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 1922 in capital...

The most decorated basketball club from Cyprus – TRIA EKA AEL BC – joins the European North Basketball league. Cyprus Basketball federation and Cyprus Basketball league were established in 1966. ECOMMBX Basket League features 10 teams and celebrated its 60 years anniversary in 2026. Cyprus until recent times successfully competed at the Games of the Small States of Europe, winning nine titles in men`s basketball (1985, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2017). Biggest rivals – Iceland,...

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 preceding the...