2022–23 Women's British Basketball League season

2022–23 WBBL season
2022–23 WBBL season
League	WBBL
Season	2022–23
Teams	12
Regular season
League	London Lions (2nd title)
WBBL Cup	London Lions (2nd title)
WBBL Trophy	London Lions (3rd title)
Finals
Champions	London Lions (3rd title)
WBBL seasons
	← 2021–22 2023-24 →

The 2022–23 WBBL season was the ninth season of the Women's British Basketball League, the top British women's professional basketball league, since its establishment in 2014. The season features 12 teams from across England, Scotland and Wales.

Teams

Team	Location	Arena	Head Coach
Caledonia Gladiators	Paisley	Lagoon Centre	Miguel Ángel Ortega Marco
Cardiff Met Archers	Cardiff	Archers Arena	Stef Collins
Durham Palatinates	Durham	Sports and Wellbeing Park	Matt Newby
Essex Rebels	Colchester	Essex Sports Arena	Tom Sadler
Leicester Riders	Loughborough	Loughborough University	Krumesh Patel
London Lions	London (Barking)	Barking Abbey School	Styliani Kaltsidou
Manchester Met Mystics	Manchester	National Basketball Centre	Jeff Jones
Newcastle Eagles	Newcastle upon Tyne	Eagles Community Arena	Noelia Cacheiro
Nottingham Wildcats	Nottingham	Nottingham Wildcats Arena	Kenrick Liburd
Oaklands Wolves	St Albans	Oaklands College	Lauren Milligan
Sevenoaks Suns	Sevenoaks	Sevenoaks Sports Centre	Len Busch
Sheffield Hatters	Sheffield	All Saints Sports Centre	Vanessa Ellis

WBBL Championship

Each team will play each other once home and once away for a 22-game regular season. The top 8 teams will qualify for the post-season playoffs. ^[1]

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	London Lions (C)	22	21	1	2060	1149	+911	42	Qualification to playoffs
2	Caledonia Gladiators	22	17	5	1562	1327	+235	34
3	Leicester Riders	22	17	5	1626	1293	+333	34
4	Sheffield Hatters	22	16	6	1707	1423	+284	32
5	Sevenoaks Suns	22	15	7	1635	1449	+186	30
6	Essex Rebels	22	10	12	1526	1626	−100	20
7	Cardiff Met Archers	22	9	13	1603	1755	−152	18
8	Newcastle Eagles	22	9	13	1451	1632	−181	18

9	Durham Palatinates	22	9	13	1539	1656	−117	18
10	Oaklands Wolves	22	5	17	1485	1998	−513	10
11	Nottingham Wildcats	22	3	19	1389	1835	−446	6
12	Manchester Met Mystics	22	1	21	1201	1641	−440	2

Source: WBBL
(C) Champions

WBBL Cup

The 2022–23 WBBL Cup will be a straight knockout competition featuring all twelve clubs. The top 4 teams from the 2021–22 WBBL Championship (London Lions, Sevenoaks Suns, Sheffield Hatters and Leicester Riders) received a bye to the quarter-finals. The remaining teams were seeded based on their finishing positions in the 2021–22 WBBL Championship.

First round

15 Oct 2022

Durham Palatinates

84–65

Manchester Met Mystics

15 Oct 2022

20–0

15 Oct 2022

96–61

16 Oct 2022

72–68

Quarter-finals

12 Nov 2022

69–56

12 Nov 2022

64–67

12 Nov 2022

102–48

13 Nov 2022

53–80

Semi-finals

18 Dec 2022

69–84

18 Dec 2022

83–69

Final

29 Jan 2023

Leicester Riders	42–95	London Lions
Pts: O. Squires (23) Rebs: A. Arlen (7) Asts: A. Arlen, H. Robb, K. Brown (2)		Pts: M. Herbert Harrigan (19) Rebs: M. Herbert Harrigan (6) Asts: H. Winterburn (9)