The Russian Women's Basketball Premier League is the premier

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competition in Russia. The category consists of 11 teams playing a total of 20 rounds. At the end of the regular season the top eight teams play the play-offs throughout April, ending in a 5 matches final. UMMC Ekaterinburg is the most successful team in the championship with 15 titles, including a record 13-year winning streak. Defunct team CSKA Moscow, later relocated to

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as VBM-SGAU Samara (9),

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(4) and Spartak Moscow Region (2) follow in the palmares. Thanks to large number of foreign players, WBPL teams have been successful in the Euroleague since the 2000s, with Spartak Moscow Region winning 4 titles in a row (a competition record since 1976), UMMC Ekaterinburg winning 6 titles, and VBM-SGAU Samara and Dynamo Kursk one each.List of winners of the Euroleague
in FIBA Europe's website

History

2017–18 season teams

Dynamo Kursk WBC Dynamo Kursk (russian: ЖБК «Динамо» Курск) is a Russian women's basketball club from Kursk playing in the Russian Premier League. They won their first FIBA Eurocup title in 2012. In the 2016–17 season, Kursk won the Euro ...

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* UMMC Ekaterinburg * Nadezhda Orenburg * Spartak Moscow Region *

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* Enisey Krasnoyarsk * Kazanochka Kazan * MBA Moscow * Inventa Kursk

List of winners

Awards

References

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