| BNXT League | |
| Organiser: | Dutch Basketball League Pro Basketball League |
| First: | 2021–22 |
| Country: |  BelgiumNetherlands |
| Confed: | FIBA Europe |
| Teams: | 19 |
| Levels: | 1 |
| Domest Cup: | Basketball Cup (Netherlands) Basketball Cup (Belgium) |
| Supercup: | BNXT Supercup Dutch Supercup |
| Confed Cup: | Champions League FIBA Europe Cup |
| Champions: | Filou Oostende (1st title) |
| Most Champs: | ZZ Leiden (2 titles) |
| Ceo: | Wim Van de Keere |
| President: | Ramses Braakman |
| Tv: | (PlaySight Interactive) |
The BNXT League is a professional basketball league in Belgium and the Netherlands. The league is the first tier in both the Dutch and Belgian system, replacing the DBL and PBL. The inaugural season was the 2021–22 season, which started in September 2021.
On 10 December 2020, it was announced that the Belgian Pro Basketball League and Dutch Basketball League would merge to form a new multinational league.[1] All clubs from the Dutch DBL voted for, while 9 of 10 teams in Belgium voted in favor of the decision. Serious talks about the initiative had been ongoing since fall 2019.[2] On 20 May 2021, the new name "BNXT League" and logo of the league were announced.[3]
The league started its inaugural season amidst an ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and a great number of games had to be played behind locked doors as a result of national lockdowns.[4] On 11 June 2022, ZZ Leiden were crowned the inaugural BNXT champions.[5] The following year, on 13 June 2023, Leiden repeated as champions.
On 10 September 2021, the league announced its first name sponsorship when Belgian betting company betFirst signed to become naming sponsor for three seasons.[6]
From 2021–22 to 2023–24, the league consisted of different stages. In the first stage, teams played each other home and away in the national regular season. After this, the teams were divided in the Elite Gold and Elite Silver group for the cross-border season. Next, the teams from the Elite Gold and the 3 best teams from the Elite Silver played in the national playoffs to compete for the national championships. The two winners of the national playoffs then played in the BNXT League Final.[1]
Starting from the 2024–25 season, the league will have a new format in which all 19 teams play each other home and away in the regular season. The highest ranked teams from each country play national playoffs, and the two national winners play for the BNXT championship.[7]
The following 19 teams will play in the 2024-25 season. All teams from the Pro Basketball League and Dutch Basketball League transferred to the BNXT League in 2021. The newest club to have joined the BNXT League are the Kortrijk Spurs, who joined in 2023.
Note: Table lists in alphabetical order.
| Club | Location | Venue | Capacity | Founded | National titles | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antwerp Giants | Antwerp | Lotto Arena | align=center | align=center | 1995 | align=center | 1 | |
| Sporthal Boshoven | align=center | align=center | 2013 | align=center | – | |||
| Brussels Basketball | Brussels | Neder-Over-Heembeek complex | align=center | align=center | 1957 | align=center | – | |
| Sporthal Sportlaan | align=center | align=center | 2016 | align=center | – | |||
| align=center | align=center | 1951 | align=center | 7 | ||||
| align=center | align=center | 1954 | align=center | – | ||||
| align=center | align=center | 1952 | align=center | 17 | ||||
| Kangoeroes Mechelen | Mechelen | Winketkaai | align=center | align=center | 2009 | align=center | – | |
| Kortrijk Spurs | Kortrijk | Lange Munte | align=center | align=center | 2019 | align=center | – | |
| align=center | align=center | 1995 | align=center | 1 | ||||
| Leuven Bears | Leuven | Sportoase | align=center | align=center | 1999 | align=center | – | |
| Limburg United | Hasselt | Alverberg Sporthal | align=center | align=center | 2014 | align=center | – | |
| 2004 | – | |||||||
| Mons-Hainaut | Mons | Mons Arena | align=center | align=center | 1959 | align=center | – | |
| Okapi Aalst | Aalst | Okapi Forum | align=center | align=center | 1949 | align=center | – | |
| Oostende | Ostend | Sleuyter Arena | align=center | align=center | 1970 | align=center | 24 | |
| De Kooi | align=center | align=center | 2020 | align=center | – | |||
| Spirou | Charleroi | Spiroudome | align=center | align=center | 1989 | align=center | 10 | |
| Sportcomplex 1574 | 1958 | align=center | 5 |
| Club | Location | Venue | Capacity | Founded | Seasons | Last season | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apollo Amsterdam | Amsterdam | Apollohal | 2011 | 2 | 2022–23 | |||||
| Liège Basket | Liège | Country Hall | align=center | align=center | 1967 | align=center | 3 | align=center | 2023–24 | |
| The Hague Royals | The Hague | Sportcampus Zuiderpark | 2020 | 1 | 2021–22 |
The finals were played in a two-legged format in 2022, after that season the format was changed to a best-of-three playoffs series.
ZZ Leiden have won both BNXT championships thus far.
| Season | Champions | Score | Runners-up | Finals MVP | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021–22 | ZZ Leiden | 146–142 | Donar | Worthy de Jong | |
| 2022–23 | ZZ Leiden (2) | Oostende | David Collins | ||
| 2023–24 | Oostende | ZZ Leiden | Damien Jefferson |
| Season | Champions | Score | Runners-up | Finals MVP | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021–22 | Heroes Den Bosch | 3–2 | ZZ Leiden | Thomas van der Mars | |
| 2022–23 | ZZ Leiden | 3–2 | Donar | Thomas Rutherford | |
| 2023–24 | ZZ Leiden | 3–1 | Heroes Den Bosch | Brock Gardner |
| Season | Champions | Score | Runners-up | Finals MVP | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021–22 | Oostende | 3–1 | Kangoeroes Mechelen | Keye van der Vuurst de Vries | |
| 2022–23 | Oostende | 3–1 | Antwerp Giants | Vrenz Bleijenbergh | |
| 2023–24 | Oostende | 3–1 | Antwerp Giants | Damien Jefferson |