2025–26 EuroCup Basketball

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The 2025–26 EuroCup Basketball season is the 24th season of Euroleague Basketball's secondary level professional club basketball tournament. It is 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 began on 30 September 2025 and will end at the latest on 1 May 2026 with the Finals.

Season2025–26
Dates30 September 2025 – 1 May 2026
Teams20
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BKT EuroCup1
Season2025–26
Dates30 September 2025 – 1 May 2026
Teams20
Regular season
Season MVPUnited States Jared Harper (Hapoel Jerusalem)
Finals
ChampionsFrench Federation of Basketball Cosea JL Bourg (1st title)
Runners-upTurkish Basketball Federation Beşiktaş Gain
Semi-finalistsTurkish Basketball Federation Bahçeşehir Koleji
Turkey Türk Telekom
Finals MVPFrance Adam Mokoka
Awards
Coach of the YearSerbia Dušan Alimpijević
Rising StarDenmark Tobias Jensen
Statistical leaders
Points Romania Daron Russell 19.8
Rebounds United States Austin Wiley 9.5
Assists Lithuania Arnas Velička 7.7
Steals Turkey Doğuş Özdemiroğlu 2.0
Blocks Nigeria Akobundu-Ehiogu 1.6
Index Rating United States DeVante' Jones 23.3
Records
Biggest home winBahçeşehir Koleji 105–68 Hamburg Towers
(30 December 2025)
Biggest away winPanionios 61–106 Türk Telekom
(21 January 2026)
Highest scoringNeptūnas 103–118 Reyer Venezia
(2 January 2026)
Lowest scoringPanionios 56–66 JL Bourg
(15 October 2025)
1 Sponsored name, referring to BKT.
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Team allocation

The 2025–26 EuroCup season features 20 teams from 13 countries. On June 19, 2025, Euroleague Basketball confirmed the team list for the season.[2]

Teams

League positions after the playoffs of the previous season are 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 before the last championship game of the Finals due to the Twelve-Day War.

Round and draw dates

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

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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
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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]

The fixtures were 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.

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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
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There were scheduling restrictions: for example, teams from the same city in general were not 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 began on 30 September 2025 and concluded on 11 February 2026. In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format where only six teams advanced to the playoffs. Moreover, the top two teams in each regular season group received 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 were 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

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Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Qualification
1 Israeli Basketball Association Hapoel Midtown Jerusalem 18 13 5 1702 1506 +196 Advance to quarterfinals
2 Turkish Basketball Federation Bahçeşehir Koleji 18 12[a] 6 1593 1475 +118
3 Basketball Federation of Slovenia Cedevita Olimpija 18 12[a] 6 1596 1413 +183 Advance to eighthfinals
4 Italian Basketball Federation Umana Reyer Venezia 18 11[b] 7 1593 1538 +55
5 Spanish Basketball Federation Baxi Manresa 18 11[b] 7 1624 1619 +5
6 Romanian Basketball Federation U-BT Cluj-Napoca 18 9 9 1714 1657 +57
7 Hellenic Basketball Federation Aris Betsson 18 8 10 1500 1593 93
8 Lithuanian Basketball Federation Neptūnas 18 7 11 1637 1725 88
9 Polish Basketball Federation Śląsk Wrocław 18 5 13 1516 1680 164
10 German Basketball Federation Veolia Towers Hamburg 18 2 16 1472 1741 269
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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.
Notes:
  1. Bahçeşehir Koleji 159–135 Cedevita Olimpija
  2. Umana Reyer Venezia 188–168 Baxi Manresa

Results

Group B

Standings

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Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Qualification
1 Turkish Basketball Federation Beşiktaş Gain 18 13[a] 5 1666 1489 +177 Advance to quarterfinals
2 French Federation of Basketball Cosea JL Bourg 18 13[a] 5 1495 1383 +112
3 Basketball Federation of Montenegro Budućnost VOLI 18 12[b] 6 1598 1461 +137 Advance to eighthfinals
4 Turkish Basketball Federation Türk Telekom 18 12[b] 6 1562 1352 +210
5 Italian Basketball Federation Dolomiti Energia Trento 18 11 7 1486 1513 27
6 German Basketball Federation Niners Chemnitz 18 9 9 1449 1458 9
7 German Basketball Federation ratiopharm Ulm 18 7 11 1470 1622 152
8 British Basketball London Lions 18 5[c] 13 1335 1437 102
9 Lithuanian Basketball Federation Lietkabelis 18 5[c] 13 1415 1502 87
10 Hellenic Basketball Federation Panionios Cosmorama Travel 18 3 15 1349 1608 259
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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.
Notes:
  1. Beşiktaş Gain 193–159 Cosea JL Bourg
  2. Budućnost VOLI 163–160 Türk Telekom
  3. London Lions 132–127 Lietkabelis

Results

Playoffs

The playoffs began on 11 March with the eighthfinals and will end at the latest on 1 May 2026 with the Finals. In the playoffs, teams play against each other in a knockout tournament into four rounds from eighthfinals to finals. At the end of the regular season, the six teams from each group with the most wins qualified for the playoffs. The two top teams from each regular season group received a bye and qualified directly to the quarterfinals. The remaining eight qualified teams entered the eighthfinals to compete in a single-game format in which the third-placed teams of each group faced off against the sixth-placed teams of the opposite groups and the fourth-placed teams of each group faced off against the fifth-placed teams of the opposite groups. The four winning teams from eighthfinals entered the quarterfinals to faced off in a single-game format in the home of the two top teams from each regular season group. The higher-placed regular season team in each matchup enjoyed home court advantage in eighthfinals and quarterfinals. From semifinals onwards, teams play in best-of-three series with the first leg and third leg, if necessary, in the home court of the higher-placed regular season team to crown the EuroCup champion.[5][6]

Bracket

Eighthfinals Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
Turkish Basketball Federation Beşiktaş Gain 77
Italian Basketball Federation Umana Reyer Venezia 90 Italian Basketball Federation Dolomiti Energia Trento 76
Italian Basketball Federation Dolomiti Energia Trento 94 Turkish Basketball Federation Beşiktaş Gain 91 82 2
Turkish Basketball Federation Bahçeşehir Koleji 72 72 0
Turkish Basketball Federation Bahçeşehir Koleji 75
Basketball Federation of Montenegro Budućnost VOLI 82 Romanian Basketball Federation U-BT Cluj-Napoca 72
Romanian Basketball Federation U-BT Cluj-Napoca 100 Turkish Basketball Federation Beşiktaş Gain 60 71 0
French Federation of Basketball Cosea JL Bourg 72 73 2
French Federation of Basketball Cosea JL Bourg 83
Basketball Federation of Slovenia Cedevita Olimpija 73 Basketball Federation of Slovenia Cedevita Olimpija 79
German Basketball Federation Niners Chemnitz 65 French Federation of Basketball Cosea JL Bourg 71 76 94 2
Turkish Basketball Federation Türk Telekom 99 73 78 1
Israeli Basketball Association Hapoel Midtown Jerusalem 90
Turkish Basketball Federation Türk Telekom 98 Turkish Basketball Federation Türk Telekom 91
Spanish Basketball Federation Baxi Manresa 81

Eighthfinals

The eighthfinals were played on 11 March 2026.

Quarterfinals

The quarterfinals were played on 17–18 March 2026.

Semifinals

The first legs were played on 31 March, the second legs on 3 April and the third legs on 8 April 2026.

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Finals

The first leg was played on 22 April, the second leg on 28 April and the third leg on 1 May 2026, if necessary.

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Team 1SeriesTeam 21st leg2nd leg3rd leg
Beşiktaş Gain Turkish Basketball Federation0–2French Federation of Basketball Cosea JL Bourg60–7271–73
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Awards

All official awards of the 2025–26 EuroCup.

EuroCup MVP

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EuroCup Final MVP

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Player Team Ref.
France Adam MokokaFrance Cosea JL Bourg[8]
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All–EuroCup Teams

Coach of the Year

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Rising Star

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MVP of the Round

Regular season

Playoffs

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Round Player Team PIR Ref.
EighthfinalsPanama Iverson MolinarRomanian Basketball Federation U-BT Cluj-Napoca39[31]
QuarterfinalsUnited States Kyle AllmanTurkish Basketball Federation Türk Telekom31[32]
SemifinalsUnited States Devon DotsonTurkish Basketball Federation Beşiktaş Gain21.0[33]
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References

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