The Euroleague Commercial Assets (ECA) shareholder clubs met Tuesday, October 6, in Cernobbio, Italy, to discuss key strategic decisions regarding the future of their collective property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Euroleague Basketball President Dejan Bodiroga welcomed the club representatives and highlighted the work carried out over the past decades, which has driven significant growth for European club basketball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Euroleague Basketball CEO Chus Bueno then provided an update on the approved strategic roadmap and the 10-year business plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The attending club owners agreed to move forward with the process of converting the current 10-year licenses into franchises<\/strong> for the 13 ECA shareholder clubs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anadolu Efes Istanbul, Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz, CSKA Moscow, Armani Olimpia Milan, FC Barcelona, FC Bayern Munich, Fenerbahce Istanbul, LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Olympiacos Piraeus, Panathinaikos Athens, Real Madrid and Zalgiris Kaunas.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The franchise transformation is one of the key elements of EuroLeague’s strategic plans for the future of the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The clubs also agreed to continue the process of expanding the number of franchises in the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Board of Directors was appointed to continue reviewing the expansion opportunities, following multiple binding offers received from leading professional clubs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Board will present a final recommendation for approval in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The ECA shareholder clubs have agreed to begin the process of converting their current 10-year licenses into franchises while continuing the league’s expansion process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":547826,"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":[15727],"posizionamento":[16775],"class_list":["post-547829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","typology-press-release-en","posizionamento-stories"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/10\/BV_07343.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547829","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=547829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547831,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547829\/revisions\/547831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547829"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=547829"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=547829"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=547829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}EuroLeague continues expansion process<\/h2>\n\n\n\n