The 2025–26 Basketball Champions League will be the 10th season of the

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(BCL), a European

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competition for

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launched by

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. Unicaja are the defending champions.

Team allocation

A total of 53 teams from 30 of the 50

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member associations are set to participate in the 2025–26 Basketball Champions League. The country ranking based on the country coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each country: *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 2025–26 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 country.

Country ranking

For the 2025–26 Basketball Champions League, the countries are allocated places according to their 2025 country coefficients, which takes into account their performance from 2022–23 to 2024–25.

Teams

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round: * TH: Title holders * 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.: League positions of the previous season ;Notes

Round and draw dates

The schedule of the competition will be as follows.

Qualifying rounds

The 24 teams will face in three qualifying round tournaments, one 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 will be seeded ordered by the club ranking and by the country ranking for clubs that have not yet participated in the competition. The three winners of the finals will then qualify for the

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and will join the 29 directly qualified teams in the main draw. The rest of the teams will qualify, if they apply, to the

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Draw

The draw for the qualifying rounds will be held on 2 July 2025 at the

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, Switzerland.

Champions paths

League paths

Regular season

The regular season will be played by 32 teams divided into eight groups of four in which 29 teams receive direct spots plus the three qualifying round tournaments winners. The regular season will begin on 7 October and will conclude on 17 December 2025. In each group, teams will play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format where the eight group winners from each regular season group will qualify directly to the round of 16. Moreover, the second-placed and third-placed will qualify to the play-ins, where the series winners will qualify for the round of 16, while the remanining last-placed teams will be eliminated after the regular season. A minimum of 18 countries will be represented in the regular season which will involve up to nine domestic league champions. Continental powerhouses like

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and Dreamland Gran Canaria will join the league after their previous stage in

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competitions, others like Karditsa Iaponiki,

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and Trapani Shark will make their debut appearance in international competitions.

Draw

The draw for the regular season was held on 2 July 2025 at the

, Switzerland. ;Notes : Indicates teams with no club points, therefore using the country points as a tiebreaker.

References

External links

Official website
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