2024–25 ABA League Second Division

For the equivalent women's tournament, see 2024–25 WABA League 2.

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.

ABA League Second Division
Season	2024–25
Duration	October 2024 – May 2025
Teams	16
TV partner(s)	Arena Sport
Finals
Champions	Bosna Visit Sarajevo
Runners-up	Ilirija
Semifinalists	Vojvodina mts Zlatibor Mozzart
Finals MVP	Jarrod West
← 2023–24 2025–26 → All statistics correct as of June 8, 2024.

Format changes

Following the expansion in the first division of ABA League, from this season 16 clubs contested the second division as well (12 based on the results in the domestic championships and remaining 4 via wild card invitation).

From this season, instead of the five ("bubble") tournaments, 16 teams have been be divided into the four Regular Season groups, each consisting of four clubs.^[1]

In each group, the teams played against each other in a home-and-away round-robin system. Two best-placed teams of each group advanced to the Top 8 phase of the competition. Top 8 teams were then divided into two groups, each consisting of four teams with home-and-away round-robin system as well. The two best-placed teams of each Top 8 group advanced into the Playoffs. The Semi-finals and Finals were played in a best-of-three series format (1–1–1).^[2][3]

Distribution

The following is the access list for this season.^[4]

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.
Top 8 (8 clubs)

Club allocation

Borac

Bosna

Cedevita Junior

Ilirija

Helios Suns

MZT

Pelister

Podgorica

Rabotnički

Šibenka

Široki

Sutjeska

Teodo

Vojvodina

Joker

Zlatibor

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 (3rd)

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.^[5]

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 TFT Mozzart Skopje),^[6] out of which the board of the ABA League decided that 4 teams (Bosna Visit Sarajevo, Vršac, Tivat and Rabotnički) would 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.^[7] GKK Šibenka was then awarded an additional wild card to replace them.^[8]

Just seven days before playing their first match, KK Vršac Meridianbet decided to withdraw from the competition. Board of ABA League decided KK Joker from Sombor to take the vacant spot.^[9]

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.^[2]

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	6	4	2	435	423	+12	10	Advance to the Top 8		—	78–80	68–67	69–62
2	Cedevita Junior	6	4	2	495	458	+37	10			79–87	—	77–75	80–55
3	MZT Skopje Aerodrom	6	3	3	437	414	+23	9			70–72	87–82	—	68–50
4	Teodo Tivat	6	1	5	373	445	−72	7			65–61	76–97	65–70	—

Source: ABA 2

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		VOJ	BOS	SUT	RAB
1	Vojvodina mts	6	5	1	498	440	+58	11	Advance to the Top 8		—	77–68	105–84	93–62
2	Bosna Visit Sarajevo	6	4	2	464	426	+38	10			60–70	—	78–74	84–58
3	Sutjeska Elektroprivreda	6	3	3	492	470	+22	9			96–79	73–75	—	94–75
4	Rabotnički	6	0	6	397	515	−118	6			70–74	74–99	58–71	—

Source: ABA 2

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		JOK	ŠIR	POD	PEL
1	Joker	6	5	1	504	480	+24	11	Advance to the Top 8		—	110–95	81–62	93–84
2	Široki TT Kabeli	6	3	3	500	463	+37	9			86–60	—	87–93	93–73
3	Podgorica	6	3	3	467	467	0	9			76–79	53–67	—	90–79
4	Pelister	6	1	5	461	522	−61	7			77–81	74–72	74–93	—

Source: ABA 2

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		ILI	ZLA	BBL	ŠIB
1	Ilirija	6	4	2	486	422	+64	10	Advance to the Top 8		—	69–58	62–70	80–54
2	Zlatibor Mozzart	6	4	2	494	478	+16	10			102–92	—	90–93	80–71
3	Borac WWIN	6	3	3	471	473	−2	9			77–88	85–91	—	59–73
4	Šibenka	6	1	5	396	474	−78	7			61–95	68–73	69–87	—

Source: ABA 2

Top 8

Group E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		ZLA	BOS	HEL	POD
1	Zlatibor Mozzart	6	5	1	483	492	−9	11	Advance to the Playoffs		—	94–89	98–88	90–82
2	Bosna Visit Sarajevo	6	4	2	489	448	+41	10			98–57	—	77–64	71–69
3	Kansai Helios	6	2	4	465	471	−6	8			65–72	73–76	—	92–89
4	Podgorica[Note]	6	1	5	460	486	−26	7			70–72	91–78	59–83	—

Source: ABA 2

Notes

1. ^
   KK Joker withdrew from the competition after the regular season due to financial difficulties. KK Podgorica replaced them.

Group F

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		VOJ	ILI	ŠIR	CED
1	Vojvodina mts	6	4	2	492	436	+56	10	Advance to the Playoffs		—	105–68	62–56	100–75
2	Ilirija	6	4	2	491	490	+1	10			86–81	—	82–69	89–74
3	Široki TT Kabeli	6	2	4	465	495	−30	8			78–68	90–86	—	70–76
4	Cedevita Junior	6	2	4	443	470	−27	8			73–76	71–80	96–80	—

Source: ABA 2

Playoffs

Bracket

	Semi-finals							Final
	9–23 April
	Zlatibor Mozzart		82	59	0
								29 April–14 May
	Ilirija		90	87	2
								Ilirija	84	68	74	1
	10–23 April
								Bosna Visit Sarajevo	79	77	88	2
	Vojvodina mts		91	66	0
	Bosna Visit Sarajevo		92	75	2