2025–26 EuroCup Basketball

BKT EuroCup1
Season2025–26
Dates30 September 2025 – 1 May 2026
Teams20
2026–27 →
1 Sponsored name, referring to BKT.

The 2025–26 EuroCup Basketball season will be the 24th season of Euroleague Basketball's secondary level professional club basketball tournament. It will be the 18th season since it was renamed from the ULEB Cup to the EuroCup, and the third season under the new title sponsorship name of BKT.[1] The season will begin on 30 September 2025 and will end at the latest on 1 May 2026 with the Finals.

Team allocation

A total of 20 teams from 13 countries are set to participate in the 2025–26 EuroCup season. On June 19, 2025, Euroleague Basketball confirmed the team list for this season.[2]

Teams

League positions after playoffs of the previous season shown in parentheses.

Notes
  1. ^
    ABA League (ABA): Budućnost VOLI and Cedevita Olimpija qualified through the ABA League.
  2. ^
    Israel (ISR): Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem finished as finalist of the Israeli League that was cancelled no declaring champions before the last championship game of the Finals due to the Iran–Israel war.

Round and draw dates

The schedule of the competition will be as follows.[2][3]

Schedule for 2025–26 EuroCup Basketball
Phase Round Draw date First leg Second leg Third leg
Regular season Round 1 4 July 2025 30 September–1 October 2025
Round 2 7–8 October 2025
Round 3 14–15 October 2025
Round 4 21–22 October 2025
Round 5 28–29 October 2025
Round 6 4–5 November 2025
Round 7 11–12 November 2025
Round 8 18–19 November 2025
Round 9 4–5 December 2025
Round 10 9–10 December 2025
Round 11 16–17 December 2025
Round 12 30 December 2025–2 January 2026
Round 13 6–7 January 2026
Round 14 13–14 January 2026
Round 15 20–21 January 2026
Round 16 27–28 January 2026
Round 17 3–4 February 2026
Round 18 10–11 February 2026
Playoffs Eighthfinals 10–11 March 2026
Quarterfinals 17–18 March 2026
Semifinals 31 March 2026 3 April 2026 8 April 2026
Finals 22 April 2026 28 April 2026 1 May 2026

Draw

The draw was held on 4 July 2025 in Barcelona, Spain.[3][4]

The 20 teams were drawn into two groups of 10, with the restriction that teams from the same league could not be drawn against each other, except when there were more than two teams from the same league participating in the regular season. For the draw, the teams were seeded into 10 pots, in accordance with the Club Ranking, based on their performance in European competitions during a three-year period and the lowest possible position that any club from that league can occupy in the draw is calculated by adding the results of the worst performing team from each league.[3]

Pot 1
Team
Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem
Türk Telekom
Pot 2
Team
Cosea JL Bourg
Baxi Manresa
Pot 3
Team
ratiopharm Ulm
U-BT Cluj-Napoca
Pot 4
Team
Beşiktaş Gain
Bahçeşehir Koleji
Pot 5
Team
Umana Reyer Venezia
Budućnost VOLI
Pot 6
Team
Aris Midea
Panionios
Pot 7
Team
Lietkabelis
Neptūnas
Pot 8
Team
Dolomiti Energia Trento
Cedevita Olimpija
Pot 9
Team
Veolia Towers Hamburg
Niners Chemnitz
Pot 10
Team
London Lions
Śląsk Wrocław

The fixtures will be decided after the draw, using a computer draw not shown to public, with the following match sequence:[3]

Note: Positions for scheduling do not use the seeding pots, e.g., Team 1 is not necessarily the team from Pot 1 in the draw.

Round Matches
Round 1 10 v 5, 6 v 4, 7 v 3, 8 v 2, 9 v 1
Round 2 1 v 10, 2 v 9, 3 v 8, 4 v 7, 5 v 6
Round 3 10 v 6, 7 v 5, 8 v 4, 9 v 3, 1 v 2
Round 4 2 v 10, 3 v 1, 4 v 9, 5 v 8, 6 v 7
Round 5 10 v 7, 8 v 6, 9 v 5, 1 v 4, 2 v 3
Round 6 3 v 10, 4 v 2, 5 v 1, 6 v 9, 7 v 8
Round 7 10 v 8, 9 v 7, 1 v 6, 2 v 5, 3 v 4
Round 8 10 v 4, 5 v 3, 6 v 2, 7 v 1, 8 v 9
Round 9 9 v 10, 1 v 8, 2 v 7, 3 v 6, 4 v 5
Round Matches
Round 10 5 v 10, 4 v 6, 3 v 7, 2 v 8, 1 v 9
Round 11 10 v 1, 9 v 2, 8 v 3, 7 v 4, 6 v 5
Round 12 6 v 10, 5 v 7, 4 v 8, 3 v 9, 2 v 1
Round 13 10 v 2, 1 v 3, 9 v 4, 8 v 5, 7 v 6
Round 14 7 v 10, 6 v 8, 5 v 9, 4 v 1, 3 v 2
Round 15 10 v 3, 2 v 4, 1 v 5, 9 v 6, 8 v 7
Round 16 8 v 10, 7 v 9, 6 v 1, 5 v 2, 4 v 3
Round 17 4 v 10, 3 v 5, 2 v 6, 1 v 7, 9 v 8
Round 18 10 v 9, 8 v 1, 7 v 2, 6 v 3, 5 v 4

There will be scheduling restrictions: for example, teams from the same city in general will not be scheduled to play at home on the same round (to avoid them playing at home on the same day or on consecutive days, due to logistics and crowd control).[3]

Regular season

Location of teams of the 2025–26 EuroCup regular season.
Red: Group A; Green: Group B.

The regular season will begin on 30 September 2025 and will conclude on 11 February 2026. In each group, teams will play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format where only six teams will advance to the playoffs. Moreover, the top two teams in each regular season group will receive first round playoff byes, skipping the eighthfinals to be placed directly into the quarterfinals. At the tail end of the standings, four teams from each group will be eliminated after the regular season.

Alongside 14 returning teams from last season, London Lions and Śląsk Wrocław returned to the EuroCup two years later, Neptūnas returned 10 years later, Panionios returned 12 years later, while Baxi Manresa and Niners Chemnitz will make their debut appearance in the EuroCup.

Group A

Standings

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Qualification
1 Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to quarterfinals
2 Baxi Manresa 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 U-BT Cluj-Napoca 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to eighthfinals
4 Bahçeşehir Koleji 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Umana Reyer Venezia 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Aris Midea 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Neptūnas 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Cedevita Olimpija 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Veolia Towers Hamburg 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Śląsk Wrocław 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: September 30, 2025. Source: EuroCup
Rules for classification: All points scored in extra period(s) will not be counted in the standings, nor for any tie-break situation.

Results

Home \ Away ARI BKS MAN COL JLM NEP WKS UBT URV HAM
Aris Midea —
Bahçeşehir Koleji —
Baxi Manresa —
Cedevita Olimpija —
Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem —
Neptūnas —
Śląsk Wrocław —
U-BT Cluj-Napoca —
Umana Reyer Venezia —
Veolia Towers Hamburg —
First match(es) will be played: September 30, 2025. Source: EuroCup
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.
Matches with lighter background shading were decided after overtime.

Group B

Standings

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Qualification
1 Türk Telekom 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to quarterfinals
2 Cosea JL Bourg 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 ratiopharm Ulm 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to eighthfinals
4 Beşiktaş Gain 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Budućnost VOLI 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Panionios 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Lietkabelis 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Dolomiti Energia Trento 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Niners Chemnitz 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 London Lions 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: September 30, 2025. Source: EuroCup
Rules for classification: All points scored in extra period(s) will not be counted in the standings, nor for any tie-break situation.

Results

Home \ Away BJK BUD JLB TRE LIE LDN NIN PAN ULM TTA
Beşiktaş Gain —
Budućnost VOLI —
Cosea JL Bourg —
Dolomiti Energia Trento —
Lietkabelis —
London Lions —
Niners Chemnitz —
Panionios —
ratiopharm Ulm —
Türk Telekom —
First match(es) will be played: September 30, 2025. Source: EuroCup
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.
Matches with lighter background shading were decided after overtime.

See also

References

  1. ^ "BKT TIRES becomes EuroCup title sponsor and renews as Euroleague Partner | EuroCup". Euroleague Basketball. 7 July 2023. Retrieved 7 July 2023.
  2. ^ a b "2025–26 EuroLeague and EuroCup season teams and calendar confirmed | Euroleague Basketball". Euroleague Basketball. 19 June 2025. Retrieved 19 June 2025.
  3. ^ a b c d e "2025-26 BKT EUROCUP DRAW CRITERIA AND PROCEDURE | EuroCup". Euroleague Basketball. 27 June 2025. Retrieved 27 June 2025.
  4. ^ "2025-26 EuroCup draw seedings confirmed". basketnews.com. 27 June 2025. Retrieved 30 June 2025.
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