The Russian Women's Basketball Premier League (officially named FONBET Premier League for sponsoring reasons) is the premier women's basketball 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 18 titles, including a record 13-year winning streak. Defunct team CSKA Moscow, later relocated to Samara as VBM-SGAU Samara (9), Dynamo Moscow (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),List of winners of the European Cup in FIBA Europe's website 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
2024–25 season teams Dynamo Kursk Dynamo Moscow Dynamo Novosibirsk UMMC Ekaterinburg Nadezhda Orenburg Sparta and K Vidnoye Enisey Krasnoyarsk MBA-MGUSiT Moscow Nika-Luzales Syktyvkar Neftyanik-Titan Omsk Samara
List of winners Season Winners Runners-up Result 1992 CSKA Moscow (1) Nika (Nizhny Novgorod) 1992–93 CSKA Moscow (2) Dynamo Novosibirsk 1993–94 CSKA Moscow (3) Dynamo Novosibirsk 1994–95 CSKA Moscow (4) Force Majeure (St. Petersburg) 1995–96 CSKA Moscow (5) Dynamo Moscow 1996–97 CSKA Moscow (6) Uralmash Ekaterinburg 1997–98 Dynamo Moscow (1) CSKA Moscow 163:154Played two match 1998–99 Dynamo Moscow (2) Uralmash Ekaterinburg 1999–00 Dynamo Moscow (3) Uralmash Ekaterinburg Play-off played in league format. 2000–01 Dynamo Moscow (4) Uralmash-UMMC Ekaterinburg 2:1 2001–02 UMMC Ekaterinburg (1) SGAU Samara 2:0 2002–03 UMMC Ekaterinburg (2) VBM-SGAU Samara 2:1 2003–04 VBM-SGAU Samara (1) UMMC Ekaterinburg 3:0 2004–05 VBM-SGAU Samara (2) Dynamo Moscow 3:1 2005–06 VBM-SGAU Samara (3) UMMC Ekaterinburg 3:0 2006–07 Spartak Moscow Region (1) CSKA Moscow 3:2 2007–08 Spartak Moscow Region (2) CSKA Moscow 3:1 2008–09 UMMC Ekaterinburg (3) Spartak Moscow Region 2:1 2009–10 UMMC Ekaterinburg (4) Spartak Moscow Region 3:0 2010–11 UMMC Ekaterinburg (5) Spartak Moscow Region 3:0 2011–12 UMMC Ekaterinburg (6) Spartak Moscow Region 3:0 2012–13 UMMC Ekaterinburg (7) Spartak Moscow Region 3:0 2013–14 UMMC Ekaterinburg (8) Nadezhda Orenburg 3:0 2014–15 UMMC Ekaterinburg (9) Nadezhda Orenburg 3:1 2015–16 UMMC Ekaterinburg (10) Nadezhda Orenburg 3:0 2016–17 UMMC Ekaterinburg (11) Dynamo Kursk 3:2 2017–18 UMMC Ekaterinburg (12) Dynamo Kursk 3:0 2018–19 UMMC Ekaterinburg (13) Dynamo Kursk 3:0 2019–20 UMMC Ekaterinburg (14) Dynamo Kursk 2020–21 UMMC Ekaterinburg (15) Dynamo Kursk 3:0 2021–22 Dynamo Kursk (1) UMMC Ekaterinburg 3:1 2022–23 UMMC Ekaterinburg (16) Dynamo Kursk 3:0 2023–24 UMMC Ekaterinburg (17) Nika-Luzales Syktyvkar 3:0 2024–25 UMMC Ekaterinburg (18) Nadezhda Orenburg 3:0 2025–26 UMMC Ekaterinburg (19) Dynamo Kursk 3:1
Awards
The Russian Gold Basket Awards were the annual basketball awards that were given out by the Russian Basketball Federation (RBF), from 2004, to 2009, with a category for Russian Female Basketball Player of the Year.
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