The 2026–27 European North Basketball League will be the sixth season of the European North Basketball League, a regional basketball competition patronised by FIBA.
Teams
18 teams will participate in the ENBL season 26–27.
Juventus Utena from Lithuania was amongst the first clubs to be announced to participate in the sixth season of the ENBL. At the moment of publication, the club was however still participating in the play-offs. The club had some unexpected successes and achieved a second place in the play-offs, meaning a ticket for the FIBA Champions League. The club therefore withdrew from the ENBL and joined the Champions League instead.
TRIA EKA AEL is the first club participating from Cyprus. The club announced that they signed an agreement to allow them participation for the coming three year.
Similar to the last season, too many clubs from Croatia were willing to participate to the ENBL. Since the league only had two groups this year and in each group only 1 team per country were allowed, a qualifying tournament was held again to determine which 2 clubs were allowed to participate in the ENBL. Between 17. September and 20. September, the clubs held a qualifying tournament in a round robin format. The best 2 teams would qualify. Participating teams were: Dubrava Dinamo Zagreb Zabok Alkar Sinj
Dubrava and Alkar Sinj emerged victories from the qualifying tournament and therefore earned their spot for the sixth ENBL season.
1st, 2nd, 3rd etc. – positions in national championships TH - Title holder
Regular season Bristol Flyers (6th) Mitteldeutscher BC (13th) Spartak Pleven (6th) Donar (4th) Fyllingen Lions (1st) Jonava Hipocredit (8th) CSO Voluntari (6th) TalTech (3rd) Anwil Włocławek (9th) Hefte Helfen Bulls (1st) Pully Lausanne Foxes (4th) Dubrava (7th) BK Liepāja (6th) Tindastóll (2nd) HKK Zrinjski 1992 (11th) Alkar Sinj (9th) TRIA EKA AEL (3rd) BC CIU Tbilisi (8th)
Format
Like previous years, participation in the ENBL is not linked to domestic results. Clubs can participate by paying a membership and participation fee to the league. The league allows clubs the freedom to apply for the ENBL while simultaneously awaiting the result of the division of Champions League or Europe Cup tickets. This gives the clubs the opportunity to ensure European basketball, whether in the ENBL or the FIBA tournaments.
The league has limited participation to two clubs per country.
The league will be split into two groups of 9 teams, with each nationality only represented once in each group. Each team will play four home games and four away games and play against each opponent only once. After the group stage, the best four teams of each group will advance to the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals, a home and away game will decide which team advances to the Final Four.
Regular season Group A
Group B
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