2024–25 Basketball Champions League

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.

Basketball Champions League
Season2024–25
DatesQualifying:
16–22 September 2024
Competition proper:
1 October 2024 – 11 May 2025
Number of teamsCompetition proper: 32
Total: 52 (from 29 countries)
2025–26 →

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.
  • 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
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
15  Ukraine 25.00 0
16  Poland 22.50 2
17  Czech Republic 18.00 1
18  Estonia 13.00
19  Denmark 12.00 0
20  Russia (suspended)[4] 7.50
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
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
33  Croatia 2.00 0
34  Georgia 1.00 1
35  Bulgaria 1.00
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) 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 (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) Banco di Sardegna Sassari (10th) Spartak Office Shoes (2nd)
Windrose Giants Antwerp (2nd) Cholet Basket (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
  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. 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 will be made on 26 June 2024.[7]

The 24 teams were divided into twelve pots. The national champions from the unrepresented nations were placed into the Pots 1-6 which will be drawn into the two Champions paths, and the remaining clubs into the Pots 1–6 which will be drawn into the two Main paths. Pots are arranged based on the competition's club ranking and, for clubs that have not yet participated in the competition, on the country ranking.

Teams from pot 1 and pot 2 will be 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 be demoted, if they apply, to the FIBA Europe Cup.

Champions paths
Pot 1
Team Pts
SL Benfica25
ERA Nymburk22
Pot 2
Team Pts
Kalev/Cramo12
Fribourg Olympic7
Pot 3
Team Pts
Patrioti Levice5
Norrköping Dolphins5
Pot 4
Team Pts
Keravnos2
Nokia4.00†
Pot 5
Team Pts
Trepça2.00†
Rilski Sportist1.00†
Pot 6
Team Pts
Kutaisi 20101.00†
Sabah0.00†

Main paths
Pot 1
Team Pts
Telekom Baskets Bonn80
PAOK Mateco43
Pot 2
Team Pts
Dinamo BDS Sassari33
Cholet11
Pot 3
Team Pts
Heroes den Bosch4
Juventus2
Pot 4
Team Pts
CSM Oradea1
Windrose Giants Antwerp1
Pot 5
Team Pts
Caledonia Gladiators0
MoraBanc Andorra 103.40†
Pot 6
Team Pts
Aliaga Petkimspor65.20†
Spartak Office Shoes5.00†
Notes
^† Indicates teams with no club points, therefore using the country points as a tiebreaker.

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.[7]

Pot 1
Team Pts
La Laguna Tenerife144
Unicaja138
Hapoel Netanel Holon92
Baxi Manresa88
Galatasaray76
Rytas69
UCAM Murcia68
AEK Betsson65
Pot 2
Team Pts
Peristeri55
Filou Oostende55
Pınar Karşıyaka52
Falco Szombathely49
Igokea37
VEF Rīga31
Promitheas30
Bertram Derthona Tortona21
Pot 3
Team Pts
Rasta Vechta17
King Szczecin11
Pallacanestro Reggiana11
Niners Chemnitz4
Maccabi Ironi Ramat Gan71.67†
Nanterre 9270.16†
Saint-Quentin70.16†
Manisa BB65.20†
Pot 4
Team Pts
Kolossos H Hotels60.75†
Würzburg Baskets60.50†
Śląsk Wrocław22.50†
FMP Soccerbet5.00†
(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.

See also


References
  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.
  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.
  4. "Russia and Belarus will remain sidelined from competitions under the auspices of FIBA". Dailysports. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  5. "Basketball Champions League Season 9 participating teams announced". FIBA.basketball. 18 June 2024. Retrieved 18 June 2024.
  6. "PLK".
  7. "Draw seedings for the Regular Season and Qualifiers of the BCL". Eurohoops. 2024-06-25. Retrieved 2024-06-25.
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