69th season of the European premier basketball league
Basketball league season
The2025–26 EuroLeague is the 26th season of the modern era of theEuroLeague . Including the competition's previous incarnation as theFIBA Europe Champions Cup, this is the 69th season of the premier basketball competition for European men's clubs. This is the first season in the league without the sponsorship ofTurkish Airlines since2009–10 season. The Final Four will be held atTelekom Center Athens inAthens ,Greece , which marks the second time the Greek capital hosts the Final Four, the first being in2007 .[ 1]
Starting from this season, the league was expanded from 18 to 20 teams, allowingDubai Basketball to enter the competition, becoming the first non-Israeli team from outside ofEurope to play in the league.
Fenerbahçe Beko are the defending champions.
Team changes (pre-season)[ edit ] A total of 20 teams will participate in the league, including 17 teams from the2024–25 season , two promoted from the2024–25 EuroCup and one receiving a long-termwild card .[ 2] [ 3]
On 11 April 2025,Hapoel IBI Tel Aviv won theEuroCup title by sweepingDreamland Gran Canaria , and earned the spot to EuroLeague. It will be the debut season of the team in the European top flight.[ 4] On May 7, 2025,ALBA Berlin opted to play in theFIBA -organisedBasketball Champions League , after competing for 24 years inEuroleague Basketball competitions.[ 5] On June 19, 2025, the allocation of long-termwild cards to the following clubs was approved with the aims of ensuring the EuroLeague's long-term sustainability and supporting its strategic expansion to 20 teams:[ 3]
Promoted fromEuroCup Applied for participation Withdrawn from participation
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
Notes ^ France (FRA): AS Monaco is a club based in
Monaco (which does not qualify for European competitions), but participate in European competitions through one of the berths for France (any coefficient points it earns count toward France)
Venues and locations [ edit ] Location of teams in
2025–26 EuroLeague Location of teams from the Middle East in
2025–26 EuroLeague
Team Home city Arena Capacity Last season Anadolu Efes Istanbul Turkcell Basketball Development Center 10,000 [ 6] 6th AS Monaco Monaco Salle Gaston Médecin 5,000 [ 7] [ 8] [ 9] [ 10] Barcelona Barcelona Palau Blaugrana 7,585 [ 11] 5th Bayern Munich Munich SAP Garden 11,500 [ 12] 9th Crvena zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade Belgrade Arena 21,000 [ 13] 10th Dubai Basketball Dubai Coca-Cola Arena 13,221 [ 14] — N/a EA7 Emporio Armani Milan Milan Unipol Forum 11,200 [ 15] 11th Allianz Cloud Arena 5,420 [ 16] Fenerbahçe Beko Istanbul Ülker Sports and Event Hall 13,000 [ 17] Hapoel IBI Tel Aviv Tel Aviv Menora Mivtachim Arena 10,383 [ 18] (EuroCup )Arena 8888 Sofia 12,373 [ 19] [ 20] Arena Botevgrad 4,500 [ 19] [ 21] Kosner Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz Vitoria-Gasteiz Buesa Arena 15,431 [ 22] 14th LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne LDLC Arena 12,523 [ 23] 15th Astroballe 5,556 [ 24] Maccabi Rapyd Tel Aviv Tel Aviv Menora Mivtachim Arena 10,383 [ 25] 16th Aleksandar Nikolić Hall 8,000 [ 19] [ 26] Olympiacos Piraeus Peace and Friendship Stadium 12,930 [ 27] Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens Telekom Center Athens 19,200 [ 28] 4th Paris Basketball Paris Adidas Arena 8,000 [ 29] 8th Accor Arena 15,705 [ 30] Partizan Mozzart Bet Belgrade Belgrade Arena 21,000 [ 31] 12th Real Madrid Madrid Movistar Arena 15,000 [ 32] 7th Valencia Basket Valencia Roig Arena 15,600 [ 33] (EuroCup )Virtus Bologna Bologna Virtus Arena 10,500 [ 34] 17th PalaDozza 5,570 [ 35] Žalgiris Kaunas Žalgirio Arena 15,415 [ 36] 13th
A total of 70 Euroleague Basketball officials are set to work on the 2025–26 season in EuroLeague and EuroCup:
The regular season began on 30 September 2025 and will conclude on 17 April 2026. The 20 teams play against each other home-and-away in around-robin format over 38 rounds, where only 10 teams will advance to the postseason. Moreover, the top six teams from regular season will receive a bye to the playoffs, while the teams placed from 7th to 10th will participate in the play-in to get the last two playoff spots. At the tail end of the standings, teams placed from 11th to 20th will be eliminated after the regular season.
Updated to match(es) played on 13 February 2026. Source:
EuroLeague Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.
Matches with lighter background shading were decided after overtime.
All official awards of the2025–26 EuroLeague .
Regular season Pos Team Total High Low Average Change 1 Panathinaikos AKTOR 257,813 19,000 15,603 18,415 +5.5% † 2 Crvena zvezda Meridianbet 248,495 20,787 5,672 17,750 −2.7% † 3 Partizan Mozzart Bet 224,960 21,854 1,093 16,069 −13.4% † 4 Žalgiris 191,875 15,203 14,430 14,760 −0.8% † 5 Olympiacos 169,636 12,750 10,540 12,117 +4.2% † 6 Valencia Basket [Note 5] 156,274 14,922 7,994 12,021 n/a1 7 Bayern Munich 167,374 11,500 10,007 11,158 +2.4% † 8 Fenerbahçe Beko [Note 2] 127,447 12,813 2,541 9,103 −16.7% † 9 Real Madrid 107,680 12,156 7,165 8,973 −2.8% † 10 Kosner Baskonia 112,696 14,114 7,234 8,669 −8.6% † 11 LDLC ASVEL 113,097 11,536 4,637 7,540 +2.3% † 12 Anadolu Efes [Note 3] 114,614 10,000 3,578 7,163 −25.1% † 13 Virtus Bologna 89,616 10,102 3,631 6,894 −11.6% † 14 Paris Basketball 88,029 12,440 3,352 6,771 −11.2% † 15 Dubai Basketball [Note 4] 66,700 7,648 5,117 6,064 n/a1 16 EA7 Emporio Armani Milan 88,808 10,396 3,339 5,921 −35.3% † 17 Barcelona 72,861 7,294 4,125 5,605 −10.2% † 18 Hapoel IBI Tel Aviv [Note 1] 69,505 10,000 780 5,347 n/a1 19 Maccabi Rapyd Tel Aviv [Note 1] 62,267 10,369 100 4,448 +2,266.0% † 20 Monaco 56,662 5,000 3,898 4,359 +7.1% † League total 2,586,409 21,854 100 9,509 −9.8% †
Source:EuroLeague Notes: 1: Team did not participate in the last EuroLeague regular season.
update: 13/02/2026
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