EuroLeague 2025-2026 season schedule announced

The 2025-2026 season fixtures of the Basketball European League have been announced.

According to the statement made by the Europa League, the regular season, which will be played with 20 teams, will play 38 matches. The regular season, which will start on September 30, 2025, will conclude with the 38th week of matches to be played on April 17, 2026. Following the completion of the regular season, the top 6 teams will advance to the play-offs. The teams finishing in 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th places in the league will compete in the play-in. 2 teams will receive a play-off ticket in this round. The play-in matches will be held on Tuesday, April 21 and Friday, April 24. Following the conclusion of the play-in matches, the play-off matches will begin on Tuesday, April 28. The matches, which will be played as a best of 5 matches, will be completed by Wednesday, May 13 at the latest. The 4 teams that defeat their opponents in the play-off round will meet in the Final Four. Following the semifinals on Friday, May 22nd, the final match, which will determine the EuroLeague champion, will be played on Sunday, May 24th. Turkish teams Anadolu Efes and Fenerbahçe Beko will play their first match in Week 6, hosted by Anadolu Efes. Dubai Basketball, one of the new teams in the league, will host Serbia's Partizan at Fuente de San Luis, the home of another new team, Valencia Basket, in their first-week match. The schedule for the first week of the Basketball EuroLeague is as follows: Tuesday, September 30th: 7:00 PM Hapoel IBI Tel Aviv - Barcelona (Venue not determined) 7:00 PM Dubai Basketball - Partizan (Fuente de San Luis) 8:45 PM Anadolu Efes - Maccabi Rapyd Tel Aviv (Basketball Development Center) 9:00 PM Crvena Zvezda - EA7 Emporio Armani Milan (Stark Arena) 9:15 PM Panathinaikos AKTOR - Bayern Munich (OAKA Arena) 9:30 PM Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz - Olympiakos (BUESA Arena) 21.45 Virtus Bologna - Real Madrid (Virtus Segafredo Arena) Wednesday, October 1: 20.30 AS Monaco - Zalgiris Kaunas (Salle Gaston Medecin) 20.45 Fenerbahçe Beko - Paris Basketbol (Ülker Spor ve Etkin) 21.00 LDLC Asvel Villeurbanne - Valencia Basket (Stark Arena)