Lega Basket Femminile (LBF) is the premier national league for women's

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clubs in

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, founded in 1930. Pool Comense is the competition's most successful club with fifteen championships, followed by AS Vicenza with twelve and

Geas Basket ASD Geas Basket is an Italian women's basketball club from Sesto San Giovanni founded in 1955. Geas was the Serie A's leading team in the 1970s, with eight national championships between 1970 and 1978. The ''rossoneri'' culminated this golden er ...

with seven, while

PF Schio Pallacanestro Femminile Schio, also known as Beretta Famila Schio for sponsorship reasons, is an Italian women's basketball team based in Schio that competes in Serie A. Founded in 1973, Schio enjoyed its first successes between 1996 and 2002, wi ...

and Cras Taranto have been the leading teams in recent years. Currently both the champion and runner-up are granted spots in the Euroleague. The Serie A champions were the major force in the 1980s, with Geas Basket, Fiat Torino, AS Vicenza, Libertas Trogylos, Polisportiva Ahena and Pool Comense winning eleven editions between 1978 and 1995.List of champions, 1959-91
in FIBA Europe's website

List of champions

* Comense ** 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2004 *

Vicenza Vicenza ( , ; ) is a city in northeastern Italy. It is in the Veneto region at the northern base of the ''Monte Berico'', where it straddles the Bacchiglione River. Vicenza is approximately west of Venice and east of Milan. Vicenza is a th ...

** 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988 *

Schio Schio is a town and comune in the province of Vicenza (region of Veneto, northern Italy) situated north of Vicenza and east of the Lake Garda. It is surrounded by the Little Dolomites (Italian Prealps) and Mount Pasubio. History Its name comes fr ...

** 2005, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019 *

Geas A ' or ' (pl. ') is an idiosyncratic taboo, whether of obligation or prohibition, similar to being under a vow or curse, yet the observance of which can also bring power and blessings. It is also used to mean specifically a spell prohibiting s ...

** 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978 *

Triestina Unione Sportiva Triestina Calcio 1918, commonly referred to as Triestina, is an Italian football club based in Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia. Originally founded in 1918, the club has been re-established several times in its history. As of the ...

** 1930, 1931, 1956, 1957, 1958 *

Torino Turin ( , Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. T ...

** 1962, 1963, 1964, 1979, 1980 * Canottieri ** 1933, 1934, 1935, 1943 *

Ambrosiana The Biblioteca Ambrosiana is a historic library in Milan, Italy, also housing the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, the Ambrosian art gallery. Named after Ambrose, the patron saint of Milan, it was founded in 1609 by Cardinal Federico Borromeo, whose agen ...

** 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939 *

Bernocchi Bernocchi is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Antonio Bernocchi (1859–1930), business magnate and philanthropist * Eraldo Bernocchi (born c. 1963), Italian musician * Piero Bernocchi (born 1947), Italian trade unioni ...

** 1947, 1948, 1954, 1955 * Cras Taranto ** 2003, 2009, 2010, 2012 *

Udinese Udinese Calcio, commonly referred to as Udinese, is a professional Italian football club based in Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, that currently plays in Serie A. It was founded on 30 November 1896 as a sports club, and on 5 July 1911 as a fo ...

** 1959, 1960, 1961 * Libertas Trogylos ** 1989, 2000 *

Gioiosa Ginestra may refer to: * Gioiosa Ionica, town and comune in Italy in the province of Reggio Calabria, region of Calabria * Gioiosa Marea, municipality in the Metropolitan City of Messina in the Italian region Sicily See also * Gioia (disambigu ...

** 1932 *

Ilva Trieste ILVA is a Danish chain of furniture stores, offering mostly Scandinavian-style bed-, dining- and living room products. The company was founded in 1974, and currently runs eight stores in the Nordic countries. It also had three stores in Brita ...

** 1940 *

Napoli Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

** 1941 *

CUS Milano CUS Milano ( it, Centro Universitario Sportivo di Milano, "University Sports Centre of Milan") is a university sports centre founded in 1947, promoting the practice and the expansion of sport and physical education for students of all universities ...

** 1942 *

Reyer Venezia S.S.P. Reyer Venezia Mestre, commonly known as Reyer Venezia or simply Reyer, is an Italian professional basketball club that is based in Venice, Veneto. The club currently plays in the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA), the highest tier of basketball in ...

** 1946 * Indomita ** 1949 *

Standa Standa was an Italian chain of department stores. History It was founded in 1931 as ''Magazzini Standard'' (Società Anonima Magazzini Standard) by a former executive of UPIM and subsequently renamed as ''Standa'' (acronym for Società Tutti Art ...

** 1973 *

Treviso Treviso ( , ; vec, Trevixo) is a city and ''comune'' in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Treviso and the municipality has 84,669 inhabitants (as of September 2017). Some 3,000 live within the Veneti ...

** 1981 * Ahena ** 1990 *

Parma Parma (; egl, Pärma, ) is a city in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna known for its architecture, Giuseppe Verdi, music, art, prosciutto (ham), Parmigiano-Reggiano, cheese and surrounding countryside. With a population of 198,292 ...

** 2001 *

Vomero Vomero () is a bustling hilltop district of metropolitan Naples, Italy — comprising approximately and a population of 48,000. Vomero is noted for its central square, Piazza Vanvitelli; the ancient Petraio, its earliest path up and down t ...

** 2007 *

Lucca Lucca ( , ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the Serchio River, in a fertile plain near the Ligurian Sea. The city has a population of about 89,000, while its province has a population of 383,957. Lucca is known as one o ...

** 2007

References

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