The 2024–25 Úrvalsdeild kvenna is the 68th season of the Úrvalsdeild kvenna, the top tier women's basketball league on

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. It starts in October 2024 with the first round of the regular season and ends in May 2025.

Keflavík Keflavík (pronounced , meaning ''Driftwood Bay'') is a town in the Reykjanes region in southwest Iceland. It is included in the municipality of Reykjanesbær whose population as of 2016 is 15,129. In 1995, Keflavík merged with nearby Njar ...

are the defending champions.

Haukar Knattspyrnufélagið Haukar (, ) is an Icelandic multi-sport club from Hafnarfjörður with divisions in Association football, Football, Haukar Handball, Handball, Basketball, Haukar RC, Rugby union, Karate, Skiing & Chess. Club history The clu ...

won their fifth title after beating

Njarðvík Njarðvík () is a town in southwestern Iceland, on the peninsula of Reykjanes. As of 2009, its population was 4,400. History In 1995 it merged with the town of Keflavík and the village of Hafnir to form the new municipality of Reykjanesbær. ...

in the final.

Competition format

The league consists of 10 teams with a 8 team playoff tournament. The bottom team will be relegated to the 1. deild kvenna while the team in 9th place will face the teams in 2-4 place in the 1. deild in a playoff for a spot in the Úrvalsdeild.

Teams

Managerial changes

Regular season

Winners stage

Losers stage

Play offs

Notable occurrences

*On 31 May, the board of

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announced it had withdrawn the team from the league due to financial difficulties. *On 21 June,

Danielle Rodriguez Danielle Victoria Rodriguez (born December 18, 1993) is an American and Icelandic basketball player and coach. She currently plays for Njarðvík in the Úrvalsdeild kvenna. After graduating from the University of Utah, she went on to play profes ...

left Grindavík and signed with BCF Elfic Fribourg Basket. *On 21 June, Sóllilja Bjarnadóttir signed with

Grindavík Grindavík () is a fishing town in the Southern Peninsula district of Iceland, not far from Þorbjörn, a tuya (a type of flat-topped, steep-sided volcano). It is one of the few towns with a harbour on this coast. Most of the inhabitants work ...

. *On 8 July, Grindavík signed

Isabella Ósk Sigurðardóttir Isabella Ósk Sigurðardóttir (born 14 August 1997) is an Icelandic basketball player for Njarðvík and the Icelandic national basketball team. Club career Isabella started her senior team career with Breiðablik in the Icelandic second-tier ...

. *On 17 July, former Úrvalsdeild Foreign Player of the Year,

Brittanny Dinkins Brittanny Dinkins (born March 8, 1994, in Miami, Florida) is an American professional basketball player. She played college basketball for Southern Mississippi where she was named the Conference USA Defensive Player of the Year and to the All-Tour ...

, signed with Njarðvík.

References

External links

Official Icelandic Basketball Federation websiteOfficial league websiteEuroBasket profile
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