The 2003–04 BBL season was the 17th campaign in the history of the

British Basketball League The British Basketball League (BBL) is a men's professional basketball league in Great Britain and represents the highest level of play in the countries. The league is contested by 10 teams from England and Scotland. There are no clubs howeve ...

Teams

Notable occurrences

* Due to uncertainty regarding the future of Aston Events Centre, the

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were forced to relocate to a new home venue. Their first games of the campaign were postponed until a suitable venue could be found, with the owner Craig Bown eventually acquiring the use of Birmingham Sports Centre for the duration of the season. * With their 68–66 win in the

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Final against

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made history as the first team to win the Trophy for four consecutive seasons.

BBL championship (Tier 1)

Final standings

The Play-offs

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

EBL National League Division 1 (Tier 2)

Final standings

Haribo Cup

This season saw the first edition of the newly created Haribo Cup. Following the BBL's decision to withdraw from the

National Cup The English National Cup is an annual basketball knock-out competition held between professional, semi-professional and amateur teams from the various divisions of the National Basketball League. For most of the competition's history, the draw has ...

due to import player regulations, the League's newest competition saw all 10 teams competing in a knock-out style tournament culminating in the Grand Final at the

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in Birmingham.

First round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

BBL Trophy

Due to the lack of teams competing in this season's Championship, the

featured all 10 BBL teams plus two invited teams from the

English Basketball League The National Basketball League, or NBL for short, is a league competition representing semi-professional and amateur basketball clubs from England and Wales. It forms levels 2 to 4 on the British basketball pyramid, in line with the Scottish B ...

(

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and Teesside Mohawks). The First round saw all 12 teams divided into four regionalised groups with the top finishing team advancing to the Semi-finals.

Group stage

Northern Group 1 Southern Group 1 Northern Group 2 Southern Group 2

Semi-finals

Final

Statistics leaders

References

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