The FIBA “Eurocup” list released

By Aris Barkas/ barkas@eurohoops.net

One day before the draw of the new FIBA Europe club competition, the list of the 56 teams which will compete is finally published. With Spanish, Greek and Serbian clubs absent, the real standouts are few, like Cibona from Croatia, Tony Parker owned ASVEL from France, Belgium’s champion Oostende, past glories from Italy Cantu and Varese and the Turkish duo of Gaziantep and Turk Telekom.

Still there are reports around Europe at least for three clubs, Helios from Slovenia and Prienai and Lietkabelis from Lithuania, which were informed just today that they will not play in the competition. It’s a bumpy start to say the least.

According to the press release: “The teams will be geographically placed in two conferences which also takes into account the number of participating teams from each nation. Each conference will consist of seven groups of four clubs each.

Each club will play the remaining three in their group in a home-and-away format with the top two teams from each group, along with the four best-placed third place teams advancing to the Round of 32.

The Round of 32 will follow the same format as the Regular Season, with the two best-placed clubs from each group advancing to the Last 16 Play-Offs.

The tournament Final Four is set to take place from 29 April to 1 May 2016.

The Draw for the competition will take place in Freising, Germany on 4 August at 1pm (CET)”

FIBA Europe Club competition

 

 CONFERENCE 1

CONFERENCE 2

1

BEL BC Telenet Oostende   1 BLR Tsmoki Minsk
1 CRO BC Cibona   1 EST Tartu Rock
1 CZE CEZ Basketball Nymburk   1 EST BC Kalev/Cramo
1 FRA ASVEL Basket    1 POL PGE Turow Zgorzelec
1 FRA Elan Chalon   1 ROU Energia Targu Jiu
1 GER Fraport Skyliners   1 TUR Türk Telekom Ankara
1 ITA FoxTown Cantu   1 TUR Royal Hali Gaziantep
2 BEL Belfius Mons-Hainaut   2 FIN Kataja Basket
2 BEL PO Antwerp Giants   2 FIN KTP-Basket
2 DEN Bakken Bears   2 KAZ BC Astana
2 FRA STB Le Havre   2 LAT BK Ventspils
2 NED SPM Shoeters Den Bosch   2 LTU BC Siauliai
2 SLO KK KRKA Novo Mesto   2 RUS BC Enisey *
2 SWE Södertälje Kings   2 UKR BC Khimik Yuzhne
3 AUT magnofit Güssing Knights   3 BUL PBC Lukoil Academic
3 ITA Pallacanestro Varese Spa   3 BUL BC Rilski Sportist
3 NED Donar Groningen   3 CYP AEK Larnaca
3 NED ZZ Leiden   3 CYP ETHA Engomi
3 POR Sport Lisboa e Benfica   3 POL Rosa Radom
3 SLO Tayfun Sentjur   3 POL Slask Wroclaw
3 SWE Boras Basket   3 ROU BC Timisoara
4 AUT ece Bulls Kapfenberg   4 ISR Maccabi Rishon Le Zion
4 HUN Sopron KC   4 KOS BC Sigal Prishtina
4 HUN Falco KC Szombathely   4 LTU Utenos Juventus
4 HUN Egis Körmend   4 LTU Pieno Zvaigzdes
4 IRL Hibernia Basketball   4 MKD KK Kumanovo 2009
4 POR FC do Porto   4 SVK MBK Rieker Komarno
4 SLO KK Zlatorog Lasko   4 SVK BK Inter Bratislava

 

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