Super Basketball League

The Super Basketball League (超級籃球聯賽), often abbreviated as the SBL, is the first tier semi-professional men's basketball league in Taiwan. It was founded in 2003 and considered by many as the successor organization to the short-lived Chinese Basketball Alliance (中華職業籃球聯盟; CBA), a men's professional basketball league that existed from 1994 to 1999 in Taiwan.

For the semi-professional men's and women's basketball leagues in Western Australia, see State Basketball League.
Super Basketball League (SBL)
Current season, competition or edition:
2019–20 Super Basketball League
SportBasketball
Founded2003
No. of teams5
Country Republic of China
ContinentFIBA Asia (Asia)
Most recent
champion(s)		Taiwan Beer (5th title)
Most titlesTaiwan Beer
Taoyuan Pauian Archiland (5 titles each)
Level on pyramid1
Official websiteSBL (in Chinese)

Current clubs

Currently, there are five teams competing in the SBL. They are as follows:

Former and defunct clubs

Champions

Champions and other postseason finishes are listed below:

Season Champions Runners-up Third Place Fourth Place
2003–04 Yulon Dinos Sina Lions[1]
2004–05 Yulon Dinos Dacin Tigers
2005–06 Yulon Dinos Taiwan Beer Dacin Tigers Bank of Taiwan
2006–07 Taiwan Beer Dacin Tigers Videoland Hunters[2] Yulon Dinos
2007–08 Taiwan Beer Yulon Dinos dMedia Genies[3] Pauian Archiland
2008–09 Dacin Tigers Taiwan Beer
2009–10 Yulon Luxgen Dinos Dacin Tigers
2010–11 Taiwan Beer Dacin Tigers
2011–12 Pauian Archiland Dacin Tigers
2012–13 Pauian Archiland Dacin Tigers
2013–14 Pauian Archiland Taiwan Mobile Clouded Leopards[4]
2014–15 Pauian Archiland Taiwan Beer
2015–16 Taiwan Beer Pauian Archiland
2016–17 Dacin Tigers Yulon Luxgen Dinos
2017–18 Taoyuan Pauian Archiland Fubon Braves
2018–19 Fubon Braves Taiwan Beer
2019–20 Taiwan Beer Yulon Luxgen Dinos

Finals appearances

This is a list of the teams which have advanced to the SBL Finals and the overall win-loss records they have registered in the Championship Series.

No.TeamWLPct.Notes
9Taiwan Beer54.556Made four consecutive finals appearances from 2005–06 to 2008–09
7Taoyuan Pauian Archiland52.714Won four league titles in a row from 2011–12 to 2014–15
7Yulon Luxgen Dinos43.571Won three league titles in a row from 2003–04 to 2005–06
8Dacin Tigers26.250Made five consecutive finals appearances from 2008–09 to 2012–13
3Fubon Braves12.333

League MVP

The winner of the Super Basketball League Most Valuable Player (MVP) award is chosen by reporters. The recipients of the award are listed below:

SeasonRegular Season MVPChampionship Series MVP
2003–2004 Tien Lei (田壘) Dacin Tigers Chen Hsin-an (陳信安) Yulon Dinos
2004–2005 Tien Lei Dacin Tigers Tseng Wen-ting (曾文鼎) Yulon Dinos
2005–2006 Tien Lei Dacin Tigers Tseng Wen-ting Yulon Dinos
2006–2007 Lin Chih-chieh (林志傑) Taiwan Beer Lin Chih-chieh Taiwan Beer
2007–2008 Chen Hsin-an (陳信安) Yulon Dinos Lin Chih-chieh Taiwan Beer
2008–2009 Chang Chih-feng (張智峰) Dacin Tigers Chang Chih-feng Dacin Tigers
2009–2010 Tseng Wen-ting Yulon Dinos Chen Chih-chung (陳志忠) Yulon Dinos
2010–2011 Rashad Jennings Pure-Youth Yang Jing-min (楊敬敏) Taiwan Beer
2011–2012 Quincy Davis Pauian Chen Shih-chieh (陳世杰) Pauian
2012–2013 Tsai Wen-cheng (蔡文誠) Pauian Tsai Wen-cheng (蔡文誠) Pauian
2013–2014 Liu Cheng (劉錚) Taiwan Beer Tsai Wen-cheng (蔡文誠) Pauian
2014–2015 Chen Shun-hsiang (陳順詳) Bank of Taiwan Garret Siler Pauian
2015–2016 Chou Yi-hsiang (周儀翔) Dacin Tigers Patrick O'Bryant Taiwan Beer
2016–2017 Chou Yi-hsiang (周儀翔) Dacin Tigers Su I-chieh (蘇翊傑) Dacin Tigers
2017–2018 Lu Cheng-ju (呂政儒) Yulon Dinos Quincy Davis Pauian
2018–2019 Chiang Yu-an (蔣淯安) Taiwan Beer Charles Garcia Fubon Braves
2019–2020 Chiang Yu-an (蔣淯安) Taiwan Beer Chiang Yu-an (蔣淯安) Taiwan Beer

Notable players

Guards
  • Chang Chih-feng (張智峰): 6'0", one-time champion, one-time regular season and finals MVP, two-time All-SBL Team, one-time Defensive Player of the Year, two-time steal champion
  • Chen Chih-chung (陳志忠): 6'0", four-time champion, one-time finals MVP, three-time All-SBL Team, one-time Defensive Player of the Year, one-time assist champion, one-time Sixth Man of the Year
  • Lee Hsueh-lin (李學林): 5'9", four-time champion, one-time All-SBL Team

Forwards
  • Chen Hsin-an (陳信安): 6'5", two-time champion, one-time regular season MVP, one-time finals MVP, one-time All-SBL Team, one-time scoring champion
  • Lin Chih-chieh (林志傑): 6'3", two-time champion, two-time finals MVP, one-time regular season MVP, three-time All-SBL Team, two-time scoring champion
  • Jonathan Sanders (桑德斯): 6'7", three-time All-SBL Team, three-time rebound champion, two-time assist champion, one-time Fighter of the Year (年度最佳鬥士) [5]
  • Tien Lei (田壘): 6'8", one-time champion, three-time regular season MVP, three-time All-SBL Team, three-time rebound champion, two-time scoring champion, one-time steal champion
  • Noel Felix
  • Marcus Fizer
  • Taylor King, Former McDonald's All-American and Duke basketball player

Centers

Women's Super Basketball League
Main article: Women's Super Basketball League

There is also a Women's Super Basketball League (WSBL) in Taiwan, which comprises the following four teams:

  • Cathay Life (國泰人壽)
  • Chunghwa Telecom (中華電信)
  • Taiwan Power (台灣電力)
  • Taiyuan Textile (台元紡織)

See also

References
  1. The Sina Lions are the precursor organization to the Taoyuan Pauian Archiland.
  2. The Videoland Hunters are the precursor organization to the Taipei Fubon Braves.
  3. The dMedia Genies are the precursor organization to the Kaohsiung Jeoutai Technology.
  4. The Taiwan Mobile Clouded Leopards are the precursor organization to the Taipei Fubon Braves.
  5. The SBL Fighter of the Year award is distinct from the MVP award and is not created regularly. It is a rough equivalence to a sportsmanship award and would be given to the player who has won the most Fighter of the Week awards throughout a season when a yearly award is officially created. This has only happened in the 2003-2004 and the 2009-2010 seasons where veteran point guard Chou Chun-San (周俊三) and import forward Jonathan Sanders won the respective awards. The league has never explained the rationale behind its decision to create the Fighter of the Year award in certain seasons but not the others.
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