2024–25 Basketball Champions League

Basketball Champions League
Basketball Champions League
Season	2024–25
Dates	Qualifying: ; 15–22 September 2024 ; Competition proper: ; 1 October 2024 – 11 May 2025
Number of teams	Competition proper: 32 ; Total: 52 (from 29 countries)
	← 2023–24 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

Rank	National Federation	Coeff.	Teams
1	Spain	103.40	4+1 BCL
2	Israel	71.67	2
3	France	70.16	3
4	Turkey	65.20	4
5	Greece	60.75	5
6	Germany	60.50	4
7	Hungary	44.00	1
8	Romania	41.00	1
9	Lithuania	39.00	2
10	Bosnia and Herzegovina	37.00	1
11	Belgium	36.50	2
12	Italy	33.42	3
13	Latvia	31.00	1
14	Portugal	27.00	1
15	Ukraine	25.00	0
16	Poland	22.50	2
17	Czech Republic	18.00	1
18	Estonia	13.00	1
19	Denmark	12.00	0
20	Russia (suspended)^[4]	7.50	0
21	Switzerland	7.00	1
22	Netherlands	6.00
23	Sweden	5.00

Rank	National Federation	Coeff.	Teams
24	Cyprus	5.00	1
25	Slovakia	5.00	1
26	Serbia	5.00	2
27	Finland	4.00	1
28	Belarus (suspended)^[4]	4.00	0
29	Montenegro	3.00
30	Austria	3.00
31	Kosovo	2.00	1
32	Great Britain	2.00	1
33	Croatia	2.00	0
34	Georgia	1.00	1
35	Bulgaria	1.00	1
36	North Macedonia	1.00	0
NR	Azerbaijan	—	1
	Albania	—	0
	Armenia	—
	Iceland	—
	Ireland	—
	Luxembourg	—
	Moldova	—
	Norway	—
	Slovenia	—

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]

Qualified teams for 2024–25 Basketball Champions League (by entry round)^[5]
Regular season
Peristeri (3rd)	Niners Chemnitz (3rd)^FEC	Maccabi Ironi Ramat Gan (5th)	Falco Szombathely (1st)
Promitheas Patras (5th)	FIT/One Würzburg Baskets (4th)	Hapoel Netanel Holon (6th)	VEF Rīga (1st)
Kolossos H Hotels (6th)	Rasta Vechta (6th)	Pallacanestro Reggiana (5th)	Rytas (1st)
AEK Betsson (7th)	Pınar Karşıyaka (4th)	Bertram Derthona Tortona (8th)	FMP Soccerbet (4th)
UCAM Murcia (2nd)	Galatasaray Ekmas (5th)	King Szczecin (2nd)^AV^[6]
Unicaja (3rd)^TH	Manisa BB (6th)	Śląsk Wrocław (3rd)
La Laguna Tenerife (6th)	Nanterre 92 (5th)	Filou Oostende (1st)
Baxi Manresa (8th)	Saint-Quentin Basket-Ball (6th)	Igokea m:tel (1st)
Qualifying rounds
Sabah (1st)	Nokia (1st)	Dinamo Banco di Sardegna Sassari (10th)	Spartak Office Shoes (2nd)
Windrose Giants Antwerp (2nd)	Cholet (7th)	Trepça (1st)	Patrioti Levice (1st)
Rilski Sportist (1st)	Kutaisi 2010 (1st)	Juventus (5th)	Morabanc Andorra (11th)
ERA Nymburk (1st)	Telekom Baskets Bonn (7th)	Heroes den Bosch (2nd)^{[Note NED]}	Norrköping Dolphins 1st)
Keravnos (1st)	Caledonia Gladiators (5th)	SL Benfica (1st)	Fribourg Olympic (1st)
Kalev/Cramo (1st)	PAOK mateco (8th)	CSM CSU Oradea (2nd)	Aliaga Petkimspor (7th)

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

Pot 1
Team	Pts
SL Benfica	25
ERA Nymburk	22

Pot 2
Team	Pts
Kalev/Cramo	12
Fribourg Olympic	7

Pot 3
Team	Pts
Patrioti Levice	5
Norrköping Dolphins	5

Pot 4
Team	Pts
Keravnos	2
Nokia	4.00^†

Pot 5
Team	Pts
Trepça	2.00^†
Rilski Sportist	1.00^†

Pot 6
Team	Pts
Kutaisi 2010	1.00^†
Sabah	0.00^†

League paths

Pot 1
Team	Pts
Telekom Baskets Bonn	80
PAOK Mateco	43

Pot 2
Team	Pts
Dinamo BDS Sassari	33
Cholet	11

Pot 3
Team	Pts
Heroes den Bosch	4
Juventus	2

Pot 4
Team	Pts
CSM Oradea	1
Windrose Giants Antwerp	1

Pot 5
Team	Pts
Caledonia Gladiators	0
MoraBanc Andorra	103.40^†

Pot 6
Team	Pts
Aliaga Petkimspor	65.20^†
Spartak Office Shoes	5.00^†

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]

Quarter-finals	Semi-finals	Final




	September 19

	Benfica
September 17
	Winner QF 1
Rilski Sportist
		September 21
Nokia
		Winner SF 1

		Winner SF 2

	September 19

	Fribourg Olympic
September 17
	Winner QF 2
Sabah

Norrköping Dolphins

Source: FIBA

Tournament 2

The tournament 2 will be played on September 18–22, 2024 at the Gloria Sports Arena in Antalya, Turkey.^[10]

Quarter-finals	Semi-finals	Final




	September 20

	ERA Nymburk
September 18
	Winner QF 1
Trepça
		September 22
Keravnos
		Winner SF 1

		Winner SF 2

	September 20

	Kalev/Cramo
September 18
	Winner QF 2
Kutaisi 2010

Patrioti Levice

Source: FIBA

Tournament 3

The tournament 3 will be played on September 17–21, 2024 at the Gloria Sports Arena in Antalya, Turkey.^[10]

Quarter-finals	Semi-finals	Final




	September 19

	PAOK mateco
September 17
	Winner QF 1
Caledonia Gladiators
		September 21
CSM Oradea
		Winner SF 1

		Winner SF 2

	September 19

	Cholet
September 17
	Winner QF 2
Petkim Spor

Heroes Den Bosch

Source: FIBA

Tournament 4

The tournament 4 will be played on September 18–22, 2024 at the Gloria Sports Arena in Antalya, Turkey.^[10]

Quarter-finals	Semi-finals	Final




	September 20

	Telekom Baskets Bonn
September 18
	Winner QF 1
MoraBanc Andorra
		September 22
Windrose Giants Antwerp
		Winner SF 1

		Winner SF 2

	September 20

	Dinamo BDS Sassari
September 18
	Winner QF 2
Spartak Office Shoes

Juventus

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]

Pot 1
Team	Pts
La Laguna Tenerife	144
Unicaja	138
Hapoel Netanel Holon	92
Baxi Manresa	88
Galatasaray	76
Rytas	69
UCAM Murcia	68
AEK Betsson	65

Pot 2
Team	Pts
Peristeri	55
Filou Oostende	55
Pınar Karşıyaka	52
Falco Szombathely	49
Igokea	37
VEF Rīga	31
Promitheas	30
Bertram Derthona Tortona	21

Pot 3
Team	Pts
Rasta Vechta	17
King Szczecin	11
Pallacanestro Reggiana	11
Niners Chemnitz	4
Maccabi Ironi Ramat Gan	71.67^†
Nanterre 92	70.16^†
Saint-Quentin	70.16^†
Manisa BB	65.20^†

Pot 4
Team	Pts
Kolossos H Hotels	60.75^†
Würzburg Baskets	60.50^†
Śląsk Wrocław	22.50^†
FMP Soccerbet	5.00^†
(Winner QF–T1)
(Winner QF–T2)
(Winner QF–T3)
(Winner QF–T4)

Notes

^† Indicates teams with no club points, therefore using the country points as a tiebreaker.

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Qualification	HOL	IGO	NAN	WUE
1	Hapoel Netanel Holon	Advance to round of 16	—	0–0	0–0	0–0
2	Igokea m:tel	Advance to play-ins	0–0	—	0–0	0–0
3	Nanterre 92	Advance to play-ins	0–0	0–0	—	0–0
4	FIT/One Würzburg Baskets		0–0	0–0	0–0	—

Source: Group Standings

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Qualification	UNI	OOS	QT2	QT3
1	Unicaja	Advance to round of 16	—	0–0	0–0	0–0
2	Filou Oostende	Advance to play-ins	0–0	—	0–0	0–0
3	King Szczecin	Advance to play-ins	0–0	0–0	—	0–0
4	Winner QT 3		0–0	0–0	0–0	—

Source: Group Standings

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Qualification	TFE	PIN	SAI	KOL
1	La Laguna Tenerife	Advance to round of 16	—	0–0	0–0	0–0
2	Pınar Karşıyaka	Advance to play-ins	0–0	—	0–0	0–0
3	Saint-Quentin	Advance to play-ins	0–0	0–0	—	0–0
4	Kolossos H Hotels		0–0	0–0		—

Source: Group Standings

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Qualification	GAL	PRO	VEC	QT2
1	Galatasaray Ekmas	Advance to round of 16	—	0–0	0–0	0–0
2	Promitheas	Advance to play-ins	0–0	—	0–0	0–0
3	Rasta Vechta	Advance to play-ins	0–0	0–0	—	0–0
4	Winner QT 2		0–0	0–0	0–0	—

Source: Group Standings

Group E

Pos	Team v t e	Qualification	AEK	RIG	IRO	QT4
1	AEK Betsson	Advance to round of 16	—	0–0	0–0	0–0
2	VEF Rīga	Advance to play-ins	0–0	—	0–0	0–0
3	Maccabi Ironi Ramat Gan	Advance to play-ins	0–0	0–0	—	0–0
4	Winner QT 4		0–0	0–0	0–0	—

Source: Group Standings

Group F

Pos	Team v t e	Qualification	RYT	FAL	PAL	SLA
1	Rytas	Advance to round of 16	—	0–0	0–0	0–0
2	Falco Szombathely	Advance to play-ins	0–0	—	0–0	0–0
3	Pallacanestro Reggiana	Advance to play-ins	0–0	0–0	—	0–0
4	Śląsk Wrocław		0–0	0–0	0–0	—

Source: Group Standings

Group G

Pos	Team v t e	Qualification	MAN	DER	CHE	QT1
1	Baxi Manresa	Advance to round of 16	—	0–0	0–0	0–0
2	Derthona Basket	Advance to play-ins	0–0	—	0–0	0–0
3	Niners Chemnitz	Advance to play-ins	0–0	0–0	—	0–0
4	Winner QT 1		0–0	0–0	0–0	—

Source: Group Standings

Group H

Pos	Team v t e	Qualification	UCM	PER	MAN	FMP
1	UCAM Murcia	Advance to round of 16	—	0–0	0–0	0–0
2	Peristeri	Advance to play-ins	0–0	—	0–0	0–0
3	Manisa	Advance to play-ins	0–0	0–0	—	0–0
4	FMP Soccerbet		0–0	0–0	0–0	—

Source: Group Standings

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

[cnote_Note_NED] 
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.

[1] "Paint it green: Unicaja win maiden BCL title in Belgrade". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 2024-05-02.

[2] "Access List Principles". FIBA.basketball. 2024-05-05. Retrieved 2024-06-19.

[Reg.5-3] 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.

[RB-4] "Russia and Belarus will remain sidelined from competitions under the auspices of FIBA". Dailysports. Retrieved 19 June 2024.

[:R9-5] "Basketball Champions League Season 9 participating teams announced". FIBA.basketball. 18 June 2024. Retrieved 18 June 2024.

[6] "PLK".

[7] "ZZ Leiden ziet af van Europees basketbal". ZZ Leiden (in Dutch). Retrieved 2024-07-14.

[:0-8] "Draw seedings for the Regular Season and Qualifiers of the BCL". Eurohoops. 2024-06-25. Retrieved 2024-06-25.

[:1-9] "Basketball Champions League Season 9 draw completed". championsleague.basketball. 2024-06-26. Retrieved 2024-07-12.

[Antalya-10] "The winning formula: Antalya will repeat as BCL Qualification Round tournaments host city". www.fiba.basketball. 17 July 2024. Retrieved 28 July 2024.

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