2024–25 Basketball Champions League
The 2024–25 Basketball Champions League is the 9th season of the Basketball Champions League (BCL), the European professional basketball competition for clubs launched by FIBA.
Basketball Champions League | |
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Season | 2024–25 |
Dates | Qualifying: 15–22 September 2024 Competition proper: 1 October 2024 – 11 May 2025 |
Teams | Competition proper: 32 Total: 52 (from 29 countries) |
← 2023–24 2025–26 → |
Team allocation
editThe 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
editFor 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.
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Teams
editThe 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.[8] As a result, the spot was given to Heroes Den Bosch, second in the national league.
Referees
editA total of 54 officials is set to work on the 2024–25 season in Basketball Champions League:[9] After the 2023-24 season, five referees left the squad, two were added.
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Qualifying rounds
editDraw
editThe draw for the qualifying rounds was held made on 26 June 2024 at the Patrick Baumann House in Mies, Switzerland.[10][11]
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
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League paths
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- Notes
- ^† Indicates teams with no club points, therefore using the country points as a tiebreaker.
Tournament 1
editThe tournament 1 will be played on September 17–21, 2024 at the Gloria Sports Arena in Antalya, Turkey.[12]
Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
September 19 | ||||||||||
Benfica | 89 | |||||||||
September 17 | ||||||||||
Rilski Sportist | 88 | |||||||||
Rilski Sportist | 71 | |||||||||
September 21 | ||||||||||
Nokia | 64 | |||||||||
Benfica | 91 | |||||||||
Fribourg Olympic | 85 | |||||||||
September 19 | ||||||||||
Fribourg Olympic | 80 | |||||||||
September 17 | ||||||||||
Norrköping Dolphins | 79 | |||||||||
Sabah | 71 | |||||||||
Norrköping Dolphins | 75 | |||||||||
Source: FIBA
Tournament 2
editThe tournament 2 will be played on September 18–22, 2024 at the Gloria Sports Arena in Antalya, Turkey.[12]
Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
September 20 | ||||||||||
ERA Nymburk | 84 | |||||||||
September 18 | ||||||||||
Trepça | 78 | |||||||||
Trepça | 82 | |||||||||
September 22 | ||||||||||
Keravnos | 79 | |||||||||
ERA Nymburk | 80 | |||||||||
Kalev/Cramo | 66 | |||||||||
September 20 | ||||||||||
Kalev/Cramo | 84 | |||||||||
September 18 | ||||||||||
Patrioti Levice | 76 | |||||||||
Kutaisi 2010 | 87 | |||||||||
Patrioti Levice | 111 | |||||||||
Source: FIBA
Tournament 3
editThe tournament 3 will be played on September 17–21, 2024 at the Gloria Sports Arena in Antalya, Turkey.[12]
Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
September 19 | ||||||||||
PAOK mateco | 81 | |||||||||
September 17 | ||||||||||
CSM Oradea | 80 | |||||||||
Caledonia Gladiators | 59 | |||||||||
September 21 | ||||||||||
CSM Oradea | 90 | |||||||||
PAOK mateco | 69 | |||||||||
Petkim Spor | 79 | |||||||||
September 19 | ||||||||||
Cholet | 70 | |||||||||
September 17 | ||||||||||
Petkim Spor | 76 | |||||||||
Petkim Spor | 92 | |||||||||
Heroes Den Bosch | 72 | |||||||||
Source: FIBA
Tournament 4
editThe tournament 4 will be played on September 18–22, 2024 at the Gloria Sports Arena in Antalya, Turkey.[12]
Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
September 20 | ||||||||||
Telekom Baskets Bonn | 99 | |||||||||
September 18 | ||||||||||
MoraBanc Andorra | 91 | |||||||||
MoraBanc Andorra | 91 | |||||||||
September 22 | ||||||||||
Windrose Giants Antwerp | 73 | |||||||||
Telekom Baskets Bonn | 78 | |||||||||
Banco di Sardegna Sassari | 71 | |||||||||
September 20 | ||||||||||
Banco di Sardegna Sassari | 77 | |||||||||
September 18 | ||||||||||
Juventus | 73 | |||||||||
Spartak Office Shoes | 84 | |||||||||
Juventus | 87 | |||||||||
Source: FIBA
Regular season
editThe 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.[10]
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.[11]
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- ^† Indicates teams with no club points, therefore using the country points as a tiebreaker.
Group A
editPos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | WUE | NAN | HOL | IGO | |
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1 | FIT/One Würzburg Baskets | 4 | 3 | 1 | 359 | 335 | +24 | 7 | Advance to round of 16 | — | 88–96 | 85–76 | 98–80 | |
2 | Nanterre 92 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 335 | 332 | +3 | 6 | Advance to play-ins | 83–88 | — | Dec 18 | Dec 4 | |
3 | Hapoel Netanel Holon | 4 | 2 | 2 | 324 | 322 | +2 | 6 | Dec 3 | 70–76 | — | 92–82 | ||
4 | Igokea m:tel | 4 | 1 | 3 | 327 | 356 | −29 | 5 | Dec 18 | 86–80 | 79–86 | — |
Group B
editPos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | UNI | PET | OOS | SZC | |
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1 | Unicaja (T) | 4 | 4 | 0 | 395 | 283 | +112 | 8 | Advance to round of 16 | — | 112–82 | Dec 3 | 83–60 | |
2 | Petkim Spor | 4 | 2 | 2 | 300 | 364 | −64 | 6 | Advance to play-ins | 56–108 | — | 77–74 | Dec 3 | |
3 | Filou Oostende | 4 | 2 | 2 | 310 | 297 | +13 | 6 | 85–92 | Dec 17 | — | 67–55 | ||
4 | King Szczecin | 4 | 0 | 4 | 258 | 319 | −61 | 4 | Dec 17 | 70–85 | 73–84 | — |
(T) Qualified, but not yet for the particular phase indicated
Group C
editPos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | TFE | KSK | SAI | KOL | |
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1 | La Laguna Tenerife (T) | 4 | 4 | 0 | 325 | 241 | +84 | 8 | Advance to round of 16 | — | Dec 11 | 96–57 | Dec 17 | |
2 | Pinar Karşıyaka (T) | 4 | 3 | 1 | 326 | 299 | +27 | 7 | Advance to play-ins | 76–87 | — | 84–74 | 95–79 | |
3 | Saint-Quentin | 4 | 1 | 3 | 276 | 305 | −29 | 5 | 61–71 | Dec 17 | — | 84–54 | ||
4 | Kolossos H Hotels | 4 | 0 | 4 | 239 | 321 | −82 | 4 | 47–71 | 59–71 | Dec 11 | — |
(T) Qualified, but not yet for the particular phase indicated
Group D
editPos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | NYM | GAL | PRO | VEC | |
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1 | ERA Nymburk (T) | 4 | 4 | 0 | 361 | 297 | +64 | 8 | Advance to round of 16 | — | Dec 3 | Dec 17 | 93–74 | |
2 | Galatasaray (T) | 4 | 3 | 1 | 348 | 327 | +21 | 7 | Advance to play-ins | 75–87 | — | 91–74 | 103–91 | |
3 | Promitheas | 4 | 1 | 3 | 315 | 342 | −27 | 5 | 78–86 | 75–79 | — | Dec 4 | ||
4 | Rasta Vechta | 4 | 0 | 4 | 321 | 379 | −58 | 4 | 70–95 | Dec 17 | 86–88 | — |
(T) Qualified, but not yet for the particular phase indicated
Group E
editPos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | BON | AEK | MRG | RIG | |
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1 | Telekom Baskets Bonn | 4 | 3 | 1 | 331 | 314 | +17 | 7 | Advance to round of 16 | — | 93–74 | 80–76 | Dec 10 | |
2 | AEK Betsson | 4 | 3 | 1 | 314 | 303 | +11 | 7 | Advance to play-ins | Dec 18 | — | 80–71 | 80–70 | |
3 | Maccabi Ironi Ramat Gan | 4 | 1 | 3 | 303 | 317 | −14 | 5 | 78–86 | Dec 10 | — | 78–71 | ||
4 | VEF Rīga | 4 | 1 | 3 | 296 | 310 | −14 | 5 | 86–72 | 69–80 | Dec 18 | — |
Group F
editPos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | PAL | RYT | FAL | SLA | |
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1 | Pallacanestro Reggiana (T) | 4 | 3 | 1 | 295 | 280 | +15 | 7 | Advance to round of 16 | — | 77–67 | Dec 18 | 74–70 | |
2 | Rytas (T) | 4 | 3 | 1 | 350 | 307 | +43 | 7 | Advance to play-ins | Dec 11 | — | 103–83 | 98–75 | |
3 | Falco-Vulcano Szombathely | 4 | 2 | 2 | 317 | 331 | −14 | 6 | 78–71 | 72–82 | — | Dec 11 | ||
4 | Śląsk Wrocław | 4 | 0 | 4 | 285 | 329 | −44 | 4 | 65–73 | Dec 18 | 75–84 | — |
(T) Qualified, but not yet for the particular phase indicated
Group G
editPos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | DER | MAN | CHE | BEN | |
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1 | Bertram Derthona Tortona | 4 | 4 | 0 | 338 | 295 | +43 | 8 | Advance to round of 16 | — | 102–85 | 87–81 | 77–71 | |
2 | BAXI Manresa | 4 | 3 | 1 | 371 | 303 | +68 | 7 | Advance to play-ins | Dec 17 | — | 105–59 | 92–64 | |
3 | Niners Chemnitz | 4 | 1 | 3 | 321 | 356 | −35 | 5 | Dec 10 | 78–89 | — | 103–75 | ||
4 | Benfica | 4 | 0 | 4 | 268 | 344 | −76 | 4 | 58–72 | Dec 10 | Dec 17 | — |
Group H
editPos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | MAN | UCM | FMP | PER | |
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1 | Manisa Basket | 4 | 3 | 1 | 361 | 361 | 0 | 7 | Advance to round of 16 | — | Dec 4 | Dec 18 | 79–77 | |
2 | UCAM Murcia | 4 | 3 | 1 | 347 | 307 | +40 | 7 | Advance to play-ins | 97–103 | — | 86–50 | Dec 18 | |
3 | FMP Soccerbet | 4 | 1 | 3 | 295 | 328 | −33 | 5 | 97–101 | 78–83 | — | 70–58 | ||
4 | Peristeri Domino's | 4 | 1 | 3 | 301 | 308 | −7 | 5 | 90–78 | 76–81 | Dec 3 | — |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "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.
- ^ "Teams - Basketball Champions League 2024-25 | FIBA.basketball". www.championsleague.basketball. Retrieved 2024-09-17.
- ^ "PLK".
- ^ "ZZ Leiden ziet af van Europees basketbal". ZZ Leiden (in Dutch). Retrieved 2024-07-14.
- ^ "Referees". Basketball Champions League.
- ^ 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.