National standings

The numbers of teams by country is determined by a coefficient that is the sum of all victories clubs from a certain country achieve in a regular season divided by the number of clubs from that country. By using this coefficient majority of places for current season are allocated, while the remaining places are given via wild cards from league board.^[1][2]

Country	No.	2015–16 coeff.	2016–17 no. of clubs
Montenegro	1	16.00	2
Serbia	3	14.75	4
Croatia	3	14.00	3
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1	11.00	1
Macedonia	1	10.00	1
Slovenia	2	9.33	2
Wild card			1
Total	11	best coeff. (+2)	14

Team allocation

On 25 July 2016 the Adriatic Basketball Association agreed to expel Union Olimpija and Helios Suns as the first was not able to fulfill the financial obligations required and the second did not follow the position of all the clubs of the Association in the FIBA-Euroleague controversy.^[3] Finally, Union Olimpija was re-admitted in the league and Macedonian runner-up Karpoš Sokoli replaced Helios Suns.^[4]

League positions of the previous national league season after playoffs shown in parentheses (RW: Regular season winners).

Regular season
Budućnost VOLI (1st)	Mega Leks (3rd)	Zadar (3rd)	Krka (RW)
Mornar (2nd)	FMP (4th)	Igokea (1st)	Union Olimpija (4th)
Crvena zvezda mts (1st)	Cedevita (1st)	MZT Skopje Aerodrom (1st)
Partizan NIS (2nd)	Cibona (2nd)	Karpoš Sokoli (3rd)

Venues and locations

Budućnost

Cedevita

Cibona

Crvena zvezda

FMP

Igokea

Karpoš

Krka

Mega

Mornar

MZT

Olimpija

Partizan

Zadar

Location of teams in the 2016–17 ABA League

Personnel and sponsorship

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Budućnost VOLI	Ilias Zouros	Suad Šehović	daCAPO	VOLI
Cedevita	Veljko Mršić	Miro Bilan	Nike	Cedevita
Cibona	Damir Mulaomerović	Marin Rozić	Adidas	Franck
Crvena zvezda mts	Dejan Radonjić	Luka Mitrović	Champion	mts
FMP	Branko Maksimović	Filip Čović	Champion	FMP
Igokea	Dragan Bajić	Vuk Radivojević	GBT	m:tel
Karpoš Sokoli	Dragan Nikolić	Igor Penov	Erreà	—
Krka	Simon Petrov	Matej Rojc	Žolna šport	Krka
Mega Leks	Dejan Milojević	Rade Zagorac	Adidas	Bemax
Mornar	Đorđije Pavićević	Marko Mijović	Adidas	—
MZT Skopje Aerodrom	Ante Nazor	Marko Simonovski	Adidas	—
Partizan NIS	Aleksandar Džikić	Novica Veličković	Adidas	NIS
Union Olimpija	Gašper Okorn	Mirko Mulalić	Macron	Pivovarna Union
Zadar	Aramis Naglić	Lovre Bašić	Champion	OTP Bank

Coaching changes

Week	Club	Outgoing coach	Date of change	Incoming coach
4th	MZT Skopje Aerodrom	Emil Rajković	10 October 2016[6]	Aleksandar Jončevski
7th	Karpoš Sokoli	Siniša Matić	2–3 November 2016[7][8]	Dragan Nikolić
9th	Budućnost VOLI	Vlado Šćepanović	13–15 November 2016[9][10]	Ilias Zouros
9th	MZT Skopje Aerodrom	Aleksandar Jončevski	14–18 November 2016[11][12]	Ante Nazor
10th	FMP	Slobodan Klipa	20 November 2016[13]	Branko Maksimović
10th	Zadar	Ante Matulović	21–29 November 2016[14][15]	Neven Plantak
20th	Zadar	Neven Plantak	30–31 January 2017[16][17]	Aramis Naglić
24th	Krka	Dejan Mihevc	26 February 2017[18]	Simon Petrov

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Crvena zvezda mts	26	25	1	2226	1762	+464	51	Advance to the playoffs
2	Cedevita	26	20	6	2323	2108	+215	46
3	Partizan NIS	26	19	7	2081	1948	+133	45
4	Budućnost VOLI	26	18	8	2136	1968	+168	44
5	Igokea	26	13	13	1950	2017	−67	39
6	Mega Leks	26	11	15	2138	2145	−7	37
7	Cibona	26	11	15	2100	2121	−21	37
8	Mornar	26	10	16	2002	2011	−9	36
9	FMP	26	10	16	2047	2118	−71	36
10	Karpoš Sokoli	26	10	16	1951	2096	−145	36
11	Union Olimpija	26	10	16	2066	2143	−77	36
12	Zadar	26	9	17	2044	2257	−213	35
13	MZT Skopje Aerodrom	26	8	18	1994	2136	−142	34
14	Krka	26	8	18	1889	2117	−228	34	Relegation to the Second Division

Results

Home \ Away	BUD	CED	CIB	CZV	FMP	IGO	KAR	KRK	MEG	MOR	MZT	PAR	UOL	ZAD
Budućnost VOLI		84–86	95–79	54–77	93–84	75–60	95–61	91–62	88–80	85–68	92–61	74–68	84–74	105–89
Cedevita	70–80		100–80	91–95	104–92	89–78	81–77	82–83	89–85	99–73	82–61	79–67	102–87	120–62
Cibona	87–94	85–89		70–91	87–68	84–61	102–79	88–65	88–100	91–89	87–79	77–82	68–79	82–73
Crvena zvezda mts	82–66	88–64	69–56		93–62	68–66	91–70	79–62	96–76	82–71	91–69	83–72	88–67	113–65
FMP	69–77	89–96	84–75	76–84		76–81	67–62	78–60	98–84	92–85	101–82	56–65	89–79	94–77
Igokea	92–93	69–84	61–71	68–77	74–84		79–71	85–72	64–67	74–69	79–72	70–64	73–72	78–77
Karpoš Sokoli	77–71	89–81	76–70	61–98	88–81	79–84		83–56	75–72	75–63	77–74	77–84	83–87	85–79
Krka	67–75	90–86	95–91	56–67	61–70	72–88	81–64		73–82	63–72	97–87	70–82	63–68	80–79
Mega Leks	81–85	82–85	71–82	69–81	76–72	101–84	82–69	95–96		93–87	87–72	80–87	86–85	92–75
Mornar	78–71	74–79	92–57	59–71	82–66	83–76	83–59	86–73	81–89		65–64	57–58	93–70	104–110
MZT Skopje Aerodrom	96–90	79–100	85–89	73–93	89–68	67–71	74–71	89–65	75–74	63–69		62–93	97–96	92–65
Partizan NIS	61–64	87–97	87–81	86–81	97–70	87–64	76–72	94–80	86–79	90–85	91–76		86–85	87–86
Union Olimpija	81–79	92–94	72–89	67–85	89–85	80–81	92–97	79–64	82–69	81–72	72–91	74–68		78–76
Zadar	78–76	80–94	85–84	66–103	78–76	83–90	93–74	77–83	90–86	80–62	71–65	69–76	81–78

Source: ^[19]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.

MVP

Pos.	Player	Team	Ref.
F/C	Nikola Janković	Union Olimpija	[21]

Finals MVP

Pos.	Player	Team	Ref.
SG	Charles Jenkins	Crvena zvezda mts	[22]

Top Prospect

Pos.	Player	Team	Ref.
F	Jonah Bolden	FMP	[23]

Ideal Starting Five

Pos.	Player	Team
PG	Stefan Jović	Crvena zvezda mts
SG	Charles Jenkins	Crvena zvezda mts
SF	Marko Simonović	Crvena zvezda mts
PF	Novica Veličković	Partizan NIS
C	Miro Bilan	Cedevita

Source:^[24]

MVP of the Round

Round	Player	Team	Efficiency
1	Ivan Marinković	Zadar	41
2	William Hatcher	Partizan NIS	31
3	Karlo Žganec	Cedevita	28
4	Ante Žižić	Cibona	56
5	Željko Šakić	Cibona (2)	30
6	Željko Šakić (2)	Cibona (3)	33
7	Ante Žižić (2)	Cibona (4)	31
8	Shawn James	Budućnost VOLI	39
9	Boris Barać	Zadar (2)	40
10	Luka Babić	Cedevita (2)	31
11	Ognjen Kuzmić	Crvena zvezda mts	30
12	Ante Žižić (3)	Cibona (5)	43
13	Nikola Janković	Union Olimpija	30
14	Dragan Apić	FMP	34
15	Marko Simonović	Crvena zvezda mts (2)	30
16	Luka Mitrović	Crvena zvezda mts (3)	32
17	Filip Čović	FMP (2)	42
18	Luka Babić (2)	Cedevita (3)	34
19	Antabia Waller	Mornar	34
20	Filip Čović (2)	FMP (3)	34
21	Dragan Labović	Karpoš Sokoli	30
22	Josh Scott	MZT Skopje Aerodrom	34
23	Stefan Birčević	Partizan NIS (2)	33
24	Boris Barać (2)	Zadar (3)	30
25	Kendrick Perry	Karpoš Sokoli (2)	30
26	Miro Bilan	Cedevita (4)	31
SF1	Ognjen Kuzmić (2)	Crvena zvezda mts (4)	21
SF2	Stefan Birčević (2)	Partizan NIS (3)	29
SF3	Charles Jenkins	Crvena zvezda mts (5)	24
F1	Charles Jenkins (2)	Crvena zvezda mts (6)	24
F2	Charles Jenkins (3)	Crvena zvezda mts (7)	23
F3	Deon Thompson	Crvena zvezda mts (8)	24

Source:^[25]

MVP of the Month

Month	Player	Team	Ref.
October 2016	Ante Žižić	Cibona	[26]
November 2016	Luka Babić	Cedevita	[27]
December 2016	Nikola Janković	Union Olimpija	[28]
January 2017	Filip Čović	FMP	[29]
February 2017	Stefan Birčević	Partizan NIS	[30]