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The French Women's League 2 (LF2) basketball championship is the second national division of women's professional basketball in France. This championship is the antechamber of the Women's Basketball League. It is placed under the aegis of the French Basketball Federation.

History
Since its creation, NF1 has always been the antechamber of the LFB, with a very variable level and budgets between teams. Until 2006, 14 teams played in this championship. But during 2006, the French Basketball Federation wanted to reward the dynamism of certain clubs (the Toulouse Basket Club for example) by organizing barriers to the accession of NF2 to NF1. This sudden change was not to the liking of the clubs relegated that year from NF1 to NF2. This is how the transition from 14 to 16 clubs took place. In 2010, the National Women's 1 is renamed the "Women's Basketball League 2" and, by changing its status to a semi-professional league, is even more clearly affirmed as the antechamber of the Women's Basketball League. In 2011, the number of teams in the league move on from 16 to 14 teams.

Conduct of the competition
Currently, the league is made up of 14 clubs, which compete in 26 round-trip matches. At the end of the regular season, from 2011 to 2014: From 2015 with only one accession to the Women's Basketball League, the formula is modified. The champion is the winner of the Final Four, held on the field of the first of the regular season, which pits the first two of the regular season against the winners of the 3rd and 6th places and the 4th and 5th places.
 * the first is promoted to LFB;
 * the last four are relegated to NF1;
 * the second promoted to LFB is the winner of the Final 4 which takes place at the first of the regular season (in this case designated French champion of LF2) or, failing that, the finalist of the Final 4.