2009–10 Israeli Basketball Super League


The 2009–2010 Israeli Basketball Super League was the 56th season of the top basketball league in Israel. The season began on 24 October 2009. The final four event was played on 25–27 May 2010.
Gilboa/Galil won its second Israeli championship.

Format

Each out of the 12 participating teams played 22 regular league games, one home game and one away game against each other team. The top eight teams qualified to the playoff, where they play best-of-5 series decided by the rankings at the end of the regular season.
The four last ranked team competed in a best-of-5 series relegation playoff and the two losers were relegated to Liga Leumit 2010–11.

Regular season

Pld – Played; W – Won; L – Lost; PF – Points for; PA – Points against; Diff – Difference; Pts – Points.

Playoff

The higher ranked team hosts games 1, 3 and 5. The lower ranked team hosts games 2 and 4.
Team #1Agg.Team #2Game 1
2–3 May		Game 2
5–6 May		Game 3
9–10 May		Game 4
13 May		Game 5
17 May
Maccabi Tel Aviv 3–2Bnei HaSharon 79–8991–58104–8281–9171–69
Hapoel Jerusalem 3–1Maccabi Rishon LeZion 73–6975–6478–87 62–56
Galil/Gilboa 3–0Ironi Ashkelon 92–8184–7394–76-
Maccabi Haifa 1–3Elitzur Maccabi Netanya 76–8875–7375–7771–75

Final four

Relegation Playoff

The higher ranked team hosts games 1, 3 and 5. The lower ranked team hosts games 2 and 4.
Team #1Agg.Team #2Game 1
2–3 May		Game 2
5–6 May		Game 3
9–10 May		Game 4
13 May		Game 5
16–17 May
Ironi Nahariya 2–3Hapoel Holon 73–6870–7682–7655–7164–75
Hapoel Afula 3–2Ironi Ramat Gan 71–7584–9196–9279–7186–81

Ironi Ramat Gan and Ironi Nahariya were relegated to Liga Leumit.