The 2026–27 National Basketball League season will be the 86th season of the Bulgarian NBL.
Teams
14 teams will participate as three teams joined the competition this season as Yambol and CSKA returned to the top flight after two years of absence, plus Polytechnica entered NBL for the first time.
ClubLast seasonArenaLocationCapacityAcademic PlovdivAkademic in NBL 9thSILA HallPlovdiv1,600Balkan BotevgradBalkan in NBL 1stArena BotevgradBotevgrad4,500BeroeBeroe in NBL 8thMunicipal HallStara Zagora800Botev VratsaBotev in NBL 5thArena BotevgradBotevgrad4,500Cherno More TichaCherno More in NBL 4thHristo Borisov HallVarna800Kongresna Hall5,116CSKA SofiaCSKA in NBL N/ACSKASofia450Minyor 2015Minyor 2015 in NBL 7thBoris Gyuderov HallPernik1,700LevskiLevski in NBL 10thTriaditsa HallSofia530Lokomotiv PlovdivLokomotiv in NBL 2ndSILA HallPlovdiv1,600PolytechnicaPolytechnica in NBL N/ADupnitsa Sports HallDupnitsa1,505Rilski SportistRilski Sportist in NBL 3rdArena SamelyonSamokov3,000Arena Samokov2,500ShumenShumen in NBL 11thArena ShumenShumen1,500Spartak PlevenSpartak in NBL 6thBalkanstroy HallPleven1,000YambolYambol in NBL N/ADianaYambol1,800
Regular season Teams plays each other twice (home and away) for total of 26 games. First 6 teams goes directly to playoffs, the teams from 7-10 are playing a play-in tournament for the last two spots of the playoffs and the teams for 11-14 will play a placement tournament. The 2026-27 champion from the second tier league has the right to join NBL next season and if he does, the 14th team relegates. if the 2026-27 runner up from the second tier league sends applications for 2027-28 NBL, will play relegation playoff with the 13th seed. The competition format was announced 30th of June after Federation meeting and the draw was held day later. League table </onlyinclude>
Results
Placement Tournament The 11th host the last four teams from the table in round robin placement tournament.
Play-in
The top six seeds advanced to the main rounds of playoffs, while the next four seeds participated in a Page playoff system tournament. The 7th-place team hosted the 8th-place team in the double-chance round needing to win one game to advance, with the winner clinching the 7th seed in the playoffs. The 9th-place team hosted the 10th-place team in the elimination round requiring two wins to advance, with the loser being eliminated from the contention. The loser in the double-chance round hosted the elimination-round game-winner, with the winner clinching the 8th seed and the loser being eliminated.
Playoffs
Bracket
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Third place
Finals
Player of the round Round Player Team PIR
Bulgarian clubs in European competitions Team Competition Progress Balkan EuroCup Regular season Lokomotiv PlovdivFIBA Europe Cup Regular Season Rilski Sportist
Bulgarian clubs in Regional competitions Team Competition ProgressSpartak Pleven European North Basketball League Regular season
References Regular Season Stats