2025–26 EuroLeague
| EuroLeague | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | 2025–26 | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 30 September 2025 – 24 May 2026 | ||||||||||||
| Teams | 20 | ||||||||||||
| Statistical leaders | |||||||||||||
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| Records | |||||||||||||
| Biggest home win | Žalgiris 109–68 Partizan (19 December 2025) | ||||||||||||
| Biggest away win | Partizan 66–104 Olympiacos (14 January 2026) | ||||||||||||
| Highest scoring | Barcelona 134–124 Saski Baskonia (19 December 2025) | ||||||||||||
| Lowest scoring | Bayern Munich 64–53 Milan (14 October 2025) | ||||||||||||
| Winning streak | 7 games Crvena zvezda | ||||||||||||
| Losing streak | 9 games Bayern Munich | ||||||||||||
| Highest attendance | 21,854 Partizan 79–76 Crvena zvezda (12 December 2025) | ||||||||||||
| Lowest attendance | 100 Maccabi Tel Aviv 89–83 Baskonia (13 November 2025) | ||||||||||||
← 2024–25 2026–27 →
All statistics correct as of 16 January 2026. | |||||||||||||
The 2025–26 EuroLeague is the 26th season of the modern era of the EuroLeague. Including the competition's previous incarnation as the FIBA Europe Champions Cup, this is the 69th season of the premier basketball competition for European men's clubs. This is the first season in the league without the sponsorship of Turkish Airlines since 2009–10 season. The Final Four will be held at Telekom Center Athens in Athens, Greece, which marks the second time the Greek capital hosts the Final Four, the first being in 2007.[1]
Starting from this season, the league was expanded from 18 to 20 teams, allowing Dubai Basketball to enter the competition, becoming the first non-Israeli team from outside of Europe to play in the league.
Fenerbahçe Beko are the defending champions.
Teams
[edit]Team changes (pre-season)
[edit]A total of 20 teams will participate in the league, including 17 teams from the 2024–25 season, two promoted from the 2024–25 EuroCup and one receiving a long-term wild card.[2][3]
On 11 April 2025, Hapoel IBI Tel Aviv won the EuroCup title by sweeping Dreamland Gran Canaria, and earned the spot to EuroLeague. It will be the debut season of the team in the European top flight.[4] On May 7, 2025, ALBA Berlin opted to play in the FIBA-organised Basketball Champions League, after competing for 24 years in Euroleague Basketball competitions.[5] On June 19, 2025, the allocation of long-term wild cards to the following clubs was approved with the aims of ensuring the EuroLeague's long-term sustainability and supporting its strategic expansion to 20 teams:[3]
- Three-year wild card until the 2027–28 season: Crvena zvezda Meridianbet, Partizan Mozzart Bet, Valencia Basket and Virtus Bologna.
- Five-year wild card until the 2029–30 season: Dubai Basketball.
Qualified teams
[edit]The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
- Notes
- ^ Valencia Basket earned a three-year wild card until the 2027–28 season.[3]
- ^ Dubai Basketball earned a five-year wild card until the 2029–30 season.[3]
- ^ ALBA Berlin opted to participate in the Basketball Champions League (BCL) organized under the umbrella of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) after 24 years competing in Euroleague Basketball competitions.[5]
Venues and locations
[edit]Managerial changes
[edit]| Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Replaced with | Date of appointment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Signed by Portland Trail Blazers | 11 June 2025[37] | Pre-season | 30 June 2025[38] | |||
| Mutual agreement | 15 June 2025[39] | 2 July 2025[40] | ||||
| 23 June 2025[41] | 28 June 2025[42] | |||||
| 3 July 2025 | 3 July 2025 | |||||
| 8 August 2025 | 8 August 2025 | |||||
| 9 October 2025[43] | 20th (0–2) | 11 October 2025[44] | ||||
| Fired | 9 November 2025[45] | 9th (5–4) | 13 November 2025[46] | |||
| Resigned | 24 November 2025[47] | 11th (6–6) | 24 November 2025[47] | |||
| 26 November 2025[48] | 18th (4–9) | 23 December 2025[49] | ||||
| Fired | 27 November 2025[50] | 15th (5–8) | 13 December 2025[51] | |||
| Fired | 20 December 2025[52] | 19th (5–12) | 22 December 2025[53] |
Referees
[edit]A total of 70 Euroleague Basketball officials are set to work on the 2025–26 season in EuroLeague and EuroCup:
Gentian Cici
Leandro Lezcano
Nick van den Broeck
Dragan Porobić
Denis Hadžić
Franko Gracin
Josip Radojković
Luka Kardum
Sreten Radović
Tomislav Hordov
Robert Vyklický
Rain Peerandi
Hugues Thépénier
Joseph Bissang
Maxime Boubert
Mehdi Difallah
Thomas Bissuel
Anne Panther
Christian Theis
Robert Lottermoser
Steve Bittner
Eduard Udyanskyy
Ioannis Foufis
Ioannis Tiganis
Vassilis Pitsilkas
Vasiliki Tsaroucha
Adar Peer
Amit Balak
Noam Gordon
Seffi Shemmesh
Guido Giovannetti
Manuel Attard
Michele Rossi
Kristaps Konstantinovs
Oļegs Latiševs
Artūras Šukys
Gytis Vilius
Igor Dragojević
Miloš Koljenšić
Jakub Zamojski
Marcin Kowalski
Piotr Pastusiak
Tomasz Trawicki
Sérgio Silva
Ilija Belošević
Marko Juras
Milivoje Jovčić
Stefan Ćalić
Uroš Nikolić
Uroš Obrknežević
Damir Javor
Mario Majkić
Milan Nedović
Saša Pukl
Sašo Petek
Alberto Baena
Arnau Padrós
Carlos Cortés
Carlos Peruga
Emilio Pérez
Jordi Aliaga
Juan Carlos García
Miguel Ángel Pérez
Sergio Manuel
Saulius Račys
Can Mavisu
Emin Moğulkoç
Hüseyin Çelik
Kerem Baki
Borys Ryzhyk
Regular season
[edit]The regular season began on 30 September 2025 and will conclude on 17 April 2026. The 20 teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format over 38 rounds, where only 10 teams will advance to the postseason. Moreover, the top six teams from regular season will receive a bye to the playoffs, while the teams placed from 7th to 10th will participate in the play-in to get the last two playoff spots. At the tail end of the standings, teams placed from 11th to 20th will be eliminated after the regular season.
League table
[edit]
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 26 | 19 | 7 | 2144 | 2056 | +88 | Qualification to playoffs | |
| 2 | 26 | 17 | 9 | 2335 | 2162 | +173 | ||
| 3 | 27 | 17 | 10 | 2434 | 2334 | +100 | ||
| 4 | 27 | 17 | 10 | 2304 | 2264 | +40 | ||
| 5 | 26 | 16 | 10 | 2225 | 2124 | +101 | ||
| 6 | 27 | 16 | 11 | 2364 | 2258 | +106 | ||
| 7 | 27 | 16 | 11 | 2347 | 2300 | +47 | Qualification to play-in | |
| 8 | 27 | 16 | 11 | 2302 | 2255 | +47 | ||
| 9 | 27 | 15 | 12 | 2390 | 2248 | +142 | ||
| 10 | 27 | 15 | 12 | 2423 | 2298 | +125 | ||
| 11 | 27 | 14 | 13 | 2287 | 2295 | −8 | ||
| 12 | 27 | 13 | 14 | 2347 | 2375 | −28 | ||
| 13 | 27 | 12 | 15 | 2217 | 2273 | −56 | ||
| 14 | 27 | 12 | 15 | 2384 | 2452 | −68 | ||
| 15 | 27 | 12 | 15 | 2158 | 2232 | −74 | ||
| 16 | 27 | 9 | 18 | 2326 | 2429 | −103 | ||
| 17 | 27 | 9 | 18 | 2153 | 2376 | −223 | ||
| 18 | 26 | 8 | 18 | 2317 | 2400 | −83 | ||
| 19 | 27 | 8 | 19 | 2114 | 2237 | −123 | ||
| 20 | 27 | 7 | 20 | 2100 | 2303 | −203 |
Rules for classification: Regular season tiebreakers
Results
[edit]Awards
[edit]All official awards of the 2025–26 EuroLeague.
MVP of the Round
[edit]- Regular season
MVP of the Month
[edit]| Month | Round | Player | Team | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | ||||
| October | 1–8 | [81] | ||
| November | 9–13 | [82] | ||
| December | 14–18 | [83] | ||
| January | 19–25 | [84] | ||
Attendances
[edit]| Pos | Team | Total | High | Low | Average | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 238,813 | 18,999 | 15,603 | 18,370 | +5.2% | |
| 2 | 248,495 | 20,787 | 5,672 | 17,750 | −2.7% | |
| 3 | 206,706 | 21,854 | 1,093 | 15,900 | −14.3% | |
| 4 | 177,167 | 15,203 | 14,430 | 14,764 | −0.7% | |
| 5 | 157,003 | 12,750 | 10,540 | 12,077 | +3.8% | |
| 6 | 143,064 | 14,922 | 7,994 | 11,922 | n/a1 | |
| 7 | 167,374 | 11,500 | 10,007 | 11,158 | +2.4% | |
| 8 | 127,447 | 12,813 | 2,541 | 9,103 | −16.7% | |
| 9 | 107,680 | 12,156 | 7,165 | 8,973 | −2.8% | |
| 10 | 112,696 | 14,114 | 7,234 | 8,669 | −8.6% | |
| 11 | 113,097 | 11,536 | 4,637 | 7,540 | +2.3% | |
| 12 | 109,456 | 10,000 | 3,578 | 7,297 | −23.7% | |
| 13 | 89,616 | 10,102 | 3,631 | 6,894 | −11.6% | |
| 14 | 88,029 | 12,440 | 3,352 | 6,771 | −11.2% | |
| 15 | 66,700 | 7,648 | 5,117 | 6,064 | n/a1 | |
| 16 | 83,446 | 10,396 | 3,339 | 5,960 | −34.9% | |
| 17 | 68,493 | 7,294 | 4,125 | 5,708 | −8.6% | |
| 18 | 69,505 | 10,000 | 780 | 5,347 | n/a1 | |
| 19 | 52,090 | 5,000 | 3,898 | 4,341 | +6.7% | |
| 20 | 51,898 | 10,353 | 100 | 3,992 | +2,023.4% | |
| League total | 2,478,775 | 21,854 | 100 | 9,461 | −10.2% |
Source: EuroLeague
Notes:
1: Team did not participate in the last EuroLeague regular season.
- ^ Maccabi Rapyd Tel Aviv and Hapoel IBI Tel Aviv play their home games at Aleksandar Nikolic Hall in Belgrade, Serbia and Arena 8888 in Sofia, Bulgaria respectively due to security concerns derived from the ongoing Gaza war.[85] Starting from Round 15, Maccabi Rapyd Tel Aviv and Hapoel IBI Tel Aviv play their home games back in Israel.[86]
- ^ Fenerbahçe Beko games against Maccabi Rapyd Tel Aviv and Hapoel IBI Tel Aviv were relocated to SAP Garden in Munich, Germany due to security concerns.[87]
- ^ Anadolu Efes games against Maccabi Rapyd Tel Aviv and Hapoel IBI Tel Aviv were relocated to Morača Sports Center in Podgorica, Montenegro due to security concerns.[88]
- ^ Dubai Basketball game against Hapoel IBI Tel Aviv was relocated to Zetra Olympic Hall in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, behind closed doors, due to security concerns. Dubai Basketball game against Maccabi Rapyd Tel Aviv was played behind closed doors due to security concerns. Both games are not included in league and team total. [89]
- ^ Valencia game against Hapoel IBI Tel Aviv was played behind closed doors due to security concerns. Game attendance is not included in league total.[90]
update: 06/02/2026
Notes
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