The season started on October 2, 2016, and will end in June 2017 with the last game of the promotion playoffs finals.
[2] The season is composed of 32 teams with a regional subdivision in two equal groups of sixteen, East and West.
At the half of the league, the four first teams of each group in the table play the LNP Cup, known as Turkish Airlines Cup for sponsorship reasons, at the Unipol Arena in Bologna, from 3 to 5 March 2017.
[4] The league play-out are played between the 14th and 15th placed teams of each group in two elimination rounds.
The league's playoffs are played between the first and the eighth of each group in four rounds: eightfinals, quarterfinals, semifinals and final.