The 6th season of the Balkan Super League starts on April 2 with a match in Sofia between the home team Locomotive and Partizan 1953. Eleven clubs, split into three groups, representing five nations – Serbia, Turkey, Montenegro, Albania and Bulgaria – will take part in the 2022 Balkan Super League.
It was originally planned for Group A to have 6 clubs, but the Turkish representative RLC Fethiye Falcons withdrew from the competition about ten days ago. So Group A will feature 5 clubs: RLC Dorcol Tigers, RLC Partisan 1953, current holders RLC Red Star (Serbia), RLC Arsenal (Montenegro) and RLC Locomotive (Bulgaria), whilst Group B will be split into two comprising B1 – Youth RLC Morava Cheetahs (Serbia), RLC Antalya Warriors (Turkey) and RLC Tirana (Albania) and B2 – RLC Radnicki Belgrade, RLC Radnick Nis (Serbia) and RLC Mornar (Montenegro).
In the play offs, on 18-19 June, the winners of B1 will face the top side in B2 in their Grand Final, and the following week the top two in group A will meet to decide the champions.
Balkan Super League director, Dragan Pavlovic, commented: “This is big step for us after the pandemic which affected all sports organizations across Europe and prevented us playing the Balkan Super League in full in 2020 and 2021. In 2019, we had 15 teams from eight countries and, at some stage, we are looking to welcome back those from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy and Greece from season 2023 as they rebuild. We are also open for clubs from other countries including Italy and we hope that North Macedonia will very soon establish a club in Skoplje, and we are open to assisting them. Last season was great, especially the grand final in Montenegro, and we hope that this season will be even better.”
