Bundesliga Betting

The Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) is the highest-level professional club basketball league in Germany and consists of 18 teams that play each other in home and away matches during the regular season.

A BBL season runs from September to June and is divided into two stages: a championship followed by a second stage with playoffs for the top eight teams, while the last two are relegated to the Pro A.

Basketball is quite popular in Germany — mainly because of two German players who have made great careers in the NBA: Detlef Schrempf and Dirk Nowitzki.

In addition to the league competition, all BBL teams and lower divisions compete for the German Cup.

Throughout the season, make basketball bets on our online sports betting platform.

Betting on Bundesliga Basketball

The champions for the past two seasons are ALBA Berlin. The team from the German capital has played in the last four finals. They have won the title in the last two seasons, despite not finishing on top of the standings at the end of the regular season.

Instead, in three of the last four seasons, it was Bayern Munich who finished top of the league at the end of the regular season. In the previous eight seasons, the current leader in the standings had won about thirty wins in thirty-four League games.

Betting on German basketball teams in Europe

Bayern Munich has a long-term license to play EuroLeague basketball every season. No German team has made it to the final in the EuroLeague (all EuroLeague basketball bets).

German teams are slowly rising in recognition and have managed to play in some European finals — the EuroCup 2019 final for ALBA Berlin and the FIBA European Cup for Oliver Würzburg in the same year.

In the Champions League (all FIBA Champions League bets), MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg in 2018 and Borse Baskets Bamberg in 2019 got to the semi-finals.

Recommended bets in Bundesliga Basketball

As with most basketball games, we recommend betting on the team with a good point spread.

Basketball is a sport where winning teams regularly score around 100 points. Last season's top six finished the regular season with between 2900 up to 3100 total points scored during the regular season and a point spread of +148 to +406.