KBL allows two foreign players to play at the same time in the 2nd and 3rd quarters

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From the 2026-2027 season, two foreign players will be able to play together on the KBL court.

KBL held the 31st 2nd extraordinary general meeting and the 3rd board of directors at the KBL Center in Gangnam-gu, Seoul at 10 a.m. on the 15th and decided on a plan to improve the foreign player system.

The key to this board of directors is to change the way foreign players participate. KBL has decided to change the current foreign player system, which is "one player with two players" to "two players with two players" from the 2026-2027 season.

However, two players do not play for all 40 minutes. A total of six quarters are allowed per game. Two foreign players can step on the court at the same time in the second and third quarters, and only one player can play in the first and fourth quarters as before. It also allowed foreign players to sign contracts to guarantee salaries, which had not been possible so far.

The free agent system has also been partially revised. The contract exhaustion requirement, which is the standard for a player's FA qualification, has been changed from the current "registration of the list of participants at more than 1/2 (27 games) in regular games" to the actual "time to play."

The timing of starting FA negotiations has also been adjusted. Previously, negotiations began the day after the end of the championship match, but in the future, the negotiation table can be set up three days after the end of the championship match. In addition, the restriction rule, which was impossible to trade until December 31 if transferred to another club through an FA contract, was abolished, increasing the flexibility of player movement. When a player who has not signed an FA returns to the league in the future, he or she must go through the FA application process again regardless of retirement.

In addition, the extraordinary general meeting approved the appointment of Lee Heung-seop, head of Wonju DB, as a director, and Kwak Hee-chul was elected as a member of the medical committee.

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