Basketball Champions League

Basketball Champions League

Current season	2019/20
sport	basketball
Association	FIBA
League foundation	2016
Teams	48 teams
Country countries	30 nations
Title holder	Virtus Segafredo Bologna
Record champions	AEK Athens Iberostar Tenerife Virtus Segafredo Bologna (1 each)
Website	basketballcl.com
↓ FIBA Europe Cup

The Basketball Champions League is a European basketball competition for men's club teams . It is carried out by FIBA . The competition was held for the first time in the 2016/17 season . Before the FIBA Europe Cup, it is the most important European basketball competition for clubs, which is held by FIBA.

The competition is in direct competition to the ULEB discharged Euro League .

Shareholders

The shares of the league are divided equally between FIBA ​​and an association of ten national league or national associations. The individual associations together hold 50%, the other 50% are borne by FIBA ​​itself. Specifically, these are the associations of Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Poland and Turkey. The Spanish association joined this association in December 2018.

mode

See the respective season to be carried out.

history

FIBA once organized a European Cup competition for basketball clubs. After FIBA ​​reformed this competition for the 1996/97 season, it renamed it the Euroleague . As a result, other national league associations joined the ULEB, founded in 1991, which had once been brought into being to better protect the interests of national associations vis-à-vis FIBA ​​and to promote the development of basketball in Europe.

Since the FIBA, in the opinion of the ULEB, did not or hardly considered their interests, it announced from the 2000/01 season that it wanted to install a competing competition, which has since then also operated under the name Euroleague. FIBA reformed its competition one more time and renamed it FIBA Suproleague . However, since it became clear that the financially strongest and largest clubs in Europe preferred the ULEB competition, FIBA ​​stopped the Suproleague competition after just one season. With the introduction of the Eurocup , another competition installed by the ULEB, FIBA ​​also discontinued the Saporta and Korać Cup competitions and founded a new alternative competition known as the EuroChallenge .

However, this enjoyed little popularity and formed the least significant European basketball competition. In the summer of 2015, FIBA ​​announced a new club competition and discontinued the EuroChallenge for it. With the FIBA Europe Cup, FIBA ​​paved the way for the Champions League. This should again be the most important of all club competitions. The ULEB responded to the new challenge by reforming its own competitions. In the Euroleague, for example, it reduced the number of participating teams from 24 to 16 clubs, but increased the number of games to be played. At the same time, 40 teams take part in the Champions League.

Final Four

season	venue	winner	finalist	Third	Fourth
2016/17	La Laguna	Iberostar Tenerife	Banvit Bandırma	AS Monaco	Umana Reyer Venice
2017/18	OAKA , Athens	AEK Athens	AS Monaco	UCAM Murcia	MHP giant Ludwigsburg
2018/19	Sportpaleis , Antwerp	Segafredo Virtus Bologna	Iberostar Tenerife	Telenet Giants Antwerp	Brose Bamberg

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ ACB becomes a shareholder in BCL (German)