Regional Basketball League (Lithuania)

RKL (Lithuania Basketball League)
Founded2005; 19 years ago (2005)
First season2005–06
CountryLithuania
ConfederationFIBA Europe
Number of teams32
Level on pyramid3
Promotion toNKL
Relegation toRKL B Division
Websiterkl.lt

RKL (Lithuanian: Regionų krepšino lyga, English: Regional Basketball League) is a third Lithuania basketball league. Regional Basketball League started their activity in 2005. RKL consists of 32 basketball teams from 28 Lithuania cities. Regions divided to four groups: Aukštaitija, Žemaitija, Suvalkija and center of Lithuania. Each group has eight basketball teams. In the 2006-2007 RKL season, there was some differences as the regions was divided to two groups: East and West of Lithuania and the number of participants was 28 (14 teams for each group). There is B Division of RKL, which is the 4th tier basketball league of Lithuania.

League champions

References

  1. ^ Indriliūnas, Vaidas (26 April 2019). "Sezono sensacija tapusi „Lūšis" pasidabino RKL A diviziono auksu!" (in Lithuanian). RKL. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
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