The Italian basketball league system or Italian basketball league pyramid, is a series of interconnected competitions for professional basketball clubs in Italy. The system has a hierarchical format with a promotion and demotion system between competitions at different levels. There are currently nine different competitions on the pyramid: the 1st-tier Lega Basket Serie A (LBA), the 2nd-tier Serie A2 Basket, the 3rd-tier Serie B Basket, the 4th-tier Serie C Gold Basket, the 5th-tier Serie C Regionale, the 6th-tier Serie D Regionale, the 7th-tier Promozione, the 8th-tier Prima Divisione, and the 9th-tier Seconda Divisione.
The tier pyramid
Other competitions
- Italian Cup
- Italian Supercup
- Italian Legadue Cup
See also
- League system
- European professional club basketball system
- Spanish basketball league system
- Greek basketball league system
- French basketball league system
- Russian basketball league system
- Turkish basketball league system
- Serbian basketball league system
- Polish basketball league system
- Hungarian basketball league system
- South American professional club basketball system
References
External links
- Eurobasket.com Italian Men's Basketball
- Italian League Official Website (in Italian)
- Italian Second Division Official Website (in Italian)
