| Prevseason: | 2016–17 |
| Nextseason: | 2018–19 |
| Season: | 2017–18 |
| ABA League First Division | |
| Champions: |  Budućnost VOLI (1st title) |
| Runners Up: |  Crvena zvezda mts |
| Semifinalists: | Cedevita Mornar |
| Promoted: | Krka |
| Teams: | 12 |
| Games: | 142 |
| Duration: | – (Regular season) – (Playoffs) |
| Highest Scoring: | (21 October 2017) |
| Biggest Home Win: | (11 February 2018) |
| Biggest Away Win: | (3 February 2018) |
| Highest Attendance: | 7,237 (18 March 2018) |
| Lowest Attendance: | 250 (4 March 2018) |
| Attendancecalc: | 360226 |
| Top Seed: | Crvena zvezda mts |
| Tv: | Arena Sport |
| Mvp: | Luka Žorić [1] |
| Finals Mvp: |  Nemanja Gordić [2] |
| Award4: | Top Prospect |
| Award4 Winner: | Džanan Musa [3] |
| Pir N: | CRO |
| Pir: | 23.24 |
| Ppg N: | CRO |
| Ppg: | 19.71 |
| Rpg N: | CRO |
| Rpg: | 7.77 |
| Apg N: | SRB |
| Apg: | 7.43 |
The 2017–18 ABA League First Division was the 17th season of the ABA League with 12 teams from Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Macedonia participating in it. It was the inaugural season as the first tier as a part of two level competition.
On May 23, 2017, ABA League Assembly has decided that there will be 12 clubs competing in the league in the 2017–18 season.[1] Having analysed the current situation in European and the regional basketball, as well as the fact that the ABA League is still not officially recognized by the national basketball federations, and with a goal to protect the interests of the ABA League founding clubs, the clubs that have competed in the 2016–17 season will have a right to participate in the forthcoming season as well and the priority of participation will be given to the founders of the ABA League (from the 2015–16 season). The formula to determine the participants which will be respected is the following:[1]
Two additional spots will be allocated to the clubs from countries, whose clubs have achieved the best coefficients in the country rankings during the 2016–17 season. Those two countries are Serbia and Montenegro. The places from Serbia will be filled in accordance with the final standings of the Basketball League of Serbia, in accordance with the recognition and cooperation with the ABA League.[1]
In accordance with the previously mentioned decisions, the participating clubs of the ABA League for the 2017–18 season are: Cedevita, Zadar, Cibona, Union Olimpija, Igokea, Budućnost VOLI, MZT Skopje Aerodrom and Mornar, while the remaining four places (from Serbia), were determined in accordance with the standings in the Basketball League of Serbia.[1]
The numbers of teams by country is determined by a coefficient that is the sum of all victories clubs from a certain country achieve in a regular season divided by the number of clubs from that country. By using this coefficient majority of places for current season are allocated, while the remaining places are given via wild cards from league board.[2]
| Country | 2017–18 no. of clubs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=center | 3 | align=center style="background:lightgreen;" | 16.25 | 4 | |
| align=center | 1 | align=center style="background:lightgreen;" | 14.00 | 2 | |
| 3 | 13.33 | 3 | |||
| align=center | 1 | 13.00 | 1 | ||
| align=center | 1 | 9.00 | 1 | ||
| align=center | 1 | 9.00 | 1 | ||
| Total | align=center | 10 | best coeff. (+2) | 12 |
League positions of the previous domestic league season after playoffs shown in parentheses.
| Regular season | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=210 | Crvena zvezda mts (1st) | width=210 | Mega Bemax (4th) | width=210 | Cedevita (1st) | width=210 | Igokea (1st) |
| width=210 | FMP (2nd) | width=210 | Budućnost VOLI (1st) | width=210 | Cibona (2nd) | width=210 | Petrol Olimpija (1st) |
| width=210 | Partizan NIS (3rd) | width=210 | Mornar (2nd) | width=210 | Zadar (6th) | width=210 |  MZT Skopje Aerodrom (1st) |
| Team | Home city | Arena | Capacity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Budućnost VOLI | Podgorica | Morača Sports Center | |
| Cedevita | Zagreb | Dražen Petrović | |
| Cibona | Zagreb | Dražen Petrović | |
| Crvena zvezda mts | Belgrade | Aleksandar Nikolić | [3] |
| Igokea | Aleksandrovac | Laktaši Sports Hall | |
| Sports Hall Pinki | |||
| Mornar | Bar | Topolica Sport Hall | |
| MZT Skopje Aerodrom | Skopje | Jane Sandanski | |
| Partizan NIS | Belgrade | Aleksandar Nikolić | |
| Ljubljana | Arena Stožice | ||
| Zadar | Zadar | Krešimir Ćosić | |
| Team | Outgoing manager | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Replaced with | Date of appointment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 April 2017 | Off-season | 22 June 2017 | ||||
| 9 June 2017 | 14 June 2017 | |||||
| 13 June 2017 | 17 June 2017 | |||||
| 13 June 2017 | 18 July 2017 | |||||
| 15 June 2017 | 15 June 2017 | |||||
| 1 July 2017 | 1 July 2017 | |||||
| 15 July 2017 | 21 July 2017 | |||||
| 21 July 2017 | 27 July 2017 | |||||
| 11 November 2017[4] | 9th (3–5) | 13 November 2017[5] | ||||
| 7 December 2017[6] | 12th (2–8) | 8 December 2017[7] | ||||
| 12 December 2017[8] | 5th (5–6) | 14 December 2017[9] | ||||
| 8 January 2018 | 11th (5–10) | 8 January 2018[10] |
See main article: 2018 ABA League Playoffs. The semi-finals was played in a best-of-three format, while the Finals were played in a best-of-five format. Playoffs started on 17 March 2018, while the Finals ended on 14 April 2018.[11]
, after the end of the Regular Season.
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| Player | Team | ||
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| Ideal Starting Five | |||
| [15] | |||
| Month | Player | Team | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | ||||
| October |  Patrick Miller | Partizan NIS | [41] | |
| November | Milko Bjelica | Crvena zvezda mts | [42] | |
| December | Josh Bostic | Zadar | [43] | |
| 2018 | ||||
| January | [44] | |||
| February | [45] | |||
Attendances include playoff games:
| Competition | Team | Progress | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14th (11–19) | ||||
| (2) | Eliminated by  Darüşşafaka, 0–2 | |||
| (1) | 4th (0–6) | |||
| 6th (1–9) | ||||
| 7th (4–10) | ||||
Eliminated by  Avtodor Saratov, 132–158; transferred to FIBA Europe Cup | ||||
| (3) | Eliminated by Donar, 147–168 | |||
2017–18 Basketball League of Serbia 2017–18 Prva A liga 2017–18 Basketball Championship of Bosnia and Herzegovina 2017–18 Macedonian First League