2021–22 BIBL season

2021–22 BIBL
League	Balkan International Basketball League
Season	2021–22
Dates	12 October 2021 – 1 May 2022
Number of games	80
Number of teams	13
TV partner(s)	sportmedia.tv YouTube RTSH
Finals
Champions	Hapoel Galil Elyon
Runners-up	Maccabi Haifa
Semifinalists	Ironi Nahariya Balkan Botevgrad
Seasons
← 2020–21 2022–23 →
All statistics correct as of 3 April 2024.

The 2021–22 BIBL season is the 14th edition of Balkan International Basketball League (BIBL). 10-13 teams from Bulgaria, Israel, Kosovo, Montenegro and North Macedonia will participate in the competition.^[1]

Teams

First round
Academic Plovdiv	Hapoel Galil Elyon	Prishtina	TFT Skopje
Balkan Botevgrad	Ironi Nahariya	Ibar Rožaje
Beroe	Maccabi Haifa[2]	Kumanovo 2009[3]
Levski Sofia	Peja[4]	Navico Akademija FMP
Second round
Hapoel Holon

First round

Ten teams drawn into two groups consisting of five teams each. Teams from the same country will be drawn in different groups. Peja will be drawn into a group with two teams from North Macedonia due to traveling schedule. Teams play against each other home-and-away basis. The teams placed 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th from each group will advanced to the second round.^[1][5]

During September, the league management announced the addition of two teams to the first round.^[6][7] On October 6, the league management decided to take Peja out of the tournament since Peja refused to confirm the competition's official schedule as well as fulfill all their financial obligations towards the league in the deadlines set.^[4] On October 13, the league management announced that Maccabi Haifa will take Peja's place as the 2nd participant in the league.^[2]

On 26 November, The Balkan International Basketball League management decided to take Kumanovo 2009 out of the competition due to its inability to fulfill its obligations. All its results were annulled, and its remaining games cancelled.^[3]

Draw

The draw took place on 26 August. The Ten teams was divided into 5 Seeds and drawn into two groups of five.^[1]

Seed 1 Team Ironi Nahariya Hapoel Galil Elyon

Seed 2 Team Academic Plovdiv Balkan Botevgrad

Seed 3 Team Kumanovo 2009 TFT Skopje

Seed 4 Team Beroe Navico Akademija FMP

Seed 5 Team Prishtina Peja

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		HGE	MHA	BAL	LEV	AFM	KUM
1	Hapoel Galil Elyon	8	7	1	604	461	+143	15	Advance to Second round		—	88–41	56–46	20–0[a]	107–65	—
2	Maccabi Haifa	8	5	3	599	561	+38	13			80–85	—	92–78	20–0[b]	95–73	—
3	Balkan Botevgrad	8	4	4	591	583	+8	12			64–70	88–81	—	82–73	80–71	—
4	Levski Sofia	8	2	6	464	513	−49	10			84–76	60–78	65–79	—	81–84	—
5	Navico Akademija FMP	8	2	6	615	755	−140	10			82–102	89–112	77–75	74–103	—	—
6	Kumanovo 2009[c]	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Expelled		87–96	—	—	—	59–63	—

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		NAH	PRI	APL	TFT	BER	IBR
1	Ironi Nahariya	10	8	2	801	684	+117	18	Advance to Second round		—	83–74	98–73	102–63	63–69	69–57
2	Prishtina	10	6	4	848	794	+54	16			84–61	—	85–94	80–73	83–61	110–85
3	Academic Plovdiv	10	5	5	786	793	−7	15			61–76	74–78	—	81–84	74–68	77–61
4	TFT Skopje	10	5	5	799	826	−27	15			66–67	81–77	75–83	—	95–88	87–83
5	Beroe	10	3	7	791	856	−65	13			67–103	93–94	98–91	86–96	—	67–79
6	Ibar Rožaje	10	3	7	749	821	−72	13			70–79	87–83	68–78	79–77	78–94	—

Second round

The results between the teams from the same groups in the first round shall be carried forward into this round. The eight teams will be divided into new two groups of four teams each. Teams play against each other on a home-and-away basis. The teams placed 1st from each group will advance to the Final Four. The teams placed 2nd and 3rd from each group will advance to the Quarter-Finals.^[10]

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		HGE	LEV	PRI	APL
1	Hapoel Galil Elyon	6	4	2	439	380	+59	10	Advance to Final Four		—	20–0[a]	95–84	96–83
2	Levski Sofia	6	4	2	405	366	+39	10	Advance to quarter-finals		84–76	—	77–69	92–58
3	Prishtina	6	3	3	456	471	−15	9			74–68	66–63	—	85–94
4	Academic Plovdiv	6	1	5	441	524	−83	7			55–84	77–89	74–78	—

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		NAH	BAL	MHA	TFT
1	Ironi Nahariya	6	5	1	510	429	+81	11	Advance to Final Four		—	76–64	105–73	102–63
2	Balkan Botevgrad	6	4	2	518	457	+61	10	Advance to quarter-finals		87–73	—	88–81	104–53
3	Maccabi Haifa	6	3	3	506	516	−10	9			76–87	92–78	—	91–85
4	TFT Skopje	6	0	6	422	552	−130	6			66–67	82–97	73–93	—

Knockout rounds

Quarterfinals

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Balkan Botevgrad	165–148	Prishtina	83–85	82–63
Levski Sofia	169–188	Maccabi Haifa	83–91	86–97

Game 1

Game 2

Final Four

The Final Four games will be composed of two semi-final games, third-place game and final game. Due Three teams from Israel qualified to the Final Four a draw will be made to determine the two pairs of the Semi Final games.

	Semi-finals				Final
	29 April 2022
	Hapoel Galil Elyon	80
					1 May 2022
	Ironi Nahariya	46
					Hapoel Galil Elyon	86
	29 April 2022
					Maccabi Haifa	70
	Maccabi Haifa	86
	Balkan Botevgrad	81
					Third place
					1 May 2022
					Balkan Botevgrad	65
					Ironi Nahariya	86

Source: ^[11]

Semifinals

Third place

Final

2021–22 Balkan League Champions
Hapoel Galil Elyon (1st Title)

Awards

MVP of the Month

Month	Player	Team	EFF	Ref.
2021
October	Ike Iroegbu	Hapoel Galil Elyon	18.7	[12]
November	Aleksandar Kostoski	TFT Skopje	14.3	[13]
December	Stephaun Branch	Ironi Nahariya	19.6	[14]
2022
January	Kwame Vaughn	Maccabi Haifa	22	[15]
March	Christian Jones	BC Balkan	22.3	[16]

First Round awards

Award	Player	Team		Ref.
Most Valuable Player	Dustin Thomas	Ironi Nahariya	21.4 EFF	[17]
Top Scorer	Billy Rae Ivey	Navico Akademija FMP	23.4 pt	[18]
Top Rebounder	Obinna Oleka	Beroe	9.7 rebounds	[19]
Best Passer	Stanimir Marinov	Balkan Botevgrad	6.8 assists	[20]

MVP of the Second Round

Player	Team	EFF	Ref.
Christian Jones	Balkan Botevgrad	22.0	[21]

MVP of the Final Four

Player	Team	Ref.
Nimrod Levi	Hapoel Galil Elyon	[22]

References

External links

• Official website
• Scoreboard
• Flashcore