Israeli Female Basketball Premier League
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The Israeli Female Basketball Premier League or Ligat ha'Al (Hebrew : ליגת העל בכדורסל נשים), is a women's professional basketball
league in Israel
. It is currently composed of eleven teams.
The league was founded in 1957. Initially the most predominant teams in the league were veteran women basketball clubs such as Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Tel Aviv, who won almost yearly during the first two decades after the establishment of the league. This changed in 1976 when the team Elitzur Tel Aviv began winning all of the league's championships for 19 years straight. During the 1990s the trend again changed as the most prominent championship winners became Electra Ramat Hasharon and Elitzur Ramla
.
The champions of the 2010/2011 season were Elitzur Ramla
. Elitzur Tel Aviv and Elitzur Holon share the distinction of having won the most championship trophies – 20 each.
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
league in Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
. It is currently composed of eleven teams.
The league was founded in 1957. Initially the most predominant teams in the league were veteran women basketball clubs such as Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Tel Aviv, who won almost yearly during the first two decades after the establishment of the league. This changed in 1976 when the team Elitzur Tel Aviv began winning all of the league's championships for 19 years straight. During the 1990s the trend again changed as the most prominent championship winners became Electra Ramat Hasharon and Elitzur Ramla
Elitzur Ramla (women's basketball)
-History:In March 2011, Elitzur Ramla won the EuroCup Women, after a 61-53 triumph against ASPTT Arras from France. It is considered the best team in the history of Israeli women's basketball...
.
The champions of the 2010/2011 season were Elitzur Ramla
Elitzur Ramla (women's basketball)
-History:In March 2011, Elitzur Ramla won the EuroCup Women, after a 61-53 triumph against ASPTT Arras from France. It is considered the best team in the history of Israeli women's basketball...
. Elitzur Tel Aviv and Elitzur Holon share the distinction of having won the most championship trophies – 20 each.
The League's teams (2011/12 season)
| Club | City |
|---|---|
| Elektra Ramat Hasharon | Ramat Hasharon Ramat Hasharon Ramat HaSharon is a city located on Israel's central coastal strip in the south of the Sharon region, bordering Tel Aviv to the south and Herzliya and Kibbutz Glil Yam to the north. It is part of the Tel Aviv District, within Gush Dan metropolitan area... |
| Maccabi Bnot Ashdod Maccabi Bnot Ashdod Maccabi Bnot Ashdod is a professional Women's basketball team based in Ashdod, playing in the Ligat Ha'al in Israel since 2003. It is the Women's basketball division of the Maccabi Ashdod sports club.... |
Ashdod |
| Elitzur Ramla Elitzur Ramla (women's basketball) -History:In March 2011, Elitzur Ramla won the EuroCup Women, after a 61-53 triumph against ASPTT Arras from France. It is considered the best team in the history of Israeli women's basketball... |
Ramla Ramla Ramla , is a city in central Israel. The city is predominantly Jewish with a significant Arab minority. Ramla was founded circa 705–715 AD by the Umayyad Caliph Suleiman ibn Abed al-Malik after the Arab conquest of the region... |
| Maccabi Ramat Hen | Ramat Gan |
| Elitzur Netanya | Netanya Netanya Netanya is a city in the Northern Centre District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is located north of Tel Aviv, and south of Haifa between the 'Poleg' stream and Wingate Institute in the south and the 'Avichail' stream in the north.Its of beaches have made the... |
| Elitzur Holon | Holon |
| Bnot Hasharon | Herzliya Herzliya Herzliya is a city in the central coast of Israel, at the western part of the Tel Aviv District. It has a population of 87,000 residents. Named after Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism, Herzliya covers an area of 26 km²... |
| Hapoel Tel Aviv | Tel Aviv Tel Aviv Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with... |
| Hapoel Rishon LeZion | Rishon LeZion |
| Moadon Cadorsal Habik'a | Ganei Tikva Ganei Tikva -External links:* *... |
| Hapoel Petah Tikva | Petah Tikva Petah Tikva Petah Tikva known as Em HaMoshavot , is a city in the Center District of Israel, east of Tel Aviv.According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, at the end of 2009, the city's population stood at 209,600. The population density is approximately... |
Championships by teams
| Place | Team | Championships |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elitzur Tel Aviv | 20 |
| 2 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 11 |
| 3 | Elitzur Ramla Elitzur Ramla (women's basketball) -History:In March 2011, Elitzur Ramla won the EuroCup Women, after a 61-53 triumph against ASPTT Arras from France. It is considered the best team in the history of Israeli women's basketball... |
8 |
| 4 | Hapoel Tel Aviv | 7 |
| 5 | Electra Ramat Hasharon | 6 |