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Plovdiv — NBL bronze medalist in the 2020/21 season and Balkan League runner-up.

Botevgrad — eight-time Bulgarian champion (most recently in 2026), playing in the country's largest basketball arena, Arena Botevgrad.

Stara Zagora — winner of both the Bulgarian Cup and the Balkan League in 2017, also lifting the Super Cup that same year.

Vratsa — a young club founded in 2012 that earned promotion to the country's top flight.

Varna — a club with roots going back to 1923, whose academy product Georgi Glushkov was the first Eastern European player in the NBA.

Sofia — twelve-time Bulgarian champion and seventeen-time Cup winner, twice a European Champions Cup quarter-finalist in the 1960s.

Sofia — sixteen-time Bulgarian champion and the country's most decorated club, with more than 60 trophies combined with the women's team.

Plovdiv — in its very first season back in the top flight (2025/26), the club unexpectedly fought its way through to the championship final.

Pernik — named after the legendary Minyor women's team, six-time Bulgarian champions in the 1970s and 80s, promoted to the top flight in 2023.

Dupnitsa — a newcomer to the top flight starting with the 2026/27 season.

Samokov — the defending champion, having won the Bulgarian title in both 2024 and 2025.

Shumen — a long-standing member of the top flight from northeastern Bulgaria.

Pleven — playing as Plama, the club sensationally beat Real Madrid, then featuring Željko Obradović and Dejan Bodiroga, on home court in 1996.

Yambol — a city with an 80-year basketball tradition, returning to the NBL after years away from the top flight in 2026/27.