8-588: Waverley Falcons is a NBL1 South club based in Melbourne , Victoria . The club fields a team in both the Men's and Women's NBL1 South. The club is a division of Waverley Basketball Association (WBA), the major administrative basketball organisation in the City of Monash . The Falcons play their home games at Waverley Basketball Centre. Waverley Basketball Association was established in 1976. Their representative division,
16-695: The COVID-19 pandemic , the NBL1 South did not have a season in 2020 and only half a season in 2021. In October 2018, following the demise of the South East Australian Basketball League (SEABL), Basketball Victoria announced a new senior elite league to take the reins as Australia's pre-eminent semi-professional basketball league. All Victorian-based SEABL teams joined the new league, while Eltham Wildcats , Knox Raiders , Ringwood Hawks and Waverley Falcons also joined
24-685: The 2021 NBL1 South season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Victoria. With a combined 154 men's and women's games that could not be completed, it was decided to abandon the season with no champions and no individual awards. * Clubs that transferred from the South East Australian Basketball League (SEABL). ** Clubs that transferred from the Big V (Victoria). *** Clubs that transferred from
32-638: The NBL expanded the NBL1 in 2020 by introducing Basketball Victoria's inaugural 2019 league and teams as the new South Conference and partnering with Basketball Queensland and Basketball South Australia to make the Queensland Basketball League (QBL) and South Australian Premier League the new North and Central conferences. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the 2020 season was cancelled for all three conferences. On 1 September 2021,
40-830: The Waverley Falcons, was formed in 1982. In 1994, the Falcons women won the Country Victorian Invitational Basketball League (CVIBL) championship. Waverley joined the Big V in 2000. Between 2007 and 2009, the women's team lost three straight Big V grand final series to the Hume City Broncos. In 2010 and 2011, the men's team won back-to-back Big V championships . Waverley joined the NBL1 in 2019 . The 2020 NBL1 season
48-555: The grand final. NBL1 South NBL1 South is a semi-professional basketball league in Victoria and Tasmania , Australia, comprising both a men's and women's competition. In 2019, Basketball Victoria partnered with the National Basketball League (NBL) to create NBL1 . NBL1 South was the lone conference in 2019, with North , Central , West and East joining over the proceeding three years. Due to
56-420: The league from the Big V . The North-West Tasmania Thunder men and Launceston Tornadoes women also kept their place, as did Basketball Australia 's Centre of Excellence teams. In February 2019, the league was named NBL1 after Basketball Victoria partnered with the National Basketball League (NBL). The NBL1 in 2019 was a single league and consisted of one conference. After a successful first season,
64-734: Was cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic . In 2023, the women's team lost in the NBL1 South grand final to the Bendigo Braves . The women's team returned to the NBL1 South grand final in 2024, where they won the NBL1 South championship with an 87–82 victory over the Keilor Thunder. They went on to win the NBL1 National championship at the 2024 NBL1 National Finals , where they defeated the Bendigo Braves 97–49 in
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