European basketball competition
Basketball Champions League |
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Season | 2024–25 |
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Dates | Qualifying: 15–22 September 2024 Competition proper: 1 October 2024 – 11 May 2025 |
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Number of teams | Competition proper: 32 Total: 52 (from 29 countries) |
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2025–26 → |
The 2024–25 Basketball Champions League will be the 9th season of the Basketball Champions League (BCL), the European professional basketball competition for clubs launched by FIBA.
Unicaja are the defending champion.[1]
Team allocation
The country ranking based on the country coefficients is used to determine the number of clubs from each national federation that enters various stages of the BCL:[2]
- All countries, if they entered, each have at least one team qualify.[citation needed]
- The winners of the 2023–24 Basketball Champions League are given an additional entry if they do not qualify for the 2024–25 Basketball Champions League through their domestic league.[3]
- The organiser may grant access to the League through the attribution of up to 4 invitations (wild cards) to the Regular Season or to the Qualification Rounds.[3]
- If one or more clubs do not use their right to participate in the Basketball Champions League, the organiser may decide to allocate the respective place(s) to other clubs of the same or other National Federations.[3]
National Federations ranking
For the 2024–25 Basketball Champions League, the countries are allocated places according to their 2024 country coefficients, which takes into account their performance from 2021–22 to 2023–24.
National Federations ranking for 2024–25 Basketball Champions League | |
Teams
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
- TH: Title holders
- FEC: FIBA Europe Cup title holders
- 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.: League positions of the previous season
- WC: Wild card[3]
- AV: Allocated vacancy[3]
- Notes
- ^
Netherlands (NED): ZZ Leiden would have qualified as the winners of the 2023-24 BNXT Dutch Playoffs, but withdrew from applying because their arena did not meet FIBA Europe's capacity standards.
[7] As a result, the spot was given to
Heroes Den Bosch, second in the national league.
Qualifying rounds
Draw
The draw for the qualifying rounds was held made on 26 June 2024 at the Patrick Baumann House in Mies, Switzerland.[8][9]
The 24 teams will face in four qualifying round tournaments, two of which belong to the Champions Path, which contains the domestic league champions, and the other two to the League Path, which contains the rest of the teams that vie for qualify to the regular season. In each path, teams were seeded into the six pots ordered by the club ranking and by the country ranking for clubs that have not yet participated in the competition. Teams from pot 1 and pot 2 were drawn directly into the semi-finals of the tournaments, while the teams in the other four pots will enter the tournament from the quarter-finals. The four winners of the finals will then qualify for the regular season and join the 28 directly qualified teams in the main draw. The rest of the teams will qualify, if they apply, to the FIBA Europe Cup.
Champions paths
League paths
- Notes
- ^† Indicates teams with no club points, therefore using the country points as a tiebreaker.
Tournament 1
The tournament 1 will be played on September 17–21, 2024 at the Gloria Sports Arena in Antalya, Turkey.[10]
Source: FIBA
Tournament 2
The tournament 2 will be played on September 18–22, 2024 at the Gloria Sports Arena in Antalya, Turkey.[10]
Source: FIBA
Tournament 3
The tournament 3 will be played on September 17–21, 2024 at the Gloria Sports Arena in Antalya, Turkey.[10]
Source: FIBA
Tournament 4
The tournament 4 will be played on September 18–22, 2024 at the Gloria Sports Arena in Antalya, Turkey.[10]
Source: FIBA
Regular season
The 28 teams that entered in the regular season directly were divided into four pots based firstly on the club ranking and, for clubs that have not yet participated in the (Regular season of) competition, on the three-year country ranking. The country protection rule will apply for the stage of the draw. Clubs cannot be drawn in groups with other clubs from the same country.[8]
The 28 teams will play against each other in a group phase of eight groups with four teams. The first placed team of each group will directly join the Round of 16. The second and third placed teams will play in the Play Ins. The winner of each Play In match will join the Round of 16. Play Ins will be played in a Best of 3 format. In the Round of 16 the teams will be split in four groups of four teams. Each team plays against each other team in the Round of 16. The two first placed teams of each group will qualify for the Quarterfinals. The Quarterfinals will be played in a Best of 3 format. The winner of each Quarterfinal will be allowed to take place in the Basketball Champions League Final Four in May 2025.[9]
- Notes
- ^† Indicates teams with no club points, therefore using the country points as a tiebreaker.
Group A
Source: Group Standings
Group B
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | | UNI | OOS | QT2 | QT3 |
1 | Unicaja | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to round of 16 | | — | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
2 | Filou Oostende | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to play-ins | | 0–0 | — | 0–0 | 0–0 |
3 | King Szczecin | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 0–0 | 0–0 | — | 0–0 |
4 | Winner QT 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | — |
Source: Group Standings
Group C
Source: Group Standings
Group D
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | | GAL | PRO | VEC | QT2 |
1 | Galatasaray Ekmas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to round of 16 | | — | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
2 | Promitheas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to play-ins | | 0–0 | — | 0–0 | 0–0 |
3 | Rasta Vechta | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 0–0 | 0–0 | — | 0–0 |
4 | Winner QT 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | — |
Source: Group Standings
Group E
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | | AEK | RIG | IRO | QT4 |
1 | AEK Betsson | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to round of 16 | | — | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
2 | VEF Rīga | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to play-ins | | 0–0 | — | 0–0 | 0–0 |
3 | Maccabi Ironi Ramat Gan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 0–0 | 0–0 | — | 0–0 |
4 | Winner QT 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | — |
Source: Group Standings
Group F
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | | RYT | FAL | PAL | SLA |
1 | Rytas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to round of 16 | | — | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
2 | Falco Szombathely | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to play-ins | | 0–0 | — | 0–0 | 0–0 |
3 | Pallacanestro Reggiana | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 0–0 | 0–0 | — | 0–0 |
4 | Śląsk Wrocław | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | — |
Source: Group Standings
Group G
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | | MAN | DER | CHE | QT1 |
1 | Baxi Manresa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to round of 16 | | — | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
2 | Derthona Basket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to play-ins | | 0–0 | — | 0–0 | 0–0 |
3 | Niners Chemnitz | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 0–0 | 0–0 | — | 0–0 |
4 | Winner QT 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | — |
Source: Group Standings
Group H
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | | UCM | PER | MAN | FMP |
1 | UCAM Murcia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to round of 16 | | — | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
2 | Peristeri | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to play-ins | | 0–0 | — | 0–0 | 0–0 |
3 | Manisa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 0–0 | 0–0 | — | 0–0 |
4 | FMP Soccerbet | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | — |
Source: Group Standings
See also
References
- ^ "Paint it green: Unicaja win maiden BCL title in Belgrade". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 2024-05-02.
- ^ "Access List Principles". FIBA.basketball. 2024-05-05. Retrieved 2024-06-19.
- ^ a b c d e Competition Regulations 2024-25 (PDF). FIBA. 31 May 2024. p. 5. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
The Organiser may grant access to the BCL through the attribution of up to four (4) invitations to the Regular Season or to the Qualification Rounds.
- ^ a b "Russia and Belarus will remain sidelined from competitions under the auspices of FIBA". Dailysports. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
- ^ "Basketball Champions League Season 9 participating teams announced". FIBA.basketball. 18 June 2024. Retrieved 18 June 2024.
- ^ "PLK".
- ^ "ZZ Leiden ziet af van Europees basketbal". ZZ Leiden (in Dutch). Retrieved 2024-07-14.
- ^ a b "Draw seedings for the Regular Season and Qualifiers of the BCL". Eurohoops. 2024-06-25. Retrieved 2024-06-25.
- ^ a b "Basketball Champions League Season 9 draw completed". championsleague.basketball. 2024-06-26. Retrieved 2024-07-12.
- ^ a b c d "The winning formula: Antalya will repeat as BCL Qualification Round tournaments host city". www.fiba.basketball. 17 July 2024. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
External links
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- Qualifying rounds official website
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