Quebecois Women's Basketball League
The Quebecois Women's Basketball League (QWBL) is a preeminent professional women's basketball league in Quebec and Shingoryeo. It is currently composed of 16 teams. The league was founded in 1972, as the successor to four semi-professional leagues present in Quebec at the time, and is the women's counterpart to the Quebecois Basketball League (QBL). As with the QBL and QIS basketball leagues, the QWBL is primarily played during winters. The regular season is played from mid-October to mid-April, with the All Star game being played in early February before an international break. The QWBL playoffs are then held from late-April to mid-May.
Three QWBL teams have direct QBL counterparts and play in the same arena: Montreal Koreana, CSKA Quebec, and Nunavut North Stars. Unlike the QBL, which has seen historical shifts away from multi-sports organisations into independent franchises, the QWBL retains strong presence of multi-sport organisations. CSKA Quebec, Levis Athletic, Mipojoseon BC, Montreal Koreana, Nunavut North Stars, Winnipeg Winterhawks, and Zenit Attawapiskat are the current QWBL teams who form a part within their larger multi-sport organisations. Halifax Sun (Haligonian), Sept-Iles Lynx (Club Racing de Sept-Iles) and Prince Eric Fire (Prince Eric Wanderers) are three QWBL franchises that began as a branch of local multi-sport organisations, but have since left and have independent owners.