The2025–26 Basketball Champions League will be the 10th season of theBasketball Champions League (BCL), a Europeanprofessionalbasketball competition forclubs launched byFIBA.

Unicaja are the defending champions.^[1]

A total of 53 teams from 30 of the 50FIBA Europe member associations are set to participate in the 2025–26 Basketball Champions League.^[2] The country ranking based on thecountry coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each country:^[3]

• All countries, if they entered, each have at least one team qualify.^{[citation needed]}
• The winners of the2024–25 Basketball Champions League are given an additional entry if they do not qualify for the 2025–26 Basketball Champions League through their domestic league.^[4]
• The organiser may grant access to the League through the attribution of up to 4invitations (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 country.^[4]

.It takes into account their performance from 2022–23 to 2024–25.^[5]

Country ranking for 2025–26 Basketball Champions League

Rank Country Coeff. Teams 1  Spain 97.70 4+1 2  Turkey 65.95 3+1 3  France 65.58 2+1 4  Israel 65.33 2+0 5  Greece 65.00 3+1 6  Germany 54.75 3+1 7  Czech Republic 49.50 1+0 8  Italy 43.92 2+1 9  Lithuania 38.00 1+1 10  Hungary 36.00 1+1 11  Portugal 34.00 1+1 12  Belgium 33.50 1+1 13  Bosnia and Herzegovina 31.00 1+0 14  Latvia 27.00 1+0 15  Poland 21.00 1+1 16  Serbia 9.50 1+0 17  Denmark 9.00 0+1

Rank Country Coeff. Teams 18  Slovakia 7.00 0+1 19  Switzerland 7.00 0+1 20  Estonia 6.00 0+1 21  Netherlands 5.00 0+1 22  Romania 5.00 0+1 23  Sweden 5.00 0+0 24  Cyprus 4.00 0+1 25  Finland 4.00 0+1 26  Kosovo 4.00 0+1 27  Great Britain 3.00 0+0 28  Austria 2.00 0+0 29  Ukraine 2.00 0+0 30  Georgia 2.00 0+1 31  Bulgaria 2.00 0+1 32  North Macedonia 1.00 0+1 33  Montenegro 1.00 0+1 34  Azerbaijan 1.00 1+0

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:

• TH: Title holders
• 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.: League positions of the previous season

Qualified teams for 2025–26 Basketball Champions League (by entry round)^[2]

Regular season
La Laguna Tenerife(3rd)	Promitheas Vikos Cola(4th)	Bnei Penlink Herzliya(5th)	VEF Rīga(1st)
Unicaja(4th)TH	Karditsa Iaponiki(5th)	Trapani Shark(3rd)	Rytas(2nd)
Joventut Badalona(6th)	Tofaş(5th)	Pallacanestro Trieste(6th)	Legia Warszawa(1st)
Dreamland Gran Canaria(7th)	Mersin(6th)	Sabah(1st)	Benfica(1st)
MLP Academics Heidelberg(3rd)	Galatasaray(7th)	Filou Oostende(1st)	Spartak Office Shoes(2nd)
Fitness First Würzburg Baskets(4th)	Cholet(5th)	Igokea m:tel(1st)
Alba Berlin(7th)[Note GER]	Le Mans(6th)	ERA Nymburk(1st)
AEK Betsson(3rd)	Hapoel Netanel Holon(4th)	NHSZ-Szolnoki Olajbányász(1st)
Qualifying rounds
Windrose Giants Antwerp(6th)	Élan Chalon(7th)	Trepça(1st)	Porto(2nd)
Rilski Sportist(1st)	Kutaisi 2010(1st)	Juventus(6th)	CSM CSU Oradea(2nd)
Petrolina AEK Larnaca(1st)	Löwen Braunschweig(5th)	SC Derby(2nd)	Patrioti Levice(1st)
Bakken Bears(1st)	PAOK mateco(6th)	Heroes Den Bosch(1st)	UCAM Murcia(9th)
Kalev/Cramo(1st)	Falco Szombathely(2nd)	Pelister(6th)	Fribourg Olympic(2nd)
Karhu Kauhajoki(2nd)	Pallacanestro Reggiana(7th)	Start Lublin(2nd)	Bursaspor(10th)

Notes

A total of 54 officials are set to work on the 2025–26 season in Basketball Champions League:^[7] After the 2024–25 season, twelve referees were replaced by new ones. Newcomers are marked by *.

The schedule of the competition will be as follows.^[8][9]

The 24 teams will face in three qualifying round tournaments, one 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 will be seeded ordered by theclub ranking and by thecountry ranking for clubs that have not yet participated in the competition. The three winners of the finals will then qualify for theregular season and will join the 29 directly qualified teams in the main draw. The rest of the teams will qualify, if they apply, to theFIBA Europe Cup.

The draw for the qualifying rounds was held on 2 July 2025 at theOlympic Museum inLausanne, Switzerland.^[10]

Pot 1 Team Pts Bakken Bears 9 Patrioti Levice 7

Pot 2 Team Pts Heroes Den Bosch 5 Kalev/Cramo 5

Pot 3 Team Pts Trepça 2 Rilski Sportist 2

Pot 4 Team Pts Kutaisi 2010 1 Petrolina AEK Larnaca 1

Pot 1 Team Pts UCAM Murcia 111 Falco Szombathely 41 Pallacanestro Reggiana 39 PAOK mateco 35

Pot 2 Team Pts Bursaspor 14 Fribourg Olympic 7 Karhu Kauhajoki 3 CSM CSU Oradea 3

Pot 3 Team Pts Juventus 2 Windrose Giants Antwerp 2 Élan Chalon 65.58† Löwen Braunschweig 54.75†

Pot 4 Team Pts Porto 34.00† Start Lublin 21.00† Pelister 1.00† SC Derby 1.00†

The tournament 1 will be played on September 21–25, 2025.

	Quarter-finals September 21–22				Semi-finals September 23				Final September 25
	Patrioti Levice	90
	Petrolina AEK Larnaca	69
					Patrioti Levice	81
					Kalev/Cramo	69
	Kalev/Cramo	93
	Rilski Sportist	84
									Patrioti Levice(2OT)	100
									Bakken Bears	98
	Bakken Bears	84
	Kutaisi 2010	81
					Bakken Bears	82
					Heroes Den Bosch	77
	Heroes Den Bosch	80
	Trepça	68

Source:FIBA

The tournament 2 will be played on September 19–23, 2025.

	Quarter-finals September 19				Semi-finals September 21				Final September 23
	PAOK mateco	79
	SC Derby	67
					PAOK mateco	73
					Bursaspor	92
	Bursaspor	81
	Löwen Braunschweig	74
									Bursaspor	77
									Windrose Giants Antwerp	58
	Pallacanestro Reggiana	99
	Pelister	87
					Pallacanestro Reggiana	78
					Windrose Giants Antwerp	81
	CSM CSU Oradea	71
	Windrose Giants Antwerp	79

Source:FIBA

The tournament 3 will be played on September 20–24, 2025.

	Quarter-finals September 20				Semi-finals September 22				Final September 24
	UCAM Murcia	100
	Start Lublin	84
					UCAM Murcia	81
					Juventus	71
	Karhu Kauhajoki	89
	Juventus	103
									UCAM Murcia	88
									Élan Chalon	96
	Falco Szombathely	79
	Porto	83
					Porto	79
					Élan Chalon	100
	Fribourg Olympic	80
	Élan Chalon	107

Source:FIBA

The regular season will be played by 32 teams divided into eight groups of four in which 29 teams receive direct spots plus the threequalifying round tournaments winners. The regular season will begin on 7 October and will conclude on 17 December 2025. In each group, teams will play against each other home-and-away in around-robin format where the eight group winners from each regular season group will qualify directly to the round of 16. Moreover, the second-placed and third-placed will qualify to the play-ins, where the series winners will qualify for the round of 16, while the remanining last-placed teams will be eliminated after the regular season.

A minimum of 18 countries will be represented in the regular season which will involve up to nine domestic league champions. Continental powerhouses likeAlba Berlin,Joventut Badalona andDreamland Gran Canaria will join the league after their previous stage inEuroleague Basketball competitions,^[11][12][13] others likeKarditsa Iaponiki,Mersin andTrapani Shark will make their debut appearance in international competitions.

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		VIL	WAR	HDB	PRO
1	Rytas(Q)	5	4	1	469	423	+46	9	Advance toround of 16		—	93–85	116–90	98–79
2	Legia Warszawa	5	2	3	385	379	+6	7	Advance toplay-ins		77–79	—	Dec 17	64–68
3	MLP Academics Heidelberg	5	2	3	414	424	−10	7			92–83	67–74	—	82–62
4	Promitheas Vikos Cola	5	2	3	370	412	−42	7			Dec 17	72–85	89–83	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		CHA	ALB	NYM	SAB
1	Élan Chalon	4	4	0	351	329	+22	8	Advance toround of 16		—	Dec 9	Dec 16	84–71
2	Alba Berlin	4	3	1	343	310	+33	7	Advance toplay-ins		76–81	—	94–78	Dec 16
3	ERA Nymburk	4	1	3	341	344	−3	5			95–97	75–88	—	93–65
4	Sabah	4	0	4	299	351	−52	4			87–89	76–85	Dec 10	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		CJB	CHO	HOL	BUR
1	Joventut Badalona(Q)	5	5	0	442	368	+74	10	Advance toround of 16		—	91–73	97–95	94–67
2	Cholet(Q)	5	3	2	452	435	+17	8	Advance toplay-ins		Dec 17	—	92–103	109–77
3	Hapoel Netanel Holon(Q)	5	2	3	439	438	+1	7			65–81	92–94	—	84–74
4	Bursaspor(E)	5	0	5	358	450	−92	5			68–79	72–84	Dec 17	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		LLT	TPS	TOF	HER
1	La Laguna Tenerife	4	4	0	353	297	+56	8	Advance toround of 16		—	Dec 10	80–70	108–85
2	Trapani Shark	4	2	2	345	337	+8	6	Advance toplay-ins		78–84	—	89–91	101–88
3	Tofaş	4	2	2	315	336	−21	6			64–81	Dec 16	—	90–86
4	Bnei Penlink Herzliya	4	0	4	333	376	−43	4			Dec 16	74–77	Dec 9	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		GSM	WUE	TS	IGO
1	Galatasaray MCT Technic(Q)	5	4	1	452	409	+43	9	Advance toround of 16		—	89–83	79–80	94–82
2	Fitness First Würzburg Baskets(Q)	5	3	2	390	375	+15	8	Advance toplay-ins		74–99	—	78–63	70–68
3	Pallacanestro Trieste(Q)	5	2	3	424	429	−5	7			90–91	Dec 17	—	115–90
4	Igokea m:tel(E)	5	1	4	387	440	−53	6			Dec 17	56–85	91–76	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		AEK	OLA	PAT	VEF
1	AEK Betsson	4	4	0	326	263	+63	8	Advance toround of 16		—	91–77	Dec 10	95–64
2	NHSZ-Szolnoki Olajbányász	4	2	2	309	294	+15	6	Advance toplay-ins		Dec 16	—	84–54	77–76
3	Patrioti Levice	4	2	2	288	299	−11	6			69–71	73–71	—	Dec 16
4	VEF Rīga	4	0	4	266	333	−67	4			53–69	Dec 10	73–92	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		UNI	MSK	KAR	OOS
1	Unicaja	4	4	0	371	278	+93	8	Advance toround of 16		—	97–66	Dec 17	102–80
2	Mersin	4	2	2	251	256	−5	6	Advance toplay-ins		77–100	—	81–73	Dec 17
3	Karditsa Iaponiki	4	2	2	305	324	−19	6			55–72	Dec 9	—	82–78
4	Filou Oostende	4	0	4	414	483	−69	4			Dec 9	86–104	93–95	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		DGC	SPA	MSB	SLB
1	Dreamland Gran Canaria(Q)	5	5	0	431	362	+69	10	Advance toround of 16		—	77–62	73–68	Dec 16
2	Spartak Office Shoes(Q)	5	3	2	408	386	+22	8	Advance toplay-ins		83–93	—	74–73	99–69
3	Le Mans	5	1	4	408	399	+9	6			88–90	Dec 16	—	89–69
4	Benfica	5	1	4	366	466	−100	6			61–98	74–90	93–90	—

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