He UCAM Murcia CB will strengthen its idyll with the Basketball Champions League in the 2023-2024 season. The Universidad Católica club will play for the fourth season in its history in a competition that is eight years old. And as expected after their ninth place in the Endesa League, they will do so by directly entering the group stage, which will start on October 17, as announced by FIBA, which It has also revealed the twenty-nine teams that will be in the draw for next Wednesday, July 5as well as those who will seek the pass from the qualifying round.
Lenovo Tenerife, Unicaja and Río Breogán -all of them repeat, although the Galicians stayed in the qualifying phase last year- they have also achieved the same condition as UCAM Murciawhile there is a fifth, Obradoiro, which will have to fight for one of the three remaining places until reaching the thirty-two teams that will be divided into eight groups of four in the first phase.
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Same competition format
The competition format will be the same as last year. The group champions of the first phase will qualify directly for the ‘Top 16’, while the second and third will have to dispute the ‘play in’ in the month of January.
The sixteen teams that will remain alive in the continental competition, which has gained in level especially in the last two courses, will be divided into four groups of four, with the first two going to the quarterfinals, to be held in April, in a best-of-three series. The Final Four will take place in May.
The rest of the participants
The rest of the teams that already have their presence guaranteed in the group stage are the Greeks from AEK Athens, PAOK mateco, Peristeri bwin and Promitheas Patras; the Italians of Bertram Yachts Derthona, which is making its debut, and Dinamo Sassari; Bursaspor’s Turks Darussafaka Lassa, Galatasaray Nef, Pinar Karsiyaka and Tofas Bursa; the Germans from EWE Baskets Oldenburg, MHP RIESEN Ludwigsburg and Telekom Baskets Bonn, champion of the last edition; the French from JDA Bourgogne Dijon and Le Mans Sarthe Basket; the Belgian Filou Oostende; the Israelis from Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem and Hapoel Holon; Rytas Vilnius from Lithuania; Falco Vulcano Szombathely from Hungary; the Bosnian Igokea m:tel; the Pole King Szczecin; the Czech Opava; and the Latvian VEF Riga.
2023-06-27 19:00:44
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