{"id":492811,"date":"2026-04-14T11:16:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T09:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=492811"},"modified":"2026-04-14T11:16:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T09:16:54","slug":"nextgen-euroleague-finals-2026-field-officially-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nextgen-euroleague-finals-2026-field-officially-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"NextGen EuroLeague Finals 2026 field officially announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1644\" data-end=\"1932\">The eight teams set to compete in the <strong data-start=\"1682\" data-end=\"1726\">2025-26 adidas NextGen EuroLeague Finals<\/strong> have officially been announced, with the event once again taking place alongside the <strong data-start=\"1812\" data-end=\"1837\">EuroLeague Final Four<\/strong> in <strong data-start=\"1841\" data-end=\"1851\">Athens<\/strong>. The tournament will gather some of the best U18 basketball talent in the world.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1934\" data-end=\"2242\">The field includes <strong data-start=\"1953\" data-end=\"1984\">Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1986\" data-end=\"2002\">FC Barcelona<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2004\" data-end=\"2031\">Pole France INSEP Paris<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2033\" data-end=\"2062\">Next Generation Team 3SSB<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2064\" data-end=\"2090\">Crvena Zvezda Belgrade<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2092\" data-end=\"2107\">Real Madrid<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2109\" data-end=\"2128\">Zalgiris Kaunas<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2133\" data-end=\"2157\">Panathinaikos Athens<\/strong>. It will mark the first-ever appearance in the competition for the <strong data-start=\"2225\" data-end=\"2233\">3SSB<\/strong> program.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2244\" data-end=\"2604\">Group-stage games will be played from <strong data-start=\"2282\" data-end=\"2302\">May 21 to May 23<\/strong> at Sunel Arena, while the title game is scheduled for <strong data-start=\"2357\" data-end=\"2367\">May 24<\/strong> at Telekom Center Athens as a lead-in to the EuroLeague Championship Game. Zalgiris enter as reigning champions in a competition that has featured names such as <strong data-start=\"2529\" data-end=\"2544\">Luka Doncic<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2546\" data-end=\"2567\">Victor Wembanyama<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2572\" data-end=\"2588\">Nikola Jokic<\/strong> over the years.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2606\" data-end=\"2628\"><em data-start=\"2606\" data-end=\"2626\">Source: EuroLeague<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athens will once again host the final stage of Europe\u2019s top club-based junior competition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":492810,"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-492811","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\/2026\/04\/9ab1bb90-f83a-4e3d-a950-ddbe7372cb7b.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492811","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=492811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492811"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=492811"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=492811"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=492811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}