2020–21 Austrian Basketball Superliga

Austrian Basketball Superliga
Season2020–21
Teams10
TV partnersSky Sport
ORF+
Regular season
Season MVP Enis Murati
Finals
ChampionsSwans Gmunden
1st Superliga title
5th Austrian title
Runners-upKapfenberg Bulls
2021–22 →

The 2020–21 Austrian Basketball Superliga was the second season of the Basketball Superliga, the top-tier league in Austrian basketball. It is the 75th season of the first tier of basketball in Austria.

Swans Gmunden won the first Superliga championship, its fifth Austrian title.[1]

Format

Teams first play each other in the regular season home and away. After this, teams ranked 1–6 and 7-10 are divided in two groups to qualify for the playoffs. In the playoffs, the best eight teams play each other for the national championship in best-of-five series. The two lowest placed teams play against the top two teams of the Basketball Zweite Liga (B2L).[2]

Teams

Venues and locations

Location of teams in 2020–21 ABS
Club Place Arena Capacity
Flyers Wels Wels Raiffeisen Arena 1,700
GGMT Vienna Wien Wiener Stadthalle B 1,000
Klosterneuburg Dukes Klosterneuburg Happyland Klosterneuburg 1,000
Kapfenberg Bulls Kapfenberg Sporthalle Walfersam 1,000
Oberwart Gunners Oberwart Sporthalle Oberwart 2,500
UBSC Graz Graz Unionhalle 600
SKN St. Pölten Sankt Pölten Landessportzentrum St. Pölten 1,000
Swans Gmunden Gmunden Volksbank Arena 2,200
Traiskirchen Lions Traiskirchen Lions Dome 1,200
Vienna DC Timberwolves Wien T-Mobile Dome 1,000

Regular season

Basic Round

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification
1 Kapfenberg Bulls 18 13 5 1409 1257 +152 26 Qualification to group 1–6
2 Swans Gmunden 18 12 6 1500 1363 +137 24
3 Klosterneuburg Dukes 18 11 7 1498 1405 +93 22
4 Flyers Wels 18 10 8 1540 1518 +22 20
5 SKN St. Pölten 18 10 8 1409 1437 −28 20
6 Oberwart Gunners 18 10 8 1409 1356 +53 20
7 GGMT Vienna 18 9 9 1524 1467 +57 18 Qualification to group 7–10
8 UBSC Graz 18 9 9 1582 1557 +25 18
9 Traiskirchen Lions 18 3 15 1400 1575 −175 6
10 Vienna DC Timberwolves 18 3 15 1259 1595 −336 6
Source: Basketball Austria

Placement Round

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification
1 Swans Gmunden 28 21 7 2374 2175 +199 42 Qualification to playoffs
2 Kapfenberg Bulls 28 19 9 2199 2019 +180 38
3 Klosterneuburg Dukes 28 16 12 2273 2177 +96 32
4 Oberwart Gunners 28 14 14 2229 2186 +43 28
5 SKN St. Pölten 28 13 15 2153 2212 −59 26
6 Flyers Wels 28 13 15 2312 2342 −30 26
Source: Basketball Austria

Qualifying round

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification
1 GGMT Vienna 23 14 9 2049 1851 +198 28 Qualification to playoffs
2 UBSC Graz 24 13 11 2108 2063 +45 26
3 Vienna DC Timberwolves 24 4 20 1714 2137 −423 8
4 Traiskirchen Lions 24 4 20 1815 2064 −249 8
Source: Basketball Austria

Play-offs

Bracket

 
QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinals
 
          
 
 
 
 
1
Swans Gmunden		3
 
 
 
8
UBSC Graz		1
 
1
Swans Gmunden		3
 
 
 
4
Oberwart Gunners		1
 
4
Oberwart Gunners		3
 
 
 
5
SKN St. Pölten		1
 
1
Swans Gmunden		3
 
 
 
2
Kapfenberg Bulls		1
 
2
Kapfenberg Bulls		3
 
 
 
7
GGMT Vienna		2
 
2
Kapfenberg Bulls		3
 
 
 
6
Flyers Wels		0
 
3
Klosterneuburg Dukes		1
 
 
6
Flyers Wels		3
 

Quarterfinals

The team with the higher seed played game one and three (if necessary) at home.

Team 1 Series Team 2 Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4 Game 5
Swans Gmunden 3–1 UBSC Graz 89–81 94–82 63–77 96–83
Oberwart Gunners 3–1 SKN St. Pölten 107–84 86–82 87–90 72–59
Kapfenberg Bulls 3–2 GGMT Vienna 80–74 80–82 65–64 73–84 97–67
Klosterneuburg Dukes 1–3 Flyers Wels 82–95 75–88 85–73 65–92

Semifinals

The team with the higher seed played game one, two and 5 (if necessary) at home.

Team 1 Series Team 2 Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4 Game 5
Swans Gmunden 3–1 Oberwart Gunners 104–79 86–80 90–84 97–94
Kapfenberg Bulls 3–0 Flyers Wels 85–73 83–74 82–58

Finals

The team with the higher seed played game one, two and five (if necessary) at home.

Team 1 Series Team 2 Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4 Game 5
Swans Gmunden 3–1 Kapfenberg Bulls 80–86 83–65 109–98 90–83

Austrian clubs in European competitions

Team Competition Progress
Kapfenberg Bulls FIBA Europe Cup Regular season

References

  1. ^ Berger, Helmut. "Presstige Details BSL". Basketball Austria (in Austrian German). Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Startschuss für die ADMIRAL Basketball Superliga - mit ADMIRAL Sportwetten als Hauptsponsor". OTS.at. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.