On Wednesday, BCL draw
The new BCL season will begin to take its first steps this Wednesday with the draw for the group stage of the competition, in which Unicaja will be involved for the fourth consecutive season and which faces as current champion. The draw, which will be held at the FIBA headquarters in Mies (Switzerland), will take place at 11:00 am and will be broadcast on the BCL YouTube channel.
The team seedings for the Basketball Champions League Season 9 official draw, which will take place at 11:00 CEST on Wednesday, June 26, have been unveiled.
The draw ceremony will be livestreamed on the BCL YouTube channel. The Qualification Round tournaments will be drawn first, followed right after by the Regular Season draw.
All 52 teams that will be involved in Wednesday's draw, between the Qualification Round tournaments and the Regular Season, will be placed in pots according to their seedings, based firstly on the BCL Club Ranking and, for clubs that have not yet participated in the competition, on the BCL Country Ranking.
Regular Season
Twenty-eight (28) clubs have qualified directly for the 2024-25 Basketball Champions League Regular Season, where they will be joined by the four winners of the Qualification Round tournaments.
For the purpose of the draw, the twenty-eight (28) directly qualified teams and the four (4) Qualification Round tournaments winners will be divided into four (4) pots of eight (8) teams each. The pots are based on the above mentioned BCL Club and Country Rankings.
The Regular Season teams are seeded as follows:
Play-In series and Round of 16 groups
There will be no additional draw for the Play-Ins and the Round of 16. The second- and third-placed teams in adjacent Regular Season groups will face each other in best-of-three Play-In series (A2 v B3, B2 v A3; C2 v D3, D2 v C3; E2 v F3, F2 v E3; G2 v H3, H2 v G3), and the winners of each pairing will feed into a predetermined Round of 16 group:
Group I: A1, E1, C2/D3, G2/H3
Group J: B1, F1, D2/C3, H2/G3
Group K: C1, G1, B2/A3, E2/F3
Group L: D1, H1, A2/B3, F2/E3
Draw restrictions:
Country protection applies to the Regular Season stage of the Draw, meaning that clubs cannot be drawn in the same group with another club from their country.
The 2024-25 Regular Season will get underway on October 1, 2024.
You will be able to follow the draw live here: