| Prevseason: | 2023–24 |
| Nextseason: | 2025–26 |
| Season: | 2024–25 |
| ABA League Second Division | |
| Teams: | 16 |
| Duration: | October 2024 – TBA |
| Tv: | Arena Sport |
The 2024–25 ABA League Second Division is the 7th season of the ABA Second Division with teams from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia participating in it.
Following the expansion in the first division of ABA League, from this season 16 clubs will contest the second division as well (12 based on the results in the domestic championships and remaining 4 via wild card invitation).
From this year, instead of the five ("bubble") tournaments, 16 teams will be divided into the four Regular Season groups, each consisting of four clubs.
In each group, the teams will play against each other in a home-and-away round-robin system. Two best-placed teams of each group will advance to the Top 8 phase of the competition. Top 8 teams will be divided into two groups, each consisting of four teams. The system in the Top 8 phase of the competition will be also home-and-away round-robin system. The two best-placed teams of each Top 8 group will advance into the Playoffs. The Semi-finals and Finals will be played in a best-of-three series format (1-1-1).[1] [2]
The following is the access list for this season.[3]
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
| Regular season | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Borac WWIN (2nd) | Šibenka (9th)WC | MZT Skopje Aerodrom (1st) | Zlatibor Mozzart (3rd) |
| Bosna Meridianbet (3rd)WC | Podgorica (1st) | Pelister (2nd) | Vršac Meridianbet (4th)WC |
| Široki TT Kabeli (4th)RW | Sutjeska (2nd) | Rabotnički (3rd)WC | Kansai Helios (2nd) |
| Cedevita (5th) | Teodo Tivat (3rd)WC | Vojvodina mts (1st) | Ilirija (4th) |
After the announcement that wild card fee would cost 25,000 euros, the 9 teams applied for the wild card (all above except for Sloboda Užice and Radnički Kragujevac and with addition of KK TFT Mozzart Skopje),[5] out of which the board of the ABA League decided that 4 teams (Bosna Meridianbet, Vršac, Tivat and Rabotnički) will receive the wild card.
KK Dinamo Zagreb (fourth-placed team in the Croatian 2023-24 Favbet Premijer Liga) decided not to participate in this season ABA 2 League and chose to play FIBA competition instead.[6] GKK Šibenka is then awarded an additional wild card.to replace them.[7]
The clubs were divided into 4 pots, based on the results in the NLB ABA League 2 and in the domestic championships in the previous season. While conducting the draw, a national criteria was also taken into account, to prevent two clubs from the same country to be placed within the same Regular Season Group.
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