Israel Basketball Federation approved the 12 teams registration

The BIBL Sports Director Shay Shtriks confirmed today that the Israeli Basketball Federation approved the agreement between BIBL and the Israel Winner Basketball League the 12 teams to be officially registered for the BIBL season 2020-21.

The 12 Israeli teams will play inside the State of Israel in the first stage and in the second stage 2 or 3 teams will join the  4 - 5 other Balkan teams which will qualify from the Balkan group.

The games of the Israeli group will start on 14.10.2020 as some of them will compete in FIBA competition and they will finish the first stage on time.

The Balkan group games will begin on 20.10.2020.

The teams that are already inside the Balkan group are: Bulgaria - BC Beroe- Stara Zagora, BC Academic - Plovdiv; Montenegro - KK Ibar - Rozaje; North Macedonia - KK Kumanovo 2009 - Kumanovo and BC KK TFT - Skopje. We had a request from a team from Kosovo as well but in the next few days it will become clear whether there will be team from Kosovo or another team from one of the other 3 countries, as they will have to cover certain requirements.

We have been contacted by 3 other clubs from Bulgaria and Montenegro and during this week we will register the last team as the Balkan group will consist of 6 teams.   

ALL the games of the Israeli teams including the games with the Balkan teams will be broadcast live in one of the biggest Sports TV in Israel and in Europe Sport 5 as well as in the BIBL YouTube channel. Once the Balkan Group is finally closed, Lubomira Shtriks - the International and Marketing Manager together with each of the Balkan teams will try to arrange TV broadcast with TV channels in the respective countries which for sure will help all of us to present the quality of our basketball, the Balkan region with our beautiful countries and cities in the best way. 

"I am sure that all of you are excited the same as I am for this very important step in our league, especially in this difficult unusual period of time that we need to remain positive, and do good things in our lives." - Mr. Shtriks added.