The Holland Nordic Basketball Tournament is a regional youth tournament hosted in Groningen, Netherlands, around Easter.
History The tournament was established in 1995 as a preparation for clubs in the region for a tournament in Mexico. After tremendous interest in the tournament, the organization decided to make it into a yearly tournament.
Before the 26th edition of the tournament, the organization was struggling financially because the municipality stopped subsidising the tournament. They had to start a crowdfunding to come up with the last €15.000 required to organize the tournament. The crowdfunding was a success and the tournament could be organized like previous years.
Format The tournament features teams from 7 different European countries, divided into two groups of 4. Within these groups, each team plays each other once. Then based on the group phase, two brackets are created where the respective number one play against the number two of the other group in the top 4 bracket. The winners of these matches will advance to the finals. In the bottom 4 bracket, the number 3 will play against the respective number 4 of the other group. The winners of these matches will advance to the match determining the fifth placed team of the tournament. Both brackets also play a respective losers final to determine the 3rd and 7th place.
Champions A list of champions in the oldest category.
+EditionYearChampions References 10th2005 Zdravlje 11th2006 BK Reinis12th2007 SCO Reinis13th200814th2009 Gloria Basketball School15th201016th201117th2012 UK national team U1818th2013 BC Sabonis U2019th2014 CEZ Nymburk U2020th2015 CSKA Moscow U2021st2016 Itchen U1922nd2017 BCM Orli U1923rd2018 BCM Orli U1924th2019 Donar U1925th2022 Filou Oostende U20 26th2023 Dutch national Team U2027th2024 BS Tornado U1928th2025 Bayer Giants Leverkusen U1929th2026 EWE Baskets Juniors
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