2026–27 Basketball Champions League
european basketball competition
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.
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
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.
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