2017–18 Albanian Basketball League

The 2017–18 Albanian Basketball League, is the 52nd season of the top professional basketball league in Albania.

Albanian Basketball League
Competition details
Season 2017–18
Teams 6
Dates 13 October 2017 – 13 May 2018
TV Telesport
TVSH
Final positions
Champions Tirana (20th title)
Runners-up Teuta
Relegated Eagles

League started on 13 October 2017 and will end on 13 May 2018.[1]

Competition format

The six clubs played a four-legged round robin tournament where the four first qualified teams would advance to the playoffs.

The fifth qualified team faced the runner-up of the second division in a best-of-three games playoff for avoiding relegation, and the last qualified team was directly relegated.

Clubs and arenas
Vllaznia
Tirana
Locations of the 2017–18 Albanian Superliga teams
Club Location Founded Colours Arena Capacity Head Coach
Eagles Tirana Farie Hoti Sports Palace
3,000
Kamza Kamëz
1962
         
 Bathore Sports Hall
500
 Adem Muhametaj
Partizani Tirana
1946
         
 Asllan Rusi Sports Palace
3,000
 E.Ismeti
Teuta Durrës
1925
         
 Ramazan Njala Sports Palace
1,000
 Artan Kalaja
Tirana Tirana
1946
         
 Farie Hoti Sports Palace
3,000
 Bujar Shehu
Vllaznia Shkodër
1919
         
 Qazim Dërvishi Sports Palace
1,200
 Bledar Gjeçaj

Regular season

League table
Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Tirana 20 19 1 1654 1251 +403 39 Qualification to playoffs
2 Teuta 20 13 7 1534 1370 +164 33
3 Partizani 20 13 7 1358 1233 +125 33
4 Kamza 20 8 12 1371 1396 −25 28
5 Vllaznia (O) 20 7 13 1459 1434 +25 27 Relegation playoffs
6 Eagles[lower-alpha 1] (R) 20 0 20 785 1593 −808 20 Relegation to First Division
Source: FSHB
(O) Play-off winner; (R) Relegated.
Notes:
  1. Retired after 13 rounds. The rest of the games were imposed with a 0–20 loss.

Playoffs

The semi-finals were played in a best-of-three playoff format and the finals in a best-of-five playoff format (1-1-1-1-1).

Bracket
 
Semi-finalsFinals
 
      
 
 
 
 
1
Tirana		2
 
 
 
4
Kamza		0
 
1
Tirana		3
 
 
 
2
Teuta		2
 
2
Teuta		2
 
 
3
Partizani		0
 

Semi-finals
Team 1 Series Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg 3rd leg
Tirana 2–0 Kamza 93–78 89–86 0
Teuta 2–0 Partizani 77–69 75–74 0

Finals
Team 1 Series Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg 3rd leg4th leg5th leg
Tirana 3–2 Teuta 73–76 74–71 76–7473–8368–60

Relegation playoffs
Team 1 Series Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg 3rd leg
Vllaznia 2–0 Flamurtari 90–47 89–49 0

References
  1. FSHB
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