The 2025–26 FIBA Europe Cup was the 11th season of the FIBA Europe Cup, a European basketball competition for clubs launched by FIBA Europe.
Bilbao Basket are the defending champions, and will defend their title in the competition.
Team allocation A total of 47 teams from 19 of the 50 FIBA Europe member associations will be expected to participate in the 2024–25 FIBA Europe Cup season. The official list of teams were announced by FIBA on 11 July 2025.
After the release of the teams, Rīgas Zeļļi from Latvia withdrew from the qualifying round, which led to the automatic placement in the regular season of Peristeri, based on the Club Competition Rankings.
Teams The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.: League position after eventual Playoffs CL QR: Transferred from Champions League qualifying rounds TH: Title holders
+ Qualified teams for 2025–26 FIBA Europe Cup (by entry round)Regular season Surne Bilbao BasketTH (16th) Pallacanestro Reggiana Cedevita Junior (5th) UCAM Murcia Dinamo Sassari (10th) Bakken Bears Casademont Zaragoza (12th) Start Lublin JDA Dijon (8th) Petrolina AEK Larnaca Energa Trefl Sopot (3rd) Kutaisi 2010 Keravnos (2nd) Porto Falco Szombathely Kalev/Cramo Sporting CP (3rd) Petkim Spor (11th) University of Tartu (2nd) CSM CSU Raiffeisen Oradea Trepça Löwen Braunschweig Vâlcea 1924 (3rd) Pelister Rostock Seawolves (10th) Neftçi İK (2nd) PAOK Windrose Giants Antwerp Peristeri (8th) Rilski Sportist Qualifying round Kangoeroes Mechelen (2nd) Anwil Wloclawek (4th) Cibona (3rd) Balkan (3rd) Prievidza (3rd) PUMPA Basket Brno (2nd) Anorthosis Famagusta (3rd) Dnipro (1st) Rasta Vechta (12th) Transcom Pärnu (5th) Absheron Lions (3rd) Bashkimi (2nd) Corona Brașov (5th) Bosna BH Telecom (2nd) Rīgas Zeļļi (3rd)
Draw The draw for both the qualifying rounds and regular season was held on 23 July 2025 in Munich, Germany.
Qualifying round The qualifying round took place on 24 September and 1 October 2025 in two-legged ties in which the series winners advanced to the regular season.
Lucky losers The additional spots were made available after Patrioti Levice, Bursaspor and Élan Chalon qualified for the Basketball Champions League. The three lucky losers were determined by the best loser series from the FIBA Europe Cup Qualifying Round in accordance to Section D of the Official Basketball Rules.
Regular season The regular season was played by 40 teams divided into 10 groups of four in which 14 teams received direct spots, 10 teams advanced from the qualifying round and 16 teams came from the Basketball Champions League qualifying rounds. It began on 14 October 2025 and concluded on 19 November 2025. In each group, teams were played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. And the end of the regular season, the top team from each regular season group plus the best six second-placed teams will advance to the second round, while the rest of the teams will be eliminated after the regular season.
Vâlcea 1924 and Neftçi İK will make their debut appearances in a European competition.
No team from Israel participated in the competition for the third season in-a-row.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Group G
Group H
Group I
Group J
Ranking of second-placed teams
Second round It began on 10 December 2025 and will conclude on 11 February 2026. In each group, teams will play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. At the end of the second round, the top two teams from each regular season group will advance to the quarter-finals, while the rest of the teams will be eliminated.
Group K
Group L
Group M
Group N
Play-offs The play-offs will begin on 11 March and was conclude on 22–29 April 2026 with the finals. In the play-offs, teams played against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis.
Source: FIBA
Quarter-finals The first legs was held on 11 March, and the second legs on 18 March 2026.
Semi-finals The first legs was held on 1 April, and the second legs on 8 April 2026.
Finals The first leg was held on 22 April, and the second leg on 29 April 2026.
Individual awards MVP of the Month MonthPlayerTeam 2025 October Devonte Green Neftçi November Cleveland Melvin PAOK December Jake Van Tubbergen Peristeri 2026 January Yannick Franke Petkim Spor February Edin Atić Bosna BH Telecom March Zoltán Perl Falco Szombathely
See also 2025–26 EuroLeague 2025–26 Basketball Champions League 2025–26 EuroCup Basketball
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References
External links Official website