2008–09 BIBL season

The 2008-09 season is the first season of the Balkan International Basketball League. Ten teams from the Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia are competing.

2008–09 BIBL
Season	2008–09
Number of teams	10
Finals
Champions	Rilski Sportist
Runners-up	Feršped Rabotnički
2009–10 →

Teams

Country	Teams	Teams
Macedonia	2	Feršped Rabotnički	Feni Industries
Romania	2	Cuadripol Brașov	Dinamo București
Bulgaria	3	Euroins Cherno More	Rilski Sportist	Levski Sofia
Serbia	3	Mega Hypo Leasing	Radnički 034 Group	Swisslion Takovo

Format

Regular season

In the regular season the teams will be divided into two groups, each containing five teams. Each team plays every other team in its group at home and away. The top 4 teams in each group advance to the playoffs. Games will be played from October 7, 2008 to February 18, 2009.

Quarterfinals

The top four teams in each group advance for the quarterfinals. The winner of Group A/Group B will play with the fourth placed team in Group B/Group A and the second placed team in Group A/Group B will play with the third in Group B/Group A.

Final four

The four remaining teams play a semifinal match and the winners of those advance to the final. The losers play in a third-place playoff.

Regular season

Group A

Qualified for the playoffs

	SWI	FEN	CHE	RAD	BRA
SWI		106-72	85-73	72-77	76-55
FEN	70-75		87-74	92-60	86-75
CHE	71-98	83-74		86-79	104-96
RAD	72-88	63-74	78-63		79-77
BRA	70-84	87-86	80-82	85-75

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff	Pts
1.	Swisslion Takovo	8	7	1	684	560	+124	15
2.	Feni Industries	8	4	4	641	623	+18	12
3.	Euroins Cherno More	8	4	4	636	677	−41	12
4.	Radnički 034 Group	8	3	5	583	637	−54	11
5.	Cuadripol Brașov	8	2	6	625	672	−47	10

Group B

Qualified for the playoffs

	RIL	RAB	LEV	MEG	DIN
RIL		72-65	95-91	97-96	91-75
RAB	87-92		98-88	90-89	67-51
LEV	75-73	74-83		80-81	102-73
MEG	84-85	77-68	71-79		82-74
DIN	88-79	66-72	69-86	67-74

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff	Pts
1.	Rilski Sportist	8	6	2	684	661	+23	14
2.	Feršped Rabotnički	8	5	3	630	609	+21	13
3.	Levski Sofia	8	4	4	675	643	+32	12
4.	Mega Hypo Leasing	8	4	4	654	640	+14	12
5.	Dinamo București	8	1	7	563	653	−90	9

Quarterfinals

First legs were on 25 and 26 February and 6 March, second legs were held on March 3, 4 and 10th

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Mega Hypo Leasing	159−158	Swisslion Takovo	81−70	78−88
Euroins Cherno More	139−143	Feršped Rabotnički	78−62	61−81
Levski Sofia	153−156	Feni Industries	91−75	62−81
Radnički 034 Group	148−184	Rilski Sportist	81−91	67−93

Final four

	Semifinals March 24				Final March 25
	Arena Samokov − Samokov
	Rilski Sportist	83
					Arena Samokov − Samokov
	Mega Hypo Leasing	81
					Rilski Sportist	84
	Arena Samokov − Samokov
					Feršped Rabotnički	77
	Feni Industries	62
	Feršped Rabotnički	90
					Third place March 25
					Arena Samokov − Samokov
					Mega Hypo Leasing	78
					Feni Industries	60

Balkan League 2009 Champions
Rilski Sportist First title

External links

• BIBL official webpage
• Balkan League standings and livescores Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine