2021–22 BIBL season

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]

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 10 April 2024.

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	—

Source: Group A standing
Notes:

1. The match was not played due to Corona's cases in Levski Sofia. The league management decided to grant Hapoel Galil Elyon a technical victory after consulting with FIBA and after no further date was found for the match.^[8]
2. The match was not played due to Corona's cases in Levski Sofia. The league management decided to grant Maccabi Haifa a technical victory after consulting with FIBA and after no further date was found for the match.^[8]
3. 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 canceled.^[9]

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	—

Source: Group B standing

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	—

Source: Group C standing
Notes:

1. The match was not played due to Corona's cases in Levski Sofia. The league management decided to grant Hapoel Galil Elyon a technical victory after consulting with FIBA and after no further date was found for the match.^[8]

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	—

Source: Group D standing

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

Prishtina   v   Balkan Botevgrad

14 April 2022	Prishtina	85–83	Balkan Botevgrad	Palace of Youth and Sports, Pristina
	Scoring by quarter: 35–25, 16–19, 18–22, 16–17
	Pts: Mitchell 19 Rebs: Cook 7 Asts: Dugat 6 PIR: Cook 19	Boxscore	Pts: Rorie 19 Rebs: Jones 10 Asts: Rorie 5 PIR: Rorie 25	Attendance: 1,000 Referees: Aleksandar Pavlov, Ognjen Jokic, Alija Ferevski

Maccabi Haifa   v   Levski Sofia

19 April 2022	Maccabi Haifa	91–83	Levski Sofia	Universiada Hall, Sofia
19.00	Scoring by quarter: 19–20, 27–28, 22–23, 23–12
	Pts: Vaughn 23 Rebs: Freund 11 Asts: Kozahinof 13 PIR: Vaughn 21	Boxscore	Pts: Knowles 24 Rebs: Knowles 13 Asts: Parker 15 PIR: Knowles 34	Attendance: 250 Referees: Ognjen Jokic, Daut Mehmeti, Sava Cetkovic

Game 2

Balkan Botevgrad   v   Prishtina

20 April 2022	Balkan Botevgrad	82–63	Prishtina	Arena Botevgrad, Botevgrad
19.00	Scoring by quarter: 16–18, 18–15, 25–13, 23–16
	Pts: Jones 27 Rebs: Jones 9 Asts: Rorie 11 PIR: Jones 30	Boxscore	Pts: Ismaili 16 Rebs: Thomas 9 Asts: Palokaj 5 PIR: Ismaili 16	Attendance: 600 Referees: Diamantis Lortos, Ioannis Bakalis, Ioannis Agrafiotis

Levski Sofia   v   Maccabi Haifa

21 April 2022	Levski Sofia	86–97	Maccabi Haifa	Universiada Hall, Sofia
17.00	Scoring by quarter: 25–28, 20–26, 16–19, 25–24
	Pts: Knowles 18 Rebs: Knowles 11 Asts: Dimitrov 4 PIR: Knowles 27	Boxscore	Pts: Putney 26 Rebs: Putney 9 Asts: Vaughn 13 PIR: Putney 40	Attendance: 300 Referees: Ognjen Jokic, Daut Mehmeti, Stefan Kuburovic

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

Hapoel Galil Elyon   v   Ironi Nahariya

29 April 2022	Hapoel Galil Elyon	80–46	Ironi Nahariya	Nahariya
14:00	Scoring by quarter: 20–8, 17–7, 14–10, 29–21
	Pts: Levi 11 Rebs: Levi 8 Asts: Stove 4 PIR: Washington 17	Boxscore	Pts: Branch 11 Rebs: Three players 5 Asts: Poleg 6 PIR: Branch 12	Arena: Ein Sara Sport Hall Attendance: 1,000 Referees: Ognjen Jokic, Alija Ferevski, Ioannis Agrafiotis

Maccabi Haifa   v   Balkan Botevgrad

29 April 2022	Maccabi Haifa	86–81	Balkan Botevgrad	Nahariya
16:30	Scoring by quarter: 19–15, 24–22, 22–28, 21–16
	Pts: Vaughn 23 Rebs: Putney 13 Asts: Kozahinof 9 PIR: Putney 30	Boxscore	Pts: Marks 20 Rebs: Jones 9 Asts: Rorie 6 PIR: Rorie 20	Arena: Ein Sara Sport Hall Attendance: 450 Referees: Aleksandar Pavlov, Daut Mehmeti, Diamantis Lortos

Third place

Balkan Botevgrad   v   Ironi Nahariya

1 May 2022	Balkan Botevgrad	65–86	Ironi Nahariya	Nahariya
18:00	Scoring by quarter: 17–26, 18–16, 16–20, 14–24
	Pts: Jones 14 Rebs: Jones 9 Asts: Rorie & Dimitrov 4 PIR: Jones 15	Boxscore	Pts: Branch 19 Rebs: Chubrevich 10 Asts: Uzan 7 PIR: Branch 29	Arena: Ein Sara Sport Hall Attendance: 500 Referees: Alija Ferevski, Diamantis Lortos, Sava Cetkovic

Final

Hapoel Galil Elyon   v   Maccabi Haifa

1 May 2022	Hapoel Galil Elyon	86–70	Maccabi Haifa	Nahariya
20:30	Scoring by quarter: 27–17, 21–15, 21–21, 17–17
	Pts: Kennedy 21 Rebs: Levi 9 Asts: Iroegbu & Lewis 6 PIR: Kennedy 26	Boxscore	Pts: Taylor Jr. 16 Rebs: Taylor Jr. 12 Asts: Vaughn 4 PIR: Mitchell 21	Arena: Ein Sara Sport Hall Attendance: 700 Referees: Ognjen Jokic, Aleksandar Pavlov, Ioannis Agrafiotis

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

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External links

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