Current season, competition or edition: 2025 NBL1 season | |
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| Sport | Basketball |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2019 |
| First season | 2019 |
| No. of teams | M:19 W:19 |
| Country | Australia |
| Continent | FIBA Oceania (Oceania) |
| Most recent champions | M:Sandringham Sabres (1st title) W:Knox Raiders (1st title) |
| Official website | NBL1.com.au/South |
NBL1 South is a semi-professionalbasketball league inVictoria andTasmania, Australia, comprising both a men's and women's competition. In 2019, Basketball Victoria partnered with theNational Basketball League (NBL) to createNBL1. NBL1 South was the lone conference in 2019, withNorth,Central,West andEast joining over the proceeding three years. Due to theCOVID-19 pandemic, the NBL1 South did not have a season in 2020 and only half a season in 2021.
In October 2018, following the demise of theSouth East Australian Basketball League (SEABL), Basketball Victoria announced a new senior elite league to take the reins as Australia's pre-eminent semi-professional basketball league. All Victorian-based SEABL teams joined the new league, whileEltham Wildcats,Knox Raiders,Ringwood Hawks andWaverley Falcons also joined the league from theBig V.[1] TheNorth-West Tasmania Thunder men andLaunceston Tornadoes women also kept their place, as didBasketball Australia's Centre of Excellence teams.[1] In February 2019, the league was namedNBL1 after Basketball Victoria partnered with theNational Basketball League (NBL).[2][3]
The NBL1 in2019 was a single league and consisted of one conference. After a successful first season, the NBL expanded the NBL1 in2020 by introducing Basketball Victoria's inaugural 2019 league and teams as the new South Conference and partnering with Basketball Queensland and Basketball South Australia to make theQueensland Basketball League (QBL) andSouth Australian Premier League the new North and Central conferences.[4][5][6] However, due to theCOVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 season was cancelled for all three conferences.[7]
On 1 September 2021, the 2021 NBL1 South season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Victoria. With a combined 154 men's and women's games that could not be completed, it was decided to abandon the season with no champions and no individual awards.[8]
* Clubs that transferred from the South East Australian Basketball League (SEABL).
** Clubs that transferred from the Big V (Victoria).
*** Clubs that transferred from the Premier League (South Australia).
| Team | Total Titles | Men's | Women's | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Titles | Winning seasons | Titles | Winning seasons | |||
| Knox Raiders | 2 | 1 | 2023 | 1 | 2025 | |
| Kilsyth Cobras | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2019 | Won the women's inaugural title in 2019. | |
| Nunawading Spectres | 1 | 1 | 2019 | 0 | Won the men's inaugural title in 2019. | |
| Ringwood Hawks | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2022 | ||
| Hobart Chargers | 1 | 1 | 2022 | 0 | ||
| Bendigo Braves | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2023 | ||
| Waverley Falcons | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2024 | ||
| Eltham Wildcats | 1 | 1 | 2024 | 0 | ||
| Sandringham Sabres | 1 | 1 | 2025 | 0 | ||
