The 2025–26 EuroCup Basketball season is the 24th season of Euroleague Basketball's secondary level professional club basketball tournament. It is the 18th season since it was renamed from the ULEB Cup to the EuroCup, and the third season under the new title sponsorship name of BKT. The season began on 30 September 2025 and will end at the latest on 1 May 2026 with the Finals.
Team allocation The 2025–26 EuroCup season features 20 teams from 13 countries. On June 19, 2025, Euroleague Basketball confirmed the team list for the season.
Teams League positions after the playoffs of the previous season are shown in parentheses. + Qualified teams for 2025–26 EuroCup Basketball (by entry round) Regular season ratiopharm Ulm Dolomiti Energia Trento Niners Chemnitz Umana Reyer Venezia Veolia Towers Hamburg Lietkabelis Beşiktaş Gain Neptūnas Bahçeşehir Koleji Cosea JL Bourg Türk Telekom Hapoel Midtown Jerusalem Budućnost VOLI Śląsk Wrocław Cedevita Olimpija U-BT Cluj-Napoca Panionios Cosmorama Travel Baxi Manresa Aris Betsson London Lions Notes
Round and draw dates The schedule of the competition is as follows. + Schedule for 2025–26 EuroCup Basketball Phase Round Draw date First leg Second leg Third leg Regular season Round 1 4 July 2025 30 September–1 October 2025 Round 2 7–8 October 2025 Round 3 14–15 October 2025 Round 4 21–22 October 2025 Round 5 28–29 October 2025 Round 6 4–5 November 2025 Round 7 11–12 November 2025 Round 8 18–19 November 2025 Round 9 4–5 December 2025 Round 10 9–10 December 2025 Round 11 16–17 December 2025 Round 12 30 December 2025–2 January 2026 Round 13 6–7 January 2026 Round 14 13–14 January 2026 Round 15 20–21 January 2026 Round 16 27–28 January 2026 Round 17 3–4 February 2026 Round 18 10–11 February 2026 Playoffs Eighthfinals 10–11 March 2026 Quarterfinals 17–18 March 2026 Semifinals 31 March 2026 3 April 2026 8 April 2026 Finals 22 April 2026 28 April 2026 1 May 2026
Draw The draw was held on 4 July 2025 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 Hapoel Midtown Jerusalem Türk Telekom+Pot 2 Team Cosea JL Bourg Baxi Manresa+Pot 3 Team ratiopharm Ulm U-BT Cluj-Napoca+Pot 4 Team Beşiktaş Gain Bahçeşehir Koleji+Pot 5 Team Umana Reyer Venezia Budućnost VOLI+Pot 6 Team Aris Betsson Panionios Cosmorama Travel+Pot 7 Team Lietkabelis Neptūnas+Pot 8 Team Dolomiti Energia Trento Cedevita Olimpija+Pot 9 Team Veolia Towers Hamburg Niners Chemnitz+Pot 10 Team London Lions Śląsk Wrocław
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. Round Matches Round 1 10 v 5, 6 v 4, 7 v 3, 8 v 2, 9 v 1 Round 2 1 v 10, 2 v 9, 3 v 8, 4 v 7, 5 v 6 Round 3 10 v 6, 7 v 5, 8 v 4, 9 v 3, 1 v 2 Round 4 2 v 10, 3 v 1, 4 v 9, 5 v 8, 6 v 7 Round 5 10 v 7, 8 v 6, 9 v 5, 1 v 4, 2 v 3 Round 6 3 v 10, 4 v 2, 5 v 1, 6 v 9, 7 v 8 Round 7 10 v 8, 9 v 7, 1 v 6, 2 v 5, 3 v 4 Round 8 10 v 4, 5 v 3, 6 v 2, 7 v 1, 8 v 9 Round 9 9 v 10, 1 v 8, 2 v 7, 3 v 6, 4 v 5 Round Matches Round 10 5 v 10, 4 v 6, 3 v 7, 2 v 8, 1 v 9 Round 11 10 v 1, 9 v 2, 8 v 3, 7 v 4, 6 v 5 Round 12 6 v 10, 5 v 7, 4 v 8, 3 v 9, 2 v 1 Round 13 10 v 2, 1 v 3, 9 v 4, 8 v 5, 7 v 6 Round 14 7 v 10, 6 v 8, 5 v 9, 4 v 1, 3 v 2 Round 15 10 v 3, 2 v 4, 1 v 5, 9 v 6, 8 v 7 Round 16 8 v 10, 7 v 9, 6 v 1, 5 v 2, 4 v 3 Round 17 4 v 10, 3 v 5, 2 v 6, 1 v 7, 9 v 8 Round 18 10 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 began on 30 September 2025 and concluded on 11 February 2026. 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 14 returning teams from last season, London Lions and Śląsk Wrocław returned to the EuroCup two years later, Neptūnas returned 10 years later, Panionios returned 12 years later, while Baxi Manresa and Niners Chemnitz will make their debut appearance in the EuroCup.
Group A Standings
Results
Group B Standings
Results
Playoffs
The playoffs began on 11 March with the eighthfinals and will end at the latest on 1 May 2026 with the Finals. In the playoffs, teams play 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 play 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 All official awards of the 2025–26 EuroCup.
EuroCup MVP PlayerTeam Jared Harper Hapoel Jerusalem
EuroCup Final MVP PlayerTeam Adam Mokoka Cosea JL Bourg
All–EuroCup Teams All–EuroCup First Team All–EuroCup Second Team Ref Player Team Player Team Jared Harper Hapoel Jerusalem Darius McGhee Cosea JL Bourg DeVante' Jones Dolomiti Energia Trento Daron Russell U-BT Cluj-Napoca Malachi Flynn Bahçeşehir Koleji Anthony Brown Beşiktaş Gain Kyle Allman Türk Telekom Both Gach Cosea JL Bourg Ante Žižić Beşiktaş Gain Mitch Creek U-BT Cluj-Napoca
Coach of the Year CoachTeam Dušan Alimpijević Beşiktaş Gain
Rising Star PlayerTeam Tobias Jensen ratiopharm Ulm
MVP of the Round
Regular season RoundPlayerTeam PIR 1 Bryce Jones Aris Thessaloniki 33 Michalis Lountzis Panionios 2 D.J. Stewart Cedevita Olimpija 41 3 Chris Ledlum Ratiopharm Ulm 29 4 Dušan Miletić U-BT Cluj-Napoca 31 5 Jared Harper Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem 36 6 Jared Harper (x2) Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem 37 Bryce Jones (x2) Aris Thessaloniki James Karnik Neptūnas Klaipėda 7 Cassius Winston Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem 37 8 Kevin Yebo Niners Chemnitz 38 9 Ante Žižić Beşiktaş Gain 36 10 Andrej Jakimovski Dolomiti Energia Trento 43 11 Mitch Creek U-BT Cluj-Napoca 43 12 DeVante' Jones Dolomiti Energia Trento 37 Fatts Russell U-BT Cluj-Napoca 13 Rihards Lomažs Neptūnas Klaipėda 36 14 Ante Žižić (x2) Beşiktaş Gain 34 15 DeVante' Jones (x2) Dolomiti Energia Trento 43 16 Malachi Flynn Bahçeşehir Koleji 35 17 Jared Harper (x3) Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem 33 18 Tyler Cavanaugh Bahçeşehir Koleji 32
Playoffs RoundPlayerTeam PIR Eighthfinals Iverson Molinar U-BT Cluj-Napoca 39 Quarterfinals Kyle Allman Türk Telekom 31 Semifinals Devon Dotson Beşiktaş Gain 21.0
See also 2025–26 EuroLeague 2025–26 Basketball Champions League 2025–26 FIBA Europe Cup
References
External links Official website