The 2021–22 LBA season is the 100th season of the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA), the men's top-tier professional basketball division of the Italian basketball league system.
Teams
Virtus Roma withdrew in the past season. Cantu ended on 15th place and therefore relegated to the Serie A2.
Napoli and Tortona were two best teams in Serie A2 and therefore promoted to Serie A.
Number of teams by region
Venues and locations
Location of teams in
2021–22 LBA season
Team
Home city
Arena
Capacity
2020–21 result
Allianz Pallacanestro Trieste
Trieste
Allianz Dome
6,943 [ 1]
7th
AX Armani Exchange Milano
Milan
Mediolanum Forum
12,700 [ 2]
2nd
Banco di Sardegna Sassari
Sassari
PalaSerradimigni
5,000 [ 3]
5th
Bertram Derthona Basket Tortona
Tortona
PalaFerraris
3,510 [ 4]
promoted to LBA
Carpegna Prosciutto Basket Pesaro
Pesaro
Vitifrigo Arena
10,323 [ 5]
13th
Dolomiti Energia Trento
Trento
BLM Group Arena
4,360 [ 6]
8th
Fortitudo Kigili Bologna
Bologna
PalaDozza
5,570 [ 7]
12th
Germani Brescia
Brescia
PalaLeonessa
5,200 [ 8]
9th
GeVi Napoli Basket
Naples
PalaBarbuto
5,500
promoted to LBA
Happy Casa Brindisi
Brindisi
PalaPentassuglia
3,534 [ 9]
3rd
NutriBullet Treviso Basket
Treviso
PalaVerde
5,134 [ 10]
6th
Openjobmetis Varese
Varese
Enerxenia Arena
5,100 [ 11]
14th
Umana Reyer Venezia
Venice
Palasport Taliercio
3,506 [ 12]
4th
UNAHOTELS Reggio Emilia
Reggio Emilia
Unipol Arena
8,400 [ 13]
11th
Vanoli Basket Cremona
Cremona
PalaRadi
3,511 [ 14]
10th
Virtus Segafredo Bologna
Bologna
Segafredo Arena
9,980 [ 15]
1st
Source:[ 16]
Managerial changes
Referees
A total of 38 FIP officials set to work on the 2020–21 season in Lega Basket Serie A:[ 37]
Notes
^E Newly promoted to the Serie A
Regular season
In the regular season, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format . The matchdays are from September 25, 2021, to May 8, 2022.
League table
Playoffs
The LBA playoffs quarterfinals and semifinals are best of five formats, while the finals series are best of seven format. The playoffs started in May 2022 and finished in June 2022.
Awards
Source:[ 38]
Season MVP
Best Defender
Best Player Under 22
Best Sixth Man
Finals MVP
Rookie of the Year
Serie A clubs in European competitions
See also
References
^ Alma Trieste. (in Italian)
^ CHI SIAMO. (in Italian)
^ Banco di Sardegna Sassari. (in Italian)
^ "Bertram Derthona Basket Tortona Club" . legabasket.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-11-08 .
^ Consultinvest Pesaro. Archived 2020-11-20 at the Wayback Machine (in Italian)
^ La struttura, Trentino Volley. (in Italian)
^ Segafredo Virtus Bologna. Archived 2020-10-11 at the Wayback Machine (in Italian)
^ Germani Basket Brescia. (in Italian)
^ Happy Casa Brindisi. (in Italian)
^ "PalaVerde" . TrevisoBasket .it (in Italian). Retrieved 22 August 2015 .
^ Openjobmetis Varese. (in Italian)
^ Umana Reyer Venezia. (in Italian)
^ UNAHOTELS Reggio Emilia. Archived 2020-10-14 at the Wayback Machine (in Italian)
^ Vanoli Cremona. (in Italian)
^ Segafredo Arena , Virtus Segafredo Bologna
^ Legabasket.it
^ "Si separano le strade di Germani Brescia e Maurizio Buscaglia" . legabasket.it (in Italian). 12 May 2021.
^ "Alessandro Magro è il nuovo allenatore della Germani Brescia" . pallacanestrobrescia.it (in Italian). 18 May 2021.
^ "Si separano le strade di Varese e Massimo Bulleri" . legabasket.it (in Italian). 19 May 2021.
^ "Adriano Vertemati è il nuovo allenatore dell'Openjobmetis Varese" . legabasket.it (in Italian). 15 June 2021.
^ "Fortitudo Lavoropiù Bologna, esercitata la clausola di uscita dal contratto di Luca Dalmonte" . legabasket.it (in Italian). 20 May 2021.
^ "Fortitudo Bologna, ufficiale il ritorno in panchina di Jasmin Repesa" . legabasket.it (in Italian). 24 May 2021.
^ "La VL Pesaro saluta e ringrazia Jasmin Repesa" . legabasket.it (in Italian). 21 May 2021.
^ "Prosciutto di Carpegna e VL insieme per la terza stagione. Coach Aza Petrovic: "Vogliamo far divertire i nostri tifosi" " . victorialibertas.it (in Italian). 16 July 2021.
^ "Allianz Pallacanestro Trieste esce dal contratto con Dalmasson" . legabasket.it (in Italian). 31 May 2021.
^ "Franco Ciani è il nuovo allenatore dell'Allianz Pallacanestro Trieste" . legabasket.it (in Italian). 4 June 2021.
^ "Banco di Sardegna Sassari, risoluzione consensuale con coach Pozzecco" . legabasket.it (in Italian). 31 May 2021.
^ "Banco di Sardegna Sassari, Demis Cavina è il nuovo allenatore" . legabasket.it (in Italian). 2 July 2021.
^ "Virtus Segafredo Bologna, ufficiale l'addio a Djordjevic" . legabasket.it (in Italian). 15 June 2021.
^ "Virtus Segafredo Bologna, Sergio Scariolo è il nuovo allenatore" . legabasket.it (in Italian). 18 June 2021.
^ "Fortitudo, coach Repesa annuncia le sue dimissioni" . legabasket.it (in Italian). 26 September 2021.
^ "Fortitudo Kigili Bologna, ufficiale il ritorno di coach Antimo Martino" . legabasket.it (in Italian). 28 September 2021.
^ "Carpegna Prosciutto Pesaro, si dimette il coach Aza Petrovic: 'Voglio dare un segnale alla squadra" " . legabasket.it (in Italian). 19 October 2021.
^ "Luca Banchi è il nuovo coach della Carpegna Prosciutto Basket Pesaro" . legabasket.it (in Italian). 20 October 2021.
^ "Cavina non è più l'allenatore del Banco di Sardegna" . legabasket.it (in Italian). 16 November 2021.
^ "Piero Bucchi alla guida del Banco di Sardegna Sassari" . legabasket.it (in Italian). 16 November 2021.
^ "COMUNICATO UFFICIALE N. 4 del 19 luglio 2021" (PDF) . fip.it . cia. 19 July 2021.
^ "Italian Lega Basket Serie A Awards – RealGM" . basketball.realgm.com . Retrieved 2023-04-11 .
^ "Annunciati gli LBA Awards 2022" . m.legabasket.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-07-18 .
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