List of SEABL champions

Below is a list of South East Australian Basketball League (SEABL) champions for both the men's and women's competitions. The men's competition ran from 1981 to 2018, while the women's competition ran from 1990 to 2018.

Men

The champions of the SEABL from 1981 to 1994 were all identical to those who finished on top of the regular-season ladder.[1] From 1995 to 2007, there were conference grand finals that determined the conference champions.[2][3][4]

In 2008, a SEABL grand final was held between the South and East conference champions and an overall SEABL champion was crowned for the first time since 1985.[5][6] The conference system was scrapped by the SEABL in 2018, with a top eight finals structure taking its place.[7][8]

Year South champion East champion League champion Ref
1981 – – Geelong Cats [4][9]
1982 – – Frankston Bears
1983 – – Melbourne Tigers
1984 – – Chelsea Gulls
1985 – – Dandenong Rangers
1986 Newcastle Hunters Dandenong Rangers –
1987 Ballarat Miners Adelaide Buffalos –
1988 Bendigo Braves Bulleen Boomers –
1989 Ballarat Miners Bulleen Boomers –
1990 Ballarat Miners Bendigo Braves –
1991 Knox Raiders Ballarat Miners –
1992 North East Melbourne Arrows Bayside Blues –
1993 Bayside Blues Sydney City Comets –
1994 Broadmeadows Broncos Knox Raiders –
1995 Frankston Blues Nunawading Spectres –
1996 North-West Tasmania Originals Knox Raiders –
1997 Hobart Chargers Dandenong Rangers –
1998 Hobart Chargers Frankston Blues –
1999 Geelong Supercats Kilsyth Cobras –
2000 Hobart Chargers Frankston Blues –
2001 Ballarat Miners Albury Wodonga Bandits –
2002 Hobart Chargers Australian Institute of Sport –
2003 Mount Gambier Pioneers Canberra Gunners –
2004 North-West Tasmania Thunder Dandenong Rangers –
2005 Bendigo Braves Geelong Supercats –
2006 Knox Raiders Geelong Supercats –
2007 Bendigo Braves Geelong Supercats – [10]
2008 Hobart Chargers Knox Raiders Hobart Chargers [11]
2009 Frankston Blues Knox Raiders Knox Raiders [12]
2010 Geelong Supercats Bendigo Braves Geelong Supercats [13]
2011 Nunawading Spectres Bendigo Braves Nunawading Spectres [14][15]
2012 Albury Wodonga Bandits Dandenong Rangers Albury Wodonga Bandits [16][17][18]
2013 Mount Gambier Pioneers Dandenong Rangers Dandenong Rangers [19]
2014 Mount Gambier Pioneers Nunawading Spectres Mount Gambier Pioneers [20][21]
2015 Mount Gambier Pioneers Albury Wodonga Bandits Mount Gambier Pioneers [22]
2016 Mount Gambier Pioneers Bendigo Braves Bendigo Braves [23]
2017 Dandenong Rangers Mount Gambier Pioneers Mount Gambier Pioneers [24]
2018 – – Hobart Chargers [25]

Results by teams

Teams Conference Champions Teams League Champions
Year(s) won Year(s) won
Bendigo 7 1988, 1990, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2016 Mount Gambier 3 2014, 2015, 2017
Dandenong 6 1986, 1997, 2004, 2012, 2013, 2017 Geelong 2 1981, 2010
Knox 6 1991, 1994, 1996, 2006, 2008, 2009 Dandenong 2 1985, 2013
Frankston/Bayside 6 1992, 1993, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2009 Hobart 2 2008, 2018
Mount Gambier 6 2003, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 Frankston/Bayside 1 1982
Ballarat 5 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 2001 Melbourne 1 1983
Hobart 5 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2008 Chelsea 1 1984
Geelong 5 1999, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010 Knox 1 2009
Nunawading 3 1995, 2011, 2014 Nunawading 1 2011
Albury Wodonga 3 2001, 2012, 2015 Albury Wodonga 1 2012
Bulleen 2 1988, 1989 Bendigo 1 2016
NW Tasmania 2 1996, 2004
Newcastle 1 1986
Adelaide 1 1987
NE Melbourne 1 1992
Sydney 1 1993
Broadmeadows 1 1994
Kilsyth 1 1999
AIS 1 2002
Canberra 1 2003

Women

The SEABL women's competition was first introduced in 1990.[1] In 2012, the women's competition was divided into two conferences for the first time due to five new women's teams having joined the SEABL since 2006—Brisbane (2007), Sandringham (2009), Hobart (2010), Geelong (2011) and Canberra (2012). Canberra's addition in 2012 expanded the league to 14 teams.[26] The conference system was scrapped by the SEABL in 2018, with a top eight finals structure taking its place.[7][8]

Year South champion East champion League champion Ref
1990 – – Dandenong Rangers [4][9]
1991 – – Dandenong Rangers
1992 – – Knox Raiders
1993 – – Frankston Blues
1994 – – Knox Raiders
1995 – – Launceston Tornadoes
1996 – – Knox Raiders
1997 – – Frankston Blues
1998 – – Kilsyth Cobras
1999 – – Bendigo Braves
2000 – – Bendigo Braves
2001 – – Dandenong Rangers
2002 – – Kilsyth Cobras
2003 – – Bendigo Braves
2004 – – Frankston Blues
2005 – – Ballarat Miners
2006 – – Bendigo Braves
2007 – – Bendigo Braves [10]
2008 – – Kilsyth Cobras [27][28]
2009 – – Brisbane Spartans [12]
2010 – – Dandenong Rangers [29]
2011 – – Dandenong Rangers [30]
2012 Knox Raiders Dandenong Rangers Dandenong Rangers [31][32]
2013 Knox Raiders Bendigo Braves Knox Raiders [33]
2014 Hobart Chargers Brisbane Spartans Brisbane Spartans [21]
2015 Kilsyth Cobras Dandenong Rangers Dandenong Rangers [34][35][36]
2016 Kilsyth Cobras Dandenong Rangers Dandenong Rangers [37]
2017 Bendigo Braves Geelong Supercats Geelong Supercats [38]
2018 – – Bendigo Braves [39]

Results by teams

Teams Conference Champions Teams League Champions
Year(s) won Year(s) won
Dandenong 3 2012, 2015, 2016 Dandenong 8 1990, 1991, 2001, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016
Knox 2 2012, 2013 Bendigo 6 1999, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2018
Bendigo 2 2013, 2017 Knox 4 1992, 1994, 1996, 2013
Kilsyth 2 2015, 2016 Frankston 3 1993, 1997, 2004
Hobart 1 2014 Kilsyth 3 1998, 2002, 2008
Brisbane 1 2014 Brisbane 2 2009, 2014
Geelong 1 2017 Launceston 1 1995
Ballarat 1 2005
Geelong 1 2017

See also

References

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