2024–25 ABA League First Division

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Season	2024–25
Games played	40
Teams	16
TV partner(s)	Arena Sport
Records
Biggest home win	Partizan Mozzart Bet 113–78 Cibona; (6 October 2024)
Biggest away win	Zadar 55–91 Budućnost VOLI; (12 October 2024)
Highest scoring	Krka 106–109 FMP Soccerbet; (11 November 2024)
Lowest scoring	Borac 61–73 Split; (27 October 2024)
Winning streak	Partizan Mozzart Bet; 9 games
Losing streak	Mornar Barsko zlato; 6 games
	← 2023–24 2025–26 → All statistics correct as of 17 November 2024.

The 2024–25 AdmiralBet ABA League is the 23rd season of the ABA League with first time ever expansion format to 16 teams. Teams from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia will participate in it, but also with inclusion of the new team Dubai from UAE, which would be the first time since the season 2014/2015 that team outside of territory of the former Yugoslavia would compete in the league.^[1]

Promotion and relegation

Promoted	Spartak Office Shoes	2023–24 ABA 2 Champion
Affiliation	Dubai	No competition
Relegated	No teams were relegated.

Venues and locations

Belgrade

Podgorica

Belgrade clubs:

Crvena zvezda
FMP
Mega
Partizan

Podgorica clubs:

Budućnost
SC Derby

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Location of teams in the 2024–25 season

Locations of the teams from Belgrade in the 2024–25 season

Dubai

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Location of the team Dubai in the 2024–25 season

Team	Home city	Arena	Capacity
Borac Mozzart	Čačak	Borac Hall	4,000
Budućnost VOLI	Podgorica	Morača Sports Center	6,000
Cedevita Olimpija	Ljubljana	Arena Stožice	12,480
Cibona	Zagreb	Dražen Petrović Hall	5,400
Crvena zvezda Meridianbet	Belgrade	Aleksandar Nikolić Hall	8,000
Dubai	Dubai	Coca-Cola Arena	17,000
FMP Soccerbet	Belgrade	Železnik Hall	3,000
Igokea m:tel	Aleksandrovac	Laktaši Sports Hall	3,050
Krka	Novo Mesto	Leon Štukelj Hall	2,500
Mega MIS	Belgrade	Ranko Žeravica Sports Hall	5,000
Mornar Barsko zlato	Bar	Topolica Sport Hall	2,625
Partizan Mozzart Bet	Belgrade	Štark Arena	18,386
SC Derby	Podgorica	Morača Sports Center	6,000
Spartak Office Shoes	Subotica	Dudova Šuma Hall	2,000
Split	Split	Arena Gripe	3,500
Zadar	Zadar	Krešimir Ćosić Hall	7,997

Personnel and sponsorship

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Borac Mozzart	Saša Ocokoljić	Uroš Čarapić		MozzartSport / P.S. Fashion
Budućnost VOLI	Andrej Žakelj	Aleksa Ilić	Spalding	VOLI / Podgorica Capital City
Cedevita Olimpija	Zvezdan Mitrović	Jaka Blažič	Adidas	Cedevita
Cibona	Bariša Krasić	Krešimir Radovčić	GBT	Erste Bank
Crvena zvezda Meridianbet	Ioannis Sfairopoulos	Branko Lazić	Adidas	Meridian / mts
Dubai	Jurica Golemac	Klemen Prepelič	Adidas
FMP Soccerbet	Saša Nikitović	Ognjen Kuzmić	Adidas	Soccerbet
Igokea m:tel	Nenad Stefanović	Dragan Milosavljević	GBT	m:tel
Krka	Dejan Jakara	Jan Špan		Krka
Mega MIS	Marko Barać	Kosta Kondić	Adidas	Medical Innovation Solutions
Mornar Barsko zlato	Mihailo Pavićević	Milija Miković	DaCapo	Bar Municipality / Barsko zlato
Partizan Mozzart Bet	Željko Obradović	Vanja Marinković	Under Armour	NIS / Mozzart Bet
SC Derby	Petar Mijović	Nikola Pavličević	Spalding	Derby
Spartak Office Shoes	Vlada Jovanović	Miloš Milisavljević		Office Shoes
Split	Slaven Rimac	Shannon Shorter	Macron	Groupama
Zadar	Danijel Jusup	Marko Ramljak	Macron	OTP Bank / PSK

Coaching changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced with	Date of appointment	Ref.
Igokea	Marko Cvetković	end of 2023–24 season	Off-season	Nenad Stefanović	18 June 2024	^[2]
Krka	Gašper Okorn	28 May 2024		Dejan Jakara	22 June 2024	^[3]^[4]
Cedevita Olimpija	Zoran Martič	3 June 2024		Zvezdan Mitrović	3 June 2024	^[5]^[6]
Cibona	Dino Repeša	7 June 2024		Chris Thomas	29 August 2024	^[7]^[8]
Borac Mozzart	Dejan Mijatović	18 June 2024		Saša Ocokoljić	5 July 2024	^[9]^[10]
SC Derby	Dejan Jakara	18 June 2024		Petar Mijović	19 June 2024	^[11]^[12]
Cibona	Chris Thomas	13 October 2024	15th (1–3)	Bariša Krasić	13 October 2024	^[13]

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Partizan Mozzart Bet	7	7	0	640	482	+158	14	Advance to the Playoffs
2	Budućnost VOLI	7	6	1	603	467	+136	13
3	Dubai	7	6	1	614	564	+50	13
4	Crvena zvezda Meridianbet	7	5	2	595	547	+48	12
5	Spartak Office Shoes	7	4	3	593	561	+32	11
6	Mega MIS	7	4	3	543	529	+14	11
7	Igokea m:tel	7	4	3	533	538	−5	11
8	SC Derby	7	3	4	558	553	+5	10
9	FMP Soccerbet	7	3	4	544	562	−18	10
10	Split	7	3	4	542	562	−20	10
11	Borac Mozzart	7	3	4	525	563	−38	10
12	Cedevita Olimpija	7	2	5	549	597	−48	9
13	Zadar	7	2	5	509	557	−48	9
14	Krka	7	2	5	542	591	−49	9
15	Cibona	7	1	6	539	633	−94	8	Qualification to the relegation playoffs
16	Mornar Barsko zlato	7	1	6	510	633	−123	8	Relegation to the Second Division

Updated to match(es) played on 4 November 2024. Source: ABA League

Positions by round

	Advance to the Playoffs		Qualification to the relegation playoffs		Relegated

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Team ╲ Round
Partizan Mozzart Bet	2	2	1	2	1	1	1	1	1
Budućnost VOLI	1	1	2	1	2	2	2	2	2
Crvena zvezda Meridianbet	9	8	8	5	5	4	4	3	3
Dubai	8	4	6	4	4	3	3	4	4
Spartak Subotica	11	12	11	8	10	7	5	5	5
Igokea m:tel	7	5	7	10	7	6	7	9	6
SC Derby	6	10	4	7	8	9	8	6	7
Mega MIS	5	3	3	3	3	5	6	7	8
Split	10	15	12	12	11	10	10	10	9
Zadar	3	6	9	14	14	14	13	11	10
FMP Soccerbet	4	9	5	6	6	8	9	8	11
Cedevita Olimpija	13	14	10	9	12	12	12	14	12
Borac Mozzart	15	7	13	13	13	13	11	12	13
Krka	12	13	15	11	9	11	14	13	14
Cibona	14	11	14	15	15	15	15	15	15
Mornar Barsko zlato	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16

Updated to match(es) played on 17 November 2024. Source: ABA League

Results

Home \ Away	BOR	BUD	COL	CIB	CZV	DBC	FMP	IGO	KRK	MEG	MOR	PAR	SPR	SPL	SCD	ZAD
Borac Mozzart	—	82–88							80–71			74–87		61–73
Budućnost VOLI		—			73–75					77–69			75–78	97–75
Cedevita Olimpija		71–91	—			84–92				93–82				76–74
Cibona				—		74–102			74–81					72–71	75–69	69–87
Crvena zvezda Meridianbet			92–86	105–85	—			91–68			91–72
Dubai						—			91–76	80–83			80–79
FMP Meridian	74–67		75–62	89–84			—					64–91				67–83
Igokea m:tel	72–79	71–76	91–78	95–84				—
Krka							106–109		—	70–80			87–89		97–91	73–81
Mega MIS					76–81		83–80	64–73		—	84–59
Mornar Barsko zlato	90–98	86–84	82–92	92–85							—	78–105
Partizan Mozzart Bet	96–66			113–78		82–61			96–63			—
Spartak Subotica							93–86	86–75			85–64	80–89	—
Split					85–78			74–79		90–80			71–91	—	88–85
SC Derby						86–87	82–76				99–91	60–80	84–76		—	86–62
Zadar		55–91	81–73		77–84			76–79				71–75				—

Updated to match(es) played on 17 November 2024. Source: ABA League
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.
Matches with lighter background shading were decided after overtime.

Results by round

The table lists the results of teams in each round.

	Win		Loss		Postponed

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Team ╲ Round
Partizan Mozzart Bet	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W
Budućnost VOLI	W	W	W	W	L	W	W	W	L
Crvena zvezda Meridianbet	L	W	L	W	W	W	W	W	W
Dubai	W	W	L	W	W	W	W	L	W
Spartak Office Shoes	L	L	W	W	L	W	W	W	W
Igokea m:tel	W	W	L	L	W	W	L	W
SC Derby	W	L	W	L	L	W	L	W	L
Mega MIS	W	W	W	W	L	L	L	L	L
Split	L	L	W	L	W	W	L	L	W
Zadar	W	L	L	L	L	L	W	W	W
FMP Soccerbet	W	L	W	L	W	L	L	W	L
Cedevita Olimpija	L	L	W	W	L	L	L	L	W
Borac Mozzart	L	W	L	L	W	L	W	L	L
Krka	L	L	L	W	W	L	L	L	L
Cibona	L	W	L	L	L	L	L	W	L
Mornar Barsko zlato	L	L	L	L	L	L	W	L	L

Updated to match(es) played on 17 November 2024. Source: ABA League

MVP List

MVP of the Round

Round	Player	Team	PIR
1	Amar Gegić	Zadar	32
2	Rasheed Sulaimon	Budućnost VOLI	29
3	Rasir Bolton	Spartak Office Shoes	31
4	Miha Cerkvenik	Krka	34
5	Shannon Shorter	Split	33
6	Shannon Shorter (2)	Split (2)	27
7	Rasir Bolton (2)	Spartak Office Shoes (2)	30
8	Zoran Nikolić	SC Derby	32
9	Balša Koprivica	Partizan Mozzart Bet	43

Source: ABA League

MVP of the Month

Month	Player	Team	Ref.
2024
September & October	Bogoljub Marković	Mega MIS	^[14]

Clubs in European competitions

Competition	Team	Progress	Result
EuroLeague	Crvena zvezda Meridianbet	Regular season
EuroLeague	Partizan Mozzart Bet	Regular season
EuroCup	Cedevita Olimpija	Regular season
EuroCup	Budućnost VOLI	Regular season
Champions League	Igokea m:tel	Regular season
	FMP Soccerbet	Regular season
	Spartak Office Shoes	Qualification rounds - Quarter-finals	Eliminated by BC Juventus

References

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[1] .t.d, ABA liga. "Conclusions of the remote ABA League j.t.d. Assembly Session : ABA League". ABA Liga. Retrieved 2024-04-06.

[2] "Stefanović novi trener Igokea m:tel". igokea.rs. Retrieved 7 October 2024.

[3] "Gašper Okorn više nije trener Krke". bhbasket.ba. Retrieved 7 October 2024.

[4] "Dejan Jakara novi trener Krke". meridiansport.ba. Retrieved 7 October 2024.

[5] "Zoran Martić is leaving the position of head coach". cedevita.olimpija.com. Retrieved 7 October 2024.

[6] "Cedevita names Zvezdan Mitrovic as its new head coach". euroleaguebasketball.net. Retrieved 7 October 2024.

[7] "Dino Repeša odlazi iz Cibone u redove gradskog rivala. Sad je puno toga jasno". sportske.jutarnji.hr. Retrieved 7 October 2024.

[8] "Cibona predstavila novog trenera: Stiže iz SAD-a, ima dugogodišnje NBA iskustvo". gol.dnevnik.hr. Retrieved 7 October 2024.

[9] "EKSKLUZIVNO! Dejan Mijatović više nije trener Borca". moravainfo.rs. Retrieved 7 October 2024.

[10] "Saša Ocokoljić, novi trener seniorske ekipe: Srećan sam što sam se vratio u Borac!". kkborac.rs. Retrieved 7 October 2024.

[11] "Dejan Jakara and SC Derby part ways". aba-liga.com. Retrieved 7 October 2024.

[12] "Petar Mijović is back at the helm of SC Derby". aba-liga.com. Retrieved 7 October 2024.

[13] "Cibona je ipak smijenila trenera koji se našao na meti kritika. Odlazi i američki bek". telegram.hr. Retrieved 6 November 2024.

[14] "NLB MVP OF SEPTEMBER & October: Bogoljub Marković (Mega MIS)". aba-liga.com. Retrieved 31 October 2024.

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