2019–20 ABA League Second Division

ABA League Second Division
Season	2019–20
Duration	October 2, 2019 – May 26, 2020
Teams	12
TV partner(s)	Arena Sport
Finals
Champions	None declared
← 2018–19 2020–21 → All statistics correct as of May 28, 2020.

The 2019–20 ABA League Second Division was the 3rd season of the ABA Second Division with 12 teams from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia participating in it.

On 12 March 2020, the ABA League Assembly temporarily suspended its competitions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[1] On 27 May 2020, the ABA League Assembly canceled definitely its competitions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The ABA League Assembly decided not to recognize any team as the champion for the season, and decided to award the two wild cards for the 2020–21 ABA First League season to Borac Čačak and Split.^[2]

Teams

Team allocation

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
• WC: Wild card

Regular season[3][4]
Široki (1st)	Borac Čačak (1st)	Sutjeska (3rd)	Helios Suns (4th)
Spars Realway (2nd)	Novi Pazar (2nd)	Lovćen 1947 Bemax (4th)	Rogaška (6th)
Sloboda Tuzla (4th)^WC	Dynamic VIP PAY (3rd)^WC	Split (4th)	MZT Skopje Aerodrom (1st)

Venues and locations

Helios

Rogaška

Široki

Spars

Sloboda

Split

Lovćen

Sutjeska

Borac

Novi Pazar

Dynamic

MZT

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Location of teams in the 2019–20 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 Bemax	Cetinje	Lovćen SC	1,500
MZT Skopje Aerodrom	Skopje	Jane Sandanski	7,500
Novi Pazar	Novi Pazar	Pendik Sports Hall	1,600
Rogaška	Rogaška Slatina	Rogaška Slatina SH	1,100
Sloboda	Tuzla	SKPC Mejdan	4,900
Spars Realway	Sarajevo	Grbavica Sports Hall	1,500
Split	Split	Arena Gripe	3,500
Sutjeska	Nikšić	Nikšić SC	3,000
Široki	Široki Brijeg	Pecara	4,500

Personnel and sponsorship

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Borac	Marko Marinović	Uroš Čarapić	—	P.S. Fashion
Dynamic VIP PAY	Miro Alilović	Vuk Vulikić	Champion	VIP PAY
Helios Suns	Dejan Jakara	Aljaž Bratec	Spalding	Helios, Triglav
Lovćen 1947 Bemax	Zoran Kašćelan	Nikola Borilović	NetS	VOLI
MZT Skopje Aerodrom	Gjorgji Kočov	Damjan Stojanovski	Adidas	Cevahir Holding, UNIBanka
Novi Pazar	Oliver Popović	Nenad Slavković	Cvetex	Barbosa
Rogaška	Damjan Novaković	Miha Fon	Nike	—
Sloboda	Damir Mulaomerović	Emir Čerkezović	N°1	PAN
Spars Realway	Nedim Džemić	Adin Vrabac	Adidas	Number 1
Split	Ivica Skelin	Mateo Kedžo	Macron	Bobis
Sutjeska	Zoran Glomazić	Boris Lalović	First Ever	EP CG
Široki	Hrvoje Vlašić	Jure Zubac	Ardu Sport	Kandit

Coaching changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced with	Date of appointment	Ref.
Dynamic VIP PAY	Vladimir Đokić	10 April 2019	Off-season	Miro Alilović	10 April 2019	[5]
Lovćen 1947 Bemax	Miodrag Kadija	June 2018		Zoran Kašćelan	26 June 2019	[6]
Borac	Jovica Arsić	June 2018		Marko Marinović	29 June 2019	[7]
Široki	Danijel Jusup	August 2018		Krunoslav Krajnović	7 August 2019	[8]
Spars Realway	Marko Trbić	August 2018		Goran Šehovac	9 August 2019	[9]
Široki	Krunoslav Krajnović	28 October 2019	4th (3–1)	Hrvoje Vlašić	28 October 2019	[10]
Spars Realway	Goran Šehovac	5 November 2019	5th (0–5)	Nermin Selimović	5 November 2019	[11]
Sloboda	Josip Pandža	28 November 2019	11th (2–7)	Damir Mulaomerović	28 November 2019	[12]
Split	Ante Grgurević	8 December 2019	6th (5–5)	Ivica Skelin	8 December 2019	[13]
Spars Realway	Nermin Selimović	28 December 2019	12th (1–12)	Nedim Džemić	28 December 2019	[14]

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	Borac Čačak	22	20	2	1932	1612	+320	42
2	Split	22	13	9	1790	1742	+48	35
3	MZT Skopje Aerodrom	22	13	9	1766	1718	+48	35
4	Sutjeska	22	12	10	1775	1743	+32	34
5	Široki	22	11	11	1768	1774	−6	33
6	Lovćen 1947 Bemax	22	10	12	1721	1766	−45	32
7	Rogaška	21	10	11	1594	1617	−23	31
8	Sloboda	22	9	13	1792	1860	−68	31
9	Novi Pazar	22	8	14	1861	1912	−51	30
10	Dynamic VIP PAY	22	8	14	1660	1742	−82	30
11	Helios Suns	21	9	12	1593	1679	−86	30
12	Spars Realway	22	8	14	1618	1705	−87	30

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
Borac Čačak	2	2	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Split	1	3	3	5	5	6	7	8	7	6	7	8	7	7	7	5	5	6	4	3	3	2
MZT Skopje Aerodrom	3	1	2	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3
Sutjeska	6	7	5	3	3	4	5	3	4	3	4	4	3	5	5	6	6	5	6	5	4	4
Široki	8	8	6	4	4	5	4	4	6	7	5	5	5	3	4	4	4	3	3	4	5	5
Lovćen 1947 Bemax	10	9	9	8	8	7	9	10	10	10	9	9	9	9	10	9	7	8	7	7	7	–
Rogaška	4	4	8	7	9	8	6	5	5	4	3	3	4	4	3	3	3	4	5	6	6	–
Sloboda	11	12	11	10	11	10	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	10	9	8	–
Novi Pazar	7	6	7	9	10	11	10	9	8	8	10	10	10	10	8	10	10	9	9	11	10	–
Dynamic VIP PAY	12	10	10	11	7	9	8	7	9	9	8	6	8	8	9	8	9	10	11	10	11	–
Helios Suns	5	5	4	6	6	3	3	6	3	5	6	7	6	6	6	7	8	7	8	8	9	–
Spars Realway	9	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12

Source: ABA League Second Division

Results

Home \ Away	BOR	DYN	HEL	LOV	MZT	NPZ	ROG	SLO	SPA	SPL	SUT	SIR
Borac Čačak	—	87–80	101–55	87–65	95–73	92–76	91–61	99–69	96–62	90–60	81–69	91–69
Dynamic VIP PAY	64–72	—	74–69	71–89	82–92	87–70	60–71	87–83	72–78	86–78	100–97	80–85
Helios Suns	73–80	63–61	—	92–62	78–76	95–86	48–79	91–73	77–80	75–89	83–82	84–70
Lovćen 1947 Bemax	84–96	77–66	81–77	—	73–69	90–94	70–64	97–74	82–66	101–94	81–74	91–83
MZT Skopje Aerodrom	76–69	82–84	85–89	75–74	—	89–87	74–54	110–88	73–64	70–64	88–78	83–71
Novi Pazar	95–99	69–77	83–79	104–77	79–70	—	77–81	74–78	88–86	92–85	79–83	103–87
Rogaška	77–84	71–67	—	85–61	83–90	98–97	—	87–74	78–76	71–80	64–97	74–79
Sloboda	87–96	83–67	101–83	86–80	69–82	102–103	81–79	—	77–73	84–73	102–69	88–86
Spars	89–76	75–81	70–71	69–67	65–77	84–78	57–72	84–70	—	81–84	68–85	66–64
Split	74–76	93–66	90–79	72–63	98–85	116–81	79–73	69–63	84–70	—	87–79	78–76
Sutjeska	80–81	75–69	81–74	87–83	85–70	78–75	84–90	73–70	79–88	78–59	—	82–73
Široki	74–93	83–79	75–58	81–73	89–77	79–71	91–82	98–90	74–67	103–84	78–80	—

Source: ABA League Second Division
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.
Matches with lighter background shading were decided after overtime.

MVP of the Round

Round	Player	Team	PIR
1	Nuni Omot	MZT Skopje Aerodrom	37
2	Jabarie Hinds	MZT Skopje Aerodrom	33
3	Damjan Stojanovski	MZT Skopje Aerodrom	29
4	Tadej Ferme	Rogaška	27
5	Dušan Beslać	Dynamic VIP PAY	29
6	Tadej Ferme (2)	Rogaška	32
7	Aleksa Novaković	Novi Pazar	32
8	Milan Vulić	Novi Pazar	33
9	Emir Hadžibegović	Lovćen 1947 Bemax	35
10	Toni Perković	Split	39
11	Goran Filipović	Široki	38
12	Đorđe Milošević	MZT Skopje Aerodrom	30
13	James Washington	Split	37
14	Đorđe Milošević (2)	MZT Skopje Aerodrom	39
15	Blaž Mahkovic	Helios Suns	34
16	Milutin Đukanović	Lovćen 1947 Bemax	38
17	Filip Kraljević	Široki	40
18	Blaž Mahkovic (2)	Helios Suns	42
19	Jamel Morris	Split	28
20	Branislav Đekić	Spars	29
21	Michael Mallory	Novi Pazar	32

Source: ABA League

See also

• List of current ABA League Second Division team rosters
• 2019–20 ABA League First Division

2019–20 domestic competitions

• 2019–20 Basketball League of Serbia
• 2019–20 HT Premijer liga
• 2019–20 Slovenian Basketball League
• 2019–20 Prva A liga
• 2019–20 Basketball Championship of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 2019–20 Macedonian First League

References

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2. "Conclusions of the ABA League j.t.d. Assembly". aba-liga.com. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
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4. "OKK Sloboda is the last participant of ABA League 2 in 2019/20 season". druga.aba-liga.com. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
5. "Dinamik predstavio novog trenera". novosti.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 16 July 2019.
6. "Kašćelan zvanično trener Lovćena: Za ovaj klub me vežu najiskrenije emocije, želim da ostavim trag". fosmedia.me. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
7. "LOGIČAN IZBOR Marko Marinović preuzeo Borac iz Čačka". sport.blic.rs. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
8. "Krunoslav Krajnović new Široki head coach". druga.aba-liga.com. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
9. "Šehovac new head coach, Đekić i Memić new players of Spars". druga.aba-liga.com. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
10. "Hrvoje Vlašić replaces Krunoslav Krajnović". druga.aba-liga.com. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
11. "Selimović replaces Šehovac at the Spars bench". druga.aba-liga.com. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
12. "Damir Mulaomerović takes over Sloboda". druga.aba-liga.com. Retrieved 28 November 2019.
13. "Split appoint Ivica Skelin as new head coach". druga.aba-liga.com. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
14. "Spars Realway appoint Nedim Džemić as new head coach". druga.aba-liga.com. Retrieved 30 December 2019.

External links

• Official website
• ABA League at Eurobasket.com