The Albanian Basketball League is a league competition featuring professional basketball clubs from Albania. It was founded in 1946 from the Albanian Basketball Association, several days after the latter was formed. It is the top level basketball league in Albanian from its foundation. The team with the most championships is FK Partizani with 33 championships.
The Albanian Basketball League consists of 12 professional basketball clubs in Albania and it's one of the oldest basketball competition in the Balkans having started in 1946. The sport rapidly grew in Albania and by the 70s almost every city and town had its own basketball club and basketball field. After communism fell many of the basketball clubs folded as many players left the country to play for foreign teams. The basketball attendance decreased and the popularity of this sport fell down worryingly. However, after 1993 basketball rose up again with many cities re-establishing their teams. Now in Albania there are twelve professional teams while there are plenty of amateur teams ready to enter the league.
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