as Levickí Patrioti, is a Slovak basketball team based in Levice. The team currently plays in the national top-tier Slovak Basketball League (SBL). Honours * Slovak League **Champions (3): 2010–11, 2017–18, 2021-22 *Slovak Cup **Champions (1): 2019 *Alpe Adria Cup Alpe Adria Cup is an annual professional basketball competition for clubs from Central Europe. The league comprises teams from seven countries, namely Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. It is played under ... **Champions (1): 2021–22 **Runners-up (1): 2017–18 References External linksOfficial website Basketball teams in Slovakia Basketball teams established in 1941 {{Europe-basketball-team-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Žilina
Žilina (; hu, Zsolna, ; german: Sillein, or ; pl, Żylina , names in other languages) is a city in north-western Slovakia, around from the capital Bratislava, close to both the Czech and Polish borders. It is the fourth largest city of Slovakia with a population of approximately 80,000, an important industrial center, the largest city on the Váh river, and the seat of a ''kraj'' (Žilina Region) and of an '' okres'' (Žilina District). It belongs to the Upper Váh region of tourism. Etymology The name is derived from Slavic/Slovak word ''žila'' - a "(river) vein". Žilina means "a place with many watercourses". Alternatively, it is a secondary name derived from Žilinka river or from the name of the local people, Žilín/Žiliňane. History The area around today's Žilina was inhabited in the late Stone Age (about 20,000 BC). In the 5th century, Slavs started to move into the area. However, the first written reference to Žilina was in 1208 as ''terra de Selinan''. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Komárno
Komárno, ( hu, Komárom, german: Komorn, sr, Коморан, translit=Komoran), colloquially also called ''Révkomárom, Öregkomárom, Észak-Komárom'' in Hungarian language, Hungarian; is a town in Slovakia at the confluence of the Danube and the Váh rivers. Historically it was formed by the "old town" on the left bank of Danube, present day Komárno in Slovakia, and by a "new town" on the right bank, present day Komárom in Hungary, which were historically one administrative unit. Following World War I and the Treaty of Trianon, the border of the newly created Czechoslovakia cut the historical, unified town in half, creating two new independent towns in two countries. Komárno and Komárom are connected by the Elisabeth Bridge, which used to be an official border crossing between Slovakia and Hungary until border checks were lifted due to the Schengen Area rules. In 2020, a new road bridge was opened. Komárno is Slovakia's principal port on the Danube. It is also the cente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niké Aréna
The Niké Aréna is an indoor arena located in Prievidza, Slovakia. It is used as a sports arena, and is the current home of the Slovak basketball club BC Prievidza. The arena has place for 3,400 spectators. The arena is named after the Slovak bookmaker ''Niké''. See also * Eurovia Arena * NTC Arena * Steel Aréna Steel Aréna – Košický štadión L. Trojáka (English: ''Steel Arena – Ladislav Troják Stadium in Košice'') is the home arena of the ice hockey club HC Košice. Its capacity is 8,343. The arena opened on February 24, 2006, and wa ... References Indoor arenas in Slovakia Basketball venues in Slovakia Sport in Trenčín Region Prievidza District Buildings and structures in Trenčín Region {{Slovakia-sports-venue-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prievidza
Prievidza (; hu, Privigye, german: Priwitz) is a city in the central-western Slovakia. With approximately 46,000 inhabitants it is the second biggest municipality in the Trenčín Region and 11th List of cities and towns in Slovakia, largest city in Slovakia generally. Name The name is probably deduced from a personal name ''Previd'' with possessive sufix ''-ja'' (Previd's village). An alternative and less probable is a derivation from ''vid-'' ( sk, vidieť – to see, "previdieť" – to see through), thus "the village which can be seen from all directions", "the village in the thin stand".Martin Štefánik – Ján Lukačka et al. 2010, Lexikón stredovekých miest na Slovensku, Historický ústav SAV, Bratislava, 2010, pp. 354, 360, . http://forumhistoriae.sk/-/lexikon-stredovekych-miest-na-slovensku Features As a central city of Prievidza District and Upper Nitra Basin (Horná Nitra in Slovak language, Slovak) Prievidza is a seat for many institutions of regional import ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Levice
Levice (; hu, Léva, Hungarian pronunciation: ; german: Lewenz, literally lionesses) is a town in western Slovakia. The town lies on the left bank of the lower Hron river. The Old Slavic name of the town was ''Leva'', which means "the Left One". The town is located in the north-eastern corner of the Danubian Lowland (''Podunajská nížina''), east of Bratislava, south-east of Nitra, south-west of Banská Štiavnica, south-west of Zvolen and from the border with Hungary. It is the capital of the Levice District, which is the largest district in Slovakia at . The town's heraldic animal is lion (in Slovak ''lev''), and the town's colours are green and yellow. History Levice is first mentioned as Leua, one of the villages belonging to the parish of St. Martin's Church in Bratka ( hu, Baratka) in 1156. It was part of the comitatus Tekov (''Bars''). First attacked by the Turks in 1544, the town was set on fire while the castle was left unharmed. Between 1581 and 1589, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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