2019–20 ABA League First Division

The 2019–20 ABA League First Division was the 19th season of the ABA League with 12 teams from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Slovenia and Serbia participating in it. The season started on 4 October 2019 and played its last games on 9 March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABA League First Division
Season	2019–20
Duration	October 4, 2019 – May 26, 2020
Teams	12
TV partner(s)	Arena Sport, O2.TV
Regular season
Relegated	None
Finals
Champions	None declared
Records
Biggest home win	Crvena zvezda 103–61 Igokea (11 November 2019)
Biggest away win	Mega 57–94 Budućnost (3 November 2019)
Highest scoring	Olimpija 112–102 Mega (21 December 2019)
Highest attendance	16,531 Partizan 87–82 Budućnost (9 February 2020)
Lowest attendance	94 Mornar 95–86 Zadar (17 November 2019)
← 2018–19 2020–21 → All statistics correct as of May 28, 2020.

On 12 March 2020, the ABA League Assembly temporarily suspended its competitions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[1] On 27 May 2020, the ABA League Assembly canceled definitely its competitions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[2]

Crvena zvezda mts was the defending champion and as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ABA League Assembly decided not to recognize any team as the champion for the season.

Teams

Promotion and relegation

A total of 12 teams will contest the league, including 11 sides from the 2018–19 season and one promoted from the 2018–19 Second Division.

Team promoted from the Second Division

• Koper Primorska

Team relegated to the Second Division

• Petrol Olimpija^{[Note 1]}

Venues and locations

Belgrade

Budućnost

Olimpija

Cibona

Igokea

Krka

Mornar

000Primorska

Zadar

Belgrade clubs:

Crvena zvezda
FMP
Mega
Partizan

Location of teams in the 2019–20 season

Crvena zvezda

FMP

Mega

Partizan

Locations of the teams from Belgrade in the 2019–20 season

Team	Home city	Arena	Capacity
Budućnost VOLI	Podgorica	Morača Sports Center	6,000
Cedevita Olimpija[Note 1]	Ljubljana	Arena Stožice	12,480
Cibona	Zagreb	Dražen Petrović Hall	5,400
Crvena zvezda mts	Belgrade	Aleksandar Nikolić Hall	8,000[3][4][5]
FMP	Belgrade	Železnik Hall	3,000
Igokea	Aleksandrovac	Laktaši Sports Hall	3,050
Koper Primorska	Koper	Arena Bonifika	3,000
Krka	Novo Mesto	Leon Štukelj Hall	2,500
Mega Bemax	Belgrade	Ranko Žeravica Sports Hall[6]	5,000
Mornar	Bar	Topolica Sport Hall	2,625
Partizan NIS	Belgrade	Štark Arena	18,386
Zadar	Zadar	Krešimir Ćosić Hall	7,997

Personnel and sponsorship

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Budućnost VOLI	Petar Mijović	Suad Šehović	Spalding	VOLI / Tea Medica
Cedevita Olimpija	Jurica Golemac	Jaka Blažič	Adidas	Cedevita / Petrol
Cibona	Ivan Velić	Marin Rozić	Adidas	Erste Bank
Crvena zvezda mts	Dragan Šakota	Branko Lazić	Nike	mts
FMP	Vladimir Jovanović	Radoš Šešlija	Cvetex	FMP
Igokea	Dragan Bajić	Sava Lešić	GBT	m:tel
Koper Primorska	Andrej Žakelj	Alen Hodžić	Erreà	Vehicle Rent
Krka	Vladimir Anzulović	Jure Balažič	Žolna šport	Krka
Mega Bemax	Dejan Milojević	Edin Atić	Adidas	Bemax / Tehnomanija
Mornar	Mihailo Pavićević	Marko Mijović	Armani	epcg
Partizan NIS	Andrea Trinchieri	Novica Veličković	Under Armour	NIS / mts
Zadar	Danijel Jusup	Ive Ivanov	Adidas	OTP Bank / Crodux

Coaching changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced with	Date of appointment	Ref.
Budućnost VOLI	Jasmin Repeša	23 April 2019	Off-season	Petar Mijović	24 April 2019	[7][8]
Igokea	Dragan Nikolić	June 2019		Aleksandar Trifunović	11 June 2019	[9]
Budućnost VOLI	Petar Mijović	June 2019		Slobodan Subotić	20 June 2019	[10]
Cedevita Olimpija	First	—		Slaven Rimac	8 July 2019	[11]
Budućnost VOLI	Slobodan Subotić	18 October 2019	3rd (2–0)	Petar Mijović	19 October 2019	[12][13]
Zadar	Ante Nazor	19 October 2019	12th (0–3)	Danijel Jusup	23 October 2019	[14][15]
Crvena zvezda mts	Milan Tomić	22 October 2019	8th (1–2)	Andrija Gavrilović (interim)	22 October 2019	[16]
Igokea	Aleksandar Trifunović[Note 2]	30 October 2019	11th (0–4)	Dragan Bajić	30 October 2019	[17]
Krka	Simon Petrov	5 November 2019	8th (2–3)	Vladimir Anzulović	7 November 2019	[18][19]
Crvena zvezda mts	Andrija Gavrilović (interim)	23 November 2019	6th (4–3)	Dragan Šakota	23 November 2019	[20]
Koper Primorska	Jurica Golemac	22 December 2019	5th (8–3)	Andrej Žakelj	22 December 2019	[21]
Cedevita Olimpija	Slaven Rimac	27 January 2020	3rd (10–7)	Jurica Golemac	27 January 2020	[22][23]

Regular season

The regular season starts in September 2019 and ends in March 2020.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	Partizan NIS	21	17	4	1754	1538	+216	38
2	Budućnost VOLI	21	15	6	1713	1517	+196	36
3	Crvena zvezda mts	21	14	7	1758	1562	+196	35
4	Cedevita Olimpija	21	13	8	1766	1716	+50	34
5	Mornar	21	13	8	1774	1754	+20	34
6	Koper Primorska	21	12	9	1640	1687	−47	33
7	FMP	21	10	11	1767	1729	+38	31
8	Igokea	21	7	14	1670	1779	−109	28
9	Cibona	21	7	14	1606	1734	−128	28
10	Zadar	21	6	15	1655	1769	−114	27
11	Mega Bemax	21	6	15	1693	1832	−139	27
12	Krka	21	6	15	1496	1675	−179	27

Source: Adriatic League

Positions by round

	First place & advance to the playoffs
	Advance to the playoffs
	Qualification to the relegation playoffs
	Relegated

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Partizan NIS	6	7	5	7	7	5	5	6	4	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	–
Budućnost VOLI	3	3	3	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	1	2	2	2	–
Crvena zvezda mts	1	5	8	5	5	4	6	4	6	5	6	6	7	6	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	–
Cedevita Olimpija	2	1	2	1	3	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	–
Mornar	5	4	4	6	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	6	7	6	6	5	5	5	5	5	–
Koper Primorska	12	8	7	4	4	6	4	3	5	4	4	5	5	5	7	7	6	6	6	6	6	–
FMP	4	2	1	2	2	3	3	5	3	6	5	4	4	4	5	5	7	7	7	7	7	–
Igokea	7	10	10	11	9	9	10	11	12	10	10	11	10	9	9	8	8	8	8	8	8	–
Cibona	8	9	11	9	10	10	9	9	8	9	9	9	9	11	10	10	10	9	9	10	9	–
Zadar	10	11	12	12	12	12	12	10	11	12	11	10	11	10	11	11	11	11	12	12	10	–
Mega Bemax	11	12	9	10	11	11	11	12	10	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	11	9	11	–
Krka	9	6	6	8	8	8	8	8	9	8	8	8	8	8	8	9	9	10	10	11	12	–

Source: ABA League

Results

Home \ Away	BUD	COL	CIB	CZV	FMP	IGO	PRI	KRK	MEG	MOR	PAR	ZAD
Budućnost VOLI	—	93–80	87–64	20–0[a]	—	99–59	80–83	80–60	90–76	93–88	65–60	93–80
Cedevita Olimpija	81–79	—	79–70	75–64	93–89	78–85	69–72	72–56	112–102	90–91	85–69	90–82
Cibona	78–87	82–84	—	72–86	63–81	66–91	80–78	70–67	76–87	88–92	—	89–60
Crvena zvezda mts	81–89	88–73	102–80	—	95–89	103–61	90–64	101–77	88–70	105–82	92–86	—
FMP	89–79	100–105	88–79	79–87	—	78–73	77–65	84–81	98–79	92–83	57–87	94–67
Igokea	72–83	90–95	84–97	79–94	91–82	—	84–88	92–82	69–72	98–91	73–75	79–71
Koper Primorska	75–78	67–90	79–78	78–90	86–81	—	—	67–63	93–87	101–83	68–56	83–78
Krka	73–72	—	69–77	79–77	65–75	76–75	71–89	—	74–69	67–76	61–76	76–74
Mega Bemax	57–94	63–87	72–76	85–103	95–91	87–76	73–79	88–61	—	—	77–98	98–74
Mornar	92–95	77–70	81–73	71–64	85–82	92–78	99–84	82–73	85–68	—	65–76	95–86
Partizan NIS	87–82	96–95	102–66	75–72	90–85	89–73	81–62	102–80	102–88	88–75	—	87–60
Zadar	82–75	101–63	78–82	78–76	81–76	81–88	99–79	77–85	106–100	83–89	57–72	—

Updated to match(es) played on 9 March 2020. Source: ABA League
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.
Matches with lighter background shading were decided after overtime.

1. Match not played.^[24]

Statistical leaders

As of 9 March 2020

PIR Pos Player Club PIR 1 Kendrick Perry Mega Bemax 20.80 2 Justin Cobbs Budućnost VOLI 18.60 3 Marko Simonović Mega Bemax 18.10 4 Jaka Blažič Cedevita Olimpija 17.90 5 Uroš Luković Mornar 17.67

Points Pos Player Club PPG 1 Kendrick Perry Mega Bemax 18.50 2 Bryon Allen Zadar 18.21 3 Rashad Vaughn Igokea 16.50 4 Glenn Cosey Krka 16.39 5 Jacob Pullen Mornar 16.24

Rebounds Pos Player Club RPG 1 Marko Simonović Mega Bemax 7.62 2 Domagoj Vuković Zadar 7.52 3 Marko Jagodić-Kuridža Crvena zvezda mts 7.06 4 Edin Atić Mega Bemax 6.95 5 Uroš Luković Mornar 6.94

Assists Pos Player Club APG 1 Žan Mark Šiško Koper Primorska 9.91 2 Mike Green Igokea 6.81 3 Lorenzo Brown Crvena zvezda mts 6.33 4 Kendrick Perry Mega Bemax 6.20 5 Dominik Mavra Zadar 5.57

Source: ABA League Archived 2017-12-28 at the Wayback Machine

MVP List

MVP of the Round

Round	Player	Team	PIR
1	Lorenzo Brown	Crvena zvezda mts	30
2	Derek Needham	Mornar	34
3	Jaka Blažič	Cedevita Olimpija	38
4	Lance Harris	Koper Primorska	31
5	Rashawn Thomas	Partizan NIS	31
6	Billy Baron	Crvena zvezda mts	27
7	Jacob Pullen	Mornar	30
8	Filip Bundović	Cibona	34
9	Ivan Novačić	Cibona	28
10	Lorenzo Brown (2)	Crvena zvezda mts	33
11	Lance Harris (2)	Koper Primorska	37
12	Jaka Blažič (2)	Cedevita Olimpija	48
13	Marko Simonović	Mega Bemax	35
14	Domagoj Vuković	Zadar	39
15	Uroš Luković	Mornar	31
16	Justin Cobbs	Budućnost VOLI	33
17	Marko Simonović (2)	Mega Bemax	32
18	Jaka Blažič (3)	Cedevita Olimpija	32
19	Uroš Luković (2)	Mornar	38
20	Justin Cobbs (2)	Budućnost VOLI	33
21	Derek Needham (2)	Mornar	27

Source: ABA League

MVP of the Month

Month	Player	Team	Ref.
2019
October	Aleksa Radanov	FMP	[25]
November	Filip Bundović	Cibona	[26]
December	Rashawn Thomas	Partizan NIS	[27]
2020
January	Justin Cobbs	Budućnost VOLI	[28]
February	Uroš Luković	Mornar	[29]

Clubs in European competitions

Competition	Team	Progress		Result
EuroLeague	Crvena zvezda mts	Regular season		14th (11–17)
EuroCup	Partizan NIS	Quarterfinals	(2)	0–0 against UNICS
	Cedevita Olimpija	Regular season Group C		6th (4–6)
	Budućnost VOLI	Regular season Group D		5th (3–7)
Champions League	Mornar	Regular season Group C		7th (4–10)

See also

• List of current ABA League First Division team rosters
• 2019–20 ABA League Second Division
• 2019 ABA League Supercup
• 2019–20 Junior ABA League
• 2019–20 WABA League

2019–20 domestic competitions

• 2019–20 Basketball League of Serbia
• 2019–20 HT Premijer liga
• 2019–20 Slovenian Basketball League
• 2019–20 Prva A liga
• 2019–20 Basketball Championship of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Teams

• 2019–20 KK Cedevita Olimpija season
• 2019–20 KK Crvena zvezda season
• 2019–20 KK Partizan season

Notes

1. ^
   Olimpija Ljubljana and Cedevita Zagreb made a merger and established a new club based in Ljubljana in July 2019 under the name Cedevita Olimpija.^[30] Cedevita Olimpija has taken the Cedevita Zagreb's spot in the League.
2. ^
   Marko Barać was changing Aleksandar Trifunović in his absence.

References

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15. "Zadar appoint Danijel Jusup as new head coach". aba-liga.com. 23 October 2019. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
16. "Milan Tomic and Crvena Zvezda parted ways". Eurohoops. 22 October 2019. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
17. "Igokea appoint Dragan Bajić as new head coach and add Michael Green to the 2019/20 roster". aba-liga.com. 30 October 2019. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
18. "Krka and Simon Petrov agreed to part ways". aba-liga.com. 5 November 2019. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
19. "Vladimir Anzulović is back at Krka bench". aba-liga.com. 7 November 2019. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
20. "Dragan Šakota novi trener Crvene zvezde". mozzartsport.com (in Serbian). 23 November 2019. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
21. "Golemac leaves Koper Primorska". aba-liga.com. 22 December 2019. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
22. "Cedevita Olimpija and Slaven Rimac parted ways on mutual consent". cedevita.olimpija.com. 27 January 2020. Archived from the original on 27 January 2020. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
23. "Jurica Golemac is the new head coach of BC Cedevita Olimpija". cedevita.olimpija.com. 27 January 2020. Archived from the original on 27 January 2020. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
24. "Disciplinary sanctions for Crvena zvezda mts". aba-liga.com.
25. MVP of October: Aleksa Radanov (FMP)
26. MVP of November: Filip Bundović (Cibona)
27. MVP of December: Rashawn Thomas (Partizan NIS)
28. MVP of January: Justin Cobbs (Budućnost VOLI)
29. MVP of February: Uroš Luković (Mornar)
30. "Rimac trener Cedevite Olimpije, prva okrepitev Edo Murić". rtvslo.si. Retrieved 13 July 2019.

External links

• Official website
• ABA League at Eurobasket.com