Camberwell Basketball runs the Camberwell Dragons, who field close to 60 teams in the VJBL. Its junior domestic side is the Community Basketball League, a competition of 12 clubs and around 500 teams, and it is also affiliated with four clubs playing in the EDJBA.
Written by Cameron James, founder and head coach at Liddicoat Basketball. Coaching juniors in Victoria for nearly a decade.
Last updated August 2026.
Camberwell Basketball has grown over about 26 years from a small family club into a full association. Its representative teams play as the Camberwell Dragons.
The association is unusual in that it sits across two domestic competitions rather than one. It runs its own league, the CBL, and it's also affiliated with clubs playing in the EDJBA.
The Community Basketball League is Camberwell's junior domestic competition. It's made up of 12 clubs with around 500 teams between them.
Those clubs are the base of the whole thing. The Dragons' representative program is built out of players who came up through domestic, which is the normal shape of Victorian junior basketball and works the same way here.
Camberwell is also affiliated with four junior domestic clubs that play in the EDJBA rather than the CBL.
If your child plays for one of those, they're playing EDJBA fixtures, not CBL ones, but the Dragons rep pathway is still open to them.
The Dragons run close to 60 teams in the Victorian Junior Basketball League, which covers Under 12 through to Under 20 across several levels, up to the Victorian Junior Championship at the top.
Sixty teams is a big program. In practice that means there's a level for a wide range of players rather than one team per age group that most kids miss out on.
The pathway continues past juniors into the Big V state competition, so a player who keeps going has somewhere to go after Under 20.
For domestic, go through a club. Which competition your child ends up in depends on which club you pick, so ask whether they play CBL or EDJBA before you sign up.
For rep, watch for Dragons tryout dates. They run once a year and the season is built around them, so missing tryouts means waiting until the following year.
Camberwell Basketball is the association. The Dragons are its representative teams in the VJBL. Most children at Camberwell play domestic rather than for the Dragons.
No. They are two separate junior domestic competitions. Camberwell runs the CBL, and it is also affiliated with four clubs that play in the EDJBA instead.
Pick on location and training night first. Just check whether that club plays CBL or EDJBA, because it decides which competition your child plays in.
Close to 60 in the VJBL, spread across the age groups and levels.
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