The Botswana Basketball Association (BBA) is the premier basketball league for clubs in Botswana. The league consist out of twelve teams. As of December 2019, the defending champions are Dolphins.
Organising body | Botswana Basketball Federation |
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Founded | 1995 |
Country | Botswana |
Number of teams | 12 |
Level on pyramid | 1 |
International cup(s) | Basketball Africa League (BAL) |
Current champions | Dolphins (2023) |
President | Peter Ubakar |
The champions of the BBL are able to play in the qualifying rounds of the Basketball Africa League (BAL).
Basketball in Botswana was played informally by mission schools from 1965. In the early 1990s, the first organised games were played. In 1995, the Botswana Basketball Association (BBA) was founded.[1]
The league has allowed university teams since 2022.[2]
The following were the twelve teams for the 2019 season:[3]
Season | Champions | Runners-up | Finals score | Third place | Ref. |
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2013 | Troopers | Spartans | |||
2014 | Troopers | Dolphins | [4] | ||
2015 | Dolphins | Troopers | Spartans | [5] | |
2016 | |||||
2017 | |||||
2018 | Dolphins | Police | |||
2019 | |||||
2020 | Not held due to the COVID-19 pandemic | [6] | |||
2021 | |||||
2022 | Police | Dolphins | 70–50 | [2] | |
2023 | Dolphins | Delta Force | 2–0 (best-of-three series) | [7] |