2024–25 ABA League Second Division

ABA League Second Division
ABA League Second Division
Season	2024–25
Duration	October 2024 – TBA
Number of teams	16
TV partner(s)	Arena Sport
	← 2023–24 2025–26 → 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 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)	2 highest-placed clubs from each of the six national leagues (12 in total) 4 clubs with wild cards. No team was relegated from 2023-24 ABA League first division.
Playoffs (8 clubs)

Club allocation

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

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

Group A

Pos	Team	Qualification	MZT	HEL	CED	TIV
1	MZT Skopje Aerodrom	Advance to the Top 8	—
2	Kansai Helios	Advance to the Top 8		—
3	Cedevita				—
4	Teodo Tivat					—

Source: ABA 2

Group B

Pos	Team	Qualification	VOJ	SUT	BOS	RAB
1	Vojvodina mts	Advance to the Top 8	—
2	Sutjeska Elektroprivreda	Advance to the Top 8		—
3	Bosna Meridianbet				—
4	Rabotnički					—

Source: ABA 2

Group C

Pos	Team	Qualification	POD	ŠIR	PEL	VRŠ
1	Podgorica	Advance to the Top 8	—
2	Široki TT Kabeli	Advance to the Top 8		—
3	Pelister				—
4	Vršac Meridianbet					—

Source: ABA 2

Group D

Pos	Team	Qualification	ZLA	BBL	ILI	ŠIB
1	Zlatibor Mozzart	Advance to the Top 8	—
2	Borac WWIN	Advance to the Top 8		—
3	Ilirija				—
4	Šibenka					—

Source: ABA 2

References

^ ^a ^b j.t.d, ABA liga. "2024/25 NLB ABA League Season Draw seeds announced". NLB ABA League 2. Retrieved 2024-07-15.
^ j.t.d, ABA liga. "First Phase Groups have been drawn". NLB ABA League 2. Retrieved 2024-07-15.
^ "Ovo su sigurni učesnici ABA lige 2". BH Basket (in Bosnian). 2024-06-08. Retrieved 2024-06-08.
^ Брајковић, Тодор (2024-06-08). "ДАН - Deset kandidata za četiri mjesta u ABA 2". www.dan.co.me. Retrieved 2024-06-08.
^ "Ovo su klubovi koji su podnijeli zahtjev za pozivinicu ABA 2 lige!". BH Basket (in Bosnian). 2024-06-13. Retrieved 2024-06-13.
^ "Sportske.net - Dinamo Zagreb neće u ABA 2 ligu, ima evropske ambicije!". Sportske.net (in Serbian). Retrieved 2024-07-08.
^ 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.

[:0-1] .t.d, ABA liga. "2024/25 NLB ABA League Season Draw seeds announced". NLB ABA League 2. Retrieved 2024-07-15.

[2] .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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