The B. League will increase the number of first-division teams to 24 in the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons, the men’s professional circuit announced after its board meeting on Tuesday.
A total of 20 clubs are competing in the top-tier B1 this year after two were promoted from the B2. The league had announced last year that it would expand the number to 22 for the 2021-22 campaign.
Two more B2 sides will join in the following year and the circuit has decided to maintain those figures — with 24 in B1 and 14 in B2 — through at least the 2023-24 season. Each division is currently divided into two conferences, a system that will remain until next year. But the league will return to a three-conference format once the B1 expands to 24.