ルワンダ ナショナルリーグ

ルワンダ ナショナルリーグ

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The Rwanda Basketball League (RBL) (formerly the National Basketball League Rwanda) is the top professional basketball league in Rwanda. Its season usually runs from November to September. The winners of the NBL season qualify for the qualifiers for the Basketball Africa League (BAL).

The league currently consists of 10 teams, most of them being from the country's capital Kigali. The current champion of the RBL are APR, who are the league’s most decorated team with a record 14 championships. Other notable teams are REG and their rivals Patriots, who have been powerhouses in recent years.

Since the 2021–22 season, the FERWABA also organises the RBL Division 2 to which the bottom two teams of the RBL relegate.

History

Basketball was introduced in Rwanda in 1930 by Catholic priests, who first thought the sport at high schools in the Southern Province. The following decades, the presence of the sport increased as the military and some public institutions created basketball teams. In 1974, the national basketball federation FERWABA was established. Three years later, in 1977, the first national league was created.

The 1994 Rwandan genocide threw the sport back, because Tutsi players, spectators and administrators died and crucial infrastructure was destroyed.

In the 2000s, APR was the dominant team in Rwanda and it participated in the FIBA Africa Clubs Champions Cup thrice. Its best result was a bronze medal in 2009.

From 2011 to 2015, Espoir BBC won four straight national titles. From then, two newly established teams REG (owned by the Rwanda Energy Group) and Patriots entered the league. The two teams became rivals and played each other in the finals for several years.

In the 2020s, the Basketball Africa League (BAL) was introduced – the first editions were hosted by the BK Arena in Kigali. Patriots finished in fourth place in the inaugural 2021 season. The league changed its name to the Rwanda Basketball League (RBL) in 2023. FERWABA introduced two new competitions, the Rwanda Cup and the Rwanda Super Cup, for the 2024 season.

「ルワンダ ナショナルリーグ」は、ルワンダで開催されるバスケットボールトーナメントです。このトーナメントは、国内のトップバスケットボールチームが参加し、優勝を争います。ルワンダのバスケットボール界の最高峰として位置づけられており、プロフェッショナルなプレイヤーや有望な若手選手たちが一堂に会します。トーナメントは数週間にわたり開催され、激しい試合が繰り広げられます。観客は熱狂的な応援で会場を盛り上げ、選手たちは最高のパフォーマンスを披露します。ルワンダ ナショナルリーグは、バスケットボールの魅力を広めるとともに、スポーツマンシップと競技力の向上を促進する重要なイベントです。