2021–22 BIBL season

Ten teams drawn into two groups consisting of five teams each. Teams from the same country will be drawn in different groups. Peja will be drawn into a group with two teams from North Macedonia due to traveling schedule. Teams play against each other home-and-away basis. The teams placed 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th from each group will advanced to the second round.^[1][5]

During September, the league management announced the addition of two teams to the first round.^[6][7] On October 6, the league management decided to take Peja out of the tournament since Peja refused to confirm the competition's official schedule as well as fulfill all their financial obligations towards the league in the deadlines set.^[4] On October 13, the league management announced that Maccabi Haifa will take Peja's place as the 2nd participant in the league.^[2]

On 26 November, The Balkan International Basketball League management decided to take Kumanovo 2009 out of the competition due to its inability to fulfill its obligations. All its results were annulled, and its remaining games cancelled.^[3]

Draw

The draw took place on 26 August. The Ten teams was divided into 5 Seeds and drawn into two groups of five.^[1]

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Seed 1 Team Ironi Nahariya Hapoel Galil Elyon

Seed 2 Team Academic Plovdiv Balkan Botevgrad

Seed 3 Team Kumanovo 2009 TFT Skopje

Seed 4 Team Beroe Navico Akademija FMP

Seed 5 Team Prishtina Peja

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Group A

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		HGE	MHA	BAL	LEV	AFM	KUM
1	Hapoel Galil Elyon	8	7	1	604	461	+143	15	Advance to Second round		—	88–41	56–46	20–0[a]	107–65	—
2	Maccabi Haifa	8	5	3	599	561	+38	13			80–85	—	92–78	20–0[b]	95–73	—
3	Balkan Botevgrad	8	4	4	591	583	+8	12			64–70	88–81	—	82–73	80–71	—
4	Levski Sofia	8	2	6	464	513	−49	10			84–76	60–78	65–79	—	81–84	—
5	Navico Akademija FMP	8	2	6	615	755	−140	10			82–102	89–112	77–75	74–103	—	—
6	Kumanovo 2009[c]	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Expelled		87–96	—	—	—	59–63	—

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Source: Group A standing
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.
Notes:

1. [a]

   The match was not played due to Corona's cases in Levski Sofia. The league management decided to grant Hapoel Galil Elyon a technical victory after consulting with FIBA and after no further date was found for the match.^[8]
2. [b]

   The match was not played due to Corona's cases in Levski Sofia. The league management decided to grant Maccabi Haifa a technical victory after consulting with FIBA and after no further date was found for the match.^[8]
3. [c]

   The Balkan International Basketball League management decided to take Kumanovo 2009 out of the competition due to its inability to fulfill its obligations. All its results were annulled, and its remaining games canceled.^[9]

Group B

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		NAH	PRI	APL	TFT	BER	IBR
1	Ironi Nahariya	10	8	2	801	684	+117	18	Advance to Second round		—	83–74	98–73	102–63	63–69	69–57
2	Prishtina	10	6	4	848	794	+54	16			84–61	—	85–94	80–73	83–61	110–85
3	Academic Plovdiv	10	5	5	786	793	−7	15			61–76	74–78	—	81–84	74–68	77–61
4	TFT Skopje	10	5	5	799	826	−27	15			66–67	81–77	75–83	—	95–88	87–83
5	Beroe	10	3	7	791	856	−65	13			67–103	93–94	98–91	86–96	—	67–79
6	Ibar Rožaje	10	3	7	749	821	−72	13			70–79	87–83	68–78	79–77	78–94	—

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Source: Group B standing
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.

The results between the teams from the same groups in the first round shall be carried forward into this round. The eight teams will be divided into new two groups of four teams each. Teams play against each other on a home-and-away basis. The teams placed 1st from each group will advance to the Final Four. The teams placed 2nd and 3rd from each group will advance to the Quarter-Finals.^[10]

Group C

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		HGE	LEV	PRI	APL
1	Hapoel Galil Elyon	6	4	2	439	380	+59	10	Advance to Final Four		—	20–0[a]	95–84	96–83
2	Levski Sofia	6	4	2	405	366	+39	10	Advance to quarter-finals		84–76	—	77–69	92–58
3	Prishtina	6	3	3	456	471	−15	9			74–68	66–63	—	85–94
4	Academic Plovdiv	6	1	5	441	524	−83	7			55–84	77–89	74–78	—

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Source: Group C standing
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.
Notes:

1. [a]

   The match was not played due to Corona's cases in Levski Sofia. The league management decided to grant Hapoel Galil Elyon a technical victory after consulting with FIBA and after no further date was found for the match.^[8]

Group D

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		NAH	BAL	MHA	TFT
1	Ironi Nahariya	6	5	1	510	429	+81	11	Advance to Final Four		—	76–64	105–73	102–63
2	Balkan Botevgrad	6	4	2	518	457	+61	10	Advance to quarter-finals		87–73	—	88–81	104–53
3	Maccabi Haifa	6	3	3	506	516	−10	9			76–87	92–78	—	91–85
4	TFT Skopje	6	0	6	422	552	−130	6			66–67	82–97	73–93	—

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Source: Group D standing
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.