2025–26 ABA League Second Division
| ABA League Second Division | |
|---|---|
| Season | 2025–26 |
| Teams | 16 |
| TV partner | 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, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia participating in it. This will be the first season without teams from Croatia.
Format change
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
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
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
- 1st–7th: 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) | Mornar Barsko zlato (ABA1) | Vršac Meridianbet (1st) | MZT Aerodrom Skopje (1st) |
| Široki TT Kabeli (2nd) | Sutjeska (2nd) | Zlatibor Mozzart (2nd) | TFT Skopje (2nd) |
| Sloboda Tuzla (4th)WC | Primorje 1945 (4th)WC | Vojvodina mts (3rd)WC | Kansai Helios (3rd) |
| Jahorina (7th)WC | Podgorica Bemax (6th)WC | SPD Radnički Kragujevac (8th)WC | |
| Student m:tel (1st RS)WC | |
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Croatian clubs controversy
Cedevita Junior (5th in the Croatian national championship) decided to play in 2025-26 FIBA Europe Cup. KK Kvarner (6th in the Croatian national championship) and five other Croatian teams played a qualifying tournament for the 2025–26 European North Basketball League.[3]
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,[4] the team decided to eventually join, because of the possibility of losing the ownership part in the ABA League JTD.[5][6] However, on October 11, only two days before the first game against TFT Skopje, KK Cibona offiicially left the competition.[7]
Wild cards
OKK Sloboda Tuzla and KK Vojvodina were the first two clubs getting the wild cards.[8]
Since Croatian and many Slovenian clubs refused to play in the league, ABA League board considered giving a wild card (beside Bosnian KK Jahorina[9]) to the Macedonian MKK Kumanovo or Bosnian SKK Student Igokea m:tel (a farm club of KK Igokea).[10] SKK Student's application was accepted so Bosnia and Herzegovina is represented by 5 teams, which is the most that any country has had in this competition.
KK Tivat from Montenegro had been initially drawn in the competition, but was replaced before the season's start with KK Primorje 1945 Herceg Novi due to its financial difficulties.[11]
As a substitute for KK Cibona, ABA League board invited SPD Radnički Kragujevac.[12]
Draw
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.[13]
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Regular season
League table
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
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| 1 | Široki TT Kabeli | 5 | 4 | 1 | 462 | 383 | +79 | 9 | Advance to the Playoffs |
| 2 | Zlatibor Mozzart | 5 | 4 | 1 | 459 | 410 | +49 | 9 | |
| 3 | Kansai Helios | 5 | 4 | 1 | 417 | 375 | +42 | 9 | |
| 4 | Vojvodina mts | 5 | 3 | 2 | 409 | 398 | +11 | 8 | |
| 5 | MZT Skopje Aerodrom | 5 | 3 | 2 | 407 | 407 | 0 | 8 | |
| 6 | Borac WWIN | 4 | 3 | 1 | 321 | 303 | +18 | 7 | |
| 7 | Sutjeska Elektroprivreda | 4 | 3 | 1 | 337 | 324 | +13 | 7 | |
| 8 | Mornar Barsko zlato | 5 | 2 | 3 | 376 | 426 | −50 | 7 | |
| 9 | Sloboda Energoinvest Tuzla | 4 | 2 | 2 | 343 | 298 | +45 | 6 | |
| 10 | Student m:tel | 4 | 2 | 2 | 320 | 311 | +9 | 6 | |
| 11 | TFT Skopje | 4 | 2 | 2 | 314 | 318 | −4 | 6 | |
| 12 | Jahorina | 4 | 2 | 2 | 343 | 357 | −14 | 6 | |
| 13 | Vršac Meridianbet | 4 | 1 | 3 | 325 | 350 | −25 | 5 | |
| 14 | Primorje 1945 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 309 | 347 | −38 | 5 | |
| 15 | Podgorica Bemax | 5 | 0 | 5 | 343 | 407 | −64 | 5 | |
| 16 | SPD Radnički Kragujevac | 5 | 0 | 5 | 392 | 463 | −71 | 5 |
Results
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Sportske.net - Zvanično - Cibona istupila iz ABA 2 lige". Sportske.net (in Serbian). Retrieved 2025-10-13.
- ^ "Ekskluzivno: Sloboda i Vojvodina u ABA ligi 2". BH Basket (in Bosnian). 2025-07-03. Retrieved 2025-10-13.
- ^ "Jahorina dobila pozivnicu za ABA 2 ligu - princip.news". www.princip.news (in Bosnian). Retrieved 2025-10-13.
- ^ 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. "Primorje 1945 replaces Teodo in the 2025/26 ABA League 2 season". ABA League 2. Retrieved 2025-10-13.
- ^ j.t.d, ABA liga. "SPD Radnički Kragujevac Is The New Participant of ABA League 2". ABA League 2. Retrieved 2025-10-13.
- ^ j.t.d, ABA liga. "Calendar > League". ABA League 2. Retrieved 2025-07-27.
External links
- Official website
- ABA League 2 at Eurobasket.com