{"id":459339,"date":"2025-09-10T11:24:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=459339"},"modified":"2025-09-10T11:24:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:24:24","slug":"athens-reportedly-to-host-the-2026-euroleague-final-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/athens-reportedly-to-host-the-2026-euroleague-final-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Athens reportedly to host the 2026 EuroLeague Final Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"855\" data-end=\"1031\">The <strong data-start=\"859\" data-end=\"889\">EuroLeague Final Four 2026<\/strong> will be staged in <strong data-start=\"908\" data-end=\"918\">Athens<\/strong>, at the renovated <strong data-start=\"937\" data-end=\"961\">Telekom Center Arena<\/strong> (formerly OAKA), following the decision of EuroLeague shareholders.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1033\" data-end=\"1214\">The Greek capital edged Belgrade with a record bid worth around <strong data-start=\"1097\" data-end=\"1111\">\u20ac9 million<\/strong>. The semifinals are scheduled for Friday, May 22, with the championship game set for Sunday, May 24.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1216\" data-end=\"1366\">It will be the fourth Final Four hosted in Greece, after Piraeus 1993, Thessaloniki 2000, and Athens 2007, when <strong data-start=\"1328\" data-end=\"1345\">Panathinaikos<\/strong> lifted the trophy.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1368\" data-end=\"1390\"><a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/news-226429-euroleague-final-four-2026-host-city.html#google_vignette\"><em data-start=\"1368\" data-end=\"1388\">Source: BasketNews<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EuroLeague Final Four 2026 will be staged in Athens, at the renovated Telekom Center Arena (formerly OAKA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":440961,"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":[199,249],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-459339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-greece"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/05\/oaka-panathinaikos.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459339","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=459339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459339"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=459339"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=459339"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=459339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}