2021–22 BIBL season

The 2021–22 BIBL season is the 14th edition of Balkan International Basketball League (BIBL). 10-13 teams from Bulgaria, Israel, Kosovo, Montenegro and North Macedonia will participate in the competition.^[1]

Teams[]

First round
Academic Plovdiv	Hapoel Galil Elyon	Prishtina	TFT Skopje
Balkan Botevgrad	Ironi Nahariya	Ibar Rožaje
Beroe	Maccabi Haifa[2]	Kumanovo 2009[3]
Levski Sofia	Peja[4]	Navico Akademija FMP
Second round
Hapoel Holon

First round[]

Ten teams drawn into two groups consisting of five teams each. Teams from the same country will be drawn in different groups. Peja will be drawn into a group with two teams from North Macedonia due to traveling schedule. Teams play against each other home-and-away basis. The teams placed 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th from each group will advanced to the second round.^[1][5]

During September, the league management announced the addition of two teams to the first round.^[6][7] On October 6, the league management decided to take Peja out of the tournament since Peja refused to confirm the competition's official schedule as well as fulfill all their financial obligations towards the league in the deadlines set.^[4] On October 13, the league management announced that Maccabi Haifa will take Peja's place as the 2nd participant in the league.^[2]

On 26 November, The Balkan International Basketball League management decided to take Kumanovo 2009 out of the competition due to its inability to fulfill its obligations. All its results were annulled, and its remaining games cancelled.^[3]

Draw[]

The draw took place on 26 August. The Ten teams was divided into 5 Seeds and drawn into two groups of five.^[1]

Seed 1 Team Ironi Nahariya Hapoel Galil Elyon

Seed 2 Team Academic Plovdiv Balkan Botevgrad

Seed 3 Team Kumanovo 2009 TFT Skopje

Seed 4 Team Beroe Navico Akademija FMP

Seed 5 Team Prishtina Peja

Group A[]

Pos	Team v	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		HGE	MHA	BAL	LEV	AFM	KUM
1	Hapoel Galil Elyon	8	7	1	604	461	+143	15	Advance to Second round		—	88–41	56–46	20–0[a]	107–65	—
2	Maccabi Haifa	8	5	3	599	561	+38	13			80–85	—	92–78	20–0[b]	95–73	—
3	Balkan Botevgrad	8	4	4	591	583	+8	12			64–70	88–81	—	82–73	80–71	—
4	Levski Sofia	8	2	6	464	513	−49	10			84–76	60–78	65–79	—	81–84	—
5	Navico Akademija FMP	8	2	6	615	755	−140	10			82–102	89–112	77–75	74–103	—	—
6	Kumanovo 2009[c]	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Expelled		87–96	—	—	—	59–63	—

Group B[]

Pos	Team v	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		INA	PRI	APL	TFT	BER	IBR
1	Ironi Nahariya	10	8	2	801	684	+117	18	Advance to Second round		—	83–74	98–73	102–63	63–69	69–57
2	Prishtina	10	6	4	848	794	+54	16			84–61	—	85–94	80–73	83–61	110–85
3	Academic Plovdiv	10	5	5	786	793	−7	15			61–76	74–78	—	81–84	74–68	77–61
4	TFT Skopje	10	5	5	799	826	−27	15			66–67	81–77	75–83	—	95–88	87–83
5	Beroe	10	3	7	791	856	−65	13			67–103	93–94	98–91	86–96	—	67–79
6	Ibar Rožaje	10	3	7	749	821	−72	13			70–79	87–83	68–78	79–77	78–94	—

Second round[]

The results between the teams from the same groups in the first round shall be carried forward into this round. The eight teams will be divided into new two groups of four teams each. Teams play against each other on a home-and-away basis. The teams placed 1st from each group will advance to the Final Four. The teams placed 2nd and 3rd from each group will advance to the Quarter-Finals.^[10]

Group C[]

Pos	Team v	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		LEV	APL	HGE	PRI
1	Levski Sofia	3	2	1	176	154	+22	5	Advance to Final Four		—	92–58	84–76	7 Apr
2	Academic Plovdiv	3	1	2	226	255	−29	4	Advance to Quarter-Finals		21 Mar	—	16 Mar	74–78
3	Hapoel Galil Elyon	2	1	1	96	84	+12	3			20–0[a]	31 Mar	—	5 Apr
4	Prishtina	2	1	1	163	168	−5	3			30 Mar	85–94	14 Mar	—

Group D[]

Pos	Team v	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		INA	MHA	BAL	TFT
1	Ironi Nahariya	3	3	0	256	205	+51	6	Advance to Final Four		—	22 Mar	7 Apr	102–63
2	Maccabi Haifa	3	1	2	249	253	−4	4	Advance to Quarter-Finals		76–87	—	92–78	29 Mar
3	Balkan Botevgrad	2	1	1	166	173	−7	3			8 Mar	88–81	—	31 Mar
4	TFT Skopje	2	0	2	129	169	−40	2			66–67	24 Mar	15 Mar	—

Knockout rounds[]

Source: ^[11]

Quarter-Finals[]

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Final Four[]

The Final Four games will be composed of two semi-final games, third-place game and final game. In case two teams from the same country qualified to the Final Four they will play against each other in the Semi Final otherwise a draw will be made to determine the two pairs of the Semi Final games.^[5]

Awards[]

MVP of the Month[]

References[]

External links[]

• Official website
• Scoreboard
• Flashcore