2025–26 ABA League Second Division
| ABA League Second Division | |
|---|---|
| Season | 2025–26 |
| Teams | 16 |
| TV partner(s) | Arena Sport |
← 2024–25 2026–27 → | |
The 2025–26 ABA League Second Division will be the 8th season of the ABA Second Division with teams from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia participating in it.
Format change
[edit]16 clubs will participate in the second division (12 based on the results in the domestic championships and up to 4 via wild card invitation).
Competition format is changed (similar to the European football competition system) in a way that 16 teams are grouped into 4 pots based on current team quality. All teams will share the same standings and will all compete in the same league system.
Each team will play 8 games during the regular season (against 2 teams from each of the four pots). Each team will have 4 home and 4 away games. Teams from the same country will not face each other in the regular season (with exception if there are 4 and more contestants from same country).
The top 8 teams from the regular season advance to the best-of-3 format Playoffs. The team with the better regular season record will hold the home-court advantage.[1]
Distribution
[edit]The following is the access list for this season.
| Clubs entering in this round | Clubs advancing from the previous round | |
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| Regular season (16 clubs) |
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| Top 8 (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–3rd: Positions in National Leagues at the end of Regular Season (or Playoffs).
- ABA1: Relegated from the First Division
- WC: Wild card.
| Regular season[2] | |||
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 Borac WWIN (1st)
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Student m:tel (WC)
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 Podgorica Bemax (WC)
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 MZT Aerodrom Skopje (1st)
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| Široki TT Kabeli (2nd)
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Mornar Barsko zlato (ABA1)
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 Vršac Meridianbet (1st)
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TFT Skopje (2nd)
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| Sloboda Tuzla (WC)[3]
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Sutjeska (2nd)
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Zlatibor Mozzart (2nd)
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 Cibona (ABA1)
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| Jahorina (WC)[4]
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Teodo Tivat (3rd)
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Vojvodina mts (WC)[3]
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 Kansai Helios (3rd)
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Cedevita Junior (5th in the Croatian national championship) decided to play in 2025-26 FIBA Europe Cup and Kvarner (6th in the Croatian national championship) applied for the 2025–26 European North Basketball League.[5]
After discontent from KK Cibona (because of not getting a wild card for the 2025-26 ABA League First Division) and claiming that they won't play in the Second Division,[6] team decided to eventually join it, because of the possibility of losing the ownership part in the ABA League JTD.[7][8]
Since many Croatian and Slovenian clubs refused to play in the league, ABA League board considered giving a wild card to the Macedonian MKK Kumanovo or Bosnian SKK Student Igokea (a farm club of KK Igokea).[9]
SKK Student's apply was accepted so Bosnia and Herzegovina will be represented by 5 teams, which is the most that any country has had in this competition.
Draw
[edit]The clubs were divided into four pots, based on the results in the ABA League system and in the domestic championships in the previous season, to determine 8 rounds of regular stage.[2]
The draw set eight different opponents at random for every team, determining which of their matches were at home and which ones away. Each team faced two opponents from each of the four pots, one at home and one away.[10]
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Regular season
[edit]League table
[edit]| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
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| 1 | Cibona
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to the Playoffs |
| 2 | Vojvodina mts
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 | Zlatibor Mozzart
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | Široki TT Kabeli
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 5 | MZT Skopje Aerodrom
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 6 | Podgorica Bemax
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 7 | Sutjeska Elektroprivreda
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 8 | Kansai Helios
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 9 | Borac WWIN
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 10 | Jahorina
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 11 | Mornar Barsko zlato
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 12 | Teodo Tivat
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 13 | Sloboda Tuzla
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 14 | TFT Skopje
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 15 | Vršac Meridianbet
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 16 | Student m:tel
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Results
[edit]Clubs in European competitions
[edit]| Competition | Team | Progress | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| FIBA Europe Cup | Cibona |
Qualifying round |
References
[edit]- ^ j.t.d, ABA liga. "New era begins: ABA League 2 unveils new competition format for 2025/26 season". NLB ABA League 2. Retrieved 2025-06-19.
- ^ a b j.t.d, ABA liga. "Pots announced for the 2025/26 ABA League 2 season". ABA League 2. Retrieved 2025-07-24.
- ^ a b "Ekskluzivno: Sloboda i Vojvodina u ABA ligi 2". BH Basket (in Bosnian). 2025-07-03. Retrieved 2025-07-03.
- ^ "Jahorina dobila pozivnicu za ABA 2 ligu - princip.news". www.princip.news (in Bosnian). Retrieved 2025-07-23.
- ^ "Sportske novosti - Dva ili tri kluba hrvatska ulaze u Sjevernu ligu, odlučit će međusobno na turniru u Opatiji". sportske.jutarnji.hr (in Croatian). 2025-07-15. Retrieved 2025-07-16.
- ^ ""Cibona mora napraviti potpuni reset, ABA 2 ligu nećemo igrati"". Hrvatska radiotelevizija (in Croatian). Retrieved 2025-07-23.
- ^ "BHbasket ekskluzivno: Cibona će igrati ABA 2 ligu!". BH Basket (in Bosnian). 2025-07-23. Retrieved 2025-07-24.
- ^ Зубовић, Милан (2025-07-22). "Цибона може да изгуби власништво у АБА". Glas Srpske (in Serbian). Retrieved 2025-07-23.
- ^ Ljubomir (2025-07-16). "Хрватските клубови ја бојкотираат АБА 2, најверојатно нема да игра ни Цибона - KOS.MK". Retrieved 2025-07-17.
- ^ j.t.d, ABA liga. "Calendar > League". ABA League 2. Retrieved 2025-07-27.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- ABA League 2 at Eurobasket.com