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The 2024–25 Basketball Champions League was the 9th season of the
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(BCL), the European
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launched by
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. The season began on 1 October 2024 and ended on 11 May 2025. Unicaja Málaga were the defending champions, and successfully defended their title by defeating
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, which was hosted in the Sunel Arena in
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for a second time in history.


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: *All countries, if they entered, each have at least one team qualify. *The winners of the
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are given an additional entry if they do not qualify for the 2024–25 Basketball Champions League through their domestic league. *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. *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.


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.


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 *AV: Allocated vacancy ;Notes


Referees

A total of 54 officials are set to work on the 2024–25 season in Basketball Champions League: After the 2023–24 season, five referees left the squad, two were added.


Qualifying rounds


Draw

The draw for the qualifying rounds was held on 26 June 2024 at the Patrick Baumann House in
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. 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
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and join the 28 directly qualified teams in the main draw. The rest of the teams will qualify, if they apply, to the
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Champions paths


League paths

;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
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Tournament 2

The tournament 2 will be played on September 18–22, 2024 at the Gloria Sports Arena in
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Tournament 3

The tournament 3 will be played on September 17–21, 2024 at the Gloria Sports Arena in
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Tournament 4

The tournament 4 will be played on September 18–22, 2024 at the Gloria Sports Arena in
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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. 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
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Final Four in May 2025. ;Notes : Indicates teams with no club points, therefore using the country points as a tiebreaker.


Group A


Group B


Group C


Group D


Group E


Group F


Group G


Group H


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.


Round of 16

The Round of 16 will take place from January 28 until March 26, 2025. The groups will be formed by the winners of each Regular Season Group and by eight Play-Ins winners. The 16 teams will be divided in 4 groups, 4 teams each. The first two of each groups advance to the quarter-finals.


Group I


Group J


Group K


Group L


Playoffs

The playoffs will begin 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


Bracket


Quarterfinals

The quarterfinals will be played in a best-of-3 series and start on April 8. The seeded teams will play their first (and potential third) game at home, the unseeded teams will play their second game at home. Second game will be played April 15–16, and potential thirds on April 23.


Final Four


Semifinals

The semifinals were played on 9 May 2025.


Third place game

The third place game was played on 11 May 2025.


Final

The final was played on 11 May 2025.


Individual awards


Season awards

The annual season awards was announced during the Final Four weekend.


Star Lineup


MVP of the Group Phase


Team of the Group Phase


MVP of the Play-Ins


Team of the Play-Ins


MVP of the Round of 16


Team of the Round of 16


MVP of the Quarter-Finals


Team of the Quarter-Finals


See also

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2024–25 EuroLeague The 2024–25 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague was the 25th season of the modern era of the EuroLeague, and the 15th under the title sponsorship of Turkish Airlines. Including the competition's previous incarnation as the FIBA Europe Champions Cup, ...
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2024–25 FIBA Europe Cup The 2024–25 FIBA Europe Cup was the 10th season of the FIBA Europe Cup, a European basketball competition for sports club, clubs launched by FIBA Europe. Team allocation A total of 44 teams from 25 of the 50 FIBA Europe member associations p ...


References


External links


Official websiteQualifying rounds official website
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