2017–18 Albanian Basketball Superleague

Albanian Basketball Superleague
Albanian Basketball Superleague
Season	2017–18
Duration	13 October 2017 – 13 May 2018
Teams	6
TV partner(s)	Telesport; TVSH
Regular season
Relegated	Eagles
Finals
Champions	Tirana (20th title)
Runners-up	Teuta
	← 2016–17 2018–19 →

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

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

Locations of the 2017–18 Albanian Superliga teams

Club	Location	Founded	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^[a] (R)	20	0	20	785	1593	−808	20	Relegation to First Division

Source: FSHB
(O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ 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-finals		Finals



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	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
Tirana	2–0	Kamza	93–78	89–86	0
Teuta	2–0	Partizani	77–69	75–74	0

Finals

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5
Tirana	3–2	Teuta	73–76	74–71	76–74	73–83	68–60

Relegation playoffs

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
Vllaznia	2–0	Flamurtari	90–47	89–49	0

References

^ FSHB

External links

Albanian Basketball Federation site

[table_note_FLA0.9948173300339-2] Retired after 13 rounds. The rest of the games were imposed with a 0–20 loss.

[1] FSHB

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