By Eurohoops team / info@eurohoops.net
The Basketball Champions League enters its 10th season with the Qualification Round Tournaments and Regular Season draw scheduled for July 2 in Lausanne, Switzerland.
A total of 53 teams will compete this season. Twenty-nine teams qualify directly for the Regular Season, while 24 teams battle in three single-elimination Qualification Round Tournaments for the remaining three spots.
One tournament features champions from unrepresented countries (Champions Path), and the other two include other hopeful qualifiers.
Qualification Round Tournaments seedings:
Champions Path
Pot 1: Bakken Bears (DEN), Patrioti Levice (SVK)
Pot 2: Heroes Den Bosch (NED), Kalev/Cramo (EST)
Pot 3: Rilski Sportist (BUL), Trepca (KOS)
Pot 4: Kutaisi 2010 (GEO), Petrolina AEK Larnaca (CYP)
Other Qualification Tournaments
Pot 1: Falco Szombathely (HUN), Pallacanestro Reggiana (ITA), PAOK mateco (GRE), UCAM Murcia (ESP)
Pot 2: Bursaspor Basketbol (TUR), CSM CSU Oradea (ROU), Fribourg Olympic Basket (SUI), Karhu Basket Kauhajoki (FIN)
Pot 3: Elan Chalon (FRA), Lowen Braunschweig (GER), Uniclub Bet Juventus Utena (LTU), Windrose Giants Antwerp (BEL)
Pot 4: FC Porto (POR), Pelister Bitola (MKD), PGE Start Lublin (POL), SC Derby (MNE)
The three winners from these tournaments will join the 29 directly qualified teams in the Regular Season, which consists of eight groups of four teams.
Regular Season seedings:
Pot 1: AEK Betsson BC (GRE), ALBA BERLIN (GER), Dreamland Gran Canaria (ESP), Galatasaray MCT Technic (TUR), Joventut Badalona (ESP), La Laguna Tenerife (ESP), Rytas Vilnius (LTU), Unicaja (ESP)
Pot 2: ERA Nymburk (CZE), Filou Oostende (BEL), Hapoel Netanel Holon (ISR), Igokea m:tel (BIH), Promitheas Patras Vikos Cola (GRE), SL Benfica (POR), Tofas Bursa (TUR), VEF Riga (LAT)
Pot 3: Bnei Penlink Herzliya (ISR), Cholet Basket (FRA), FIT/One Würzburg Baskets (GER), Legia Warszawa (POL), Le Mans Sarthe Basket (FRA), Mersin Sports Club (TUR), NHSZ-Szolnoki Olajbanyasz (HUN), Sabah BC (AZE)
Pot 4: Karditsa Iaponiki (GRE), KK Spartak Office Shoes (SRB), MLP Academics Heidelberg (GER), Pallacanestro Trieste (ITA), Trapani Shark (ITA), and three Qualification Round winners
Country protection rules will apply to prevent teams from the same nation playing in the same Regular Season group.
After the Regular Season, second- and third-placed teams will face off in best-of-three Play-In series to qualify for the predetermined Round of 16 groups.
The 2024-25 Basketball Champions League Regular Season tips off on October 7, 2025.