{"id":486369,"date":"2026-03-03T16:53:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=486369"},"modified":"2026-03-03T16:53:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:53:37","slug":"euroleague-moves-middle-eastern-teams-home-games-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/euroleague-moves-middle-eastern-teams-home-games-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroLeague moves middle eastern teams\u2019 home games abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex flex-col text-sm\">\n<article class=\"text-token-text-primary w-full focus:outline-none [--shadow-height:45px] has-data-writing-block:pointer-events-none has-data-writing-block:-mt-(--shadow-height) has-data-writing-block:pt-(--shadow-height) [&amp;:has([data-writing-block])&gt;*]:pointer-events-auto scroll-mt-[calc(var(--header-height)+min(200px,max(70px,20svh)))]\" dir=\"auto\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-turn-id=\"request-WEB:b4e0bda5-a5fe-48d6-bc8d-069327f57670-6\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-14\" data-scroll-anchor=\"true\" data-turn=\"assistant\">\n<div class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto pb-10 [--thread-content-margin:--spacing(4)] @w-sm\/main:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(6)] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(16)] px-(--thread-content-margin)\">\n<div class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-1\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"9ace014b-9528-448f-922a-ee613c5061b3\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-5-2\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[1px]\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert w-full wrap-break-word light markdown-new-styling\">\n<p data-start=\"209\" data-end=\"524\">During a meeting held today, EuroLeague decided that Maccabi Tel Aviv, Hapoel Tel Aviv and Dubai Basketball will no longer be allowed to play their home games in their respective region. Due to the latest war-related developments, the league ruled that no games will be played in the Middle East for the time being.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-start=\"526\" data-end=\"671\">Maccabi Tel Aviv will host its home games in Belgrade, a venue already used over the past two seasons when games could not be played in Tel Aviv.<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"526\" data-end=\"671\">Hapoel Tel Aviv will return to Sofia, where the team hosted its home games in the 2025\u20132026 season until December.<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"526\" data-end=\"671\">As for Dubai Basketball, nothing has been made official yet, but the club is expected to move its EuroLeague home games to Sarajevo, which is listed as its secondary official venue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-start=\"972\" data-end=\"1098\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdna.gr\/mpasket\/1407404_oristiko-ektos-tel-abib-kai-ntoympai-ta-mats-ton-makampi-hapoel-kai-ntoympai-bc\">SDNA<\/a>, EuroLeague has taken these measures to protect teams and fans by relocating the three Middle Eastern clubs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"z-0 flex min-h-[46px] justify-start\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt-3 w-full empty:hidden\">\n<div class=\"text-center\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pointer-events-none h-px w-px absolute bottom-0\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-edge=\"true\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decision taken during today\u2019s meeting: Maccabi Tel Aviv, Hapoel Tel Aviv and Dubai Basketball to relocate due to ongoing regional instability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":470693,"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":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-486369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/11\/ito.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486369","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\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486369"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=486369"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=486369"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=486369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}