The 2025–26 EuroLeague was the 26th season of the modern era of the EuroLeague. Including the competition's previous incarnation as the FIBA Europe Champions Cup, it was the 69th season of the premier basketball competition for European men's clubs. This was also the first season in the league without the sponsorship of Turkish Airlines since 2009–10 season. The Final Four was held at Telekom Center Athens in Athens, Greece, which marked the second time the Greek capital hosted the Final Four, the first being in 2007.
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 were the defending champions, but they failed to retain the title after being eliminated by eventual winners Olympiacos in the semi-finals.
Olympiacos secured their first title in 13 years and 4th overall in the Final Four, which was held at their arch rivals Panathinaikos AKTOR's venue, Telekom Center Athens. Olympiacos also became the first ever regular season leader to claim the title.
Teams
Team changes (pre-season) A total of 20 teams participated 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.
On 11 April 2025, Hapoel IBI Tel Aviv won the EuroCup title by sweeping Dreamland Gran Canaria, and earned the spot in the EuroLeague. It was the debut season of the team in the European top flight. 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. On June 19, 2025, the allocation of long-term wild cards to the following clubs was approved with the aim of ensuring the EuroLeague's long-term sustainability and supporting its strategic expansion to 20 teams: 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.
Promoted from EuroCup Applied for participation Withdrawn from participation
Qualified teams The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
+Qualified teams for 2025–26 EuroLeagueLicensed clubs Barcelona Olympiacos Fenerbahçe Maccabi Tel Aviv Baskonia Panathinaikos ASVEL Olimpia Milano Real Madrid Anadolu Efes Bayern Munich Žalgiris +Associated clubs Valencia Basket Crvena zvezda AS Monaco Hapoel IBI Tel Aviv Dubai Basketball Partizan Paris Basketball Virtus Bologna Notes
Venues and locations
Managerial changes
Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Position in table Replaced with Date of appointment Paris Basketball Tiago Splitter Signed by Portland Trail Blazers 11 June 2025 Pre-season Francesco Tabellini 30 June 2025 Anadolu Efes Luca Banchi Mutual agreement 15 June 2025 Igor Kokoškov 2 July 2025 Žalgiris Andrea Trinchieri 23 June 2025 Tomas Masiulis 28 June 2025 Real Madrid Chus Mateo3 July 2025 Sergio Scariolo3 July 2025 Baskonia Pablo Laso8 August 2025 Paolo Galbiati8 August 2025 Crvena zvezda Ioannis Sfairopoulos 9 October 2025 20th (0–2) Saša Obradović11 October 2025 Barcelona Joan Peñarroya Fired 9 November 2025 9th (5–4) Xavi Pascual 13 November 2025 Olimpia Milano Ettore Messina Resigned 24 November 2025 11th (6–6) Giuseppe Poeta 24 November 2025 Partizan Željko Obradović 26 November 2025 18th (4–9) Joan Peñarroya 23 December 2025 Anadolu Efes Igor Kokoškov Fired 27 November 2025 15th (5–8) Pablo Laso 13 December 2025 Bayern Munich Gordon Herbert Fired 20 December 2025 19th (5–12) Svetislav Pešić 22 December 2025 Monaco Vassilis Spanoulis Resigned 11 March 2026 9th (16–14) Manuchar Markoishvili 12 March 2026 Paris Basketball Francesco Tabellini Fired 23 March 2026 17th (12–21) Julius Thomas 23 March 2026 Virtus Bologna Duško Ivanović Fired 27 March 2026 15th (13–20) Nenad Jakovljević 27 March 2026 Dubai Basketball Jurica Golemac Fired 12 April 2026 11th (19–18) Aleksander Sekulić 13 April 2026
Referees A total of 70 Euroleague Basketball officials were set to work on the 2025–26 season in EuroLeague and EuroCup:
Regular season
League table
Results
Play-in
Playoffs
Playoffs series are best-of-five. The first team to win three games wins the series. A 2–2–1 format is used – teams with home-court advantage play games 1, 2, and 5 at home, while their opponents host games 3 and 4. Games 4 and 5 are only played if necessary. The four winning teams advance to the Final Four.
Series
Final Four
The Final Four went on to be hosted by the Telekom Center in Athens, Greece, as announced by EuroLeague Basketball on 10 September 2025.
Awards All official awards of the 2025–26 EuroLeague.
EuroLeague MVP Sasha Vezenkov ( Olympiacos) EuroLeague Final Four MVP Evan Fournier ( Olympiacos) All-EuroLeague Teams Pos. First Team Second Team G Sylvain Francisco Žalgiris Wade Baldwin Fenerbahçe BekoG Jean Montero Valencia Basket Tyler Dorsey OlympiacosF Elijah Bryant Hapoel IBI Tel Aviv Kendrick Nunn Panathinaikos AKTORF Sasha Vezenkov Olympiacos Talen Horton-Tucker Fenerbahçe BekoC Nikola Milutinov Olympiacos Edy Tavares Real Madrid
EuroLeague Playoffs MVP Jean Montero ( Valencia Basket)
Alphonso Ford Top Scorer Trophy Sasha Vezenkov ( Olympiacos)
Best Defender Alpha Diallo ( Monaco)
Rising Star Jean Montero ( Valencia Basket)
Coach of the Year Pedro Martínez ( Valencia Basket) Play-in MVP T. J. Shorts ( Panathinaikos AKTOR)
MVP of the Round
Regular season RoundPlayerTeam PIR 1 Kendrick Nunn Panathinaikos AKTOR 29 2 Nikola Mirotić Monaco 32 3 Sasha Vezenkov Olympiacos 34 4 Jordan Nwora Crvena zvezda Meridianbet 34 5 Sasha Vezenkov (2) Olympiacos 31 6 Roman Sorkin Maccabi Tel Aviv 30 7 Sylvain Francisco Žalgiris 35 Chima Moneke Crvena zvezda Meridianbet 8 Tornike Shengelia FC Barcelona 42 9 Mike James Monaco 37 10 Elijah Bryant Hapoel IBI Tel Aviv 38 11 Isaïa Cordinier Anadolu Efes 29 12 Théo Maledon Real Madrid 34 13 Kendrick Nunn (2) Panathinaikos AKTOR 39 Shavon Shields EA7 Emporio Armani Milan 14 Élie Okobo Monaco 39 15 Will Clyburn FC Barcelona 33 Lonnie Walker IV Maccabi Tel Aviv 16 Elijah Bryant (2) Hapoel IBI Tel Aviv 37 17 Kevin Punter FC Barcelona 40 18 Bastien Vautier LDLC ASVEL 31 19 Wade Baldwin IV Fenerbahçe Beko 29 20 Andreas Obst Bayern Munich 38 21 Sasha Vezenkov (3) Olympiacos 35 22 Saliou Niang Virtus Bologna 36 23 Ebuka Izundu Crvena zvezda Meridianbet 36 24 Kevin Punter (2) FC Barcelona 34 25 Kostas Sloukas Panathinaikos AKTOR 36 26 Mfiondu Kabengele Dubai Basketball 30 27 Jean Montero Valencia Basket 38 28 Moses Wright Žalgiris 34 29 Sylvain Francisco (2) Žalgiris 36 30 Braian Angola LDLC ASVEL 28 31 Cedi Osman Panathinaikos AKTOR 36 32 Dwayne Bacon Dubai Basketball 27 Tamir Blatt Maccabi Tel Aviv 33 Chima Moneke (2) Crvena zvezda Meridianbet 32 34 Sterling Brown Partizan Mozzart Bet 32 35 Nate Reuvers Valencia Basket 44 36 Tyler Dorsey Olympiacos 43 37 Justin Robinson Paris Basketball 35 38 Moses Wright (2) Žalgiris 43
Play-in RoundPlayerTeam PIR Play-in T. J. Shorts Panathinaikos AKTOR 24
Playoffs RoundPlayerTeam PIR 1 Nikola Milutinov Olympiacos 25 2 Facundo Campazzo Real Madrid 30 3 Ąžuolas Tubelis Žalgiris 31 4 Jean Montero (2) Valencia Basket 45 5 Brancou Badio Valencia Basket 25
MVP of the Month
MonthRoundPlayerTeam 2025October 1–8 Sylvain Francisco Žalgiris November 9–13 Kenneth Faried Panathinaikos AKTOR December 14–18 Kevin Punter Barcelona 2026January 19–25 Sasha Vezenkov Olympiacos February 26–29 McKinley Wright IV Dubai Basketball March 30–34 Carlik Jones Partizan Mozzart Bet Statistics Individual statistics
Rating RankNameTeamGamesRatingPIR1. Sasha Vezenkov Olympiacos 3986322.12. Elijah Bryant Hapoel IBI Tel Aviv3874419.63. Nikola Milutinov Olympiacos4077819.4 Source: EuroLeague Points RankNameTeamGamesPointsPPG1. Sasha Vezenkov Olympiacos3975919.02. Nadir Hifi Paris Basketball3769918.93. Kendrick Nunn Panathinaikos AKTOR3767618.3 Source: EuroLeague Rebounds RankNameTeamGamesReboundsRPG1. Nikola Milutinov Olympiacos392767.22. Jaylen Hoard Maccabi Tel Aviv352477.13. Edy Tavares Real Madrid352586.6 Source: EuroLeague Assists RankNameTeamGamesAssistsAPG1. Codi Miller-McIntyre Crvena zvezda Meridianbet392897.42. Sylvain Francisco Žalgiris432756.5 Mike James AS Monaco392526.5 Source: EuroLeague
Attendances
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References
External links Official website