2024–25 ABA League Second Division

ABA League Second Division
Season	2024–25
Duration	October 2024 – TBA
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).

Distribution

The following is the access list for this season.

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

Borac

Bosna

Cedevita Junior

Ilirija

Helios Suns

MZT

Pelister

Podgorica

Rabotnički

Šibenka

Široki

Sutjeska

Teodo

Vojvodina

Joker

Zlatibor

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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
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 (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.

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), 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. GKK Šibenka is then awarded an additional wild card.to replace them.

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

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.

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	3	3	0	228	211	+17	6	Advance to the Top 8		—			69–62
2	Cedevita Junior	3	2	1	253	238	+15	5			79–87	—	77–75
3	MZT Skopje Aerodrom	3	1	2	213	199	+14	4			70–72		—	68–50
4	Teodo Tivat	3	0	3	188	234	−46	3				76–97		—

Updated to match(es) played on 23 October 2024. Source: ABA 2

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		BOS	VOJ	SUT	RAB
1	Bosna Visit Sarajevo	3	2	1	245	225	+20	5	Advance to the Top 8		—		78–74
2	Vojvodina mts	2	2	0	170	130	+40	4			77–68	—		93–62
3	Sutjeska Elektroprivreda	2	1	1	145	136	+9	3					—
4	Rabotnički	3	0	3	194	263	−69	3			74–99		58–71	—

Updated to match(es) played on 23 October 2024. Source: ABA 2

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		JOK	POD	PEL	ŠIR
1	Joker	2	2	0	189	171	+18	4	Advance to the Top 8		—			110–95
2	Podgorica	2	1	1	166	158	+8	3			76–79	—	90–79
3	Pelister	2	1	1	153	162	−9	3					—	74–72
4	Široki TT Kabeli	2	0	2	167	184	−17	2						—

Updated to match(es) played on 16 October 2024. Source: ABA 2

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		BBL	ILI	ZLA	ŠIB
1	Borac WWIN	2	2	0	163	152	+11	4	Advance to the Top 8		—
2	Ilirija	2	1	1	157	131	+26	3			62–70	—
3	Zlatibor Mozzart	2	1	1	163	161	+2	3			90–93		—
4	Šibenka	2	0	2	129	168	−39	2				61–95	68–73	—

Updated to match(es) played on 17 October 2024. Source: ABA 2

External links

• Official website
• ABA League 2 at Eurobasket.com