Basketball Champions League teams for the 2024-25 season revealed

By Eurohoops team / info@eurohoops.net

After lifting the trophy at the end of April in the Belgrade Arena, Unicaja Malaga is set to defend the Basketball Champions League title in the 2024-25 season, as the full picture has been announced.

The other three Final Four teams (Peristeri, UCAM Murcia, and Tenerife) are returning as well, with eight newcomers like the reigning FIBA Europe Cup champions: Niners Chemnitz.

The regular season teams will be joined by four more clubs coming from four respective Qualification Rounds tournaments with six teams each participating in it for a total of 24 teams.

“The complete lineup features 17 national league champions, five of which are in the Regular Season – Rytas Vilnius (Lithuania), Filou Oostende (Belgium), Igokea m:tel (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Falco Szombathely (Hungary) and VEF Riga (Latvia) – and 12 in the Qualification Rounds, stretching from Portugal’s SL Benfica to Azerbaijan’s Sabah and from Finland’s BC Nokia to Keravnos of Cyprus”, per the official press release.

“The Qualification Round tournaments will take place in mid-September, while the Regular Season will get underway on October 1, 2024. The draw ceremony for the Regular Season groups and the Qualification Round tournaments will take place at the Patrick Baumann House of Basketball at 11:00 CEST on Wednesday, June 26″, it also said.

Full list of teams in the 2024-25 BCL Regular Season:

AEK betsson (GRE); BAXI Manresa (ESP); Bertram Derthona Tortona (ITA); Falco Szombathely (HUN); Filou Oostende (BEL); FMP SoccerBet (SRB); Galatasaray (TUR); Hapoel Netanel Holon (ISR); Igokea m:tel (BIH); King Szczecin (POL); Kolossos Rhodes (GRE); La Laguna Tenerife (ESP); Maccabi Ramat Gan (ISR); Manisa Büyükşehir Belediyespor (TUR); Nanterre 92 (FRA); NINERS Chemnitz (GER); Pallacanestro Reggiana (ITA); Peristeri (GRE); Pinar Karsiyaka (TUR); Promitheas Patras (GRE); RASTA Vechta (GER); Rytas Vilnius (LTU); Saint-Quentin Basket-Ball (FRA); UCAM Murcia (ESP); Unicaja (ESP); VEF Riga (LAT); WKS Slask Wroclaw (POL); Wurzburg Baskets (GER).

Past 𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙨, reigning @FIBAEuropeCup 𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨, five 𝙙𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙢𝙥𝙨, eight 𝙣𝙚𝙬𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙨 and many, many more – welcome to #BasketballCL 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐍𝐨. 𝟗! 💌 pic.twitter.com/PjkckVqRrY

— Basketball Champions League (@BasketballCL) June 18, 2024

Full list of teams to play 2024-25 BCL Qualification Rounds

Aliaga Petkimspor (TUR); BC Kutaisi 2010 (GEO); BC Nokia (FIN); Caledonia Gladiators (GBR); Cholet Basket (FRA); CSM CSU Oradea (ROU); Dinamo Banco di Sardegna Sassari (ITA); ERA Nymburk (CZE); Fribourg Olympic (SUI); Heroes den Bosch (NED); Juventus Utena (LTU); Kalev/Cramo (EST); Keravnos BC (CYP); MoraBanc Andorra (ESP); Norrkoping Dolphins (SWE); PAOK mateco (GRE); Patrioti Levice (SVK); Rilski Sportist (BUL); SL Benfica (POR); Sabah (AZE); Spartak Subotica (SRB); Telenet Giants Antwerp (BEL); Telekom Baskets Bonn (GER); Trepca (KOS).

✈️ 𝟏𝟐 𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙢𝙥𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 among the 𝟐𝟒 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐬 searching for the four remaining boarding passes from the 𝙌𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙍𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙨 to the #BasketballCL Regular Season – 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗴𝗼𝘁? pic.twitter.com/F5a8Hw30LQ

— Basketball Champions League (@BasketballCL) June 18, 2024