The Scottish Basketball Championship (SBC, former: ''Scottish National Basketball League'', SNBL) is the national

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. The league forms the second and third tiers of British basketball (inline with the English Basketball League) after the professional setup of the

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, where

currently has one representative in the Caledonia Gladiators. Scottish Basketball Championships
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Teams

Listed below are all the teams competing in the 2022-23 Scottish Basketball Championship season.

Division 1

Division 2

Results

League

Playoffs

Former Teams

This list includes teams who no longer play in the Scottish National League and have played in 3 or more National League seasons.

BBL Competitions

Scottish National League champions

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were founder members of the

when the newly-formed professional league started in 1987. The following season (1988-89), both Livingston and Glasgow Rangers finished in the top 2 of the league, with Rangers defeating Livingston 89-86 in the Playoff Final at the

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in Birmingham. Both teams at this point were owned by David Murray. However, by the start of the 1989-90 season, neither team was based in Scotland; Livingston had folded and the Rangers franchise had returned to

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. Since 2006, several Scottish National League teams have been invited to take part in

competitions. For the 2006/07 BBL Trophy, the teams were split into regional groups of 4 for the first round. In that year, the North group consisted of the Newcastle Eagles, the

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, the City of Edinburgh Kings and the Troon Tornadoes. City of Edinburgh Kings finished 3rd in the group with a 1-2 record. Troon Tornadoes finished 4th with a 0-3 record. Since the 2009/10 season, the BBL Trophy has been a straight knockout competition.

References

External links

Official Basketball Scotland website

Scottish league on Eurobasket
{{Men's professional basketball leagues Men

Professional sports leagues in Scotland