Syrian Basketball League

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Syrian Basketball League
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event
SportBasketball
Founded1956
No. of teams12
CountrySyria
ContinentFIBA Asia (Asia)
Most recent
champion(s)		Al-Karamah (1st title)
Most titlesJalaa SC (28 titles)
Official websitesyrbf.org

The Syrian Basketball League (Arabic: الدوري السوري لكرة السلة‎) is the top-tier professional men's basketball league in Syria. It is organized annually as a national championship with playoffs and a national cup by the Syrian Basketball Federation. Both Aleppo teams, Jalaa SC and Al-Ittihad SC, dominated the league until 1993.[citation needed]

History[]

Jalaa SC, previously known as Shabibeh, dominated the league from 1956 until 1978. Then another team from Aleppo, Al-Ittihad SC, took all the titles until 1993.[citation needed] Later on, Damascus clubs Al Wahda and won some titles sporadically.[citation needed]

Title holders[]

Season Champion
1956 until 1977–78 Jalaa SC
1978–79 until 1992–93 Al-Ittihad SC
1993–94 Al Wahda
1994–95 Al-Ittihad SC
1995–96 Al-Ittihad SC
1996–97 Al Wahda
1997–98 Al Wahda
1998–99 Al Wahda
1999–2000 Al-Ittihad SC
2000–01 Al Wahda
2001–02 Al Wahda
2002–03 Al Wahda
2003–04
2004–05
2005–06 Al-Ittihad SC
2006–07 Jalaa SC
2007–08 Jalaa SC
2008–09 Jalaa SC
2009–10
2010–11 Jalaa SC
2011–12 Jalaa SC
2012–13
No Championship
2013–14 Al Wahda
2014–15 Al Wahda
2015–16
2016–17
2017–18
2018–19
2019–20
Season was suspended at the semi-finals due to COVID-19 pandemic in Syria
2020–21 Al-Karamah

Performances[]

Performance by club[]

Club Winners Winning years
Jalaa SC
28
 1956 - 1957 - 1958 - 1959 - 1960 - 1961 - 1962 - 1963 - 1964 - 1965 - 1966 - 1967 - 1968 - 1969 - 1970 - 1971 - 1972 - 1973 - 1974 - 1975 - 1976 - 1977 - 1978 - 2007 - 2008 - 2009 - 2011 - 2012
Al-Ittihad SC
19
 1979 - 1980 - 1981 - 1982 - 1983 - 1984 - 1985 - 1986 - 1987 - 1988 - 1989 - 1990 - 1991 - 1992 - 1993 - 1995 - 1996 - 2000 - 2006
Al Wahda
9
 1994 - 1997 - 1998 - 1999 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2014 - 2015
7
 2004 - 2005 - 2010 - 2016 - 2017 - 2018 - 2019
Al-Karamah
1
 2021

Performance by city[]

City Winners Club(s)
Aleppo 47 Jalaa SC, Al-Ittihad SC
Damascus 16 Al Wahda,
Homs 1 Al-Karamah

Current clubs[]

2020–21 teams:[1]

References[]

  1. ^ "Syria – Basketball Division I – Season 2021". asia-basket. Retrieved 18 July 2021.

External links[]

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