Regional Basketball League (Lithuania)

Regional Basketball League (Lithuania)

Sport	Basketball
Founded	2005
No. of teams	32
Country	Lithuania
Most recent champion(s)	Molėtai Ežerūnas-Karys
Level on pyramid	3rd tier
Promotion to	NKL
Relegation to	RKL B Division
Official website	RKL.lt

RKL (Lithuanian: Regioninė Krepšinio 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

• 2005-2006 season (debut): Mažeikių Mažeikiai
• 2006-2007 season: Utenos Juventus
• 2007-2008 season: Šiaulių ABRO-Saulė (second place Plungės SM-Inesa, third place Biržų Rinkuškių alus)
• 2008-2009 season: Radviliškio Radviliškis
• 2009-2010 season: Molėtų Ežerūnas-Karys (second place Plungės Sporto mokykla, third place Raseinių Raseiniai, fourth place Panevėžio Bangenės-Aiveros)
• 2010-2011 season: BC Ežerūnas-Karys
• 2011-2012 season: BC Olimpas Plungė
• 2012-2013 season: BC Trakai
• 2013-2014 season: BC Rasai
• 2014-2015 season: BC Telšiai
• 2015-2016 season: KTU Kaunas

External links

• Official website of Regional Basketball League (Lithuanian)