{"id":498441,"date":"2026-05-26T10:46:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T08:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=498441"},"modified":"2026-05-26T10:46:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T08:46:40","slug":"euroleague-final-four-2027-belgrade-emerges-as-abu-dhabi-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/euroleague-final-four-2027-belgrade-emerges-as-abu-dhabi-alternative\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroLeague Final Four 2027, Belgrade emerges as Abu Dhabi alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1374\" data-end=\"1565\">Belgrade has reportedly emerged as one of the alternative options to host the next <strong data-start=\"1457\" data-end=\"1482\">EuroLeague Final Four<\/strong>, should the initially selected destination, <strong data-start=\"1527\" data-end=\"1540\">Abu Dhabi<\/strong>, no longer be confirmed.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1567\" data-end=\"1810\">According to <strong data-start=\"1580\" data-end=\"1597\">Mozzart Sport<\/strong>, citing Jonas Lek\u0161as of Krepsinis, the unstable political situation in the Middle East has forced EuroLeague officials to consider backup plans. Alongside Belgrade, <strong data-start=\"1763\" data-end=\"1773\">Kaunas<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1778\" data-end=\"1790\">Valencia<\/strong> are also mentioned.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1812\" data-end=\"2052\">Belgrade last hosted the Final Four in 2022, when Efes defended the European title, and it would be the third time in the last nine seasons for the Serbian capital. Kaunas hosted the event in 2023, while Valencia would be a first-time host.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Mozzart Sport, uncertainty over the next EuroLeague Final Four host has opened the door to three backup options: Belgrade, Kaunas and Valencia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":445831,"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-498441","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\/2025\/06\/Final-Four.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498441","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=498441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498441"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=498441"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=498441"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=498441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}