The Park Shin-ja Cup, which marks its 10th anniversary this year, invited the Spanish Hungarian team for the first time to raise its status as a full-fledged international competition

Jul 16, 2025

The Park Shin-ja Cup, which marks its 10th anniversary this year, invited the Spanish Hungarian team for the first time to raise its status as a full-fledged international competition





For the first time, the European team participated in the Park Shin-ja Cup, the representative cup competition of women's basketball, which marks its 10th anniversary this year, further solidifying its status as an international competition.

The WKBL (Korea Women's Basketball Federation) announced that it will hold the '2025 BNK Financial Park Shinja Cup' at Sajik Indoor Gymnasium in Busan from August 30 to September 7. The Park Shin-ja Cup, which began its first competition in 2015, celebrated its 10th anniversary this year, and has been expanded to international competitions since 2023, with Asian club teams such as Japan and Taiwan steadily participating. For the first time, two European clubs, Spain and Hungary, will participate in the tournament.




In Korea, six WKBL clubs will participate, and Casa Demont Zaragoza, the runner-up team in the Spanish Women's Basketball First Division, will participate in the 2024-2025 season. In Hungary, DVTK Hunterm, who won the 2025 Hungarian Cup, will play, while in Japan, Fujitsu Red Wave, the unified W-League winner and Park Shin-ja Cup defending champion, and Denso Iris, the runner-up in the W-League, will visit Busan.

In this competition, the first and second-ranked teams in each group will play the semifinals on September 6 and the final on September 7. The prize money will be 15 million won and the runner-up team will be given 10 million won.

The Park Shin-ja Cup was conducted similar to the Futures League, mainly with second-tier players, but as it became an international competition from 2023, all the main players of each team participated and became a stage for good practical experience ahead of the opening of the season. In 2023, Japan's Toyota Antelopes beat Woori Bank to win the championship, and last year, two Japanese teams reached the final and Fujitsu beat Toyota to win the championship cup. With Japan's two strongest teams participating again this year, it is also interesting to see whether six Korean teams will be able to prevent Japan from winning three consecutive championships and how well European women's club teams, which were rarely seen in Korea, will perform.








This article was translated by Naver AI translator.