The Kosovo Basketball Superleague (

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: Superliga e Kosovës në Basketboll) and known as the ProCredit Superliga due to sponsorship reasons is the top men's professional

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league in

Kosovo Kosovo, officially the Republic of Kosovo, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe with International recognition of Kosovo, partial diplomatic recognition. It is bordered by Albania to the southwest, Montenegro to the west, Serbia to the ...

. Basketball Superleague was founded in 1991. It is run by the

Basketball Federation of Kosovo The Basketball Federation of Kosovo ( Albanian: ''Federata e Basketbollit e Kosovës'', /''Košarkaški savez Kosova'') is the governing body of basketball in Kosovo. It organizes the Kosovo Basketball Superleague and the Kosovo Basketball Cup. ...

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holds the record for most Superleague titles as it has won the championship 14 times.

Current teams

Rules

Competition format

It consists of eight to ten teams which compete each year in two separate phases. Each team has to play all the other teams in its division four times, twice at home and twice away. This means that in Kosovo basketball, the league's regular season ends after all teams play 28 matches. At the end of the league, the four best teams in the standings start a play-off, pitting the first place team in the standings versus the 4th place team in the standings, and so on. There is one playoff rounds, and the winner of the finals round becomes the champion of the Kosovo Basketball Superleague. This is similar to the most basketball leagues in Europe. Each season, the last qualified team of the regular season relegates to Kosovo Basketball First League and replaced by champion of the First League whilst second from last of Superleague meats the runner up of the First League in e Relegation Playoff.

Foreigners

Each team can play 3 foreign players in every match that is organized by BFK.

Youngsters

Every team must play two U20 players in every game for at least 20 min otherwise the teams are fined 500 €.

Arena standards

Since the establishment of the league, the indoor courts in Kosovo have seen continuous improvements in capacity and facilities, with some municipalities have built and newly built stadiums for basketball clubs in their areas as well as other sports. Today, the facilities of the clubs participating in Kosovo Basketball Superleague and hosting the home matches, must have a minimum capacity of 1,000 people.

History

Despite the political status of

, basketball competitions have been legally organized since 1999 under the

licensed by the

United Nations Mission in Kosovo The United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (; sr-Cyrl-Latn, Привремена административна мисија Уједињених нација на Косову, Privremena administrativna misija Ujedinjenih na ...

and the

Government of Kosovo The Government of Kosovo (, ) exercises executive authority in the Republic of Kosovo. It is composed of government ministers, and is led by the prime minister. The prime minister is elected by the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo. Ministe ...

. However, the KBF has functioned since 1991 and organized amateur basketball leagues. Today, basketball in Kosovo shares the same popularity with football.

Names of the competition

* 1999–2004: Liga e Pare e Kosoves ne Basketboll * 2004–2005: Liga Profesionale e Basketbollit te Kosoves * 2005–2007: Raiffeisen Superliga * 2007–2009: Siguria Superliga * 2009–2011: Techno Market Superliga * 2011–2013: BKT Superliga * 2013–2017: ETC Superliga * 2017–2020: IP Superliga * 2020-2021: FiveStar Superliga * 2021-2022: ArtMotion Superliga * 2022–2024: PrinceCaffe Superliga * 2024–present: ProCredit Superliga

Gallery

Commissioners

* 2006–2011: Nuredin Ibishi * 2013–Present: Bajrush Ademi

Other competitions

* Kosovo Cup * Champions League *

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Winner by season

Here is the list of the champions of Kosovo year by year

Titles by Club

Sponsorships and broadcasting rights

Official sponsors * IP Petrol * TEB Bank * STOBI FLIPS * Rugove * Baker Tilly Kosovo * Gowzillas * Global CT Digital Kosovo Official broadcasters * ArtMotion * Kujtesa *

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References

External links

Kosovan basketball on Eurobasket

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{{Men's professional basketball leagues Basketball leagues in Kosovo Top-level basketball leagues in Europe Sports leagues established in 1991