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2024–25 ABA League Second Division

The 2024–25 ABA League Second Division is the 7th season of the ABA Second Division with teams from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia participating in it.

ABA League Second Division
Season2024–25
DurationOctober 2024 – TBA
Number of teams16
TV partner(s)Arena Sport
All statistics correct as of June 8, 2024.

Format changes

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Following the expansion in the first division of ABA League, from this season 16 clubs will contest the second division as well (12 based on the results in the domestic championships and remaining 4 via wild card invitation).

From this year, instead of the five ("bubble") tournaments, 16 teams will be divided into the four Regular Season groups, each consisting of four clubs.

In each group, the teams will play against each other in a home-and-away round-robin system. Two best-placed teams of each group will advance to the Top 8 phase of the competition. Top 8 teams will be divided into two groups, each consisting of four teams. The system in the Top 8 phase of the competition will be also home-and-away round-robin system. The two best-placed teams of each Top 8 group will advance into the Playoffs. The Semi-finals and Finals will be played in a best-of-three series format (1-1-1).[1][2]

Distribution

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The following is the access list for this season.[3]

Access list for the 2024–25 ABA League Second Division
Clubs entering in this round Clubs advancing from the previous round
Regular season
(16 clubs)
Playoffs
(8 clubs)

Club allocation

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The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:

  • 1st–9th: Positions in national leagues at the end of Regular Season (or Playoffs).
  • RW: Domestic league Regular Season winner.
  • WC: Wild card.
Regular season
  Borac WWIN (2nd)   Šibenka (9th)WC   MZT Skopje Aerodrom (1st)   Zlatibor Mozzart (3rd)
  Bosna Meridianbet (3rd)WC   Podgorica (1st)   Pelister (2nd)   Vršac Meridianbet (4th)WC
  Široki TT Kabeli (4th)RW   Sutjeska (2nd)   Rabotnički (3rd)WC   Kansai Helios (2nd)
  Cedevita (5th)   Teodo Tivat (3rd)WC   Vojvodina mts (1st)   Ilirija (4th)

10 teams that hadn't been directly qualified, applied to participate for this season competition: Bosna Meridianbet and Sloboda Tuzla from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Šibenka from Croatia, Teodo Tivat and Primorje 1945 from Montenegro, Rabotnički Skopje from North Macedonia, Vršac Meridianbet, Sloboda Užice and Radnički Kragujevac from Serbia and Šenčur from Slovenia.[4]

After the announcement that wild card fee would cost 25,000 euros, the 9 teams applied for the wild card (all above except for Sloboda Užice and Radnički Kragujevac and with addition of KK TFT Mozzart Skopje),[5] out of which the board of the ABA League decided that 4 teams (Bosna Meridianbet, Vršac, Tivat and Rabotnički) will receive the wild card.

KK Dinamo Zagreb (fourth-placed team in the Croatian 2023-24 Favbet Premijer Liga) decided not to participate in this season ABA 2 League and chose to play FIBA competition instead.[6] GKK Šibenka is then awarded an additional wild card.to replace them.[7]

Draw

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The clubs were divided into 4 pots, based on the results in the NLB ABA League 2 and in the domestic championships in the previous season. While conducting the draw, a national criteria was also taken into account, to prevent two clubs from the same country to be placed within the same Regular Season Group.[1]

Pot 1
Team Pos.
  MZT Skopje (1st)
  Podgorica (1st)
  Vojvodina (1st)
  Zlatibor (3rd)
Pot 2
Team Pos.
  Borac (2nd)
  Helios Domžale (2nd)
  Široki (4th)
  Sutjeska (2nd)
Pot 3
Team Pos.
  Bosna (3rd)
  Cedevita (5th)
  Ilirija (4th)
  Pelister (2nd)
Pot 4
Team Pos.
  Rabotnički (3rd)
  Šibenka (9th)
  Vršac (4th)
  Teodo Tivat (3rd)

Regular season

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Group A

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Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification MZT HEL CED TIV
1   MZT Skopje Aerodrom 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to the Top 8 —
2   Kansai Helios 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
3   Cedevita 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
4   Teodo Tivat 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
Source: ABA 2

Group B

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Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification VOJ SUT BOS RAB
1   Vojvodina mts 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to the Top 8 —
2   Sutjeska Elektroprivreda 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
3   Bosna Meridianbet 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
4   Rabotnički 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
Source: ABA 2

Group C

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Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification POD ŠIR PEL VRŠ
1   Podgorica 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to the Top 8 —
2   Široki TT Kabeli 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
3   Pelister 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
4   Vršac Meridianbet 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
Source: ABA 2

Group D

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Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification ZLA BBL ILI ŠIB
1   Zlatibor Mozzart 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to the Top 8 —
2   Borac WWIN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
3   Ilirija 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
4   Šibenka 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
Source: ABA 2

References

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  1. ^ a b j.t.d, ABA liga. "2024/25 NLB ABA League Season Draw seeds announced". NLB ABA League 2. Retrieved 2024-07-15.
  2. ^ j.t.d, ABA liga. "First Phase Groups have been drawn". NLB ABA League 2. Retrieved 2024-07-15.
  3. ^ "Ovo su sigurni učesnici ABA lige 2". BH Basket (in Bosnian). 2024-06-08. Retrieved 2024-06-08.
  4. ^ Брајковић, Тодор (2024-06-08). "ДАН - Deset kandidata za četiri mjesta u ABA 2". www.dan.co.me. Retrieved 2024-06-08.
  5. ^ "Ovo su klubovi koji su podnijeli zahtjev za pozivinicu ABA 2 lige!". BH Basket (in Bosnian). 2024-06-13. Retrieved 2024-06-13.
  6. ^ "Sportske.net - Dinamo Zagreb neće u ABA 2 ligu, ima evropske ambicije!". Sportske.net (in Serbian). Retrieved 2024-07-08.
  7. ^ Petrović, Vuk-Miloš (2024-07-08). "Basketball Sphere donosi detalje: Poznat kompletan spisak ekipa u Drugoj ABA ligi". basketballsphere.com (in Bosnian). Retrieved 2024-07-08.
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