The Edmonton Stingers - Building a Community Through Basketball
The Stingers are founded on three pillars: Championship level basketball, the best fan experience in Edmonton, and community engagement. Over the past four years, the Stingers have led the league in all of these categories, capturing half of the CEBL (Canadian Elite Basketball League) titles, ranking in the top for ticket sales, and launching numerous community outreach initiatives. Season 5 will see the Stingers push the boundaries of these pillars even further.
The Edmonton Stingers are a Canadian professional basketball team based in Edmonton, Alberta. They compete in the Canadian Elite Basketball League and play their home games at the HIVE arena at the Edmonton Expo Centre. The Stingers' mascot is Buzz, a hornet, inspired by the CF-18 based in Cold Lake. In 2022 the Stingers were in sixth place out of 10 teams in the league.
The Canadian Elite Basketball League is a men's professional minor league basketball organization. The CEBL was founded in 2017 and began play in 2019 with six teams competing all owned and operated by ownership group Canadian Basketball Ventures.