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NBL1 EAST & Waratah League

Illawarra Hawks

News

NBL1 is a semi-professional basketball league in Australia, consisting of South, North, Central, West Conferences and East Conferences with both men’s and women’s competitions.

 

Each conference is run by their respective state governing body, with the league including 72 clubs from across every state and territory.

 

The league replaced the South East Australian Basketball League (SEABL), Australia’s pre-eminent semi-professional basketball league between 1981 and 2018.

The Spalding Waratah League is the senior basketball league in NSW, which comprises of 5 divisions. The season commences in March each year with the finals weekend being held in August. 

Basketball NSW in partnership with Wheelchair Sports NSW/ACT unveiled the inaugural teams set to compete in the new Spalding Waratah Wheelchair League which began in 2022.

The NBL1 East inaugural season was in 2022. 

Both teams made it through to the finals.

Information for the 2025 Senior Representative Program will be available soon.​

Youth Trials

 

Please note that players may be cut from the trial squad at any time during the trial period.

Squad lists will be posted here TEAM SQUAD LIST (below) by Friday 5 pm following each trial.

If your name is not on the lists below unfortunately you have not progressed in our trial process for this year.

2025 REP TRIAL SQUAD  SQUAD LIST
2025 Youth League Men IBA Trial Squad List
2025 Youth League Women IBA Trial Squad List

SEASON 2025 MEMBERSHIPS ARE COMING

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