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2025–26 EuroCup Basketball

The 2025–26 EuroCup Basketball season is the 24th season of Euroleague Basketball's secondary level professional club basketball tournament. It is the 18th season since it was renamed from the ULEB Cup to the EuroCup, and the third season under the new title sponsorship name of BKT. The season began on 30 September 2025 and will end at the latest on 1 May 2026 with the Finals.

Team allocation
The 2025–26 EuroCup season features 20 teams from 13 countries. On June 19, 2025, Euroleague Basketball confirmed the team list for the season. Teams League positions after the playoffs of the previous season are shown in parentheses. ;Notes == Round and draw dates ==
Round and draw dates
The schedule of the competition is as follows. Draw The draw was held on 4 July 2025 in Barcelona, Spain. The 20 teams were drawn into two groups of 10, with the restriction that teams from the same league could not be drawn against each other, except when there were more than two teams from the same league participating in the regular season. For the draw, the teams were seeded into 10 pots, in accordance with the Club Ranking, based on their performance in European competitions during a three-year period and the lowest possible position that any club from that league can occupy in the draw is calculated by adding the results of the worst performing team from each league. The fixtures were decided after the draw, using a computer draw not shown to public, with the following match sequence: Note: Positions for scheduling do not use the seeding pots, e.g., Team 1 is not necessarily the team from Pot 1 in the draw. There were scheduling restrictions: for example, teams from the same city in general were not scheduled to play at home on the same round (to avoid them playing at home on the same day or on consecutive days, due to logistics and crowd control). == Regular season ==
Regular season
{{Location map+ | Europe | width=500 | float=right | caption=Location of teams of the 2025–26 EuroCup regular season. Red: Group A; Green: Group B. The regular season began on 30 September 2025 and concluded on 11 February 2026. In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format where only six teams advanced to the playoffs. Moreover, the top two teams in each regular season group received first round playoff byes, skipping the eighthfinals to be placed directly into the quarterfinals. At the tail end of the standings, four teams from each group were eliminated after the regular season. Alongside 14 returning teams from last season, London Lions and Śląsk Wrocław returned to the EuroCup two years later, Neptūnas returned 10 years later, Panionios returned 12 years later, while Baxi Manresa and Niners Chemnitz will make their debut appearance in the EuroCup. Group A Standings Results Group B Standings Results == Playoffs ==
Playoffs
The playoffs began on 11 March with the eighthfinals and will end at the latest on 1 May 2026 with the Finals. In the playoffs, teams play against each other in a knockout tournament into four rounds from eighthfinals to finals. At the end of the regular season, the six teams from each group with the most wins qualified for the playoffs. The two top teams from each regular season group received a bye and qualified directly to the quarterfinals. The remaining eight qualified teams entered the eighthfinals to compete in a single-game format in which the third-placed teams of each group faced off against the sixth-placed teams of the opposite groups and the fourth-placed teams of each group faced off against the fifth-placed teams of the opposite groups. The four winning teams from eighthfinals entered the quarterfinals to faced off in a single-game format in the home of the two top teams from each regular season group. The higher-placed regular season team in each matchup enjoyed home court advantage in eighthfinals and quarterfinals. From semifinals onwards, teams play in best-of-three series with the first leg and third leg, if necessary, in the home court of the higher-placed regular season team to crown the EuroCup champion. Bracket Eighthfinals Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals == Awards ==
Awards
All official awards of the 2025–26 EuroCup. === EuroCup MVP === === EuroCup Final MVP === === All–EuroCup Teams === === Coach of the Year === === Rising Star === MVP of the Round ;Regular season Playoffs == See also ==
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