Team allocation
editA total of 52 teams from 29 of the 50 FIBA Europe member associations will participate in the 2022–23 Basketball Champions League.[1] The country ranking based on the country coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each country:
- Countries 1–4 each have four teams qualify.
- Countries 5–10 (except Russia[Note RUS]) each have two teams qualify.
- All other countries (except Belarus[Note BLR]), if they have entered, each had one team qualify
- The winners of the 2021–22 Basketball Champions League are each given an additional entry if they do not qualify for the 2022–23 Basketball Champions League through their domestic league.
- Four wild cards are each given an additional entry if they do not qualify for the 2022–23 Basketball Champions League through their domestic league.
- Vacant berths are each given an additional entry if any team do not exercise their right to participate in the Champions League.
Country ranking
editFor the 2022–23 Basketball Champions League, the countries are allocated places according to their 2022 country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in Champions League from 2019–20 to 2021–22.[2]
Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, countries may have additional teams participating in the Champions League, as noted below:
- (WC) – Additional berths for wild card
- (V) – Additional/vacated berths from teams that did not exercise their right to participate in the Champions League.
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- Notes
- NR – No rank (country did not enter in any of the seasons used for computing coefficients)
- DNE – Did not enter
- NL – No basketball domestic league
Teams
editThe labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
- TH: Champions League title holders
- FEC: FIBA Europe Cup title holders
- 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.: League positions after eventual playoffs of the previous season
- Abd-: League positions of abandoned season as determined by the FIBA Europe member association
- WC: Wild card.
Notes
- ^ Russia (RUS): On 20 May 2022, the Basketball Champions League Board confirmed that Russian clubs would be withdrawn from the 2022–23 Basketball Champions League.[3]
- ^ Belarus (BLR): On 20 May 2022, the Basketball Champions League Board confirmed that Belarusian clubs would be withdrawn from the 2022–23 Basketball Champions League.[3]
- ^ Ukraine (UKR): The 2021–22 Ukrainian Basketball SuperLeague was abandoned due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The top team of the league at the time of the abandonment Budivelnyk Kyiv was selected to play in the 2022–23 Basketball Champions League by the Basketball Federation of Ukraine.
References
edit- ^ "Field set for Season Seven: 18 national champs head the lineup". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 2022-06-23.
- ^ "Country Ranking". Basketbal Champions League. Retrieved 29 June 2022.
- ^ a b "Russia and Belarus withdrawn from Basketball Champions League 2022-23". Basketball Champions League. 20 May 2022. Retrieved 29 June 2022.