Baltic Basketball League (BBL) was the Baltic states basketball league founded in 2004. The league mainly focused on teams from the Baltic states, but teams from Sweden, Russia, Kazakhstan, Finland, and Belarus have participated in the Baltic League. After the 2017–18 season, the league announced that it was suspending its operations.

History

For the 2015–16 season, the format of the BBL included a regular season composed by two groups of seven teams that competed in a round-robin competition system, with each team facing their opponent twice. The teams qualified for the eight-finals based on their ranking after the regular season. Out of the five teams who participated in FIBA Europe Cup competition – Ventspils, Juventus, Šiauliai, Tartu Ülikool/Rock and Pieno žvaigždės – the latter three did not qualify for the FIBA Europe Cup playoffs and thus started playing at the start of the BBL playoffs, seeded respectively first, second and third based on last season's results. All play-off games are played in home-and-away series.

Baltic Basketball League also featured a Baltic Basketball League Cup competition before the beginning of the regular season since 2008.

**Baltiske Ligaen**

Baltiske Ligaen er en international basketballliga, der blev etableret i 2004. Ligaen består af hold fra Estland, Letland og Litauen.

Ligaen afholdes årligt i en dobbelt turnering, med et grundspil efterfulgt af slutspil. Grundspillet spilles med 14 hold, der er opdelt i to grupper. De to bedste hold fra hver gruppe går videre til slutspillet, som spilles i et knockout-format.

Baltiske Ligaen er en af de stærkeste basketballligaer i Europa. Vinderen af ligaen kvalificerer sig til EuroCup.

Blandt de mest succesfulde hold i Baltiske Ligaens historie er Žalgiris Kaunas, BC Rytas Vilnius og VEF Rīga.