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Czech Basketball Federation

Czech sport organization

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ3741218 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Czech Basketball Federation (Czech: Česká basketbalová federace), also known as ČBF, is the governing body of basketball in the Czech Republic. It was founded after the dissolution of the unified state in 1993, with the Slovakia national basketball team continuing as the successor of the Czechoslovak team.

They organize national competitions in the Czech Republic for the Czech men's national team and Czech women's national team.

The top level professional league is the National Basketball League.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Czech Basketball Federation” as czech sport organization. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Czech, Basketball and Federation.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1990-05-24. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Czech, Basketball and Federation providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Czech Basketball Federation”, the useful work is to connect “czech sport organization” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3741218. VIAF identifies the subject as 134181078. 2 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1993.

Critical limits

Later summaries often reconcile disputed chronology or motive more neatly than the contemporary record permits. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Czech Basketball Federation”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Czech Basketball Federation primary sources, Czech Basketball Federation archive and Czech research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  3. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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This entry incorporates text from “Czech Basketball Federation” 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.