The 2021–22 Israeli Basketball Premier League, for sponsorship reasons Ligat Winner, was the 68th season of the Israeli Basketball Premier League. The league started on October 2, 2021.
Format
The regular season will be played in a 22-round Round-Robin format. The top 6 finishers will play the 5 rounds "upper house", with the other 6 teams playing the 5 rounds "bottom house".
The 6 upper group teams, joined by the top 2 teams from the bottom group, will play the quarter finals as Best-of-5 series. The semi finals and finals will be played as Best-of-3 series.[1]
On August 4, 2021, Israeli Basketball Premier League administration informed Elitzur Netanya that she will not be able to participate in the coming season because its home hall does not meet the league's threshold conditions and construction has not yet begun for a new hall in the city.[4] On August 17, the Supreme Court of the Basketball Association approved the agreements reached by Elitzur Netanya and the League administration in a mediation process, thus enabling Elitzur Netanya participation in the current season.[5] Finally, the promotion of the group was not approved as it did not meet the threshold conditions of budgetary control.[6]
Source: [16] Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win. Matches with lighter background shading were decided after overtime.
Positions by round
The table lists the positions of teams after completion of each round. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included in the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards.
Source: [15] = Leader and advance to Top-teams League Group; = Advance to Top-teams League Group; = Advance to Bottom-teams League Group; = Last Place and Advance to Bottom-teams League Group
^"נתניה לא תוכל לשחק בליגה בעונה הקרובה" [Netanya will not be able to play in the league in the coming season]. basket.co.il (in Hebrew). 5 August 2021. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
^"אליצור קוסמוס נדל"ן נתניה בליגת העל" [Elitzur Cosmos Real Estate Netanya in the Premier League]. basket.co.il (in Hebrew). 19 August 2021. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
^Haklai, Barak (5 September 2021). "המינהלת הודיעה: אליצור נתניה לא תשחק בליגת העל" [The Premier League administration announced: Elitzur Netanya will not play in the Premier League]. Ynet (in Hebrew). Retrieved 6 September 2021.
^"ליבאדיוטיס יחליף את הדר בבאר שבע" [Livadiotis will replace Hadar in Be'er Sheva]. basket.co.il (in Hebrew). 30 November 2021. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
^"דרור כהן חוזר לראשל"צ כמאמן ראשי" [Dror Cohen returns to Rishon LeZion as head coach]. basket.co.il (in Hebrew). 26 December 2021. Retrieved 26 December 2021.