National Basketball League (England) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-23

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_League_(England)


00:01:39 1 Senior Competitions
00:03:47 2 History
00:03:56 2.1 Pre-1972
00:05:12 2.2 1972–1986
00:06:05 2.3 1987–1993
00:06:42 2.4 1993–2000
00:07:58 2.5 2000–2003
00:09:05 2.6 English Basketball League 2003–present
00:09:34 3 NBL1 champions
00:09:44 4 See also



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SUMMARY
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The National Basketball League, or NBL for short, is a league competition representing professional, semi-professional and amateur basketball clubs from England and Wales. It forms levels 2 to 5 on the British Basketball pyramid, sitting directly below the top tier British Basketball League, which split from the National League in 1987.
The league has teams split across four levels; NBL1 (14 teams), NBL2 (12 teams), NBL3 North and South (20 teams) and NBL4 North, Midlands, South East and South West (40-48 teams).
The league also runs the English Women's Basketball League, with WNBL1 and WNBL2 North and South, and a junior structure with over 450 junior clubs taking part in under-18s, under-16s and under-14s leagues.From 1972 until 1987, the National Leagues were the premier league system in England. The leagues now sit parallel with Scottish Basketball Championship forming the second tier of basketball in the United Kingdom.
For a period between 2003 and 2015, competitions were restructured and prefixed with the letters EBL, but the league was rebranded once again as the National Basketball League in time for the 2015/2016 season.
There is no promotion and relegation between the National League and the British Basketball League (BBL), which operates a franchise system.  Despite this, several teams have applied to make the step from the League to the BBL in recent years, most notably the Worcester Wolves, the Plymouth Raiders and the Bristol Flyers.