The 2026–27 Basketball Champions League will be the 11th season of the Basketball Champions League (BCL), a European professional basketball competition for clubs launched by FIBA. BC Rytas are the defending champions. The finalists of this season's Basketball Champions League will have opportunity to participate in the inaugural season of the NBA Europe.
Team allocation A total of 54 teams from 29 of the 50 FIBA Europe member associations are set to participate in the 2026–27 Basketball Champions League. The country ranking based on the country coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each country: All countries, if they entered, each have at least one team qualify. The winners of the 2025–26 Basketball Champions League are given an additional entry if they do not qualify for the 2026–27 Basketball Champions League through their domestic league. The organizer may grant access to the League through the attribution of up to 4 invitations (wild cards) to the Regular Season or to the Qualification Rounds. If one or more clubs do not use their right to participate in the Basketball Champions League, the organiser may decide to allocate the respective place(s) to other clubs of the same or other country.
Country ranking For the 2026–27 Basketball Champions League, the countries are allocated places according to their country coefficients, which takes into account their performance from 2023–24 to 2025–26. +Country ranking for 2026–27 Basketball Champions League Rank Country Coeff. Teams 1 101.204+1 2 68.652+2 3 65.752+2 4 65.002+1 5 62.583+0 6 53.253+2 7 52.002+0 8 50.502+0 9 45.252+0 10 39.001+0 11 27.000+1 12 24.001+0 13 21.001+1 14 21.001+0 15 20.501+0 16 20.000+1 17 19.001+1 Rank Country Coeff. Teams 18 9.001+1 19 7.000+0 20 6.000+2 21 5.000+1 22 5.000+1 23 4.000+0 24 4.000+1 25 4.000+0 26 3.000+1 27 3.000+1 28 3.000+1 29 3.000+1 30 2.000+1 31 2.000+0 32 1.000+0 33 0.000+1 34 0.001+0
Teams The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round: TH: Title holders FEC: FIBA Europe Cup champions 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.: League positions of the previous season
+ Qualified teams for 2026–27 Basketball Champions League (by entry round) Regular season Asisa Joventut Slavia Prague ERA NBK Trabzonspor UCAM Murcia KVIS Pardubice Galatasaray MCT Technic Surne Bilbao FEC AEK Sabah Unicaja Peristeri Betsson Windrose Giants Antwerp Nanterre 92 Hapoel Netanel Holon Igokea m:tel Cholet Bnei Penlink Herzliya Cibona SIG Strasbourg Pallacanestro Reggiana Falco Szombathely Alba Berlin Openjobmetis Varese Legia Warsaw (1st) BMA365 Bamberg Juventus Porto Telekom Baskets Bonn Rytas TH Spartak Office Shoes Qualifying rounds Fitness First Würzburg Baskets Vienna VEF Rīga Rasta Vechta Absheron Lions Landstede Hammers Kolossos H Hotels Rilski Sportist Dziki Warsaw Promitheas Patras Petrolina AEK Larnaca Benfica Fribourg Olympic Opava CSM CSU Raiffeisen Oradea Lions de Genève Bakken Bears Patrioti Levice Yukatel Denizli Basket Salon Vilpas Río Breogán Biotekno Körfez Basket Batumi Manchester Basketball
Referees A total of 54 officials are set to work on the 2026–27 season in Basketball Champions League: Referees of the 2026−27 season Geert Jacobs Ademir Zurapović Martin Horozov Ventsislav Velikov Branimir Galić Josip Jurčević Martin Vulić Elias Kounelles Ivor Matějek Mihkel Männiste Rainis Varv Edgard Ceccarelli Yann Vezo Davidson Valentin Oliot Yohan Rosso Ioannis Agrafiotis Ilias Karpanos Georgios Poursanidis Péter Praksch Lorenzo Baldini Andrea Bongiorni Valerio Grigioni Andris Aunkrogers Elvis Binders-Coders Ritvars Helmsteins Mārtiņš Kozlovskis Gatis Saliņš Juozas Barkauskas Gvidas Gedvilas Gintaras Mačiulis Gizella Viola Györgyi Lukasz Jankowski Tomasz Wit Langowski Wojciech Liszka Michał Proc Dariusz Zapolski Julio Anaya Paulo Marques Marius Ciulin Nemanja Ninković Petar Pešić Siniša Prpa Zdenko Tomašovič Boris Krejić Blaž Zupančič Fernando Calatrava Luis Castillo Ariadna Chueca Antonio Conde Tolga Edis Orhan Cagri Hekimoglu Mehmet Sahin Yener Yılmaz Zafer Yılmaz
Round and draw dates The schedule will be announced soon, possibly at the draw of the regular season and qualifiers.
Qualifying rounds The 24 teams will face in two qualifying round tournaments. The qualifying tournaments will take place from 14 to 20 September 2026. In the tournament "Country Representation 1" will be the eight champions and finalists from countries which are not in the regular season announced teams. In the tournament "Country Representration 2" will be the remaining 16 next best ranked teams. The winner of both qualifying tournaments will advance to the regular season of the Basketball Champions League.
Draw The draw for the qualifying rounds was held on 8 July 2026 at the Patrick Baumann House of Basketball in Mies, Switzerland. The draw will be streamed live on the official Youtube channel of the Basketball Champions League.
Pots for Country Representation 1 +Pot 1 Team Patrioti Levice 7 Fribourg Olympic 6+Pot 2 Team Bakken Bears 5 Raiffeisen Oradea 4 +Pot 3 Team Petrolina AEK Larnaca 2 Landstede Hammers 5.00+Pot 4 Team Salon Vilpas 3.00 Batumi 3.00
Pots for Country Representation 2 +Pot 1Team Promitheas63 Würzburg Baskets52 VEF Rīga27 Benfica 24+Pot 2Team Biotekno Körfez24 Río Breogán17 Rasta Vechta8 Opava5 +Pot 3Team Kolossos H Hotels5 Rilski Sportist3 Yukatel Denizli Basket 68.65 Dziki Warsaw19.00+Pot 4Team Absheron Lions9.00 Lions de Genève6.00 Manchester Basketball2.00 Vienna0.00 Notes
Indicates teams with no club points, therefore using the country points as a tiebreaker.
Country Representation 1 The tournament 1 will be played on September 16–20, 2026.
Source: FIBA
Country Representation 2 The tournament 2 will be played on September 14–20, 2026.
Source: FIBA
Regular season
The regular season will be played by 32 teams divided into eight groups of four in which 30 teams receive direct spots plus the two qualifying round tournaments winners. The regular season will begin on 6 October and will conclude on 23 December 2026. In each group, teams will play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format where the eight group winners from each regular season group will qualify directly to the round of 16. Moreover, the second-placed and third-placed will qualify to the play-ins, where the series winners will qualify for the round of 16, while the remaining last-placed teams will be eliminated after the regular season.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Group G
Group H
Notes
Indicates teams with no club points, therefore using the country points as a tiebreaker.
See also 2026–27 EuroLeague 2026–27 EuroCup Basketball 2026–27 FIBA Europe Cup References
External links Official website