Lega Basket Femminile (LBF) is the premier national league for women's
basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...
clubs in
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...
, founded in 1930.
Pool Comense is the competition's most successful club with fifteen championships, followed by
AS Vicenza with twelve and
Geas Basket with seven, while
PF Schio
Pallacanestro Femminile Schio, also known as Beretta Famila Schio for sponsorship reasons, is an Italian professional women's basketball team based in Schio that competes in Serie A1 (women's basketball), Serie A.
Team history
Founded in 1973, ...
and
Cras Taranto have been the leading teams in recent years.
Currently both the champion and runner-up are granted spots in
EuroLeague Women. 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
History
Current teams
List of champions
Performance by club
References
Women's basketball competitions in Italy
Basketball leagues in Italy
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...
Sports leagues established in 1924
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