The Balkan International Basketball League (BIBL), also known as the Balkan League and as the Delasport BIBL Balkan League for sponsorship reasons, is a multinational professional basketball league that features mostly clubs from the Balkans. The league included teams from countries as Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Cyprus and Israel. The most recent league champion is Sigal Prishtina from Kosovo.

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Balkan International Basketball League

Current season, competition or edition: 2023–24 BIBL season
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Sport	Basketball
Founded	2008
No. of teams	Variable by season
Countries	Current countries  Bulgaria  Cyprus  Israel  Kosovo  Montenegro  North Macedonia Former countries  Albania  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Croatia  Greece  Kazakhstan  Romania  Serbia  Ukraine
Continent	FIBA Europe (Europe)
Most recent champion(s)	Sigal Prishtina (3rd title)
Most titles	Sigal Prishtina (3 titles)
TV partner(s)	RIK 2 sportmedia.tv YouTube RTSH
Official website	balkanleague.net

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The purpose of the Balkan International Basketball League is to provide competitive international play for clubs in the Balkans that would otherwise be unable to participate in international basketball. The league achieves this by providing financial support to all participating clubs in order to ease the costs that make international play difficult.^[1] Among other milestones, the league is also the first international league of its kind to include teams from Kosovo.

After the 2017–2018 season, the Balkan International Basketball League introduced a new, simplified competition format. Under this format, the competition now typically features a total of between 6 – 8 teams and the tournament is divided into two phases: the regular season, whereby all participating teams will play each other in a double round robin both home and away and following the regular season's conclusion, the first and second placed teams will automatically qualify to the Final Four, whereas the third placed team will have to play the sixth placed team and the fourth will play the fifth at home and away to determine which team will advance to the Final Four. After this, the winning teams will advance to the final four to determined that season's BIBL Balkan League champions.^[2]

Additionally, at the start of the 2020–2021 season 12 teams from Israel participated in the league in order to have access to competitive games during the COVID-19 pandemic.^[3]