2024–25 ABA League Second Division

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.

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).^[1][2]

The following is the access list for this season.^[3]

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.^[4]

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),^[5] 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.^[6] GKK Šibenka is then awarded an additional wild card.to replace them.^[7]

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.^[8]

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.^[1]

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)

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		HEL	CED	MZT	TIV
1	Kansai Helios	4	4	0	296	278	+18	8	Advance to the Top 8		—		68–67	69–62
2	Cedevita Junior	3	2	1	253	238	+15	5			79–87	—	77–75
3	MZT Skopje Aerodrom	4	1	3	280	267	+13	5			70–72		—	68–50
4	Teodo Tivat	3	0	3	188	234	−46	3				76–97		—

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		BOS	SUT	VOJ	RAB
1	Bosna Visit Sarajevo	4	3	1	329	283	+46	7	Advance to the Top 8		—	78–74		84–58
2	Sutjeska Elektroprivreda	3	2	1	241	215	+26	5				—	96–79
3	Vojvodina mts	3	2	1	249	226	+23	5			77–68		—	93–62
4	Rabotnički	4	0	4	252	347	−95	4			74–99	58–71		—

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		JOK	POD	PEL	ŠIR
1	Joker	3	3	0	270	248	+22	6	Advance to the Top 8		—			110–95
2	Podgorica	3	2	1	259	245	+14	5			76–79	—	90–79
3	Pelister	3	1	2	230	243	−13	4			77–81		—	74–72
4	Široki TT Kabeli	3	0	3	254	277	−23	3				87–93		—

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		ILI	BBL	ZLA	ŠIB
1	Ilirija	3	2	1	226	189	+37	5	Advance to the Top 8		—	62–70	69–58
2	Borac WWIN	3	2	1	222	225	−3	5				—		59–73
3	Zlatibor Mozzart	3	1	2	221	230	−9	4				90–93	—
4	Šibenka	3	1	2	202	227	−25	4			61–95		68–73	—

• Official website
• ABA League 2 at Eurobasket.com