Season 2016–17 Start date October 2, 2016 Teams 32 | Location Italy | |
Games played 480 (Regular season)45–75 (Playoffs) Duration 2 October 2016 – June 2017 Highest attendance 9,000Virtus Bologna 87–86 Fortitudo(6 January 2017) | ||
The 2016–17 Serie A2 season, known for sponsorship reasons as the Serie A2 Citroën, is the 43rd season of the Italian basketball second league Serie A2 Basket. The season started on October 2, 2016 and will end on June 2016 with the last game of the promotion playoffs finals.
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Rules
The season is composed of 32 teams with a regional subdivision in two equal groups of sixteen, East and West. Each team plays the others in its subgroup twice, the first ranked team of each group then plays the eighth ranked team of the other group (e.g. East #1 against West #8), then the second best against the seventh, and so on, to form a promotion playoffs (for one place) of sixteen teams.
Coppa Italia
At the half of the league, the four first teams of each group in the table play the Final Eight of the LNP Cup at a neutral venue as determined by the Federation.