The Middle European League, shortly MEL (in Hungarian: Közép-Európai Liga) was a top-level regional women's basketball league, featuring teams from Hungary, Slovakia and Croatia. The competition was founded in 2012 and folded after two seasons in 2014.

History

Originally created as a joint Hungarian-Slovak competition, the inaugural season had 8 teams competing (4 from Hungary and 4 from Slovakia). It ran simultaneously with the Hungarian and Slovak domestic leagues, and the results between teams from the same country counted for both MEL and domestic leagues.[1]

In the second and last season, 11 teams participated (5 from Hungary, 5 from Slovakia and 1 from Croatia).[1]

Finals

Season Host Final Bronze final
Winner Score Runner-up Third place Score Fourth place
2012–13[2] Slovakia Košice Slovakia
Good Angels Košice 		62–58 Hungary
UNIQA Euroleasing Sopron 		Slovakia
MBK Ružomberok 		79–41 Hungary
UNI Győr
2013–14[3] Slovakia Košice Slovakia
Good Angels Košice 		70–63 Hungary
UNIQA Euroleasing Sopron 		Hungary
PEAC-Pécs 		64–58 Croatia
Novi Zagreb

Champions

Team Winners Runners-up Years Won Years Runner-up
Slovakia Good Angels Košice
2
–
 2013, 2014 –
Hungary UNIQA Euroleasing Sopron
–
2
 – 2013, 2014

MVP by edition

References

  1. ^ a b "About MEL". MEL Basket. Archived from the original on 1 April 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  2. ^ "Premiérový titul MEL ostal v Košiciach". MEL Basket (in Slovak). Archived from the original on 28 June 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  3. ^ "MEL conquered by Good Angels". MEL Basket. Archived from the original on 17 August 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  4. ^ "Middle European League 2013-2014 - Women Basketball". Eurobasket. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_European_League
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