Triple Crown (women's basketball) explained
The Triple Crown is a term in European professional club basketball that refers to a club winning their country's top-tier level national domestic league, primary national domestic cup, and the top-tier level European-wide continental competition (FIBA Women's European Champions Cup and EuroLeague Women) in the same season. It is the highest accomplishment that a European basketball club can achieve during a season. Only 10 European basketball clubs have achieved the Triple Crown, on 12 occasions.
All the Triple Crowns achieved
Achievements by club
Triple Crown | Club | Seasons |
style=text-align:center;vertical-align:top | 2 | | 1993–94, 1994–95 |
style=text-align:center;vertical-align:top | | | 2012–13, 2018–19 |
style=text-align:center;vertical-align:top | 1 | | 1978-79 |
style=text-align:center;vertical-align:top | | | 1979-80 |
style=text-align:center;vertical-align:top | | | 1995–96 |
style=text-align:center;vertical-align:top | | | 2004-05 |
style=text-align:center;vertical-align:top | | | 2005-06 |
style=text-align:center;vertical-align:top | | | 2013–14 |
style=text-align:center;vertical-align:top | | | 2014–15 |
style=text-align:center;vertical-align:top | | | 2021–22 |
style=text-align:center;vertical-align:top | | | 2023–24 | |
Achievements by national league
Triple Crown | League | Seasons |
style=text-align:center;vertical-align:top | 3 | | 1979-80, 1993-94, 1994-95 |
style=text-align:center;vertical-align:top | | | 2004-05, 2012-13, 2018-19 |
style=text-align:center;vertical-align:top | 2 | | 2005-06, 2014-15 |
style=text-align:center;vertical-align:top | | | 2013-14, 2023-24 |
style=text-align:center;vertical-align:top | 1 | | 1978-79 |
style=text-align:center;vertical-align:top | | | 1995-96 |
style=text-align:center;vertical-align:top | | | 2021-22 | |
"Small Triple Crown"
Second-tiers
In addition, five European basketball clubs have won their top-tier level national domestic league, their top-tier level national domestic cup, and the 2nd-tier level European-wide competition (Ronchetti Cup and EuroCup Women) in the same season – the so-called, "Small Triple Crown".
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: 2013-14 Women's Turkish League Champions.
- Web site: 2013-14 Women's Turkish Cup Champions.
- http://www.galatasaray.org/basketbol/bayan/haber/19849.php 2013-14 EuroLeague Women Champions
- https://www.fenerbahce.org/haberler/basketbol-kadin/2024/4/fenerbahce-alagoz-holding-namaglup-sampiyon 2023-24 Women's Turkish League Champions
- https://www.fenerbahce.org/haberler/basketbol-kadin/2024/1/dunyanin-en-buyuk-spor-kulubu-fenerbahce-2024-turkiye-kupasi-fenerbahce-alagoz-holding-in-oldu 2023-24 Women's Turkish Cup Champions
- https://www.fenerbahce.org/haberler/basketbol-kadin/2024/4/fenerbahce-alagoz-holding-tarih-yazdi-ust-uste-ikinci-avrupa-sampiyonu-oldu 2023-24 EuroLeague Women Champions
- https://neu.edu.tr/eurocup-sampiyonu-yakin-dogu-universitesi-cumhurbaskani-mustafa-akinci-tarafindan-kabul-edildi/ 2016-17 EuroCup Women Champions