First professional para-sport league in the
UK to start in 2022Great
Britain rank among top countries across the sportIn a groundbreaking move for both women’s sport and para-sport,
British Wheelchair
basketball will helm a new professional women’s league from 2022, which will mark the world’s first women’s wheelchair basketball league and the first professional para-sport league in the UK.
The British Wheelchair Basketball Women’s
Premier League will run from January to May 2022, with franchises based at four universities: Cardiff Metropolitan University, Loughborough University, University of East
London and University of Worcester. They will also act as elite bases for top male and female players.