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league that originally featured clubs from the former Yugoslavia (

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and

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). Due to sponsorship reasons, the league was also known as the Goodyear League from 2001 to 2006, the NLB League from 2006 to 2011, and as the AdmiralBet ABA League from 2021. The league coexists alongside scaled-down national leagues in

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, and

. All but one of Adriatic League clubs join their country's own competitions in late spring after the Adriatic League regular season and post-season have been completed. In the past, the league has also consisted of clubs from

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( Levski), the

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( ČEZ Nymburk),

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( Szolnoki Olaj), and

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(

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) that received wild card invitations. The Adriatic League is a private venture, founded in 2001 and run until 2015 by the Sidro, a Slovenian limited liability company. Since 2015, the league has been operated by ABA League JTD, a Zagreb-based general partnership for organizing sports competitions.

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is the body that organizes the league and is a full member of ULEB, as well as a voting member of

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's board.

History

At various points throughout mid-to-late 1990s, in the years following the breakup of

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and ensuing

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, different basketball administrators from the newly independent Balkan states floated and informally discussed the idea of re-assembling a joint basketball competition to fill the void left by the dissolution of the former Yugoslav Basketball League whose last season was 1991–92. However, no concrete action towards that end was taken before the summer 2000 ULEB-supported creation of Euroleague Basketball Company under the leadership of Jordi Bertomeu that immediately confronted

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, then proceeded to take a handful of top European clubs into its new competition for the 2000–01 season thereby opening an organizational split in European club basketball. During the 2000–01 split in the continent's top club competition, local Balkan basketball administrators from the ULEB-affiliated clubs Cibona, Olimpija, and Budućnost (that already competed in this new 'breakaway' Euroleague competition) shifted the discussions of creating a regional Balkan-wide basketball league into higher gear. On the public relations front, Adriatic League was met with strong and mixed reactions. Though many hailed it as an important step for the development of club basketball in the Balkans region, many others felt that it brings no new quality and that it's not worth dismantling three domestic leagues. There was a lot of negative reaction from political circles, especially in Croatia, with even TV panel discussions being broadcast on Croatian state television. A very vociferous opinion in the country saw the league's formation as a political attempt to reinstate Yugoslavia. The league organizers for their part did their best to appease the Croatian public with statements such as the one delivered by Radovan Lorbek in '' Slobodna Dalmacija'' in September 2001: Ten years later, in a 2011 interview for the Serbian newspaper '' Press'', Roman Lisac explained the league's behind the scenes strategy during its nascent stages was actually quite different: On 28 September 2001, the league announced a five-year sponsorship deal with Slovenian company Sava Tires from

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, a subsidiary of

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. The deal also included naming rights, hence from 2001 until 2006, the competition was known as the Goodyear League.

Debut season

With twelve clubs taking part in the inaugural 2001–02 season, the competition commenced in fall 2001 with four teams from Slovenia, four teams from Croatia, three teams from Bosnia-Herzegovina, and one team from

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. The very first game was contested in Ljubljana between Olimpija and Široki on Saturday, 29 September 2001 at 5:30pm.Deset godina NLB lige: Huligani odložili ulazak Partizana
''Press'', 12 July 2011 Though the competition purported to gather the strongest sides from former Yugoslavia, as mentioned, teams from Serbia were noticeably absent, particularly Belgrade powerhouses and biggest regional crowd draws Partizan and Crvena zvezda. In addition to no clubs from Serbia proper, the league had no Serb-dominated clubs from Bosnia-Herzegovina either. Since the league founders mostly avoided talking about the issue due to fears of media backlash, the fact that no invitations were extended to Serbian clubs was generally explained through security issues due to organizers' fears of crowd trouble if Croatian and Serbian clubs were to start playing again in the same competition. Then in early February 2002, the public got a preview of just that when Cibona and Partizan met in Zagreb as part of that season's EuroLeague group stage. In a nationalistically charged and incident-filled encounter, Croatian fans peppered the Partizan players with rocks, flares, and even ceramic tiles before physically assaulting Partizan head coach Duško Vujošević in the guest team dressing room after the game. The Adriatic League debut season was marked by dwindling attendances and lukewarm media support. Still the league did receive a bit of a shot in the arm on 24 February 2002, when its managing body ABA got accepted as full member of ULEB.

Second season

For the 2002–03 season, the league remained at the total number of 12 teams, while it went through major re-tooling internally. By the time season started, four teams dropped out (Sloboda Dita, Budućnost, Triglav, and Geoplin Slovan) to be replaced by:

i powerhouse

, Crvena zvezda (the first team from Serbia in the competition), the Bosnian outfit KK Borac, and Croatian club KK Zagreb. It was important for the league's long-term business to negotiate acceptable terms for the Serbian clubs to join the competition. To that end, Lorbek and Lisac went to Belgrade in early April 2002 with an offer of taking in three clubs from FR Yugoslavia for the Adriatic League's 2002–03 season.Deset godina NLB lige: Zvezdin izlazak na Jadran
''Press'', 13 July 2011 The offer was flatly rejected initially by the representatives of five YUBA Liga clubs – Partizan, Crvena zvezda, Hemofarm, FMP, and Budućnost – as their unified platform was either all five or nothing. Taking in all five required expanding the league to 14 teams, which was something the league organizers weren't prepared to do due to the associated increase in operating costs. The negotiated agreement thus fell through for the time being. However, it didn't take long for dents to appear in the unified front put forth by five YUBA league clubs – in May 2002 Crvena zvezda's management (three businessmen close to the ruling

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in Serbia:

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, and Goran Vesić) hired Zmago Sagadin to be the club's new general manager – and soon after, in June 2002, the club broke the ranks by negotiating terms on its own thus agreeing to join the Adriatic League for the 2002–03 season.

Competition

Competition system

As of the 2013–14 season the league comprises a 26-game regular season, with the top 4 sides making the play-offs. From 2002 through 2004, four teams qualified, and the playoffs were termed the "Final Four"; starting in 2005, eight teams advanced to the "Final Eight" round. All playoff rounds consist of one-off knockout matches, unusual among European leagues. However, since all Adriatic League clubs play in domestic leagues at the same time, and many also play in the EuroLeague, the current format has the virtue of limiting fixture congestion for the playoff sides. In 2017, the ABA League Second Division was created. The last qualified team from ABA League would be relegated to the Second Division and replaced by the winner of this one.

Current clubs

The following 14 clubs are competing in the 2022–23 ABA season:

Finals

Records and statistics

By club

By country

All-time participants

The following is a list of clubs who have played in the Adriatic League at any time since its formation in 2001 to the current season. A total of 41 teams from 10 countries have played in the League.

Awards

* ABA League MVP * ABA League Finals MVP * ABA League Top Scorer * ABA League Ideal Starting Five *

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* ABA League-winning head coaches

Records

Source:

Players

*Highest Index Ratings in a Game **59 by Dejan Milojević, Budućnost vs

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on 3 January 2004 *Most Points in a Game **47 by

Daron Russell Daron "Fatts" Russell (born May 6, 1998) is an American basketball player for the Galatasaray Nef of the Basketbol Süper Ligi and the Basketball Champions League. He played college basketball for four years for Rhode Island, and after graduati ...

, Mornar vs.

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on 9 October 2022 *Most Two Point Field Goals Made in a Game **17 by Márton Báder, Szolnoki Olaj at Široki on 7 October 2012 *Most Three Point Field Goals Made in a Game **10 by Josip Sesar, Široki vs.

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on 19 November 2005 **10 by

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on 18 December 2005 *Most Free Throws Made in a Game **19 by Igor Rakočević, Crvena zvezda at

on 16 April 2004 **19 by Milan Gurović, Crvena zvezda at FMP on 30 September 2006 **19 by Milan Gurović, Crvena zvezda vs. FMP on 16 December 2006 **19 by Damir Mulaomerović,

vs. FMP on 19 January 2010 *Most Rebounds in a Game **23 by Tommy Smith,

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vs.

on 4 October 2003 **23 by Boris Savović, Hemofarm vs. Radnički Kragujevac on 22 October 2011 *Most Assists in a Game **19 by

Žan Mark Šiško Žan Mark Šiško (born June 29, 1997) is a retired Slovenian professional basketball player. Standing at , he played at the point guard position. Club career Šiško began his professional career with Slovenian powerhouse Union Olimpija, making ...

, Primorska vs.

on 9 December 2019 *Most Steals in a Game **9 by Curtis McCants,

vs.

on 16 December 2003 **9 by Andrés Rodríguez,

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on 7 November 2004 **9 by Jure Močnik,

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on 6 April 2005 **9 by

Goran Jeretin Goran Jeretin (Serbian Cyrillic: Горан Јеретин; born 17 September 1979) is a Montenegrin former professional basketball player. Professional career His first team was Ibon, where he played until 2001, when he moved to KK Lovćen. He ...

, Crvena Zvezda at

on 30 April 2005 *Most Blocks in a Game **7 by

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vs. Bosna on 27 November 2004 **7 by

Slavko Vraneš Slavko Vraneš ( cg, Славко Вранеш, ; born 30 January 1983) is a Montenegrin former professional basketball player. He also represented the Montenegrin national basketball team in the international competitions. Standing at , he was o ...

at Cibona on 10 January 2010 **7 by Shawn James,

vs.

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on 5 January 2012 **7 by Zoran Nikolić, Budućnost vs. Igokea on 15 October 2016 **7 by Uroš Luković, Mornar vs. Mega Basket on 14 December 2019 *Most Turnovers in a Game **11 by

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at Pivovarna Laško on 9 February 2002 **11 by Nikola Korać, Sutjeska at Mega Basket on 30 October 2015

Clubs

*Longest winning streak **20 games by Crvena zvezda for the 2014–15 and 2016–17 seasons *Longest losing streak **21 games by

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for the 2014–15 season *Biggest Winning Margin **60 points by

vs.

in the 2021–22 season *Most Won Games in a Season ** Crvena zvezda won 25 out of 26 games for the 2016–17 season *Most Lost Games in a Season ** Bosna lost 21 out of 22 games for the 2002–03 season *Most Points scored in a Season ** Hemofarm scored 2591 points in 30 games for the 2004–05 season ** Crvena zvezda scored 2325 points in 26 games for the 2006–07 season *Lowest Scored Points in a Season ** Bosna scored 1443 points in 22 games for the 2001–02 season **

scored 1688 points in 26 games for the 2011–12 season

All-time leaders

From the 2001–02 to the

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, , align=center, 403 , - ! Defensive Rebounds , Marin Rozić, , align=center, 1,043 , - ! Total Rebounds , Marin Rozić, , align=center, 1,327 , - ! Assists , Nemanja Gordić, , align=center, 1,022 , - ! Steals , Nebojša Joksimović, , align=center, 401 , - ! Blocks ,

, , align=center, 272 , - ! Index Ratings , Todor Gečevski , , align=center, 3,212 , - ! Games Played , Marin Rozić, , align=center, 377

Notable players

Well-known basketball players who have played in the Adriatic League include: Australia *

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* Nathan Jawai * Aleks Marić * Steven Marković *

Mark Worthington Mark Worthington (born 8 June 1983) is an Australian former professional basketball player who played 11 seasons in the National Basketball League (NBL). Early life and career Born in Bunbury, Western Australia, Worthington grew up in the nearb ...

Belize * Milt Palacio Bosnia and Herzegovina *

Kenan Bajramović Kenan Bajramović (born May 24, 1981) is a Bosnian professional basketball player who last played for Spars Sarajevo of the Bosnian League. Professional career Bajramović spent the early part of his career in his native Bosnia and Herzegovina ...

* J. R. Bremer * Nemanja Gordić * Jasmin Hukić * Elmedin Kikanović * Nenad Marković * Ratko Varda * Jusuf Nurkić Bulgaria * Filip Videnov *

Jermaine Anderson Jermaine Anderson may refer to: * Jermaine Anderson (basketball) (born 1983), Canadian basketball player * Jermaine Anderson (English footballer) (born 1996) * Jermaine Anderson (Jamaican footballer) Jermaine "Tuffy" Anderson (born 22, February ...

* Carl English * Brady Heslip * Michael Meeks Croatia * Marko Banić * Stanko Barać * Bojan Bogdanović * Dontaye Draper *

Davor Kus Davor Kus (born July 21, 1978) is a Croatian former professional basketball player. His natural position was point guard, although he can also feature as a shooting guard. Player profile Kus is known for his technical proficiency, precise passing ...

Oliver Lafayette Oliver Lafayette (born May 6, 1984) is an American-born Croatian former professional basketball player. Standing at , he plays at the point guard and shooting guard positions. High school and college career Lafayette attended Capitol High School i ...

Davor Marcelić Davor Marcelić (born 20 May 1969) is a Croatian retired professional basketball player who last played for KK Krka Košarkarski klub Krka (English: Basketball Club Krka), commonly referred to as KK Krka or simply Krka, is a professional basket ...

* Damir Mulaomerović *

Davor Pejčinović Davor Pejčinović (born 28 March 1971) is a retired Croatian basketball player. A 2.11 m center, he participated in the 2000-01 Euroleague with KK Zadar. Pejčinović was a member of the Croatian national team that won the bronze medal in the 1 ...

* Zoran Planinić * Marko Popović *

Nikola Prkačin Nikola "Nikša" Prkačin (born 15 November 1975) is a Croatian retired professional basketball player and coach. At a height of 2.08 m (6'10") tall, he played at the power forward and center positions. During his professional club playing career, ...

* Dino Rađa *

Slaven Rimac Slaven Rimac (born 19 December 1974) is a Croatian professional basketball coach and former player who is an assistant coach for Bayern Munich. His mother Ružica Meglaj-Rimac, brother Davor Rimac, Davor and aunt Kornelija Meglaj were all profes ...

* Josip Sesar * Krunoslav Simon * Mate Skelin * Dario Šarić * Marko Tomas * Ante Tomić * Roko Ukić * Josip Vranković * Nikola Vujčić * Andrija Žižić * Ante Žižić * Luka Žorić Czech Republic * Jan Veselý *

Finland *

Sasu Salin Sasu Antreas Salin (born June 11, 1991) is a Finnish professional basketball player for Iberostar Tenerife of the Liga ACB. Standing at 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) he plays the point guard and shooting guard positions. Professional career On August ...

France *

Joffrey Lauvergne Joffrey Lauvergne (born 30 September 1991) is a French professional basketball player for ASVEL of the French LNB Pro A and the EuroLeague.. He was drafted 55th overall by the Memphis Grizzlies in the 2013 NBA draft, who then traded his right ...

* Léo Westermann *

Mickaël Gelabale Mickaël Gelabale (born May 22, 1983) is a French professional basketball player for Élan Chalon of the Pro B. He also represents the France national basketball team internationally. Standing at , he plays either at the small forward position or ...

Timothé Luwawu-Cabarrot Timothé Luwawu-Cabarrot (; born 9 May 1995) is a French professional basketball player for Olimpia Milano of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) and the EuroLeague. He was selected with the 24th overall pick by the Philadelphia 76ers in th ...

Gabon * Stéphane Lasme Germany * Maik Zirbes Greece *

Stratos Perperoglou Efstratios "Stratos" Perperoglou ( Greek: Στράτος Περπέρογλου; born August 7, 1984) is a Greek former professional basketball player. He is 2.03 m (6'8") tall and he played mainly at the small forward position. Professional care ...

* Sofoklis Schortsanitis Guyana *

Rawle Marshall Rawle Junior Kalomo Marshall (born February 20, 1982) is a Guyanese-American professional basketball player who last played for Shahrdari Gorgan of the Iranian Super League. Early life Marshall is a 2000 graduate of Detroit's Mackenzie High Sc ...

Hungary * Márton Báder * István Németh Israel * David Blu * Tal Burstein * Lior Eliyahu *

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* Guy Pnini *

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* Gal Mekel Jamaica * Kimani Ffriend * Jerome Jordan Latvia *

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* Dāvis Bertāns Montenegro *

Milko Bjelica Milko Bjelica ( sr-cyr, Милко Бјелица; born June 4, 1984) is a Serbian-born Montenegrin professional basketball player for Al-Ittihad Jeddah of the Saudi Premier League. Professional career He began his professional career with Cr ...

* Nebojša Bogavac *

Omar Cook Omar-Sharif Cook ( sr, Omar-Šarif Kuk / Омар-Шариф Кук; born January 28, 1982) is an American-Montenegrin professional basketball coach and former player who is an assistant coach for the Cleveland Charge of the NBA G League. He ...

* Predrag Drobnjak *

Vladimir Dragičević Vladimir Dragičević (Serbian Cyrillic: Владимир Драгичевић; born May 30, 1986) is a retired Montenegrin professional basketball player who last played for Aris of the Greek Basket League. Professional career Dragičević made ...

Aleksandar Pavlović Aleksandar "Saša" Pavlović ( Anglicized: Sasha Pavlovic, sr-cyr, Александар "Саша" Павловић; born November 15, 1983) is a Serbian-Montenegrin basketball executive and former professional basketball player who spent ten se ...

* Nikola Peković *

Nigeria * Aloysius Anagonye *

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* Michael Ojo North Macedonia * Pero Antić * Todor Gečevski * Richard Hendrix * Vlado Ilievski * Bo McCalebb * Gjorgji Čekovski * Predrag Samardžiski * Damjan Stojanovski * Aleksandar Kostoski *

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Bojan Trajkovski Bojan Trajkovski ( mk, Бојан Трајковски; born 11 September 1986) is a Macedonian professional basketball player who plays for Feniks 2010 of the Macedonian First League. He is a member of the Macedonian national basketball team. ...

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References

External links

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ABA League at Sportstats.com
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