{"id":533336,"date":"2026-09-21T20:35:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T18:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=533336"},"modified":"2026-09-21T20:35:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T18:35:55","slug":"monaco-reportedly-turns-to-aba-league-after-french-basketball-exclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/monaco-reportedly-turns-to-aba-league-after-french-basketball-exclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Monaco reportedly turns to ABA League after French basketball exclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monaco are looking for a new competition after being excluded from the EuroLeague and subsequently the EuroCup amid the club\u2019s financial problems. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/meridiansport.rs\/kosarka\/monako-aba-2-liga-dopis\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/meridiansport.rs\/kosarka\/monako-aba-2-liga-dopis\/\">Meridian Sport<\/a>, the French champions have contacted ABA League president Ostoja Mijailovi\u0107 to ask about joining the competition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first step would reportedly be participation in the ABA 2 League, the second tier of the Adriatic competition. Monaco have also sent an official letter to the ABA League headquarters, requesting a quick response as the start of the season approaches. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The club, which won the French championship last season, failed to provide the financial guarantees required by the LNB and was subsequently excluded from the lower domestic divisions as well. A final decision on Monaco\u2019s request is expected in the coming days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AS Monaco have contacted the Adriatic League about joining the ABA 2 League after being excluded from European and domestic competitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":510113,"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":[191,235],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-533336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aba-liga","category-france","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/08\/Monaco-logo.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533336","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\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533337,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533336\/revisions\/533337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533336"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=533336"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=533336"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=533336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}