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2021–22 Basketball Champions League

The 2021–22 Basketball Champions League was the 6th season of the Basketball Champions League (BCL), the premier[citation needed] European professional basketball competition for clubs launched by FIBA. The season began on 5 October 2021 and ended on 15 May 2022, featuring 16 domestic champion teams.

The defending champions, San Pablo Burgos, were eliminated in the play-ins. The winners of the Champions League will qualify for the 2023 FIBA Intercontinental Cup. The Bilbao Arena in Bilbao hosted the Final Four, which marked the first time the arena of a non-participating team is chosen as a host.[1]

Lenovo Tenerife won its second-ever Champions League title (its last being in 2017) after defeating Baxi Manresa in the final.[2]

Team allocation

A total of 52 teams from 30 countries participated in the 2021–22 Basketball Champions League.[3]

Teams

League positions after eventual playoffs of the previous season shown in parentheses (TH: Champions League title holders, WC: Wild card).[3]

The Basketball Champions League rankings are taken into consideration.[4]

Referees

A total of 55 officials set to work on the 2021–22 season in Basketball Champions League:[5]

Schedule

The schedule of the competition will be as follows.[6][7]

Qualifying rounds

Draw

The 24 teams will be divided into six pots based firstly on the competition's club ranking and, for clubs that have not yet participated in the competition, on the country ranking. For the quarterfinals round of qualifications, teams from Pot 6 will be drawn against teams from Pot 3, and teams from Pot 4 will face teams from Pot 5. Clubs from Pot 1 and 2 will be seeded, and will enter directly in the semifinals stage of qualifications and will face the winners from the quarterfinals round. The winners of the semifinals stage will face each other in the finals of qualifications. The four winners of the finals will then qualify for the regular season and join the 28 directly qualified teams in the main draw.[8] The rest of the teams will be demoted, if they apply, to the FIBA Europe Cup.

Notes
^† Indicates teams with no club points, therefor using the country points as a tiebreaker.

Qualification Group A (Athens, Greece)

Qualification Group B (Treviso, Italy)

Qualification Group C (Tallinn, Estonia)

Qualification Group D (Sofia, Bulgaria)

Regular season

Draw

The 28 teams that entered in the regular season directly were divided into four pots based firstly on the club ranking and, for clubs that have not yet participated in the competition, on the country ranking. The country protection rule will apply for the stage of the draw. Clubs cannot be drawn in groups with other clubs from the same country.[8]

Notes
^† Indicates teams with no club points, therefor using the country points as a tiebreaker.

Group A

Source: Groups Standings

Group B

Source: Groups Standings

Group C

Source: Groups Standings

Group D

Source: Groups Standings

Group E

Source: Groups Standings

Group F

Source: Groups Standings

Group G

Source: Groups Standings

Group H

Source: Groups Standings

Play-ins

The Play-ins took place from January 4 to 19. The teams classified in second and third place in their respective groups of Basketball Champions League, will go on to the Play-ins. Winners will advance to the round of 16. The first legs were played on 4–5 January, the second legs on 11–12 January. Third legs were played on 18–19 January.

Round of 16

The Round of 16 took place from January 25 until March 23, 2022. The groups were formed by the winners of each Regular Season Group and by eight Play-Ins winners. The 16 teams were divided in 4 groups, 4 teams each. The first two of each groups advanced to the quarter-finals.

Group I

Source: Round of 16 Standings

Group J

Source: Round of 16 Standings

Group K

Source: Round of 16 Standings
Notes:
  1. ^ Prometey withdrew from the Basketball Champions League due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Thus, according to article D.5.1 of the FIBA Official Basketball Rules, all its results in the relevant phases were annulled.[9]
  2. ^ The rescheduled game was played in Nymburk (Czech Republic) instead of Kyiv by the decision of FIBA Europe.[10]

Group L

Source: Round of 16 Standings

Playoffs

The playoffs began on April 5, 2022 and ended with the 2022 Basketball Champions League Final Four.

Final Four

Semifinals

The semifinals were played on 6 May 2022.

Third place game

The third place game was played on 8 May 2022.

Final

The final was played on 8 May 2022.

Individual awards

Season awards

The annual season awards were announced on 6 May.[11][12][13]

Star Lineup

All Defensive Team

MVP of the Month

Attendances to arenas

Average attendances

Source: FIBA

Qualification rounds

Source: FIBA

See also

References

  1. ^ "Bilbao to host Final 4". Basketball Champions League. 7 February 2022. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
  2. ^ "Lenovo Tenerife crowned champions of Season Six". FIBA.basketball. 8 May 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
  3. ^ a b "Strongest BCL lineup to date ahead of season 6". Basketball Champions League. 25 June 2021. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  4. ^ "Country Ranking". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
  5. ^ "Game officials. Referees". Basketball Champions League. 22 October 2021. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  6. ^ "BCL Regulations - BCL Competition Regulations 2021-22.pdf" (PDF). FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  7. ^ "BCL Competition Schedule 2021–22 (29.09.2021)". Basketball Champions League. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
  8. ^ a b Basketball Champions League (5 July 2021). "Basketball Champions League draw explained, seedings revealed". Archived from the original on 11 July 2021. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  9. ^ "Prometey withdraw from Basketball Champions League". Champions League. 7 March 2022. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
  10. ^ "Матч Ліги чемпіонів "Прометей" - "Клуж-Напока" буде зіграно у чеському Німбурку".
  11. ^ "Star Lineup revealed, Bortolani Best Young Player". Basketball Champions League. 7 May 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  12. ^ "Moneke named MVP of the Season". Basketball Champions League. 7 May 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  13. ^ "Floor general Marcelinho Huertas named the Most Valuable Player of the Final Four". Basketball Champions League. 8 May 2022. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
  14. ^ "Defenders - The BCL Defensive Player of the Year". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
  15. ^ "Fear the mullet! Jonah Radebaugh named MVP of October". Basketball Champions League. 29 October 2021. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
  16. ^ "The Croatian Sensation Ivan Buva picks up MVP of November award". Basketball Champions League. 1 December 2021. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  17. ^ "From "not good enough" and "too small" to this: Cluj's Brown is MVP of December". Basketball Champions League. 31 December 2021. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
  18. ^ "They have Dodo, you don't: Ozdemiroglu is the MVP of January". Basketball Champions League. 3 February 2022. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  19. ^ "Only getting started: 36-year-young David Holston is MVP of February". Basketball Champions League. 28 February 2022. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  20. ^ "Leadership at its best: Joe Ragland is MVP of March". Basketball Champions League. 1 April 2022. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
  21. ^ "Once a YouTuber, now a BCL star: Chima Moneke is MVP of April". Basketball Champions League. 25 April 2022. Retrieved 29 April 2022.

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