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.

Format changes

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

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)
Top 8
(8 clubs)

Club allocation

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Location of teams in the 2024–25 season

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
Bosnia and Herzegovina Borac WWIN (2nd) Croatia Šibenka (9th)WC North Macedonia MZT Skopje Aerodrom (1st) Serbia Zlatibor Mozzart (3rd)
Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosna Visit Sarajevo (3rd)WC Montenegro Podgorica (1st) North Macedonia Pelister (2nd) Serbia Joker (6th)WC
Bosnia and Herzegovina Široki TT Kabeli (4th)RW Montenegro Sutjeska (2nd) North Macedonia Rabotnički (3rd)WC Slovenia Kansai Helios (2nd)
Croatia Cedevita Junior (5th) Montenegro Teodo Tivat (3rd)WC Serbia Vojvodina mts (1st) Slovenia Ilirija (4th)

10 teams that hadn't been directly qualified, applied to participate for this season competition: Bosna Visit Sarajevo 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 Visit Sarajevo, 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]

Just seven days before playing their first match, KK Vršac Meridianbet decided to withdraw from the competition. Board of ABA League decided KK Joker from Sombor to take the vacant spot.[8]

Draw

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.
North Macedonia MZT Skopje (1st)
Montenegro Podgorica (1st)
Serbia Vojvodina (1st)
Serbia Zlatibor (3rd)
Pot 2
Team Pos.
Bosnia and Herzegovina Borac (2nd)
Slovenia Helios Domžale (2nd)
Bosnia and Herzegovina Široki (4th)
Montenegro Sutjeska (2nd)
Pot 3
Team Pos.
Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosna (3rd)
Croatia Cedevita Junior (5th)
Slovenia Ilirija (4th)
North Macedonia Pelister (2nd)
Pot 4
Team Pos.
North Macedonia Rabotnički (3rd)
Croatia Šibenka (9th)
Serbia Vršac (4th)
Montenegro Teodo Tivat (3rd)

Regular season

Group A

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification HEL CED MZT TIV
1 Slovenia Kansai Helios 6 4 2 435 423 +12 10 Advance to the Top 8 — 78–80 68–67 69–62
2 Croatia Cedevita Junior 6 4 2 495 458 +37 10 79–87 — 77–75 80–55
3 North Macedonia MZT Skopje Aerodrom 6 3 3 437 414 +23 9 70–72 87–82 — 68–50
4 Montenegro Teodo Tivat 6 1 5 373 445 −72 7 65–61 76–97 65–70 —
Source: ABA 2

Group B

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification VOJ BOS SUT RAB
1 Serbia Vojvodina mts 6 5 1 498 440 +58 11 Advance to the Top 8 — 77–68 105–84 93–62
2 Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosna Visit Sarajevo 6 4 2 464 426 +38 10 60–70 — 78–74 84–58
3 Montenegro Sutjeska Elektroprivreda 6 3 3 492 470 +22 9 96–79 73–75 — 94–75
4 North Macedonia Rabotnički 6 0 6 397 515 −118 6 70–74 74–99 58–71 —
Source: ABA 2

Group C

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification JOK ŠIR POD PEL
1 Serbia Joker 6 5 1 504 480 +24 11 Advance to the Top 8 — 110–95 81–62 93–84
2 Bosnia and Herzegovina Široki TT Kabeli 6 3 3 500 463 +37 9 86–60 — 87–93 93–73
3 Montenegro Podgorica 6 3 3 467 467 0 9 76–79 53–67 — 90–79
4 North Macedonia Pelister 6 1 5 461 522 −61 7 77–81 74–72 74–93 —
Source: ABA 2

Group D

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification ILI ZLA BBL ŠIB
1 Slovenia Ilirija 6 4 2 486 422 +64 10 Advance to the Top 8 — 69–58 62–70 80–54
2 Serbia Zlatibor Mozzart 6 4 2 494 478 +16 10 102–92 — 90–93 80–71
3 Bosnia and Herzegovina Borac WWIN 6 3 3 471 473 −2 9 77–88 85–91 — 59–73
4 Croatia Šibenka 6 1 5 396 474 −78 7 61–95 68–73 69–87 —
Source: ABA 2

Top 8

Group E

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification ZLA HEL BOS POD
1 Serbia Zlatibor Mozzart 2 2 0 166 159 +7 4 Advance to the Playoffs — 94–89
2 Slovenia Kansai Helios 2 1 1 156 135 +21 3 — 73–76
3 Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosna Visit Sarajevo 2 1 1 165 167 −2 3 —
4 Montenegro Podgorica[Note] 2 0 2 129 155 −26 2 70–72 59–83 —
Updated to match(es) played on 4 February 2025. Source: ABA 2
Notes
  1. ^
    KK Joker withdrew from the competition after the regular season due to financial difficulties. KK Podgorica replaced them.

Group F

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification VOJ CED ILI ŠIR
1 Serbia Vojvodina mts 2 2 0 167 124 +43 4 Advance to the Playoffs — 105–68 62–56
2 Croatia Cedevita Junior 2 1 1 150 159 −9 3 —
3 Slovenia Ilirija 2 1 1 157 179 −22 3 89–74 —
4 Bosnia and Herzegovina Široki TT Kabeli 2 0 2 126 138 −12 2 70–76 —
Updated to match(es) played on 29 January 2025. Source: ABA 2

References

  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.
  8. ^ j.t.d, ABA liga. "BC Joker joins NLB ABA League 2". NLB ABA League 2. Retrieved 2024-09-25.
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