| Serie A2 Basket | |
| T Bg: | orange |
| T Color: | white |
| Season: | 2016–17 |
| Champions: | Segafredo Virtus Bologna |
| Runners Up: | Alma Trieste |
| Semifinalists: | OraSì Ravenna Kontatto Bologna |
| Relegated: | Ambalt Recanati Basket Agropoli Proger Chieti |
| Teams: | 32 |
| Games: | 480 (Regular season) 45–75 (Playoffs) |
| Duration: | 2 October 2016 – June 2017 |
| Tv: | Sky Italia |
| Top Seed: | De' Longhi Treviso (East) Angelico Biella (West) |
| Highest Attendance: | 9,000[1] Virtus Bologna 87–86 Fortitudo (6 January 2017) |
| Prevseason: | 2015–16 |
| Nextseason: | 2017–18 |
| Updated: | 20 June 2017 |
The 2016–17 Serie A2 season, known for sponsorship reasons as the Serie A2 Citroën, is the 43rd season of the Italian basketball second league Serie A2 Basket. The season started on October 2, 2016, and will end in June 2017 with the last game of the promotion playoffs finals.[2]
The season is composed of 32 teams with a regional subdivision in two equal groups of sixteen, East and West. Each team plays the others in its subgroup twice, the first ranked team of each group then plays the eighth ranked team of the other group (e.g. East #1 against West #8), then the second best against the seventh, and so on, to form a promotion playoffs (for one place) of sixteen teams.[3]
| Number of teams | Region | Team(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | Andrea Costa Imola Assigeco Piacenza Bondi Ferrara Kontatto Bologna OraSì Ravenna Segafredo Virtus Bologna Unieuro Forlì | |
| 5 | Benacquista Assicurazioni Latina FMC Ferentino NCP Rieti Roma Gas & Power Roma UniCusano Roma | |
| 3 | Dinamica Mantova Europromotion Legnano Remer Treviglio | |
| Angelico Biella Novipiù Casale Monferrato Orsi Tortona | ||
| 2 | Roseto Sharks Proger Chieti | |
| Basket Agropoli Givova Scafati | ||
| Alma Trieste G.S.A. Udine | ||
| Aurora Basket Jesi Ambalt Recanati | ||
| Moncada Agrigento Lighthouse Trapani | ||
| De' Longhi Treviso Tezenis Verona | ||
| 1 | Viola Reggio Calabria | |
| Mens Sana Siena | ||
| Team | Arena | Capacity | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alma Trieste | Trieste | PalaTrieste | align=right | 6,943 | |
| Andrea Costa Imola | Imola | PalaRuggi | align=right | 2,000 | |
| Assigeco Piacenza | Piacenza | PalaBanca | align=right | 4,500 | |
| Aurora Basket Jesi | Jesi | UBI BPA Sport Center | align=right | 3,500 | |
| Basket Recanati | Recanati | PalaCingolani | align=right | 1,006 | |
| Bondi Ferrara | Ferrara | Pala Hilton Pharma | align=right | 3,504 | |
| De' Longhi Treviso | Treviso | PalaVerde | align=right | 5,134 | |
| Dinamica Mantova | Mantova | PalaBam | align=right | 5,000 | |
| G.S.A. Udine | Udine | PalaCarnera | align=right | 3,850 | |
| Kontatto Bologna | Bologna | Land Rover Arena | align=right | 5,721 | |
| OraSì Ravenna | Ravenna | PalaDeAndré | align=right | 3,500 | |
| Proger Chieti | Chieti | PalaTricalle Leombroni | align=right | 2,600 | |
| Roseto Sharks | Roseto | PalaMaggetti | align=right | 5,000 | |
| Bologna | Unipol Arena | align=right | 9,513 | ||
| Tezenis Verona | Verona | PalaOlimpia | align=right | 5,350 | |
| Unieuro Forlì | Forlì | align=right | 6,511 |
| Team | Home city | Arena | Capacity | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angelico Biella | Biella | BiellaForum | align=right | 5,707 | |
| Basket Agropoli | Agropoli | PalaDiConcilio | align=right | 1,500 | |
| Benacquista Latina | Latina | PalaBianchini | align=right | 2,500 | |
| FMC Ferentino | Ferentino | align=right | 2,000 | ||
| Givova Scafati | Scafati | PalaMagnano | align=right | 3,700 | |
| Lighthouse Trapani | Trapani | Palaillio | align=right | 4,575 | |
| Mens Sana Siena | Siena | align=right | 7,050 | ||
| Moncada Agrigento | Agrigento | PalaMoncada | align=right | 3,200 | |
| PalaFerraris | align=right | 3,508 | |||
| NPC Rieti | Rieti | PalaSojourner | align=right | 3,550 | |
| Orsi Tortona | Tortona | PalaOltrepò | align=right | 1,500 | |
| Remer Treviglio | Treviglio | PalaFacchetti | align=right | 2,880 | |
| Rome | align=right | 3,500 | |||
| Legnano | Knights Palace | align=right | 1,650 | ||
| UniCusano Roma | Rome | Palazzetto dello Sport | align=right | 3,500 | |
| PalaCalafiore | align=right | 8,500 |
| Team | Head Coach | Captain | Kit manufacturer | Shirt sponsor | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alma Trieste |  Eugenio Dalmasson | Andrea Coronica | Athletes | Alma | |
| Andrea Costa Imola | Giampiero Ticchi | ||||
| Assigeco Piacenza | Marco Andreazza | Luca Infante | Assigeco | ||
| Aurora Basket Jesi | Damiano Cagnazzo | Marco Maganza | Termoforgia | ||
| Basket Recanati | Giancarlo Sacco | Attilio Pierini | Macron | ||
| Bondi Ferrara | Adriano Furlani | Riccardo Cortese | 2T Sport | Bondi | |
| De' Longhi Treviso | Stefano Pillastrini | Matteo Fantinelli | De'Longhi | ||
| Dinamica Mantova | Alberto Martelossi | Lorenzo Gergati | Erreà | Dinamica Generale | |
| G.S.A. Udine | Lino Lardo | Manuel Vanuzzo | Macron | G.S.A. Gruppo Servizi Associati | |
| Kontatto Bologna | Kontatto | Kontatto | |||
| OraSì Ravenna | Antimo Martino |  Andrea Raschi | Macron | OraSì | |
| Proger Chieti | Massimo Galli | Luigi Sergio | Proger | ||
| Roseto Sharks | Emanuele Di Paolantonio | Robert Fultz | Erreà | Visitroseto.it | |
| Segafredo Virtus Bologna | Alessandro Ramagli | Andrea Michelori | Macron | Segafredo Zanetti | |
| Tezenis Verona | Giorgio Boscagin | Erreà | Tezenis | ||
| Unieuro Forlì | Giorgio Valli | Matteo Frassineti | Erreà | Unieuro |
| Team | Head Coach | Captain | Kit manufacturer | Shirt sponsor | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angelico Biella | Michele Carrea | Niccolò De Vico | Angelico | ||
| Basket Agropoli | Alessandro Finelli | Riccardo Santolamazza | |||
| Benacquista Latina | Franco Gramenzi | Lorenzo Uglietti | Benacquista Assicurazioni | ||
| FMC Ferentino | Riccardo Paolini | Erreà | FMC | ||
| Givova Scafati | Giovanni Perdichizzi | Tommaso Fantoni | Givova | Givova | |
| Lighthouse Trapani | Ugo Ducarello |  Demián Filloy | Eyesportwear | Lighthouse | |
| Mens Sana Siena | Giulio Griccioli | Simone Flamini | Soundreef | ||
| Moncada Agrigento | Franco Ciani | Albano Maximo Chiarastella | Erreà | Moncada Energy Group | |
| Novipiù Casale Monferrato | Marco Ramondino | Niccolò Martinoni | Macron | Novipiù | |
| NPC Rieti | Luciano Nunzi | Nicolò Benedusi | Joma | ||
| Orsi Tortona | Demis Cavina | Erreà | ORSI | ||
| Remer Treviglio | Adriano Vertemati | Emanuele Rossi | Gruppo Remer | ||
| Roma Gas & Power Roma | Davide Bonora | Daniele Bonessio | Roma Gas & Power | ||
| TWS Legnano | Mattia Ferrari | Federico Maiocco | Bitre Sport | T.W.S. | |
| UniCusano Roma | Fabio Corbani | Giuliano Maresca | Eyesportwear | Università Niccolò Cusano | |
| Viola Reggio Calabria | Antonio Paternoster | Agustin Fabi | Bitre Sport |
See main article: article and 2017 Italian LNP Cup. At the half of the league, the four first teams of each group in the table play the LNP Cup, known as Turkish Airlines Cup for sponsorship reasons, at the Unipol Arena in Bologna, from 3 to 5 March 2017.[4]
The league play-out are played between the 14th and 15th placed teams of each group in two elimination rounds. The series will be played in a best-of-five format: the first, the second and the eventual fifth game will be played at home of the team that got the better ranking at the end of the regular season, the third and the eventual fourth will be played at home the lower ranked team.
All matches will be played between 30 April and 24 May 2017 (eventual Game 5).
The league's playoffs are played between the first and the eighth of each group in four rounds: eightfinals, quarterfinals, semifinals and final. All series are played in a best-of-five format: the first, the second and the eventual fifth match will be played at home of the best-placed team, the second, the third and the fourth, at the end of the regular season.
All matches are played between 30 April and 21 June 2017 (eventual Game 5).
Source: LNP
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