A few dozen minutes ago it was made official the list of 18 teams that will take part in the 2024-2025 Euroleague season. The most important news, from an Italian perspective, is that there will still be two Italian teams at the start.
In fact, there remains a place for Virtus Segafredo Bologna in the top continental league alongside that of Olimpia Milano, which is one of the founders of the current format (and, indeed, they intend to go for an extension until 2040). This is the complete list of teams at the start, with the debut of Paris Basketball and the exit of Valencia Basket: ALBA Berlin, FC Bayern Munich (Germany), Anadolu Efes Istanbul, Fenerbahce Istanbul (Turkey), AS Monaco, ASVEL Villeurbanne, Paris Basketball (France), Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz, FC Barcelona, Real Madrid (Spain), Olimpia EA7 Emporio Armani Milan, Virtus Segafredo Bologna (Italy)Maccabi Tel Aviv (Israel), Olympiacos Piraeus, Panathinaikos (Greece), Partizan Belgrade, Red Star Belgrade (Serbia), Zalgiris Kaunas (Lithuania).
Basketball, eight players from Olimpia Milano and Virtus Bologna join the Italian gathering
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The EuroCup participants have also been determined. Again two Italian teams will participate, Aquila Basket Trento and Umana Reyer Venezia. Thus the complete list: Lietkabelis Panevezys, Wolves Vilnius (Lithuania), Aris Thessaloniki (Greece), Bahcesehir College Istanbul, Besiktas Istanbul, Turk Telekom Ankara (Turkey), Buducnost Podgorica (Montenegro), Cedevita Olimpia Ljubljana (Slovenia), Dolomiti Energia Trento, Umana Reyer Venice (Italy)Gran Canaria, Joventut Badalona, Valencia Basket (Spain), Hapoel Jerusalem, Hapoel Tel Aviv (ISrael), JL Bourg-en-Bresse (France), Ratiopharm Ulm, Veolia Towers Hamburg (Germany) Trefl Sopot (Poland), U- BT Cluj-Napoca (Romania).
The season, as regards the Euroleague, will start on 3 October, while as regards the EuroCup it will start on 24 September. The overlap with the window for the national teams in November remains, while, as in the past season, any conflict is avoided in February. In the statement, the clubs define positively the conversations with FIBA that have taken place over the last 11 months.
