The Austrian Basketball Superliga (English: Basketball Super League) is the highest tier basketball league in Austria. Established in 2019, it replaced the Austrian Basketball Bundesliga (ABL) as the first level competition in the country. The winners of the Superliga are crowned Austrian champions. The competition aimed to start "a new era" in Austrian basketball. In its inaugural season , the competition consisted of ten teams.
5-471: The Basketball Superliga was established in the summer of 2019 to replace the Austrian Bundsliga . Television contracts were signed with Sky Sport and ORF . All games will also be streamed online. On 9 August 2019, the ten teams that would compete in the inaugural season were announced, with nine teams coming from last ÖBL season. The new league's first season was ended prematurely because of
10-538: The COVID-19 pandemic . On 16 May 2021, Swans Gmunden won the first Superliga championship. In the Superliga, teams first play each other in the regular season home and away. After this the teams ranked 1–6 and 7-10 are divided in two groups to qualify for the playoffs. In the playoffs, the best eight teams play each other for the national championship in best-of-five series. The two lowest placed teams play against
15-514: The channels were then further rebranded to Premiere Sport 1 and 2 became Sky Sport 1 and 2, while Premiere Austria became Sky Sport Austria and Premiere HD was divided into Sky Sports HD and Sky Cinema HD. Sky Sport News HD, a sports news channel, launched on 1 December 2011 in a basic package ( Sky Welt ). The channels that make up the Sky package broadcast from the Astra 19.2°E satellite position, using
20-598: The top two teams of the Basketball Zweite Liga (B2L). Sky Sport (Germany) Sky Sport is a group of sports satellite TV channels in the German language produced and broadcast by Sky Deutschland . Sky Sport can trace its roots back to the sports channels on the DF1 platform launched in 1996: DSF Plus, DSF Action and DSF Golf. It also has origins in the analogue Premiere channel, launched in 1993, which
25-421: Was also sports-focused. On 1 October 1999, DF1 was turned into Premiere World and sport channels were rebrand on the platforms, to Premiere Sport 1 and 2. When more than two simultaneous events were available, the service could be increased to up to thirteen parallel channels. On 26 October 2002, a service for Austria, called Premiere Austria, was launched. When Premiere became Sky Deutschland on 4 July 2009,
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