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2024–25 Basketball Champions League
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The 2024–25 Basketball Champions League was the 9th season of the Basketball Champions League (BCL), the European professional basketball competition for clubs launched by FIBA. The season began on 1 October 2024 and ended on 11 May 2025.

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Unicaja Málaga were the defending champions,[1] and successfully defended their title by defeating Galatasaray in the final of the Final Four, which was hosted in the Sunel Arena in Athens for a second time in history.[2]

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Team allocation

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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:[3]

  • 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.[4]
  • 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.[4]
  • 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.[4]

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.

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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[4]
  • AV: Allocated vacancy[4]
Notes
  1. ^
    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.[9] As a result, the spot was given to Heroes Den Bosch, second in the national league.
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Referees

A total of 54 officials are set to work on the 2024–25 season in Basketball Champions League:[10] After the 2023–24 season, five referees left the squad, two were added.

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Qualifying rounds

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Draw

The draw for the qualifying rounds was held on 26 June 2024 at the Patrick Baumann House in Mies, Switzerland.[11][12]

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

The tournament 1 will be played on September 17–21, 2024 at the Gloria Sports Arena in Antalya, Turkey.[13]

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
 
 
 
September 19
 
 
Portugal Benfica 89
 
September 17
 
Bulgaria Rilski Sportist 88
 
Bulgaria Rilski Sportist 71
 
September 21
 
Finland Nokia 64
 
Portugal Benfica 91
 
 
Switzerland Fribourg Olympic 85
 
 
September 19
 
 
Switzerland Fribourg Olympic 80
 
September 17
 
Sweden Norrköping Dolphins 79
 
Azerbaijan Sabah 71
 
 
Sweden Norrköping Dolphins 75
 

Source: FIBA

Tournament 2

The tournament 2 will be played on September 18–22, 2024 at the Gloria Sports Arena in Antalya, Turkey.[13]

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
 
 
 
September 20
 
 
Czech Republic ERA Nymburk 84
 
September 18
 
Kosovo Trepça 78
 
Kosovo Trepça 82
 
September 22
 
Cyprus Keravnos 79
 
Czech Republic ERA Nymburk 80
 
 
Estonia Kalev/Cramo 66
 
 
September 20
 
 
Estonia Kalev/Cramo 84
 
September 18
 
Slovakia Patrioti Levice 76
 
Georgia (country) Kutaisi 2010 87
 
 
Slovakia Patrioti Levice 111
 

Source: FIBA

Tournament 3

The tournament 3 will be played on September 17–21, 2024 at the Gloria Sports Arena in Antalya, Turkey.[13]

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
 
 
 
September 19
 
 
Greece PAOK mateco 81
 
September 17
 
Romania CSM Oradea 80
 
United Kingdom Caledonia Gladiators 59
 
September 21
 
Romania CSM Oradea 90
 
Greece PAOK mateco 69
 
 
Turkey Petkim Spor 79
 
 
September 19
 
 
France Cholet 70
 
September 17
 
Turkey Petkim Spor 76
 
Turkey Petkim Spor 92
 
 
Netherlands Heroes Den Bosch 72
 

Source: FIBA

Tournament 4

The tournament 4 will be played on September 18–22, 2024 at the Gloria Sports Arena in Antalya, Turkey.[13]

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
 
 
 
September 20
 
 
Germany Telekom Baskets Bonn 99
 
September 18
 
Spain MoraBanc Andorra 91
 
Spain MoraBanc Andorra 91
 
September 22
 
Belgium Windrose Giants Antwerp 73
 
Germany Telekom Baskets Bonn 78
 
 
Italy Banco di Sardegna Sassari 71
 
 
September 20
 
 
Italy Banco di Sardegna Sassari 77
 
September 18
 
Lithuania Juventus 73
 
Serbia Spartak Office Shoes 84
 
 
Lithuania Juventus 87
 

Source: FIBA

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Regular season

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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.[11]

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.[12]

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

Group A

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    Group B

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      Group C

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        Group D

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          Group E

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                  Play-ins

                  The Play-ins will take place from 7 to 22 January 2025. The teams classified in second and third place in their respective groups of Basketball Champions League, went to the Play-ins. The winners will advance to the round of 16. First legs will be played on 7–8 January, second legs on 14–15 January and if required, third legs will be played on 21–22 January.

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                  Round of 16

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                  The Round of 16 will take place from January 28 until March 26, 2025. The groups will be formed by the winners of each Regular Season Group and by eight Play-Ins winners. The 16 teams will be divided in 4 groups, 4 teams each. The first two of each groups advance to the quarter-finals.

                  Group I

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                          Playoffs

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                          The playoffs will begin on 8 April 2025 and ends with the 2025 Basketball Champions League Final Four. The 8 qualified clubs have been ranked according to their final position within their respective group during the Round of 16 and their place in the Draw was based on this ranking. The teams having finished 1st of their Round of 16 group was placed in Pot 1, the teams having finished 2nd of their Round of 16 group was placed in Pot 2.

                          Qualified teams

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                          Bracket

                           
                          QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal
                           
                                          
                           
                          9–23 April
                           
                           
                          Czech Republic ERA Nymburk 8074
                           
                          9 May
                           
                          Turkey Galatasaray 10690
                           
                          Turkey Galatasaray 90
                           
                          9–23 April
                           
                          Spain La Laguna Tenerife80
                           
                          Spain La Laguna Tenerife 9377
                           
                          11 May
                           
                          Italy Bertram Derthona8964
                           
                          Turkey Galatasaray 67
                           
                          9–23 April
                           
                          Spain Unicaja83
                           
                          Greece AEK Betsson 7670104
                           
                          9 May
                           
                          France Nanterre 92698269
                           
                          Greece AEK Betsson 65
                           
                          9–23 April
                           
                          Spain Unicaja71Third place
                           
                          Spain Unicaja 10582
                           
                          11 May
                           
                          Italy Unahotels Reggio Emilia6872
                           
                          Spain La Laguna Tenerife73
                           
                           
                          Greece AEK Betsson77
                           

                          Quarterfinals

                          The quarterfinals will be played in a best-of-3 series and start on April 8. The seeded teams will play their first (and potential third) game at home, the unseeded teams will play their second game at home. Second game will be played April 15–16, and potential thirds on April 23.

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                          Final Four

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                          The coaches of Tenerife and Galatasaray in a press conference ahead of the final

                          Semifinals

                          The semifinals were played on 9 May 2025.

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                          Third place game

                          The third place game was played on 11 May 2025.

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                          Final

                          The final was played on 11 May 2025.

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                          Individual awards

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                          Season awards

                          The annual season awards was announced during the Final Four weekend.[14]

                          Star Lineup

                          MVP of the Group Phase

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                          Team of the Group Phase

                          MVP of the Play-Ins

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                          Team of the Play-Ins

                          MVP of the Round of 16

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                          Team of the Round of 16

                          MVP of the Quarter-Finals

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                          Team of the Quarter-Finals

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