The 24 Eurocup teams are unveiled

By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net

A list of 24 teams to play in the 2016-17 Eurocup Regular Season was approved. The team list features teams from a total of 12 countries as the Eurocup retains the wide reach that has made it such a popular competition throughout the continent.

While no teams from France and Turkey were included, clubs from Germany, Greece, Italy, Croatia, Israel, Spain, Russia, Lithuania, Poland, Serbia, Montenegro and Slovenia are part of Eurocup for the next season.

The field will feature five former Eurocup champions: Valencia Basket (2003, 2010 and 2014), Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem (2004), Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius (2005, 2009), Khimki Moscow Region (2012, 2015) and Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar (2013) and a total of 17 former Euroleague participants.

The teams will be divided into four groups of six teams each playing 10 round-robin games starting in October. The best four teams in each regular season group will advance to the Top 16, which will consist of four groups of four teams, which will play six round-robin games beginning in early January 2017. From there, the quarterfinals, semifinals and finals – each consisting of best-of-three playoff series– will be played in order to decide the 2017 Eurocup Champion, who in turn will qualify for the 2017-18 Turkish Airlines Euroleague. The Eurocup draw will be held on the 7th of July in Barcelona, Spain.

Here are the 2016-17 Eurocup clubs:

AEK Athens Greece
ALBA Berlin Germany
Buducnost VOLI Podgorica ABA League
Cedevita Zagreb ABA League
Dinamo Banco di Sardegna Sassari Italy
Dolomiti Energia Trento Italy
Dominion Bilbao Basket (Wild card) Spain
FC Bayern Munich Germany
FoxTown Cantu (Wild card) Italy
Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia Italy
Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem Israel
Herbalife Gran Canaria Las Palmas Spain
Khimki Moscow Region Russia
Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius Lithuania
Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar Russia
Nizhny Novgorod (Wild card) Russia
Partizan NIS Belgrade ABA League
ratiopharm Ulm Germany
Stelmet Zielona Gora Poland
UCAM Murcia Spain
Unicaja Malaga Spain
Union Olimpija Ljubljana (Wild card) ABA League
Valencia Basket Spain
Zenit St Petersburg Russia
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