{"id":492729,"date":"2026-04-13T19:11:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T17:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=492729"},"modified":"2026-04-13T19:11:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T17:11:30","slug":"euroleague-april-14-board-expected-to-confirm-20-team-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/euroleague-april-14-board-expected-to-confirm-20-team-format\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroLeague: April 14 Board expected to confirm 20-team format"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"2160\" data-end=\"2525\">According to <strong data-start=\"2173\" data-end=\"2186\">Sportando<\/strong>, the <strong data-start=\"2192\" data-end=\"2206\">EuroLeague<\/strong> Board meeting scheduled for <strong data-start=\"2235\" data-end=\"2253\">April 14, 2026<\/strong> is expected to move toward confirming the same structure used this season: <strong data-start=\"2329\" data-end=\"2341\">20 teams<\/strong> and a <strong data-start=\"2348\" data-end=\"2374\">38-game regular season<\/strong>. The related calendar change would be an earlier start, likely <strong data-start=\"2438\" data-end=\"2464\">one or two weeks ahead<\/strong> of the usual timeline.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2527\" data-end=\"2865\">This development also fits with indications that had emerged in recent weeks after CEO <strong data-start=\"2614\" data-end=\"2628\">Chus Bueno<\/strong> pointed to April 14 as the key date to define the <strong data-start=\"2679\" data-end=\"2708\">2026-27 EuroLeague format<\/strong>. A broader expansion had been discussed before, but at this stage continuity appears to be the most realistic outcome.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2867\" data-end=\"3235\">As there is still no official league statement already announcing formal approval, the report should be read as the expected outcome of tomorrow\u2019s meeting. The key point, however, is clear: according to <strong data-start=\"3070\" data-end=\"3095\">Sportando\u2019s exclusive<\/strong>, EuroLeague is leaning toward keeping the 20-club format and postponing any deeper structural change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, April 14, 2026, the EuroLeague Board is expected to confirm the current format for the 2026-27 season<\/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-492729","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\/492729","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=492729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492729\/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=492729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492729"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=492729"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=492729"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=492729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}