2025–26 EuroLeague regular season

The 2025–26 EuroLeague regular season will begin on 30 September 2025 and end on 17 April 2026. A total of 20 teams will compete in the regular season to decide the 10 places in the postseason of the 2025–26 EuroLeague.

A total of ten countries will be represented in the regular season. This will be the tenth season with the round-robin format, which replaces the group format used until the 2015–16 season.[1] Dubai Basketball will make its debut in European competitions, despite not being a European club.[2]

Format

The regular season will begin on 30 September 2025 and conclude on 17 April 2026. The 20 teams will 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.

Tiebreakers

Teams will be ranked according to their win–loss record. If two or more teams are equal on win–loss record upon completion of the regular season, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine their rankings:

  1. Best record in head-to-head games between all tied teams.
  2. Higher cumulative score difference in head-to-head games between all tied teams.
  3. Higher cumulative score difference for the entire regular season.
  4. Higher total of points scored for the entire regular season.
  5. Higher sum of quotients of points in favor and points against of each match played in the regular season.

If a tiebreaker does not resolve a tie completely, a new tiebreak process is initiated with only those teams that remain tied. All points scored in extra periods will not be counted in the standings, nor for any tie-break situation.[3]

League table

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Qualification
1 Turkey Anadolu Efes 0 0 0 0 0 0 Qualification to playoffs
2 Spain Barcelona 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Spain Baskonia 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Germany Bayern Munich 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Serbia Crvena zvezda Meridianbet 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 United Arab Emirates Dubai Basketball 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Italy EA7 Emporio Armani Milan 0 0 0 0 0 0 Qualification to play-in
8 Turkey Fenerbahçe Beko 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Israel Hapoel IBI Tel Aviv 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 France LDLC ASVEL 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 Israel Maccabi Rapyd Tel Aviv 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 France Monaco 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 Greece Olympiacos 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 Greece Panathinaikos AKTOR 0 0 0 0 0 0
15 France Paris Basketball 0 0 0 0 0 0
16 Serbia Partizan Mozzart Bet 0 0 0 0 0 0
17 Spain Real Madrid 0 0 0 0 0 0
18 Spain Valencia Basket 0 0 0 0 0 0
19 Italy Virtus Olidata Bologna 0 0 0 0 0 0
20 Lithuania Žalgiris 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: 30 September 2025. Source: EuroLeague
Rules for classification: Regular season tiebreakers

References

  1. ^ "EuroLeague unveils 2025–26 season calendar | EuroLeague". Euroleague Basketball. 17 July 2025. Retrieved 5 August 2025.
  2. ^ "2025–26 EuroLeague and EuroCup season teams and calendar confirmed". Euroleague Basketball. 19 June 2025. Retrieved 20 June 2025.
  3. ^ "Standings | EuroLeague". Euroleague Basketball. Retrieved 16 September 2024.