# 2017–18 Armenia Basketball League A

The 2017–18 Armenia Basketball League A season, was the inaugural season of the new official competition of basketball first division in Armenia.
Artsakh won the title after doing a perfect 6–0 in the playoffs.

## Competition format

After several negotiations, finally seven teams joined the competition, consisting in a round-robin tournament where the best teams would qualify for the playoffs. The best teams are able for qualifying to the European competitions.
The regular season consisted in a double-legged round-robin tournament where the first qualified would join directly the semifinals. The other six teams would face in the quarterfinals.

## Teams

Seven teams took part in the inaugural season of the competition.
| Club | Place | Arena |
| Artik | Artik | Artik Sports School |
| Artsakh | Stepanakert | Artsakh State University Sports Hall |
| Engineer | Yerevan | Olympavan Training Complex |
| FIMA | Yerevan | Olympavan Training Complex |
| Grand Sport | Yerevan | Grand Sport Complex |
| Shirak | Gyumri | Aram Sargsyan Sports Hall |
| Urartu | Yerevan | Olympavan Training Complex |

## Regular season

The regular season started on 21 October 2017 and ended on 20 February 2018.

### League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Urartu | 12 | 12 | 0 | 1058 | 766 | +292 | 24 | Qualification to semifinals |
| 2 | Artik | 12 | 8 | 4 | 935 | 912 | +23 | 20 | Qualification to quarterfinals |
| 3 | FIMA | 12 | 8 | 4 | 1029 | 980 | +49 | 20 | Qualification to quarterfinals |
| 4 | Artsakh | 12 | 6 | 6 | 1003 | 957 | +46 | 18 | Qualification to quarterfinals |
| 5 | Shirak | 12 | 3 | 9 | 870 | 960 | −90 | 15 | Qualification to quarterfinals |
| 6 | Grand Sport | 12 | 3 | 9 | 843 | 976 | −133 | 15 | Qualification to quarterfinals |
| 7 | Engineer | 12 | 2 | 10 | 717 | 904 | −187 | 14 | Qualification to quarterfinals |

### Results

| Home \ Away | ART | ARS | ENG | FIM | GSP | SHI | URA |
| Artik | — | 76–88 | 61–48 | 99–89 | 87–69 | 82–71 | 62–88 |
| Artsakh | 77–82 | — | 82–63 | 88–91 | 110–91 | 88–67 | 69–106 |
| Engineer | 71–79 | 65–62 | — | 67–85 | 63–74 | 66–56 | 52–73 |
| FIMA | 95–87 | 94–83 | 108–66 | — | 78–57 | 76–75 | 75–103 |
| Grand Sport | 67–86 | 63–89 | 69–40 | 74–72 | — | 75–82 | 63–88 |
| Shirak | 77–80 | 79–101 | 69–53 | 93–98 | 75–73 | — | 60–76 |
| Urartu | 72–54 | 80–66 | 86–63 | 88–68 | 106–68 | 92–66 | — |

## Playoffs

Playoffs started on 2 March 2018. Urartu, as winner of the regular season, was directly qualified for the semifinals. Teams that placed better at the end of the regular season played games 1 and 3 at home.
The final was played in a double-legged format at the Mika Sports Arena, Yerevan. These games were played on 14 and 18 April 2018.
| Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Finals | Finals | Finals | Finals |
| | | | | Urartu | Urartu | 70 | 88 |
| | | | | Artsakh | Artsakh | 76 | 90 |
| Artsakh | Artsakh | 111 | 124 | Artsakh | Artsakh | 76 | 90 |
| Shirak | Shirak | 81 | 91 | | | | | | | | |
| Shirak | Shirak | 81 | 91 | | | | | Artsakh | Artsakh | 100 | 98 |
| | | | | | | | | Artik | Artik | 74 | 90 |
| Artik | Artik | 91 | 83 | | | | | Artik | Artik | 74 | 90 |
| Engineer | Engineer | 63 | 57 | | | | | | | | |
| Engineer | Engineer | 63 | 57 | Artik | Artik | 111 | 88 | | | | |
| | | | | FIMA | FIMA | 87 | 74 |
| FIMA | FIMA | 88 | 109 | FIMA | FIMA | 87 | 74 |
| Grand Sport | Grand Sport | 86 | 90 | | | | |
| Third place | Third place | Third place | Third place |
| Urartu | Urartu | 102 | 115 |
| FIMA | FIMA | 78 | 70 |

## Final standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L |
| 1 | Artsakh | 18 | 12 | 6 |
| 2 | Artik | 18 | 12 | 6 |
| 3 | Urartu | 16 | 14 | 2 |
| 4 | FIMA | 16 | 10 | 6 |
| 5 | Shirak | 14 | 3 | 11 |
| 6 | Grand Sport | 14 | 3 | 11 |
| 7 | Engineer | 14 | 2 | 12 |