{"id":511958,"date":"2026-08-27T14:20:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=511958"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:20:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:20:36","slug":"rytas-vilnius-set-record-budget-for-2026-27-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/rytas-vilnius-set-record-budget-for-2026-27-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Rytas Vilnius set record budget for 2026-27 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"227\" data-end=\"279\">Rytas Vilnius projects \u20ac10.765 million in revenue<\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"281\" data-end=\"492\">Rytas Vilnius is entering the 2026-27 season with a <strong data-start=\"333\" data-end=\"350\">record budget<\/strong>. According to <em data-start=\"365\" data-end=\"377\">BasketNews<\/em>, the Lithuanian club expects <strong data-start=\"407\" data-end=\"437\">\u20ac10.765 million in revenue<\/strong>, with total expenses projected at <strong data-start=\"472\" data-end=\"491\">\u20ac10.535 million<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2 data-start=\"494\" data-end=\"549\">Rytas allocates \u20ac5.32 million to players and coaches<\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"551\" data-end=\"780\">The largest expense will be related to the team&#8217;s sporting personnel. Rytas has allocated <strong data-start=\"641\" data-end=\"691\">\u20ac5.32 million for player and coaching salaries<\/strong>, while another <strong data-start=\"707\" data-end=\"725\">\u20ac1.835 million<\/strong> will be invested in game-day operations and ticketing.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"782\" data-end=\"864\">On the revenue side, <strong data-start=\"803\" data-end=\"824\">commercial income<\/strong> is expected to reach <strong data-start=\"846\" data-end=\"863\">\u20ac5.11 million<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2 data-start=\"866\" data-end=\"912\">Rytas Vilnius&#8217; financial results in 2025-26<\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"914\" data-end=\"1103\">The increase in spending comes after Rytas finished the 2025-26 season with a <strong data-start=\"992\" data-end=\"1012\">\u20ac980,000 surplus<\/strong>. The club recorded <strong data-start=\"1032\" data-end=\"1061\">\u20ac8.059 million in revenue<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1066\" data-end=\"1102\">\u20ac7.078 million in total expenses<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2 data-start=\"1105\" data-end=\"1166\">Rytas won the BCL but exited the Lithuanian playoffs early<\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"1168\" data-end=\"1315\">The previous season brought one of the most significant achievements in Rytas&#8217; recent history, as the club <strong data-start=\"1275\" data-end=\"1314\">won the Basketball Champions League<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1317\" data-end=\"1460\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">However, its domestic campaign ended in surprising fashion, with Rytas eliminated by <strong data-start=\"1402\" data-end=\"1459\">Juventus Utena in the Lithuanian league quarterfinals<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lithuanian club is significantly increasing its budget after winning the Basketball Champions League, with \u20ac5.32 million allocated to player and coaching salaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":511956,"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":[195,271],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-511958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball-champions-league","category-lithuania"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/08\/IMG_3239.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511958","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\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511958"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=511958"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=511958"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=511958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}