Basketball League of Serbia

Basketball League of Serbia
Founded	2006; 15 years ago
First season	2006–07
Country	Serbia
Confederation	FIBA Europe
Number of teams	18
Level on pyramid	1st
Feeder to	Adriatic Second League
Relegation to	Second League
Domestic cup(s)	Radivoj Korać Cup; Cup of Serbia
Current champions	Crvena zvezda (21st title) ; (2020–21)
Most championships	Crvena zvezda, Partizan (21 titles)
CEO	Aleksandar Grujin
Commissioner	Darko Jovičić
TV partners	RTS; Arena Sport
Website	kls.rs
	2021–22 BLS season

The Basketball League of Serbia (Serbian: Кошаркашка лига Србије/Košarkaška liga Srbije; abbr. КЛС or KLS), is a top-tier men's professional basketball league in Serbia. Founded in 2006, it is run by the Basketball Federation of Serbia (KSS).

Rules[]

Competition format[]

The league, operated by the Basketball Federation of Serbia, consists of Serbian First League which has 14 and Serbian Super League which have 12 teams.

Since the 2017–18 season, the top 8 teams in First League are promoted to Super League with 4 Serbian teams from the Adriatic League. Teams positioned 13th and 14th in First League will be relegated to a lower league – Second Basketball League of Serbia. Teams positioned 1st and 2nd in First League will qualify for next season's ABA League Second Division. Super League has 12 clubs divided into 2 groups of 6 teams - A and B. The best 4 clubs (top 2 teams from groups A and B each) in Super League go to the Playoff stage.

Arena standards[]

Currently, clubs must have home arenas with a capacity of a minimum of 1,000 seats.

History[]

League names[]

2006–2007: Sinalco Basketball League of Serbia
2007–2009: Swisslion Basketball League of Serbia
2009–2011: Basketball League of Serbia
2011–2013: Agroživ Basketball League of Serbia^[1]
2013–2016: Basketball League of Serbia
2016–present: Mozzart Basketball League of Serbia

Champions[]

2006–07 Partizan
2007–08 Partizan Igokea
2008–09 Partizan Igokea
2009–10 Partizan
2010–11 Partizan
2011–12 Partizan mt:s
2012–13 Partizan mt:s
2013–14 Partizan
2014–15 Crvena zvezda Telekom
2015–16 Crvena zvezda Telekom
2016–17 Crvena zvezda mts
2017–18 Crvena zvezda mts
2018–19 Crvena zvezda mts
2019–20 None declared
2020–21 Crvena zvezda mts

Titles by club[]

Club	Champions	Winning years	Runner-up
Partizan	8	2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14	3
Crvena zvezda	6	2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2020–21	5
Vršac	0		3
FMP	0		2
Mega Soccerbet	0		1

League commissioners[]

2006–2011: Tihomir Bubalo
2011–2013: Predrag Bojić
2013–present: Darko Jovičić

League CEOs[]

2006–2014: Dragan Gogić
2014–2021: Leon Deleon
2021–present: Aleksandar Grujin

Current teams[]

Belgrade

Mladost

Kolubara

Napredak

Vršac

Vojvodina

Zlatibor

Borac

Tamiš

Radnički

Pirot

Sloga

Metalac

Dunav

Novi Pazar

Sloboda

Belgrade clubs:

Crvena zvezda
Dynamic
FMP
Mega
OKK Beograd
Partizan

Location of teams in the 2020–21 season

Team	Home city	Arena	Capacity
Borac	Čačak	Borac Hall	2,000
Crvena zvezda mts	Belgrade	Aleksandar Nikolić Hall	5,878
Dunav	Stari Banovci	Park Hall
Dynamic VIP PAY	Belgrade	Ranko Žeravica Hall	5,000
FMP	Belgrade	Železnik Hall	3,000
Kolubara LA 2003	Lazarevac	SRC Kolubara	1,700
Mega Bemax	Belgrade	Mega Factory	700
Metalac	Valjevo	Valjevo Sports Hall	1,500
Mladost	Zemun	Master Sport Center	750
Napredak JKP	Aleksinac	Aleksinac Sports Hall	1,400
Novi Pazar	Novi Pazar	Pendik Sports Hall	1,600
OKK Beograd	Belgrade	Mega Factory	700
Partizan NIS	Belgrade	Štark Arena	18,386
Pirot	Pirot	Pirot Kej Hall	835
Radnički	Kragujevac	Jezero Hall	3,750
Sloboda	Užice	Veliki Park Hall	2,200
Sloga	Kraljevo	Kraljevo Sports Hall	3,350
Tamiš	Pančevo	Strelište Sports Hall	1,100
Vojvodina	Novi Sad	SPC Vojvodina	7,022
Vršac	Vršac	Millennium Center	4,400
Zlatibor	Čajetina	WAI TAI - STC Zlatibor	712

	Teams that play in the 2020–21 First Adriatic League
	Teams that play in the 2020–21 Second Adriatic League

Play-off finals[]

Season	Home court advantage	Result	Home court disadvantage	SuperLeague top seeders	Record
2006–07	Partizan (14)	3–1	Crvena zvezda	Hemofarm	12–2
2007–08	Partizan Igokea (15)	3–1	Hemofarm	Partizan Igokea	12–2
2008–09	Partizan Igokea (16)	3–2	Crvena zvezda	Partizan Igokea	6–0
2009–10	Partizan (17)	3–0	Hemofarm	Partizan	13–1
2010–11	Partizan (18)	3–0	Hemofarm	Partizan	13–1
2011–12	Partizan mt:s (19)	3–1	Crvena zvezda	Partizan mt:s	12–2
2012–13	Partizan mt:s (20)	3–1	Crvena zvezda	Partizan mt:s	12–2
2013–14	Partizan (21)	3–1	Crvena zvezda Telekom	Partizan	13–1
2014–15	Crvena zvezda Telekom (16)	3–0	Partizan NIS	Crvena zvezda Telekom	13–1
2015–16	Crvena zvezda Telekom (17)	3–1	Partizan NIS	Crvena zvezda Telekom	6–0
2016–17	Crvena zvezda mts (18)	3–0	FMP	Crvena zvezda mts	13–1
2017–18	Crvena zvezda mts (19)	3–0	FMP	FMP	9–1
2018–19	Crvena zvezda mts (20)	3–1	Partizan NIS	Crvena zvezda mts / Partizan NIS	10–0
2019–20	Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2020–21	Crvena zvezda mts (21)	2–1	Mega Soccerbet	Not held	—

All–time national champions[]

Total number of national champions won by Serbian clubs. Table includes titles won during the Yugoslav First Federal League (1945–1992) and First League of Serbia and Montenegro (1992–2006) as well.

Club	Champions	Winning years	Runner-up
Partizan	21	1975–76, 1978–79, 1980–81, 1986–87, 1991–92, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14	17
Crvena zvezda	21	1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1968–69, 1971–72, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1997–98, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2020–21	14
OKK Beograd	4	1958, 1960, 1963, 1964	1
Proleter Zrenjanin	1	1956	4
Radnički Belgrade	1	1972–73

Clubs in international competitions[]

^{[citation needed]}

	Tier 1			Tier 2						Tier 3			Regional
	Euroleague (1958–)			Eurocup (2002–)			Saporta Cup (1966–2002)			Korać Cup (1971–2002)			ABA League (2001–)			Balkan League (2008–)
	C	RU	SF	C	RU	SF	C	RU	SF	C	RU	SF	C	RU	SF	C	RU	SF
Partizan	1	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	1	6	2	5	0	0	0
OKK Beograd	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Crvena zvezda	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	2	0	0	2	4	5	2	6	0	0	0
Radnički Beograd	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Vršac	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	4	0	0	0
FMP Železnik	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	0
Mega Basket	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
Radnički Kragujevac	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0

FIBA European League and EuroLeague[]

So far, 17 Serbian teams took part in a FIBA or Euroleague Basketball Company club competition since 1958. The most successful club by participation and trophies is Partizan. They had a total of 39 seasons of which 22 in the elite competition, EuroLeague. Partizan won four trophies, the Champions Cup in Istanbul in 1992 and 3 Korać Cups in 1978, 1979 and 1989. The second most successful is Crvena zvezda with 30 seasons and one trophy in Europe. They won the Cup Winners' Cup in 1974.

Statistical leaders[]

Points[]

Season	Player	Team	PPG
2006–07	Miloš Bojović	Sloga	21.9
2007–08	Zoran Erceg	FMP Železnik	18.1
2008–09	Zlatko Bolić	Radnički Invest	22.8
2009–10	Miroslav Raduljica	FMP Železnik	21.1
2010–11	Branko Milisavljević	Mega Vizura	20.5
2011–12	Miloš Bojović	Železničar	23.5
2012–13	Marko Popović	Sloga	18.6
2013–14	Bojan Bakić	Metalac	18.4
2014–15	Miloš Dimić	Vršac Swisslion	21.6
2015–16	Aleksa Avramović	Borac Čačak	20.7
2016–17
2017–18
2018–19	Nemanja Krstić	Novi Pazar	20.3
2019–20	None due to covid19
2020–21

Rebounds[]

Season	Player	Team	RPG
2006–07	Kebu Stewart	Crvena zvezda	6.2
2007–08	Nikola Ilić	Borac Čačak	4.8
2008–09	Uroš Mirković	Mašinac	8.5
2009–10	Miroslav Raduljica	FMP Železnik	8.6
2010–11	Sava Lešić	Crvena zvezda	10.9
2011–12	Darko Balaban	Smederevo 1953	8.8
2012–13	Boban Marjanović	Mega Vizura	11.7
2013–14	Novica Veličković	Mega Vizura	8.3
2014–15	Nikola Jokić	Mega Leks	10.4
2015–16	Stefan Fundić	Beovuk 72	10.3
2016–17
2017–18
2018–19
2019–20	None due to covid19
2020–21

Assists[]

Season	Player	Team	APG
2006–07	Miloš Teodosić	FMP Železnik	5.4
2007–08	Omar Cook	Crvena zvezda	7.3
2008–09	Bojan Jovičić	Tamiš	6.3
2009–10		Proleter Zrenjanin	7.2
2010–11	Marko Ljubičić	Metalac Valjevo	6.4
2011–12	Miljan Pavković	Radnički Kragujevac	6.9
2012–13	Marko Popović	Sloga Kraljevo	8.1
2013–14	Marko Marinović	Radnički Kragujevac	8.1
2014–15			6.5
2015–16	Filip Čović	FMP Beograd	6.5
2016–17
2017–18
2018–19
2019–20	None due to covid19
2020–21

Awards[]

Notable players[]

References[]

^ "Kompanija Agroživ generalni sponzor KLS". kls.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 5 May 2013.

External links[]

Official website (in Serbian)
Basketball League of Serbia at eurobasket.com

[1] "Kompanija Agroživ generalni sponzor KLS". kls.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 5 May 2013.

[1]

show v t International men's basketball
FIBA National teams Olympics World Cup Universiade U-21 World Cup U-19 World Cup U-18 World Cup U-17 World Cup U-16 World Cup World Ranking
Africa	FIBA Africa – AfroBasket AfroCan U-18 U-16 African Games Basketball Africa League (BAL)
Americas	FIBA Americas – FIBA AmeriCup U-18 U-16 CBC Championship Centrobasket COCABA Championship Marchand Cup Pan American Games South American Championship Basketball Champions League Americas (BCLA)
Asia	FIBA Asia – FIBA Asia Cup (includes Oceania) U-18 U-16 Asian Games FIBA Asia Challenge Stanković Cup East Asian Championship East Asian Games SABA Championship SEABA Championship South Asian Games Southeast Asian Games West Asian Championship West Asian Games William Jones Cup ASEAN Basketball League
Europe	FIBA Europe – EuroBasket U-20 U-18 U-16 Acropolis Tournament Adecco Cup Belgrade Trophy FIBA European Championship for Small Countries Games of the Small States of Europe World Cup (Turkey) Basketball Champions League (BCL)
Oceania	FIBA Oceania – FIBA Oceania Championship (defunct) U-20 U-18 U-16 Pacific Games
Other tournaments	Arab Nations Basketball Championship Commonwealth Games Diamond Ball FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament Lusophone Games Mediterranean Games Pan Arab Games
Note: The Under-21 Championship is no longer held. • Basketball portal

show v t Basketball League of FR Yugoslavia / Serbia and Montenegro (1992–2006)
Teams	BFC Beočin Beopetrol / Atlas Borac Banja Luka Borac Čačak Borovica Budućnost Crvena zvezda FMP / Reflex Ergonom Hemofarm Lavovi 063 Lions Lovćen Metalac Mornar Napredak Nikšić Beobanka / NIS Vojvodina OKK Beograd Partizan Profikolor Proleter Radnički Sloga Spartak Užice Vojvodina Zastava Zdravlje
Related leagues	B League Basketball League of Serbia Montenegrin Basketball League Yugoslav Federal Basketball League