Italian basketball league system
{{Short description|Basketball League System in Italy}}
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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
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!colspan="1" width="4%" |Level !colspan="5" width="96%" |League |
| colspan="1" width="4%" |1.
|colspan="5" width="96%" |Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) |
| colspan="1" width="4%" |2.
|colspan="5" width="96%" |Serie A2 Basket |
| colspan="1" width="4%" |3.
|colspan="1" width="96%" |Serie B Basket |
| colspan="1" width="4%" |4.
|colspan="5" width="96%" |Serie C Gold Basket |
| colspan="1" width="4%" |5.
|colspan="5" width="96%" |Serie C Regionale |
| colspan="1" width="4%" |6.
|colspan="5" width="96%" |Serie D Regionale |
| colspan="1" width="4%" |7.
|colspan="5" width="96%" |Promozione |
| colspan="1" width="4%" |8.
|colspan="5" width="96%" |Prima Divisione |
| colspan="1" width="4%" |9.
|colspan="5" width="96%" |Seconda Divisione |
Other competitions
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
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External links
- [https://www.eurobasket.com/Italy/basketball.aspx Eurobasket.com Italian Men's Basketball]
- [http://www.legabasket.it Italian League Official Website] {{in lang|it}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20130727045713/http://www.legaduebasket.it/ Italian Second Division Official Website] {{in lang|it}}
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{{Lega Basket Serie A}}