The 2021–22 Israeli Basketball Premier League, for sponsorship reasons Ligat Winner, will be the 68th season of the
Israeli Basketball Premier League. The league will start on October 2, 2021.
Format
The regular season will be played in a 22-round Round-Robin format. The top 6 finishers will play the 5 rounds "upper house", with the other 6 teams playing the 5 rounds "bottom house".
The 6 upper group teams, joined by the top 2 teams from the bottom group, will play the quarter finals as Best-of-5 series. The semi finals and finals will be played as Best-of-3 series.
Teams
Ironi Nahariya
Ironi Nahariya Basketball Club ( he, מועדון הכדורסל עירוני נהריה; ) known for sponsorship reasons as Ironi Rain Nahariya () is a professional basketball club based in city of Nahariya in northern Israel. The team plays in th ...
and
Maccabi Haifa
Maccabi Haifa ( he, מכבי חיפה) is one of the biggest sports clubs in Israel and a part of the Maccabi association. It runs several sports clubs and teams in Haifa which have competed in a variety of sports over the years, such as Football ...
have been relegated to
2021–22 National League
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after placing the bottom two places of the
2020–21 Premier League
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.
Hapoel Galil Elyon
Hapoel Galil Elyon ( he, הפועל גליל עליון), also known as Hapoel Nofar Energy Galil Elion for sponsorship reasons, is an Israeli basketball club. The team competes in the Israeli Basketball Premier League, the top tier of Israeli b ...
and
Elitzur Netanya have been promoted to the league after placing the top two places of the
2020–21 National League
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On August 4, 2021, Israeli Basketball Premier League administration informed Elitzur Netanya that she will not be able to participate in the coming season because her home hall does not meet the league's threshold conditions and construction has not yet begun for a new hall in the city. On August 17, the Supreme Court of the Basketball Association approved the agreements reached by Elitzur Netanya and the League administration in a mediation process, thus enabling Elitzur Netanya participation in the current season. Finally, the promotion of the group was not approved as it did not meet the threshold conditions of budgetary control.
Stadia and locations
Personnel and sponsorship
Managerial changes
Regular season
Rounds 1 to 22
Positions by round
The table lists the positions of teams after completion of each round. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included in the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards.
Top-teams League Group
Positions by round
Bottom-Teams League Group
Positions by round
Playoffs
Awards
MVP of the Round
Monthly Awards
Player of the Month
Israeli Player of the Month
Coach of the Month
Israeli clubs in European competitions
* Bold – still active
References
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Israeli Basketball Premier League seasons
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Basketball
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