The Basketball League will complete its competition starting from the 25th of this month with a new system

Damascus-Sana

A new and exceptional form of the basketball league that will complete its competitions starting from the twenty-fifth of this month, which the game association decided to resume again after stopping more than two months due to the Corona pandemic.

In the men’s category of first-class clubs, teams compete in the league according to the new form within three groups, which are the Damascus group, which includes the army, unity, revolution, and the middle group, in which the dignity, vanguard, and leap teams compete.

The teams play in the first round, which will start on the twenty-seventh of this month among themselves, within each group periodically from two stages back and forth to qualify with its first and second end of each group to the quarter-finals directly. Two teams join the quarter-finals.

Teams play the last eight after playing the playoff method by winning two games out of three games, and the winning teams from the four matches to the semi-finals who play the playoff method also qualify for the two winners to qualify for the final round in which they play to win three out of five games.

The army won the league championship last season by defeating Al-Galaa by 68-64 points in the final match.

As for the women's league, its matches will be completed on the twenty-fifth of this month with the participation of the clubs of the revolution, unity, evacuation, freedom, Qassioun, Ashrafieh, Al-Sahel and Tishreen, where they qualify according to their ranking to the quarter-finals and the teams play in the same system of men’s competition, but those who qualify for the final round play to win two games out of three games.