2019–20 National Basketball League (Bulgaria) season explained

Prevseason:2018–19
Nextseason:2020–21
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T Color:white
Teams:10
Duration:5 October 2019 – 13 April 2020
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The 2019–20 National Basketball League (Bulgaria) season was the 79th season of the Bulgarian top basketball league.

On 13 March 2020, the Bulgarian government halted the league until 13 April 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 16 April 2020, after a month of suspension, the Bulgarian Basketball Federation officially ended the 2019–20 season, after video conference vote of board of directors.[1] Balkan ended the season first, with eighteen wins, but the title was not assigned.

Teams

Chernomorets from the second league joined the same nine teams from the previous season.[2]

ClubLast seasonArenaLocationCapacity
Academic Bultex 995thKolodrumaPlovdiv6,100
Academic Sofia8thSports Complex HallPravets1,000
Balkan Botevgrad1stArena BotevgradBotevgrad4,500
Beroe3rdMunicipal HallStara Zagora1,000
Cherno More Ticha9thHristo BorisovVarna1,000
ChernomoretsBoycho BranzovBurgas1,000
Levski Lukoil2ndUniversiada HallSofia4,000
Rilski Sportist4thArena SamokovSamokov2,500
Spartak Pleven6thBalkanstroyPleven1,200
Yambol8thDianaYambol3,000

Regular season

In the regular season, teams played against each other three times home-and-away in a double round-robin format. The eight first qualified teams advance to the playoffs.

League table

The season was finished after 19 played games for each team.

Results

Bulgarian clubs in European competitions

Team Competition Progress
Champions League First qualifying round
FIBA Europe Cup Regular season
Regular season
Qualifying round

Notes and References

  1. Web site: БФБаскетбол прекрати окончателно първенството на НБЛ. 16 April 2020. basketball.bg . 26 April 2020.
  2. Web site: БЕРОЕ И ЛЕВСКИ ЛУКОЙЛ ЩЕ ПРЕМЕРЯТ СИЛИ НА СТАРТА НА СЕЗОНА В НБЛ. 4 September 2019. bball.bg. 19 October 2019. 7 September 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190907130505/http://bball.bg/2019/09/04/beroe-i-levski-lukojl-she-premeryat-sili-na-starta-na-sezona-v-nbl/. dead.