The 2024–25 East Asia Super League was the second regular season of the

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, an international

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club competition involving teams from

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and

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. The season began on 2 October 2024 and ended 9 March 2025. The

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was held in

. The Hiroshima Dragonflies won their inaugural title, after defeating the

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in the final.

Teams

Allocation

The 2024–25 East Asia Super League has ten teams, two more compared the last season. Like the last season, the finalist of the Taiwan's (Chinese Taipei) P. League+, Japan's

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and South Korea's

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qualified and took part for the 2024–25 season alongside two teams from the

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(PBA). The allocation process for Philippine teams was not immediately known since the PBA has two conferences or tournaments for its 2023–24 season. The PBA decided to send the champions of those two conferences. On 14 August 2024, a team each from Hong Kong and Macau were announced as expansion teams. Eastern in particular are contracted to participate regardless of placing in the domestic league.

Qualified teams

Foreign and heritage players

The EASL allows a maximum of two foreign players or imports. Additionally teams are allowed to have one additional heritage or naturalized player.

Draw

The result of the draw for the group stage of the 2024–25 season was announced in April 2024 at the time when only the Korean Basketball League qualifying teams are already known; but the champions and runner-up Korean teams are still to be determined. For the placeholder teams team 1 would be the champions, and team 2 would be the runners-up. For the Philippines' case it was the PBA Commissioner's Cup champions which was designated as Team 1 and the PBA Philippine Cup champions as Team 2. The Hong Kong and Macau team were belatedly added to Group A and Group B respectively.

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Final four

The final four was held at the Studio City Event Center in

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Semifinals

''Note: All times are

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Third place game

Finals

Individual awards

* Final Four MVP: Dwayne Evans, Hiroshima Dragonflies

Notes

References

External links

Official website
{{East Asia Super League 2024–25 in Asian basketball leagues East Asia Super League seasons