Botswana Basketball Association

Organising body	Botswana Basketball Federation
Founded	1995
Country	Botswana
Number of teams	12
Level on pyramid	1
International cup(s)	Basketball Africa League (BAL)
Current champions	Dolphins (2023)
President	Peter Ubakar

The Botswana Basketball Association (BBA) is the premier basketball league for clubs in Botswana. The league consist out of twelve teams. As of December 2019, the defending champions are Dolphins.

The champions of the BBL are able to play in the qualifying rounds of the Basketball Africa League (BAL).

History

Basketball in Botswana was played informally by mission schools from 1965. In the early 1990s, the first organised games were played. In 1995, the Botswana Basketball Association (BBA) was founded.^[1]

The league has allowed university teams since 2022.^[2]

Current teams

The following were the twelve teams for the 2019 season:^[3]

• Dolphins
• Troopers
• Spartans
• Flames
• BDF V
• Cadets
• Bullets
• Police
• Saints
• Splinters
• Warriors

Champions

• 2009: Troopers
• 2010: Troopers
• 2011: unknown
• 2012: unknown
• 2013: Troopers
• 2014: Troopers
• 2015:Dolphins
• 2016: unknown
• 2017: Dolphins
• 2018: Dolphins
• 2019: unknown
• 2020: Not held
• 2021: Not held
• 2022: Police
• 2023: Dolphins

Finals (since 2013)