Prevseason: | 2021–22 |
Nextseason: | 2023–24 |
Season: | 2022–23 |
ABA League Second Division | |
Teams: | 14 |
Games: | 13 each |
Duration: | October 2022 – April 2023 |
Tv: | Arena Sport |
The 2022–23 ABA League Second Division is the 6th season of the ABA Second Division with 14 teams from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia participating in it.
A total of 14 clubs contest the league for the 2022–23 season, based on the results in the domestic championships and taking into consideration the results in the previous season. On the ABA Assembly session, held on 19 July 2022 in Zagreb, was confirmed clubs for the 2022–23 season.[1]
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 (14 clubs) |
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Playoffs (8 clubs) |
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The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
Regular season | |||
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Široki (2nd) | Helios Suns (2nd) | Sutjeska (2nd) | Zlatibor (1st)TH |
Spars Ilidža (3rd) | GGD Šenčur (3rd) | Podgorica (3rd) | Sloga (2nd) |
Borac Banja Luka (5th)WC | Gorica (4th) | Pelister (2nd) | |
Krka (ABA1) | Vrijednosnice (12th) | TFT Skopje (4th) | |
Bosnian clubs Leotar[2] and Sloboda Tuzla[3] failed to receive wildcards.
Team | Home city | Head coach | Captain | Kit manufacturer | Shirt sponsor |
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Borac Banja Luka | Banja Luka | Zoran Kašćelan | Srđan Gavrić | Kelme | wwin |
Braslav Turić | Ante Mašić | Alpas | — | ||
Helios Suns | Domžale | Aljaž Bratec | Spalding | Helios / Triglav | |
Krka | Novo Mesto | Rok Stipčević | Peak | Krka | |
Pelister | Bitola | Marjan Ilievski | Boban Stajić | Unit sport | — |
Podgorica | Podgorica | Nebojša Bogavac | Vladan Kaluđerović | NetS | Bemax |
Sloga | Kraljevo | Marko Dimitrijević | Stefan Matović | Maluro | — |
Spars Ilidža | Ilidža | Miodrag Kadija | Harun Zrno | No1 | Visit Sarajevo |
Sutjeska | Nikšić | Darko Vujačić | Marko Ćalić | Ardu Sport | — |
GGD Šenčur | Šenčur | Miljan Pavković | Dino Murić | GGD / ELCI | |
Široki | Široki Brijeg | Ivan Velić | Jure Zubac | Ardu Sport | TT Kabeli |
TFT Skopje | Skopje | Boro Smilkovski | Edis Nuri | — | |
Vrijednosnice | Srđan Heblich | Veljko Budimir | STX | VROS | |
Zlatibor | Čajetina | Strajin Nedović | Nemanja Protić | Ardu Sport | Boje i fasade Maxima |
Team | Outgoing manager | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Replaced with | Date of appointment | Ref. |
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Borac Banja Luka | 17 April 2022 | Off-season | Zoran Kašćelan | 17 April 2022 | [4] [5] | |
Krka | June 2022 | 24 June 2022 | [6] | |||
Široki | 7 July 2022 | 22 July 2022 | [7] [8] | |||
Gorica | Mladen Starčević | July 2022 | 29 July 2022 | [9] | ||
Gorica | 15 November 2022 | 13th (0–2) | Braslav Turić | 15 November 2022 | [10] | |
The Regular season is split in five tournaments featuring two or three rounds.
Based on the results and position of the clubs in the standings after the regular season, Playoffs will take place with teams from 1st to 8th position. The Quarterfinals will be played in knockout pairs 1–8, 2–7, 3–6, 4–5. The winners of the Quarterfinals will qualify to the Semifinals and the winners of the Semifinals will play the Final.
Knock-out elimination phases were played under single-game format.