2019–20 Swedish Basketball League
Swedish Basketball League | ||||||||||
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Season | 2019–20 | |||||||||
Duration | 25 September 2019 – 13 March 2020 | |||||||||
Number of teams | 10 | |||||||||
Finals | ||||||||||
Champions | Borås 1st title | |||||||||
Runners-up | Luleå | |||||||||
Awards | ||||||||||
DPOY | Denzel Andersson | |||||||||
ROTY | Pelle Larsson | |||||||||
COTY | Panagiotis Nikolaidis | |||||||||
Referee OTY | Apostolos Kalpakas | |||||||||
Statistical leaders | ||||||||||
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Records | ||||||||||
Biggest home win | 2020–21 → |
The 2019–20 Swedish Basketball League season, formerly known as Basketligan, was the 27th season of the
Södertälje Kings
are the defending champions.
Borås was named league champions.[2]
Competition format
The participating teams first play a conventional round-robin schedule with every team playing each opponent four times for a total of 36 games. The top eight teams qualified for the championship playoffs.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the competition was suspended from 12 March until 30 April 2020 and playoffs were eliminated.[3] Finally, one day later, the league was terminated and leader Borås was declared as league champion.
Teams
Wetterbygden
Djurgårdens promoted as champion of the Superettan and replaced Uppsala, last qualified in the previous season and relegated.
Team | City | Venue | Capacity |
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Borås | Borås | Boråshallen | 3,000
|
Djurgården | Stockholm | Brännkyrkahallen | 500
|
Jämtland | Östersund | Östersunds sporthall | 1,700
|
Köping Stars
|
Köping | Karlbergshallen | 650
|
Luleå | Luleå | Luleå Energi Arena | 2,700
|
Norrköping Dolphins | Norrköping | Stadium Arena | 3,500
|
Nässjö | Nässjö | Nässjö Sporthall | 1,200
|
Södertälje Kings
|
Södertälje | Täljehallen | 2,100
|
Umeå
|
Umeå | Umeå Energi Arena
|
2,000
|
Wetterbygden Stars
|
Huskvarna | Huskvarna Sporthall | 422
|
Regular season
League table
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
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1 | Borås (C) | 33 | 28 | 5 | 3000 | 2633 | +367 | 56 |
2 | Luleå | 33 | 26 | 7 | 2909 | 2566 | +343 | 52 |
3 | Köping Stars
|
33 | 24 | 9 | 2805 | 2638 | +167 | 48 |
4 | Södertälje Kings
|
33 | 19 | 14 | 2723 | 2606 | +117 | 38 |
5 | Wetterbygden Stars
|
33 | 17 | 16 | 3010 | 3086 | −76 | 34 |
6 | Jämtland | 33 | 15 | 18 | 2958 | 2920 | +38 | 30 |
7 | Norrköping Dolphins | 33 | 14 | 19 | 2766 | 2759 | +7 | 28 |
8 | Nässjö | 33 | 10 | 23 | 2653 | 2844 | −191 | 20 |
9 | Umeå
|
33 | 8 | 25 | 2663 | 2967 | −304 | 16 |
10 | Djurgårdens | 33 | 4 | 29 | 2732 | 3200 | −468 | 8 |
Results
Swedish clubs in European competitions
Team | Competition | Progress |
---|---|---|
Södertälje Kings
|
Champions League | Second qualifying round |
FIBA Europe Cup | Regular season | |
Borås | First qualifying round |
References
- ^ "» Spelprogram säsongen 2019/2020". Archived from the original on 2019-09-02. Retrieved 2019-09-12.
- ^ "Swedish Federation cancels 2019/20 season, Boras named Champions". Eurobasket.com. 13 March 2020.
- ^ "Svensk Basket avslutar säsongens tävlingsverksamhet" (in Swedish). 12 March 2020. Archived from the original on 28 March 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2020.