{"id":428123,"date":"2025-02-12T09:49:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T08:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=428123"},"modified":"2025-02-12T09:49:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T08:49:17","slug":"euroleague-presents-expansion-plans-two-format-options-considered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/euroleague-presents-expansion-plans-two-format-options-considered\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroLeague Presents Expansion Plans: Two Format Options Considered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"151\" data-end=\"472\">The <strong data-start=\"155\" data-end=\"169\">EuroLeague<\/strong> has unveiled its long-anticipated <strong data-start=\"204\" data-end=\"222\">expansion plan<\/strong>, aiming to increase the competition to <strong data-start=\"262\" data-end=\"274\">20 teams<\/strong>. During a pivotal two-day shareholders&#8217; meeting, while no final decisions were made, two distinct <strong data-start=\"373\" data-end=\"391\">format options<\/strong> were presented, each with significant implications for the league\u2019s structure.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"474\" data-end=\"706\">The first option maintains the <strong data-start=\"505\" data-end=\"535\">current round-robin format<\/strong>, expanding to <strong data-start=\"550\" data-end=\"563\">38 rounds<\/strong> with <strong data-start=\"569\" data-end=\"595\">nine double-game weeks<\/strong>. This would require the season to start just a week after <strong data-start=\"654\" data-end=\"673\">EuroBasket 2025<\/strong>, posing scheduling challenges.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"708\" data-end=\"761\">The alternative introduces a <strong data-start=\"737\" data-end=\"758\">conference system<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"762\" data-end=\"950\">\n<li data-start=\"762\" data-end=\"802\"><strong data-start=\"764\" data-end=\"795\">Two conferences of 10 teams<\/strong> each<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"803\" data-end=\"836\"><strong data-start=\"805\" data-end=\"834\">18 intra-conference games<\/strong><\/li>\n<li data-start=\"837\" data-end=\"914\"><strong data-start=\"839\" data-end=\"877\">One inter-conference game per team<\/strong> (home\/away), totaling <strong data-start=\"900\" data-end=\"912\">28 games<\/strong><\/li>\n<li data-start=\"915\" data-end=\"950\">Only <strong data-start=\"922\" data-end=\"948\">four double-game weeks<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-start=\"952\" data-end=\"1087\">While this structure offers a more manageable calendar, it reduces the number of <strong data-start=\"1033\" data-end=\"1047\">home games<\/strong>, potentially impacting club revenues.<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"1089\" data-end=\"1132\"><\/h3>\n<p>Source: Eurohoops.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi&#8217;s Petition for Return to Tel Aviv Denied Amid Ongoing Concerns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":409687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-428123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/10\/euroleague-logo-1.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428123","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428123"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=428123"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=428123"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=428123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}