{"id":447277,"date":"2025-06-20T14:14:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T12:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=447277"},"modified":"2025-06-20T14:14:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T12:14:03","slug":"euroleague-to-adopt-conference-format-if-expanded-to-24-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/euroleague-to-adopt-conference-format-if-expanded-to-24-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroLeague to adopt conference format if expanded to 24 teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1280\" data-end=\"1510\"><strong data-start=\"1295\" data-end=\"1332\">EuroLeague CEO Paulius Motiejunas<\/strong> announced that a <strong data-start=\"1350\" data-end=\"1371\">conference format<\/strong> will be introduced if expansion goes beyond 20 teams.<br data-start=\"1425\" data-end=\"1428\" \/>\u201cThe round robin doesn\u2019t work above 20,\u201d he said during a remote press conference.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1512\" data-end=\"1712\">The league is considering a move to <strong data-start=\"1548\" data-end=\"1560\">24 teams<\/strong>, ensuring that \u201c<strong data-start=\"1577\" data-end=\"1599\">Every game matters<\/strong>\u201d remains the core philosophy.<br data-start=\"1629\" data-end=\"1632\" \/>All teams would still face each other, avoiding random draws or uneven matchups.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1714\" data-end=\"1869\">Motiejunas emphasized alignment with <strong data-start=\"1751\" data-end=\"1759\">FIBA<\/strong> and domestic calendars.<br data-start=\"1783\" data-end=\"1786\" \/>\u201cWe want growth, but not at the expense of the basketball ecosystem,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1871\" data-end=\"1936\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><strong data-start=\"1871\" data-end=\"1882\">Source:<\/strong> <em data-start=\"1883\" data-end=\"1895\">BasketNews<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CEO Paulius Motiejunas confirmed changes if the league surpasses 20 teams<\/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":[165],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-447277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"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\/447277","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=447277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447277\/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=447277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447277"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=447277"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=447277"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=447277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}