New competition system for the new season, it will start on October 14th

EUROHOLD Balkan League is presenting a new system for the upcoming season 2014-2015.   As all the past seasons, it is always our main target to be creative, innovative and along with giving the possibility for a lot of international games to everybody participating, always the priority is the quality and quantity together.   Therefore, with the newly proposed system, each team is going to have a minimum of 12 games and the ones reaching the final stage even 16 games.   The new system consists of ten teams divided in two groups of five each. This will be the Qualifying Round as then the first four teams from each one will go in to the second round in to a Top 8 with two new groups of four teams.   The new season in EUROHOLD Balkan League will start on 14th October 2014. The first stage will finish in the first week of February 2015 and the second stage - in the last week of March 2015. In case of a Final Four, it will take place on 17-19 April 2015, and 21st April 2015 and 29th April 2015 will be the dates in case of 2-games-system - home and away for the final.   The complete System  and calendar of the competition can be checked in the BIBL Official Regulations 2014-2015, Article III on page 9, updated on the web-site and can be seen HERE.    Moreover, during the next week, the Israeli Winner League will give an answer regarding the idea of having 4 Israeli teams competing in the same group like we explained before. If this happens, the system will not be changed with the exception there will be 3 groups where these four teams will be in separate group (C), playing the regular group stage inside Israel only between them. Then, the first 2 of this group will join the first three from the other 2 Balkan groups to form the Top 8. The remaining of the competition stays the same.   If there are no 4 teams, there is a possibility for either 2 or 1 team. However, in the next week, the situation will be clear.