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ABA League Second Division
ABA League Second Division
Season	2018–19
Duration	September 27, 2018 – March 13, 2019; (Regular season); March 20, 2019 – April 8, 2019; (Playoffs)
Teams	12
TV partner(s)	Arena Sport
Regular season
Top seed	Sixt Primorska
Relegated	Vršac
Finals
Champions	Sixt Primorska (1st title)
Runners-up	MZT
Semifinalists	Borac; Spars
Finals MVP	Marko Jagodić-Kuridža
Statistical leaders
Points
Points	Pavlićević
Rebounds	Jagodić-Kuridža
Assists	Šiško
Index Rating	Jagodić-Kuridža
Records
Biggest home win	Primorska 102–58 Zrinjski; (January 30, 2019)
Biggest away win	Helios 64–109 Primorska; (January 17, 2019)
Highest scoring	Vršac 102–107 Rogaška; (January 9, 2019)
Winning streak	Sixt Primorska; 11 games
Losing streak	Vršac; 19 games
	← 2017–18 2019–20 → All statistics correct as of March 8, 2019.

The 2018–19 ABA League Second Division was the 2nd season of the ABA Second Division with 12 teams from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia participating in it.

Format changes

On March 13, 2018, the Adriatic League Assembly decided to abolish the National standings and, as of the 2018–19 season, participants are determined only based on the results in the competitions under the umbrella of the Adriatic League (First Division and Second Division). According to that, the promotion to the First Division is possible only from the Second Division. The last placed of the 2017–18 First Division season lose the right to participate in the 2018–19 season and its place is given to the 2017–18 Champion of the Second Division. Also, as of the 2018–19 season, the 11th placed team of the 2018–19 First Division season and the runners-up of the 2018–19 Second Division season will play in the Qualifiers for a spot in the 2019–20 First Division season. The format of the Qualifiers will be best of three, while the home court advantage will be given to the team that played in the First Division in the previous season.^[1]

The maximum number of clubs from one country in the First Division is five, while in the Second Division each country will have two participants. The last placed club in the First Division will have a guaranteed place in the Second Division in the following season. The confirmed competition system shall not be changed until the end of the 2024–25 season, if there are no significant changes in the European basketball by then.^[1]

Instead of the Final Four tournament, as of the 2018–19 season, the Second Division champion will be given after the Playoffs, where four best teams of the regular season will compete. The last placed club in the 2017–18 season loses the right to participate in the 2018–19 season, regardless of its result in the national championship.^[1]

Teams

Team allocation

Macedonian League champions Rabotnički withdrew their place in 2018–19 season, as well as the semifinalists Kumanovo and Blokotehna. Their place was taken by Serbian team Vršac.^[2]

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:

1st, 2nd, etc.: National League position after Playoffs
ABA1: Relegated from the First Division
WC: Wild card

Regular season^[3]
Borac (4th)	Sixt Primorska (3rd)	Zrinjski (1st)	Sutjeska (3rd)
Dynamic VIP PAY (6th)	Rogaška (4th)	Spars (4th)	Lovćen 1947 (4th)
Vršac (7th)^WC	Helios Suns (5th)^WC	Split (4th)	MZT Skopje Aerodrom (ABA1)

Venues and locations

Location of teams in the 2018–19 ABA League Second Division


Team	Home city	Arena	Capacity
Borac	Čačak	Borac Hall	4,000
Dynamic VIP PAY	Belgrade	Ranko Žeravica Sports Hall	5,000
Helios Suns	Domžale	Komunalni center Hall	2,500
Lovćen 1947	Cetinje	Lovćen SC	1,500
MZT Skopje Aerodrom	Skopje	Jane Sandanski	7,500
Rogaška	Rogaška Slatina	Rogaška Slatina SH	1,100
Sixt Primorska	Koper	Arena Bonifika	3,000
Spars	Sarajevo	Grbavica SH	1,500
Split	Split	Arena Gripe	3,500
Sutjeska	Nikšić	Nikšić SC	3,000
Vršac	Vršac	Millennium Hall	4,400
Zrinjski	Mostar	Bijeli Brijeg Hall	1,000

Personnel and sponsorship

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Borac	Jovica Arsić	Marko Marinović	—	P.S. Fashion
Dynamic VIP PAY	Vladimir Đokić	Vuk Vulikić	NAAI	VIP PAY
Helios Suns	Dejan Jakara	Aljaž Bratec	Spalding	Helios, Triglav
Lovćen 1947	Miodrag Kadija	Nikola Borilović	NetS	VOLI
MZT Skopje Aerodrom	Gjorgji Kočov	Damjan Stojanovski	Adidas	Cevahir Holding, UNIBanka
Rogaška	Damjan Novaković	Miha Fon	Nike	—
Sixt Primorska	Jurica Golemac	Alen Hodžić	Nike	Vehicle Rent
Spars	Marko Trbić	Adin Vrabac	Adidas	—
Split	Ante Grgurević	Mateo Kedžo	Macron	Bobis
Sutjeska	Zoran Glomazić		First Ever	EP CG
Vršac	Darko Kostić	Miloš Savović	Spirit	Villager
Zrinjski	Hrvoje Vlašić	Ljubo Šamadan	No1	Mostarsko pivo

Coaching changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced with	Date of appointment	Ref.
MZT Skopje Aerodrom	Željko Lukajić	3 April 2018	Off-season	Gjorgji Kočov	3 April 2018	^[4]
Vršac	Goran Topić	April 2018		Mihajlo Mitić	April 2018
Borac	Raško Bojić	9 April 2018		Jovica Arsić	9 April 2018	^[5]^[6]
Split	Ivica Skelin	29 May 2018		Vladimir Anzulović	29 May 2018	^[7]
Dynamic VIP PAY	Miroslav Nikolić	4 July 2018		Vladimir Đokić	4 July 2018	^[8]
Lovćen 1947	Petar Jovanović	23 August 2018		Miodrag Kadija	23 August 2018	^[9]
Vršac	Mihajlo Mitić	24 August 2018		Branko Maksimović	24 August 2018	^[10]
Helios Suns	Jovan Beader	12 November 2018	10th (2–5)	Dejan Jakara	12 November 2018	^[11]
Vršac	Branko Maksimović	4 January 2019	12th (1–13)	Darko Kostić	4 January 2019	^[12]
Split	Vladimir Anzulović	5 March 2019	7th (8–12)	Ante Grgurević	5 March 2019

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Sixt Primorska	22	20	2	1867	1521	+346	42	Advance to the Playoffs
2	Spars	22	16	6	1641	1578	+63	38
3	MZT Skopje Aerodrom	22	15	7	1899	1758	+141	37
4	Borac Čačak	22	13	9	1757	1690	+67	35
5	Dynamic VIP PAY	22	12	10	1776	1727	+49	34
6	Sutjeska	22	12	10	1769	1803	−34	34
7	Lovćen 1947	22	11	11	1715	1688	+27	33
8	Split	22	10	12	1711	1712	−1	32
9	Zrinjski	22	8	14	1713	1815	−102	30
10	Rogaška	22	7	15	1726	1785	−59	29
11	Helios Suns	22	7	15	1642	1772	−130	29
12	Vršac	22	1	21	1728	2095	−367	23	Relegation

Source: ABA League Second Division

Positions by round

	First place & advance to the playoffs
	Advance to the playoffs
	Relegated

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Team ╲ Round
Sixt Primorska	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Spars	5	8	4	4	3	2	4	3	2	3	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2
MZT Skopje Aerodrom	4	2	3	3	4	3	2	2	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	3
Borac Čačak	8	11	8	9	9	7	9	9	8	6	6	8	8	8	8	8	8	6	6	5	5	4
Dynamic VIP PAY	2	4	6	5	5	6	5	5	6	7	8	7	7	7	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	5
Sutjeska	12	9	5	7	6	5	6	7	9	9	7	6	6	5	7	5	5	5	5	6	6	6
Lovćen 1947	6	7	10	10	8	9	7	6	5	4	3	3	3	4	6	7	7	8	7	8	7	7
Split	3	3	2	2	2	4	3	4	4	5	5	5	5	6	4	6	6	7	8	7	8	8
Zrinjski	11	10	12	12	10	11	11	11	11	11	10	10	9	10	10	10	10	11	11	11	10	9
Rogaška	7	6	7	6	7	8	8	8	7	8	9	9	11	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	10
Helios Suns	9	5	9	8	11	10	10	10	10	10	11	11	10	11	11	11	11	10	10	10	11	11
Vršac	10	12	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12

Source: ABA2

Results

Home \ Away	BOR	DYN	HEL	LOV	MZT	ROG	PRI	SPA	SPL	SUT	VRS	ZRI
Borac Čačak	—	102–72	81–63	77–76	79–74	89–84	65–73	80–84	79–73	92–68	89–71	82–76
Dynamic VIP PAY	89–98	—	79–71	87–88	98–75	91–74	68–58	79–74	72–78	76–51	95–83	88–81
Helios Suns	76–82	75–77	—	77–74	73–92	66–58	64–109	76–69	78–82	84–76	95–78	82–80
Lovćen 1947	75–70	89–82	79–58	—	67–85	72–71	66–80	68–74	63–65	81–87	81–66	83–73
MZT Skopje Aerodrom	82–57	84–74	92–79	100–90	—	84–70	77–78	93–77	104–87	94–73	78–69	97–75
Rogaška	81–88	75–80	68–63	85–95	102–90	—	74–75	70–81	74–69	95–81	92–80	66–62
Sixt Primorska	97–71	82–67	87–58	77–74	91–84	85–80	—	102–61	78–69	93–66	103–77	102–58
Spars	66–63	88–84	79–66	73–64	71–75	63–59	54–69	—	96–58	76–74	67–54	75–73
Split	81–68	72–78	82–76	71–78	76–78	81–69	75–77	60–63	—	109–87	87–69	78–82
Sutjeska	71–64	80–74	78–70	81–71	91–79	94–79	85–82	67–74	83–90	—	109–91	85–73
Vršac	74–100	99–93	74–106	78–103	88–95	102–107	65–103	76–93	80–96	78–100	—	85–91
Zrinjski	84–81	50–73	96–86	71–78	93–87	94–93	63–66	68–83	80–72	78–82	112–91	—

Updated to match(es) played on March 17, 2019. Source: ABA Second Division
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.
Matches with lighter background shading were decided after overtime.

Playoffs

Bracket

Semifinals		Finals

March 20–24

Sixt Primorska	2
		April 1–8
Borac Čačak	0
		Sixt Primorska	3
March 20–24
		MZT Skopje Aerodrom	0
Spars	0

MZT Skopje Aerodrom	2

Semifinals

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
Sixt Primorska	2–0	Borac Čačak	78–59	73–69	—
Spars	0–2	MZT Skopje Aerodrom	70–71	70–84	—

Finals

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5
Sixt Primorska	3–0	MZT Skopje Aerodrom	93–71	95–72	66–61	—	—

Promotion playoffs

As of the 2018–19 season, the 11th placed team of the 2018–19 First Division season and the runners-up of the 2018–19 Second Division season will play in the Qualifiers for a spot in the 2019–20 First Division season. The format of the Qualifiers will be best of three, while the home court advantage will be given to the team that played in the First Division in the previous season.

Teams

First Division 11th place: Zadar
Second Division 2nd place: MZT Skopje Aerodrom

As the team, coming from the ABA League, Zadar had the home court advantage in the first and third game of the series, while MZT was the host of the second game of the Qualifiers series.^[13] Zadar won the series 2−1 and kept its First League status.^[14]

Results

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
Zadar	2–1	MZT Skopje Aerodrom	83–89	78–77	86−75

MVP of the Round

Round	Player	Team	PIR
1	James Woodard	MZT Skopje Aerodrom	25
2	Marko Jagodić-Kuridža	Sixt Primorska	39
3	Nemanja Protić	Spars	35
4	Ibrahim Durmo	Spars	28
5	Marko Ramljak	Zrinjski	41
6	Radovan Đoković	Borac	32
7	Miloš Popović	Lovćen 1947	34
8	Ive Ivanov	MZT Skopje Aerodrom	27
9	Sven Smajlagić	Zrinjski	37
10	Milutin Đukanović	Lovćen 1947	35
11	Aleksandar Todorović	Zrinjski	36
12	Andrija Bojić	MZT Skopje Aerodrom	35
13	Miloš Glišić	Dynamic VIP PAY	37
14	Radovan Đoković (2)	Borac	35
15	Pavle Marčinković	Split	36
16	Nikola Pavličević	Sutjeska	35
17	Marko Jagodić-Kuridža (2)	Sixt Primorska	27
18	Radosav Spasojević	Sutjeska	29
19	Draško Albijanić	Spars	37
20	Ilija Đoković	Borac	30
21	Aleksa Popović	Lovćen 1947	33
22	Predrag Samardžiski	MZT Skopje Aerodrom	39
SF1	Žan Mark Šiško	Sixt Primorska	28
SF2	Ive Ivanov (2)	MZT Skopje Aerodrom	31
F1	Lance Harris	Sixt Primorska	26
F2	Marjan Čakarun	Sixt Primorska	27
F3	Marko Jagodić-Kuridža (3)	Sixt Primorska	28

Source: ABA League Second Division

Attendances

Attendances do not include playoff games yet:

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Borac Čačak	14,750	2,200	700	1,341	−22.4%^†
2	MZT Skopje Aerodrom	12,958	1,500	650	1,178	−40.3%¹
3	Lovćen 1947	10,650	1,150	800	968	+11.5%^†
4	Vršac	9,940	1,150	800	904	−35.4%^†
5	Spars	9,430	1,200	750	857	n/a^†
6	Split	8,940	900	690	813	+5.9%^†
7	Sixt Primorska	8,770	2,000	400	797	−4.9%^†
8	Sutjeska	8,190	1,200	300	745	n/a^†
9	Rogaška	7,930	950	400	721	−3.2%^†
10	Zrinjski	7,683	900	200	698	−30.2%^†
11	Helios Suns	6,040	850	200	549	n/a^†
12	Dynamic VIP PAY	5,910	950	100	537	−14.4%^†
	League total	111,191	2,200	100	842	−7.6%^†