2024–25 ABA League Second Division

For the equivalent women's tournament, see 2024–25 WABA League 2.
ABA League Second Division
Season2024–25
DurationOctober 2024 – May 2025
Teams16
TV partner(s)Arena Sport
Finals
ChampionsBosna Visit Sarajevo
Runners-upIlirija
SemifinalistsVojvodina mts
Zlatibor Mozzart
Finals MVP Jarrod West
All statistics correct as of June 8, 2024.

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 contested the second division as well (12 based on the results in the domestic championships and remaining 4 via wild card invitation).

From this season, instead of the five ("bubble") tournaments, 16 teams have been be divided into the four Regular Season groups, each consisting of four clubs.[1]

In each group, the teams played against each other in a home-and-away round-robin system. Two best-placed teams of each group advanced to the Top 8 phase of the competition. Top 8 teams were then divided into two groups, each consisting of four teams with home-and-away round-robin system as well. The two best-placed teams of each Top 8 group advanced into the Playoffs. The Semi-finals and Finals were played in a best-of-three series format (1–1–1).[2][3]

Distribution

The following is the access list for this season.[4]

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

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

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.[5]

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 TFT Mozzart Skopje),[6] out of which the board of the ABA League decided that 4 teams (Bosna Visit Sarajevo, Vršac, Tivat and Rabotnički) would 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.[7] GKK Šibenka was then awarded an additional wild card to replace them.[8]

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.[9]

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.[2]

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 Junior (5th)
Ilirija (4th)
Pelister (2nd)
Pot 4
Team Pos.
Rabotnički (3rd)
Šibenka (9th)
Vršac (4th)
Teodo Tivat (3rd)

Regular season

Group A

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification HEL CED MZT TIV
1 Kansai Helios 6 4 2 435 423 +12 10 Advance to the Top 8 — 78–80 68–67 69–62
2 Cedevita Junior 6 4 2 495 458 +37 10 79–87 — 77–75 80–55
3 MZT Skopje Aerodrom 6 3 3 437 414 +23 9 70–72 87–82 — 68–50
4 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 Vojvodina mts 6 5 1 498 440 +58 11 Advance to the Top 8 — 77–68 105–84 93–62
2 Bosna Visit Sarajevo 6 4 2 464 426 +38 10 60–70 — 78–74 84–58
3 Sutjeska Elektroprivreda 6 3 3 492 470 +22 9 96–79 73–75 — 94–75
4 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 Joker 6 5 1 504 480 +24 11 Advance to the Top 8 — 110–95 81–62 93–84
2 Široki TT Kabeli 6 3 3 500 463 +37 9 86–60 — 87–93 93–73
3 Podgorica 6 3 3 467 467 0 9 76–79 53–67 — 90–79
4 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 Ilirija 6 4 2 486 422 +64 10 Advance to the Top 8 — 69–58 62–70 80–54
2 Zlatibor Mozzart 6 4 2 494 478 +16 10 102–92 — 90–93 80–71
3 Borac WWIN 6 3 3 471 473 −2 9 77–88 85–91 — 59–73
4 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 BOS HEL POD
1 Zlatibor Mozzart 6 5 1 483 492 −9 11 Advance to the Playoffs — 94–89 98–88 90–82
2 Bosna Visit Sarajevo 6 4 2 489 448 +41 10 98–57 — 77–64 71–69
3 Kansai Helios 6 2 4 465 471 −6 8 65–72 73–76 — 92–89
4 Podgorica[Note] 6 1 5 460 486 −26 7 70–72 91–78 59–83 —
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 ILI ŠIR CED
1 Vojvodina mts 6 4 2 492 436 +56 10 Advance to the Playoffs — 105–68 62–56 100–75
2 Ilirija 6 4 2 491 490 +1 10 86–81 — 82–69 89–74
3 Široki TT Kabeli 6 2 4 465 495 −30 8 78–68 90–86 — 70–76
4 Cedevita Junior 6 2 4 443 470 −27 8 73–76 71–80 96–80 —
Source: ABA 2

Playoffs

Bracket

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
            
 
9–23 April
 
 
 Zlatibor Mozzart82590
 
29 April–14 May
 
 Ilirija90872
 
 Ilirija8468741
 
10–23 April
 
 Bosna Visit Sarajevo7977882
 
 Vojvodina mts91660
 
 
 Bosna Visit Sarajevo92752
 

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