The 2016–17 Basketligan season was the 24th season of the

Basketligan Svenska Basketligan, or the Swedish Basketball League (SBL), is the premier league for professional basketball in Sweden. The league was originally established in 1992 as Basketligan and was known as that prior to the season of 2006–07, but whe ...

, the top tier basketball league on

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. The season started on 6 October 2016 and ended on May 10, 2017.

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was the defending champion after achieving its 11th title in the previous season.

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won the title after beating the defending champions 4–1 in the Finals.

Competition format

The participating teams first play a conventional round-robin schedule with every team playing each opponent three times for a total of 30 games. The top eight teams qualified for the championship playoffs.

Teams

In October 2016,

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and

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were expelled from the league.

Regular season

Playoffs

References

External links

Official Basketligan website
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