2024–25 Basketball Champions League
European basketball competition
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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.
15–22 September 2024
Competition proper:
1 October 2024 – 11 May 2025
Total: 52 (from 29 countries)
(Tenerife)
| Basketball Champions League | ||||||||||
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Unicaja Cup Ceremony | ||||||||||
| Season | 2024–25 | |||||||||
| Dates | Qualifying: 15–22 September 2024 Competition proper: 1 October 2024 – 11 May 2025 | |||||||||
| Teams | Competition proper: 32 Total: 52 (from 29 countries) | |||||||||
| Regular season | ||||||||||
| Season MVP | Marcelo Huertas (Tenerife) | |||||||||
| Finals | ||||||||||
| Champions | ||||||||||
| Runners-up | ||||||||||
| Third place | ||||||||||
| Fourth place | ||||||||||
| Final Four MVP | Tyson Carter (Unicaja) | |||||||||
| Awards | ||||||||||
| Best Coach | Txus Vidorreta | |||||||||
| Best Young Player | Nolan Traoré | |||||||||
| Statistical leaders | ||||||||||
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← 2023–24 2025–26 → | ||||||||||
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]
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:[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
- ^ 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.
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.
| Referees of the 2024−25 season | ||
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Qualifying rounds
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-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| September 19 | ||||||||||
| 89 | ||||||||||
| September 17 | ||||||||||
| 88 | ||||||||||
| 71 | ||||||||||
| September 21 | ||||||||||
| 64 | ||||||||||
| 91 | ||||||||||
| 85 | ||||||||||
| September 19 | ||||||||||
| 80 | ||||||||||
| September 17 | ||||||||||
| 79 | ||||||||||
| 71 | ||||||||||
| 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-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| September 20 | ||||||||||
| 84 | ||||||||||
| September 18 | ||||||||||
| 78 | ||||||||||
| 82 | ||||||||||
| September 22 | ||||||||||
| 79 | ||||||||||
| 80 | ||||||||||
| 66 | ||||||||||
| September 20 | ||||||||||
| 84 | ||||||||||
| September 18 | ||||||||||
| 76 | ||||||||||
| 87 | ||||||||||
| 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-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| September 19 | ||||||||||
| 81 | ||||||||||
| September 17 | ||||||||||
| 80 | ||||||||||
| 59 | ||||||||||
| September 21 | ||||||||||
| 90 | ||||||||||
| 69 | ||||||||||
| 79 | ||||||||||
| September 19 | ||||||||||
| 70 | ||||||||||
| September 17 | ||||||||||
| 76 | ||||||||||
| 92 | ||||||||||
| 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-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| September 20 | ||||||||||
| 99 | ||||||||||
| September 18 | ||||||||||
| 91 | ||||||||||
| 91 | ||||||||||
| September 22 | ||||||||||
| 73 | ||||||||||
| 78 | ||||||||||
| 71 | ||||||||||
| September 20 | ||||||||||
| 77 | ||||||||||
| September 18 | ||||||||||
| 73 | ||||||||||
| 84 | ||||||||||
| 87 | ||||||||||
Source: FIBA
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.[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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- Notes
- ^† Indicates teams with no club points, therefore using the country points as a tiebreaker.
Group A
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | WUE | NAN | HOL | IGO | |
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| 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 513 | 489 | +24 | 10 | Advance to round of 16 | — | 88–96 | 85–76 | 98–80 | ||
| 2 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 500 | 492 | +8 | 9 | Advance to play-ins | 83–88 | — | 87–77 | 78–83 | ||
| 3 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 472 | 478 | −6 | 9 | 71–69 | 70–76 | — | 92–82 | |||
| 4 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 493 | 519 | −26 | 8 | 83–85 | 86–80 | 79–86 | — |
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.
Group B
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | UNI | PET | OOS | SZC | |
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| 1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 584 | 432 | +152 | 12 | Advance to round of 16 | — | 112–82 | 98–82 | 83–60 | ||
| 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 475 | 503 | −28 | 10 | Advance to play-ins | 56–108 | — | 77–74 | 90–63 | ||
| 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 468 | 480 | −12 | 8 | 85–92 | 76–85 | — | 67–55 | |||
| 4 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 388 | 500 | −112 | 6 | 67–91 | 70–85 | 73–84 | — |
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.
Group C
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | TFE | KSK | SAI | KOL | |
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| 1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 502 | 396 | +106 | 12 | Advance to round of 16 | — | 85–82 | 96–57 | 93–74 | ||
| 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 501 | 451 | +50 | 10 | Advance to play-ins | 76–87 | — | 84–74 | 95–79 | ||
| 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 429 | 473 | −44 | 8 | 61–71 | 67–93 | — | 84–54 | |||
| 4 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 387 | 499 | −112 | 6 | 47–71 | 59–71 | 75–86 | — |
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.
Group D
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | NYM | GAL | PRO | VEC | |
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| 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 516 | 452 | +64 | 11 | Advance to round of 16 | — | 80–70 | 75–85 | 93–74 | ||
| 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 492 | 471 | +21 | 10 | Advance to play-ins | 75–87 | — | 91–74 | 103–91 | ||
| 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 478 | 503 | −25 | 8 | 78–86 | 75–79 | — | 78–86 | |||
| 4 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 471 | 531 | −60 | 7 | 70–95 | 64–74 | 86–88 | — |
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.
Group E
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | AEK | BON | MRG | RIG | |
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| 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 494 | 463 | +31 | 10 | Advance to round of 16 | — | 96–65 | 80–71 | 80–70 | ||
| 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 474 | 485 | −11 | 10 | Advance to play-ins | 93–74 | — | 80–76 | 78–75 | ||
| 3 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 492 | 494 | −2 | 9 | 95–84 | 78–86 | — | 78–71 | |||
| 4 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 464 | 482 | −18 | 7 | 69–80 | 86–72 | 93–94 | — |
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.
Group F
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | RYT | FAL | PAL | SLA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 542 | 479 | +63 | 11 | Advance to round of 16 | — | 103–83 | 94–84 | 98–75 | ||
| 2 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 472 | 484 | −12 | 9 | Advance to play-ins | 72–82 | — | 78–71 | 67–74 | ||
| 3 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 458 | 462 | −4 | 9 | 77–67 | 79–88 | — | 74–70 | |||
| 4 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 447 | 494 | −47 | 7 | 88–98 | 75–84 | 65–73 | — |
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.
Group G
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | MAN | DER | CHE | BEN | |
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| 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 562 | 465 | +97 | 11 | Advance to round of 16 | — | 100–82 | 105–59 | 92–64 | ||
| 2 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 497 | 456 | +41 | 11 | Advance to play-ins | 102–85 | — | 87–81 | 77–71 | ||
| 3 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 450 | 512 | −62 | 7 | 78–89 | 61–77 | — | 103–75 | |||
| 4 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 427 | 503 | −76 | 7 | 80–91 | 58–72 | 79–68 | — |
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.
Group H
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | UCM | MAN | PER | FMP | |
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| 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 508 | 455 | +53 | 11 | Advance to round of 16 | — | 97–103 | 83–76 | 86–50 | ||
| 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 536 | 523 | +13 | 10 | Advance to play-ins | 72–78 | — | 79–77 | 103–84 | ||
| 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 449 | 457 | −8 | 8 | 76–81 | 90–78 | — | 72–66 | |||
| 4 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 445 | 503 | −58 | 7 | 78–83 | 97–101 | 70–58 | — |
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.
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.
| Team 1 | Series | Team 2 | Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3 |
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| Nanterre 92 |
2–1 | 78–88 | 76–67 | 76–71 | |
| Karşıyaka Basket |
0–2 | 77–81 | 68–84 | — | |
| Telekom Baskets Bonn |
0–2 | 91–94 | 70–73 | — | |
| Bertram Derthona Tortona |
2–0 | 69–59 | 73–65 | — | |
| Petkim Spor |
2–1 | 82–81 | 62–65 | 93–85 | |
| Galatasaray |
2–1 | 84–63 | 79–90 | 75–73 | |
| Falco-Vulcano Szombathely |
2–1 | 88–81 | 69–76 | 106–100 | |
| Manisa Basket |
2–0 | 87–86 | 87–84 | — |
Round of 16
The Round of 16 took place from January 28 until March 26, 2025. The groups was formed by the winners of each Regular Season Group and by eight Play-Ins winners. The 16 teams were divided into four groups of four teams each. The first two of each groups advanced to the quarter-finals.
Group I
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | AEK | DER | WUE | PRO | |
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| 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 493 | 449 | +44 | 11 | Advance to quarter-finals | — | 93–86 | 84–77 | 97–76 | ||
| 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 507 | 466 | +41 | 10 | 83–82 | — | 80–74 | 97–77 | |||
| 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 496 | 516 | −20 | 8 | 71–77 | 80–79 | — | 115–119 | |||
| 4 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 465 | 530 | −65 | 7 | 56–60 | 60–82 | 77–79 | — |
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.
Group J
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | UNI | GAL | RYT | MAN | |
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| 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 550 | 503 | +47 | 11 | Advance to quarter-finals | — | 97–91 | 92–74 | 91–73 | ||
| 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 532 | 514 | +18 | 10 | 86–84 | — | 89–81 | 104–81 | |||
| 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 496 | 502 | −6 | 8 | 82–83 | 86–66 | — | 98–74 | |||
| 4 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 508 | 567 | −59 | 7 | 97–103 | 85–96 | 98–75 | — |
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.
Group K
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | TFE | PAL | MAN | PET | |
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| 1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 515 | 450 | +65 | 12 | Advance to quarter-finals | — | 91–69 | 81–71 | 90–83 | ||
| 2 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 486 | 498 | −12 | 9 | 74–84 | — | 85–70 | 77–70 | |||
| 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 492 | 516 | −24 | 8 | 73–84 | 96–90 | — | 96–87 | |||
| 4 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 496 | 525 | −29 | 7 | 80–85 | 87–91 | 89–86 | — |
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.
Group L
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | NYM | NAN | UCM | FAL | |
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| 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 549 | 451 | +98 | 11 | Advance to quarter-finals | — | 86–90 | 85–70 | 96–68 | ||
| 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 505 | 512 | −7 | 10 | 77–100 | — | 76–71 | 83–71 | |||
| 3 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 485 | 474 | +11 | 9 | 60–76 | 95–84 | — | 85–63 | |||
| 4 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 467 | 569 | −102 | 6 | 86–106 | 89–95 | 90–104 | — |
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.
Playoffs
The playoffs began 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
| Seeded teams | Unseeded teams |
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Bracket
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||||
| 9–23 April | ||||||||||||||||
| 80 | 74 | – | ||||||||||||||
| 9 May | ||||||||||||||||
| 106 | 90 | – | ||||||||||||||
| 90 | ||||||||||||||||
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| 80 | ||||||||||||||||
| 93 | 77 | – | ||||||||||||||
| 11 May | ||||||||||||||||
| 89 | 64 | – | ||||||||||||||
| 67 | ||||||||||||||||
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| 83 | ||||||||||||||||
| 76 | 70 | 104 | ||||||||||||||
| 9 May | ||||||||||||||||
| 69 | 82 | 69 | ||||||||||||||
| 65 | ||||||||||||||||
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| 71 | Third place | |||||||||||||||
| 105 | 82 | – | ||||||||||||||
| 11 May | ||||||||||||||||
| 68 | 72 | – | ||||||||||||||
| 73 | ||||||||||||||||
| 77 | ||||||||||||||||
Quarterfinals
The quarterfinals was played in a best-of-3 series and started on April 8. The seeded teams played their first (and potential third) game at home, the unseeded teams played their second game at home. Second game was played April 15–16, and thirds on April 23.
| Team 1 | Series | Team 2 | Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3 |
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| ERA Nymburk |
0–2 | 80–106 | 74–90 | — | |
| La Laguna Tenerife |
2–0 | 93–89 | 77–64 | — | |
| AEK Betsson |
2–1 | 76–69 | 70–82 | 104–69 | |
| Unicaja |
2–0 | 105–68 | 82–72 | — |
Final Four

Semifinals
The semifinals were played on 9 May 2025.
| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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| La Laguna Tenerife |
80–90 | |
| AEK Athens |
65–71 |
Third place game
The third place game was played on 11 May 2025.
| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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| La Laguna Tenerife |
73–77 |
Final
The final was played on 11 May 2025.
| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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| Galatasaray |
67–83 |
Individual awards
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
| Player | Club | Ref. |
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Team of the Play-Ins
| Player | Team | Ref. |
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MVP of the Round of 16
| Player | Club | Ref. |
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Team of the Round of 16
MVP of the Quarter-Finals
| Player | Club | Ref. |
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