The 2025 WKBL Futures League, which has been upgraded to an international competition by 10 teams, will participate in a large number of key players

Jun 26, 2025

The 2025 WKBL Futures League, which has been upgraded to an international competition by 10 teams, will participate in a large number of key players





The WKBL (Korea Women's Basketball Federation) confirmed the official name of the 2025 WKBL Futures League, which will be held at Sajik Indoor Gymnasium in Busan from July 2nd to 10th, as '2025 TicketLink WKBL Futures League in Busan' and released the list of players for each team.

A total of 101 players will play from 10 teams, including six WKBL teams, Japan's Tokyo Haneda University selection team, and Singapore and Mongolia's national teams. Among them, the Singapore national team registered the largest number of 15.




In the WKBL, Hana Bank's Park So-hee, the winner of the 2023-2024 Rookie of the Year Award, and Samsung Life Insurance's Jo Su-ah, the winner of the 2024-2025 Six Women's Award, will participate, and Kang Gye-ri, who was traded from Shinhan Bank to Woori Bank in April, will debut to fans in a new uniform. In addition, four out of six round MIPs (Hana Bank Ko Seo-yeon, BNK Some Park Sung-jin, KB Stars Lee Chae-eun, and Lee Yoon-mi) will play in the Futures League in the 2024-2025 season. This means that there will be a large number of players who will be the main players this season.

In addition, five Asian quarter players in the 2025-2026 season selected in June were also included. Two clubs, BNK Sum Nakazawa Rina, Snagawa Natsuki, Shinhan Bank Mima Rui and Hirano Mitsuki, registered both starters, and Samsung Life Insurance listed Nanami Hamanishi, who was selected as the 7th overall (second in the second round). However, it is expected that Asian quarter players will be decided whether to play or not in consideration of the domestic visa issuance situation.

Overseas teams include Nako Motohashi of Tokyo Haneda, who served as the national team for the 2024 Paris Olympics and 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Segawa Raina, a Japanese university starter who played for the Japanese national team in the 2024 William Jones Cup, and Reuters Ariel, who was selected as the youngest national team member in Singapore's women's basketball team history at the age of 15 in 2017.




Meanwhile, the start time of the final match, which was scheduled for 2 p.m. on July 10, has been changed to 4 p.m.








This article was translated by Naver AI translator.