Basketball club Liepāja returns to the European North Basketball league after a four year break. Third biggest Latvian city has been married with the Baltic Sea and ruling western winds. Once an important military port on the far western edge of the Czarist Russia and the Soviet Union, also interim capital during Latvia`s Independence War, now it serves as a trade port and summer resort. Liepāja has a rich basketball history. First local teams in Latvia were formed around 192

The most ambitious basketball club from Switzerland – Pully Lausanne Foxes – joins the European North Basketball league for the first time. Switzerland has played and continues to play a big part in international basketball. On June 18, 1932, eight national federations – Argentina, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Portugal, Romania and Switzerland – established the International Basketball Federation, FIBA. In May 1935, Geneva hosted the first EuroBasket – a test event

Riga Zelli is the third club from Latvia to play in the European North Basketball league. Valmiera Glass ViA and Liepāja entered the...