{"id":494202,"date":"2026-04-24T21:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=494202"},"modified":"2026-04-24T21:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:57:00","slug":"euroleague-2025-26-playoff-bracket-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/euroleague-2025-26-playoff-bracket-official\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroLeague 2025-26 playoff bracket official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"2892\" data-end=\"3296\">The <strong data-start=\"2896\" data-end=\"2934\">2025-26 EuroLeague playoff bracket<\/strong> is now official. As confirmed by <strong data-start=\"2968\" data-end=\"2984\">EuroLeague\u2019s<\/strong> published playoff calendar, <strong data-start=\"3013\" data-end=\"3023\">Monaco<\/strong> secured the final place through the play-in round and will now face regular-season No. 1 <strong data-start=\"3113\" data-end=\"3127\">Olympiacos<\/strong> in the quarterfinals. <strong data-start=\"3150\" data-end=\"3167\">Panathinaikos<\/strong>, who advanced by winning the first play-in game, will meet No. 2 seed <strong data-start=\"3238\" data-end=\"3257\">Valencia Basket<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3298\" data-end=\"3608\">The quarterfinal matchups are therefore set as <strong data-start=\"3345\" data-end=\"3369\">Olympiacos vs Monaco<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"3371\" data-end=\"3397\">Fenerbahce vs Zalgiris<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"3399\" data-end=\"3433\">Real Madrid vs Hapoel Tel Aviv<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"3439\" data-end=\"3468\">Valencia vs Panathinaikos<\/strong>. All four series will be played in a best-of-five format, with the higher seed hosting Games 1 and 2.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3610\" data-end=\"4068\">According to the official schedule, the playoffs will begin on <strong data-start=\"3673\" data-end=\"3700\">Tuesday, April 28, 2026<\/strong> with <strong data-start=\"3706\" data-end=\"3727\">Olympiacos-Monaco<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"3732\" data-end=\"3755\">Fenerbahce-Zalgiris<\/strong>. On <strong data-start=\"3760\" data-end=\"3783\">Wednesday, April 29<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"3785\" data-end=\"3816\">Real Madrid-Hapoel Tel Aviv<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"3821\" data-end=\"3847\">Valencia-Panathinaikos<\/strong> will tip off their series. If necessary, Games 4 and 5 are scheduled between <strong data-start=\"3925\" data-end=\"3945\">May 5 and May 13<\/strong>, while the <strong data-start=\"3957\" data-end=\"3981\">Final Four in Athens<\/strong> will take place from <strong data-start=\"4003\" data-end=\"4029\">May 22 to May 24, 2026<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"4070\" data-end=\"4302\"><strong data-start=\"4070\" data-end=\"4108\">EuroLeague 2025-26 playoff bracket<\/strong><br data-start=\"4108\" data-end=\"4111\" \/><strong data-start=\"4111\" data-end=\"4141\">1. Olympiacos vs 8. Monaco<\/strong><br data-start=\"4141\" data-end=\"4144\" \/><strong data-start=\"4144\" data-end=\"4176\">4. Fenerbahce vs 5. Zalgiris<\/strong><br data-start=\"4176\" data-end=\"4179\" \/><strong data-start=\"4179\" data-end=\"4219\">3. Real Madrid vs 6. Hapoel Tel Aviv<\/strong><br data-start=\"4219\" data-end=\"4222\" \/><strong data-start=\"4222\" data-end=\"4264\">2. Valencia Basket vs 7. Panathinaikos<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Full playoffs schedule <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ei88xpUi75\">pic.twitter.com\/Ei88xpUi75<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aris Barkas (@arbarkas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arbarkas\/status\/2047761082811339132?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2025-26 EuroLeague playoff field is now complete after the end of the play-in round<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":494201,"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-494202","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\/HGsehCAXYAAt6R4.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494202","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=494202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494202"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=494202"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=494202"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=494202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}