{"id":174489,"date":"2020-09-27T09:18:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T07:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=174489"},"modified":"2020-09-27T09:18:25","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T07:18:25","slug":"bcl-breaks-25-year-european-record-with-clubs-from-18-countries-in-regular-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/bcl-breaks-25-year-european-record-with-clubs-from-18-countries-in-regular-season\/","title":{"rendered":"BCL breaks 25-year European record with clubs from 18 countries in Regular Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Basketball Champions League Qualification Rounds just ended and the exciting prospect of taking part in the Regular Season became a reality for four additional teams who will be joining the fifth edition of the competition.<\/p>\n

After Keravnos (CYP) and Tsmoki-Minsk (BLR) yesterday, Bakken Bears (DEN) and Igokea (BIH) won their ticket this evening to advance to the group stage of the Regular Season starting on October 20.<\/p>\n

With 32 participating teams, coming from 18 different countries, the BCL is breaking new ground as being the first European league in quarter of a century with such a variety of countries in the Regular Season.<\/p>\n

The groups are distributed as such:<\/p>\n

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Regular Season (alphabetically)
\n<\/strong>
\nGroup A<\/strong>: Bakken Bears (DEN),\u00a0Dinamo Sassari (ITA), Galatasaray Doga Sigorta (TUR), Iberostar Tenerife (ESP)<\/p>\n

Group B<\/strong>:\u00a0ERA Nymburk (CZE),\u00a0JDA Dijon (FRA), Keravnos (CYP), Tofas Bursa (TUR)<\/p>\n

Group C<\/strong>: AEK (GRE), Cholet (FRA), Hapoel Holon (ISR), Tsmoki-Minsk (BLR)<\/p>\n

Group D<\/strong>: Casademont Zaragoza (ESP), Falco Szombathely (HUN),\u00a0Nizhny Novgorod (RUS),\u00a0Pszcz\u00f3lka Start Lublin (POL)<\/p>\n

Group E<\/strong>: Peristeri (GRE), Rytas Vilnius (LTU), SIG Strasbourg (FRA), VEF Riga (LAT)<\/p>\n

Group F<\/strong>:\u00a0Brose Bamberg (GER), Fortitudo Bologna (ITA), Pinar Karsiyaka (TUR),\u00a0RETAbet Bilbao (ESP)<\/p>\n

Group G<\/strong>:\u00a0Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem (ISR),\u00a0Igokea (BIH), Limoges CSP (FRA),\u00a0T\u00fcrk Telekom (TUR)<\/p>\n

Group H<\/strong>:\u00a0Darussafaka Tekfen (TUR), Filou Oostende (BEL),\u00a0Happy Casa Brindisi (ITA), Hereda\u00a0San Pablo Burgos (ESP)<\/p>\n

The Regular Season consists of eight (8) groups of four (4) teams each, with games played home and away in a round robin system. The two (2) best ranked teams from each group will advance to the Play-Offs. The 3rd and 4th place finishers of each group will be eliminated.<\/p>\n

The action will tip off on October 20 and conclude with the Final Four on May 7-9, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The action will tip off on October 20 and conclude with the Final Four on May 7-9, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[83],"tags":[148],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-174489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball-champions-league","tag-happy-casa-brindisi"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174489"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=174489"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=174489"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=174489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}