2024 BNL season | |
League: | Basketball National League |
Sport: | Basketball |
Prevseason Year: | 2023 |
Duration: | June 22 – September 28, 2024 (group stage) October 12–20, 2024 (final round) |
No Of Teams: | 11 |
Mvp: | Sifiso Gininda (Marlins) |
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Playoffs: | Playoffs |
Finals Champ: | KwaZulu Marlins (2nd title) |
Finals Runner-Up: | Mpumalanga Rhinos |
Prevseason Link: | 2023 BNL season |
Nextseason Link: | 2025 BNL season |
The 2024 BNL season was the 11th season of the Basketball National League (BNL), the top-flight basketball league in South Africa. The season began on June 22, 2024, and ended with the last game of the finals series on October 20, 2024.
The Cape Town Tigers were the defending champions, but were unable to defend their title as they withdrew from the league.
The KwaZulu Marlins won their second championship, its first in 27 years, as they had won their first title in the Premier League of 1997.[1]
The league existed out of 11 teams. The BNL decided to enforce a promotion and relegation system and as such the last-ranked Eastern Cape Windbreakers were not part of the league this season, and MBB from Johannesburg joined the league. The defending champions Cape Town Tigers withdrew from the league, citing budgetary constraints.[2]
The schedule was announced on June 9, 2024.[3]
Multiple games in Group B were not played and technical defeats were given.
The playoffs began with the semifinals on October 12 and 13, 2024, in Johannesburg.[4]