Adriatic ABA League

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Poster

Established
2001 (24 years old)

First Recorded Event
2014-10-03

Current Season
2025

Current Round
8

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Basketball

Location
Europe

Gender
Male

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Upcoming
05 Dec	KK FMP	5:00pm	KK Split
05 Dec	KK Zadar	5:00pm	BC Vienna
06 Dec	KK Krka	5:00pm	KK Borac
06 Dec	KK Sparta	5:00pm	KK Mega B
07 Dec	KK Cedevi	5:00pm	KD Ilirij
07 Dec	U-BT Cluj	5:00pm	KK Partiz
08 Dec	KK Igokea	5:00pm	Dubai Bas
08 Dec	KK Bosna	5:00pm	KK Crvena
12 Dec	KK Zadar	5:00pm	KK Mega B
12 Dec	KK Cedevi	5:00pm	KK Bosna
Results
24 Nov	KK Borac	97 - 75	KK Igokea
23 Nov	BC Vienna	82 - 98	KK Crvena
23 Nov	KK Sparta	84 - 87	KK Cedevi
23 Nov	KK Partiz	94 - 72	KK Studen
23 Nov	KK Mega B	65 - 98	KK Buduć
22 Nov	U-BT Cluj	-	KK FMP
21 Nov	KK Split	80 - 91	KK Krka
21 Nov	KD Ilirij	-	KK Bosna
17 Nov	KK Cedevi	87 - 86	KK Crvena
17 Nov	KK FMP	91 - 107	Dubai Bas

Description

The ABA League, commonly known as the Adriatic League, is a regional men's professional basketball league that originally featured clubs from the former Yugoslavia (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia). It is run by the ABA League JTD. In later years, the league also consisted of clubs from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Israel that received wild card invitations. Due to sponsorship reasons, the league was also known as the Goodyear League from 2001 until 2006, and as the NLB League from 2006 until 2011.

The league coexists alongside scaled-down national leagues in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia. All but one of Adriatic League clubs join their country's own competitions in late spring after the Adriatic League regular season and post-season have been completed.

The Adriatic League is a private venture, founded in 2001 and run until 2015 by the Sidro, a Slovenian limited liability company. Since 2015, the league has been operated by ABA League JTD, a Zagreb-based general partnership for organizing sports competitions. Adriatic Basketball Association is the body that organizes the league and is a full member of ULEB, as well as a voting member of Euroleague Basketball's board. The competition can thus be considered a local version of the European-wide EuroLeague, in which a few Adriatic League clubs also compete.

The formation of the Adriatic League has inspired similar regional competitions all over Europe such as: Baltic Basketball League (started in 2004), Central European Basketball League (2008–2010), Balkan International Basketball League (2008), and VTB United League (2008).

Seasons

Teams

BC Vienna	Dubai Basketbal	KD Ilirija	KK Borac Čača
KK Bosna Royal	KK Budućnost	KK Cedevita Olimp	KK Crvena zvezda
KK FMP	KK Igokea	KK Krka	KK Mega Basket
KK Partizan	KK Spartak Subo	KK Split	KK Studentski c
KK Zadar	U-BT Cluj-Napoc