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2004 WNBL Finals

postseason tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ96368979 ↗
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The 2004 WNBL Finals was the postseason tournament of the WNBL's 2003–04 season. The Canberra Capitals were the two-time defending champions, but were defeated in the Semi-finals by Adelaide. The Dandenong Rangers won the Grand Final over the Sydney Uni Flames, 63–53, taking home their first ever WNBL title.

Standings

Finals

Semi-finals

(1) Dandenong Rangers vs. (2) Sydney Uni Flames

(3) Adelaide Lightning vs. (4) Canberra Capitals

Preliminary final

(2) Sydney Uni Flames vs. (3) Adelaide Lightning

Grand Final

(1) Dandenong Rangers vs.

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The public source identifies “2004 WNBL Finals” as postseason tournament. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around WNBL, Finals and postseason.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004, 2003—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with WNBL, Finals and postseason providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “2004 WNBL Finals” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.