Balkan International Basketball League

The Balkan International Basketball League (BIBL), also known as the Balkan League, is a multinational professional basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

league that features pro clubs from the Balkans

Balkans

The Balkans is a geopolitical and cultural region of southeastern Europe...

. The league includes teams from the countries of Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

, Macedonia

Republic of Macedonia

Macedonia , officially the Republic of Macedonia , is a country located in the central Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991...

, Montenegro

Montenegro

Montenegro Montenegrin: Crna Gora Црна Гора , meaning "Black Mountain") is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast and Albania to the...

, Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...

, Croatia

Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

and Serbia

Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

. Since 2011-12 Season teams from Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

also compete in the league, despite that they are not from the region.

Format

The league features three teams from the Bulgarian League

National Basketball League (Bulgaria)

The Bulgarian National Basketball League is the highest professional basketball league in Bulgaria. It was founded in the year 2008. Previously, it was called the Bulgarian A Division...

, two from the Macedonian League, two from the Romanian League

Romanian Basketball Division A

The Divizia A is the top-tier professional basketball league of Romania. There are 16 teams in Men's Division A.The regular season begins in October and is played over a normal round-robin home-and-away basis. The first 8 clubs qualify for the play-offs. The play-offs are played using the knock-out...

, and three teams from the Serbian League.

In the first season of the BIBL, the teams will be divided into two groups of five. The top four teams in each group will qualify for the playoffs, where the winner of group A will face the fourth-placed team in group B, the second will play the third and so forth.

Championship

Season	Arena	Champion	Runner-up	Result
2008–09	Arena Samokov	Rilski Sportist BC Rilski Sportist BC Rilski Sportist is a Bulgarian professional basketball club based in Samokov. The team is part of NBL and the BIBL. They play their home matches at Arena Samokov-Roster:Head Coach: Aleksandar Todorov-External links:*...	Feršped Rabotnički KK Rabotnički KK Rabotnički is a basketball club based in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. They currently play in the Macedonian First League and are the most successful Macedonian basketball team of all time.-History:...	84–77
2009–10	Universiada Hall Universiada Hall Universiada Hall is an Indoor arena in Sofia, Bulgaria. Opened in 1961 for the II Summer Universiade, the arena has a seating capacity for 3,000 people and is the regular home venue of Lukoil Academic and Levski Sofia basketball teams.-External links:*...	Levski Sofia BC Levski Sofia BC Levski Sofia is a Bulgarian professional basketball club based in the capital Sofia and part of the Levski Sofia sports club.Founded in 1923, Levski has won 31 domestic trophies including 17 NBL titles and 14 Bulgarian Cups...	Lovćen	77–65
2010–11 2010–11 BIBL season In the third season of the Balkan International Basketball League, ten participants from the Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro and the new represented countries Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia has competed.-Teams:-Regular season:...	Jasmin Hall	KK Feni Industries	BC Rilski Sportist BC Rilski Sportist BC Rilski Sportist is a Bulgarian professional basketball club based in Samokov. The team is part of NBL and the BIBL. They play their home matches at Arena Samokov-Roster:Head Coach: Aleksandar Todorov-External links:*...	88–75

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