The 2023–24 EuroCup Basketball season was the 22nd season of Euroleague Basketball's secondary level professional club basketball tournament. It was the 16th season since it was renamed from the ULEB Cup to the EuroCup, and the first season under the new title sponsorship name of BKT The season began on 3 October 2023 and will end at the latest on 17 April 2024 with the Finals.
Dreamland Gran Canaria were the defending champions after refusing to take part in the 2023–24 EuroLeague via spot granted to the title holders, but were eliminated in eighthfinals.
Paris Basketball swept Mincidelice JL Bourg to achieve its first continental crown by winning its first EuroCup title in an almost perfect season with 22 wins and only one loss balance that earned it a spot in the 2024–25 EuroLeague. It was also the second French side to win the EuroCup after AS Monaco triumph in the 2020–21 season.
Format changes The format changes consisted of reformatting the Playoffs. Access to the stage was reduced with only six teams per group qualifying instead of eight, with the top two from each group bypassing the Eighthfinals and proceeding directly to the Quarterfinals. Furthermore, the Semifinals and Finals were switched back to a best-of-three series format, returning to it after two seasons.
Team allocation A total of 20 teams from 14 countries participatedin the 2023–24 EuroCup season. On June 29, 2023, Euroleague Basketball confirmed the team list for this season. Three new teams joined the competition and Wolves will make their debut appearance.
Teams League positions after playoffs of the previous season shown in parentheses (TH: EuroCup title holders). + Qualified teams for 2023–24 EuroCup Basketball (by entry round) Regular season Budućnost VOLI Joventut Badalona Cedevita Olimpija Dreamland Gran Canaria TH Mincidelice JL Bourg Türk Telekom Paris Basketball Beşiktaş Emlakjet ratiopharm Ulm Aris Midea Veolia Towers Hamburg Hapoel Shlomo Tel Aviv Umana Reyer Venezia Śląsk Wrocław Dolomiti Energia Trento U-BT Cluj-Napoca 7bet-Lietkabelis Prometey Wolves London Lions Notes
Round and draw dates The schedule of the competition was as follows.
+ Schedule for 2023–24 EuroCup Basketball Phase Round Draw date First leg Second leg Third leg Regular season Round 1 7 July 2023 3–4 October 2023 Round 2 10–11 October 2023 Round 3 17–18 October 2023 Round 4 24–25 October 2023 Round 5 31 October–1 November 2023 Round 6 7–8 November 2023 Round 7 14–15 November 2023 Round 8 21–22 November 2023 Round 9 28–29 November 2023 Round 10 5–6 December 2023 Round 11 12–13 December 2023 Round 12 19–20 December 2023 Round 13 26–27 December 2023 Round 14 9–10 January 2024 Round 15 16–17 January 2024 Round 16 23–24 January 2024 Round 17 30–31 January 2024 Round 18 6–7 February 2024 Playoffs Eighthfinals 5–6 March 2024 Quarterfinals 12–13 March 2024 Semifinals 26 March 2024 29 March 2024 3 April 2024 Finals 9 April 2024 12 April 2024 17 April 2024
Draw The draw was held on 7 July 2023 in Barcelona, Spain.
The 20 teams were drawn into two groups of 10, with the restriction that teams from the same league could not be drawn against each other, except when there were more than two teams from the same league participating in the regular season. For the draw, the teams were seeded into 10 pots, in accordance with the Club Ranking, based on their performance in European competitions during a three-year period and the lowest possible position that any club from that league can occupy in the draw is calculated by adding the results of the worst performing team from each league. +Pot 1 Team Dreamland Gran Canaria Hapoel Shlomo Tel Aviv+Pot 2 Team Joventut Badalona Budućnost VOLI+Pot 3 Team Cedevita Olimpija ratiopharm Ulm+Pot 4 Team Mincidelice JL Bourg Paris Basketball+Pot 5 Team Umana Reyer Venezia Türk Telekom+Pot 6 Team 7bet-Lietkabelis Wolves+Pot 7 Team Aris Midea Beşiktaş Emlakjet+Pot 8 Team Veolia Towers Hamburg Dolomiti Energia Trento+Pot 9 Team Śląsk Wrocław Prometey+Pot 10 Team London Lions U-BT Cluj-Napoca
The fixtures were decided after the draw, using a computer draw not shown to public, with the following match sequence:
Note: Positions for scheduling do not use the seeding pots, e.g., Team 1 is not necessarily the team from Pot 1 in the draw. RoundMatchesRound 110 v 5, 6 v 4, 7 v 3, 8 v 2, 9 v 1Round 21 v 10, 2 v 9, 3 v 8, 4 v 7, 5 v 6Round 310 v 6, 7 v 5, 8 v 4, 9 v 3, 1 v 2Round 42 v 10, 3 v 1, 4 v 9, 5 v 8, 6 v 7Round 510 v 7, 8 v 6, 9 v 5, 1 v 4, 2 v 3Round 63 v 10, 4 v 2, 5 v 1, 6 v 9, 7 v 8Round 710 v 8, 9 v 7, 1 v 6, 2 v 5, 3 v 4Round 810 v 4, 5 v 3, 6 v 2, 7 v 1, 8 v 9Round 99 v 10, 1 v 8, 2 v 7, 3 v 6, 4 v 5RoundMatchesRound 105 v 10, 4 v 6, 3 v 7, 2 v 8, 1 v 9Round 1110 v 1, 9 v 2, 8 v 3, 7 v 4, 6 v 5Round 126 v 10, 5 v 7, 4 v 8, 3 v 9, 2 v 1Round 1310 v 2, 1 v 3, 9 v 4, 8 v 5, 7 v 6Round 147 v 10, 6 v 8, 5 v 9, 4 v 1, 3 v 2Round 1510 v 3, 2 v 4, 1 v 5, 9 v 6, 8 v 7Round 168 v 10, 7 v 9, 6 v 1, 5 v 2, 4 v 3Round 174 v 10, 3 v 5, 2 v 6, 1 v 7, 9 v 8Round 1810 v 9, 8 v 1, 7 v 2, 6 v 3, 5 v 4
There were scheduling restrictions: for example, teams from the same city in general were not scheduled to play at home on the same round (to avoid them playing at home on the same day or on consecutive days, due to logistics and crowd control).
Regular season
The regular season started on 3 October 2023 and ended on 7 February 2024. In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format where only six teams advanced to the playoffs. Moreover, the top two teams in each regular season group received first round playoff byes, skipping the eighthfinals to be placed directly into the quarterfinals. At the tail end of the standings, four teams from each group were eliminated after the regular season. Alongside 17 returning teams from last season, Wolves made its debut appearance, and Aris Midea and Beşiktaş Emlakjet welcomed back to the EuroCup eight years later.
Group A Standings
Results
Group B Standings
Results
Playoffs
In the playoffs, teams played against each other in a knockout tournament into four rounds from eighthfinals to finals. At the end of the regular season, the six teams from each group with the most wins qualified for the playoffs. The two top teams from each regular season group received a bye and qualified directly to the quarterfinals. The remaining eight qualified teams entered the eighthfinals to compete in a single-game format in which the third-placed teams of each group faced off against the sixth-placed teams of the opposite groups and the fourth-placed teams of each group faced off against the fifth-placed teams of the opposite groups. The four winning teams from eighthfinals entered the quarterfinals to faced off in a single-game format in the home of the two top teams from each regular season group. The higher-placed regular season team in each matchup enjoyed home court advantage in eighthfinals and quarterfinals. From semifinals onwards, teams played in best-of-three series with the first leg and third leg, if necessary, in the home court of the higher-placed regular season team to crown the EuroCup champion.
Bracket
Eighthfinals
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Finals
Awards EuroCup MVP PlayerTeam T. J. Shorts Paris Basketball
EuroCup Final MVP PlayerTeam T. J. Shorts Paris Basketball
BKT All–EuroCup Teams BKT All–EuroCup First Team BKT All–EuroCup Second Team Ref Player Team Player Team T. J. Shorts Paris Basketball Andrés Feliz Joventut Badalona Trevion Williams Ratiopharm Ulm Patrick Richard U-BT Cluj-Napoca Gabriel Olaseni London Lions Nadir Hifi Paris Basketball Isiaha Mike Mincidelice JL Bourg Deividas Sirvydis Lietkabelis Matt Morgan London Lions Emanuel Cățe U-BT Cluj-Napoca
Coach of the Year CoachTeam Tuomas Iisalo Paris Basketball
Rising Star PlayerTeam Zaccharie Risacher JL Bourg
MVP of the round Regular season RoundPlayerTeam PIR 1 T. J. Shorts Paris Basketball 30 2 Matt Morgan London Lions 30 3 Vladimír Brodziansky Joventut Badalona 31 Trevion Williams ratiopharm Ulm 4 Tre'Shawn Thurman Wolves 37 5 Andrew Andrews Joventut Badalona 42 6 Rasheed Sulaimon Wolves 36 7 Karel Guzmán U-BT Cluj-Napoca 34 8 Xavier Munford Hapoel Tel Aviv 35 9 Conor Morgan London Lions 36 10 Matt Morgan (x2) London Lions 32 T. J. Shorts (x2) Paris Basketball 11 Ondřej Balvín Prometey Slobozhanske 28 12 T. J. Shorts (x3) Paris Basketball 37 13 Tyrone Wallace Türk Telekom 39 14 Kyle Wiltjer Umana Reyer Venezia 39 15 Ángel Delgado Beşiktaş Emlakjet 36 16 Tyrone Wallace (x2) Türk Telekom 39 17 Emanuel Cățe U-BT Cluj-Napoca 38 18 Marco Spissu Umana Reyer Venezia 29
Playoffs RoundPlayerTeam PIR Eighthfinals Andrés Feliz Joventut Badalona 36 Quarterfinals T. J. Shorts (x4) Paris Basketball 28 Semifinals T. J. Shorts (x5) Paris Basketball 28.5
Average attendances
See also 2023–24 EuroLeague 2023–24 Basketball Champions League 2023–24 FIBA Europe Cup 2023–24 EuroLeague Women 2023–24 EuroCup Women 2023–24 EuroCup Women Qualification Round
References
External links Official website