2021–22_Basketball_Champions_League

2021–22 Basketball Champions League

2021–22 Basketball Champions League

6th season of the Basketball Champions League


The 2021–22 Basketball Champions League was the 6th season of the Basketball Champions League (BCL), the premier 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.

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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]

Referees

A total of 55 officials set to work on the 2021–22 season in Basketball Champions League:[4]

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Schedule

The schedule of the competition will be as follows.[5][6]

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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.[7] The rest of the teams will be demoted, if they apply, to the FIBA Europe Cup.

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

Qualification Group A (Athens, Greece)

QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal
          
15 September
Greece Peristeri74
13 September
Romania U-BT Cluj-Napoca84
Romania U-BT Cluj-Napoca106
17 September
Finland Salon Vilpas97
Romania U-BT Cluj-Napoca77
Switzerland Fribourg Olympic64
15 September
Switzerland Fribourg Olympic76
13 September
Croatia Split67
Cyprus AEK Larnaca50
Croatia Split65

Qualification Group B (Treviso, Italy)

QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal
          
15 September
Denmark Bakken Bears90
13 September
Italy NutriBullet Treviso92
United Kingdom London Lions62
17 September
Italy NutriBullet Treviso89
Italy NutriBullet Treviso95
Belarus Tsmoki-Minsk78
15 September
Belarus Tsmoki-Minsk69
13 September
Netherlands ZZ Leiden67
Belgium Belfius Mons-Hainaut74
Netherlands ZZ Leiden76

Qualification Group C (Tallinn, Estonia)

QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal
          
15 September
Germany Brose Bamberg79
13 September
Lithuania Juventus83
Austria Kapfenberg Bulls68
17 September
Lithuania Juventus90
Lithuania Juventus81
Estonia Kalev/Cramo86
15 September
Montenegro Mornar89
13 September
Estonia Kalev/Cramo104
Portugal Sporting CP69
Estonia Kalev/Cramo86

Qualification Group D (Sofia, Bulgaria)

QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal
          
16 September
France Le Mans69
14 September
Russia Parma82
Russia Parma79
18 September
Israel Hapoel Eilat76
Russia Parma65
Ukraine Prometey67
16 September
Czech Republic Opava78
14 September
Ukraine Prometey100
Bulgaria Levski Lukoil56
Ukraine Prometey96

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.[7]

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

Group A

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    Group B

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      Group C

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        Group D

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          Group E

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            Group F

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              Group G

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                Group H

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                  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.

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                  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

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                    Group J

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                      Group K

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                      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.[8]
                      2. The rescheduled game was played in Nymburk (Czech Republic) instead of Kyiv by the decision of FIBA Europe.[9]

                        Group L

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                          Playoffs

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

                           
                          QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal
                           
                                          
                           
                           
                           
                           
                          Romania U-BT Cluj-Napoca767573
                           
                          6 May
                           
                          Germany MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg739279
                           
                          Germany MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg55
                           
                           
                           
                          Spain Baxi Manresa63
                           
                          Spain Baxi Manresa8691
                           
                          8 May
                           
                          Spain Unicaja6389
                           
                          Spain Baxi Manresa87
                           
                           
                           
                          Spain Lenovo Tenerife98
                           
                          Israel Hapoel Holon9381
                           
                          6 May
                           
                          France SIG Strasbourg7580
                           
                          Israel Hapoel Holon71
                           
                           
                           
                          Spain Lenovo Tenerife78Third place
                           
                          Spain Lenovo Tenerife7874
                           
                          8 May
                           
                          Turkey Tofaş7773
                           
                          Germany MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg88
                           
                           
                          Israel Hapoel Holon68
                           

                          Final Four

                          Semifinals

                          The semifinals were played on 6 May 2022.

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                          Third place game

                          The third place game was played on 8 May 2022.

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                          Final

                          The final was played on 8 May 2022.

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                          Individual awards

                          Season awards

                          The annual season awards were announced on 6 May.[10][11][12]

                          Star Lineup

                          All Defensive Team

                          MVP of the Month

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                          Attendances to arenas

                          Average attendances

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                          Source: FIBA

                          Qualification rounds

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                          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. "Game officials. Referees". Basketball Champions League. 22 October 2021. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
                          4. "BCL Regulations - BCL Competition Regulations 2021-22.pdf" (PDF). FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
                          5. 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.
                          6. "Prometey withdraw from Basketball Champions League". Champions League. 7 March 2022. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
                          7. "Defenders - The BCL Defensive Player of the Year". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
                          8. "Fear the mullet! Jonah Radebaugh named MVP of October". Basketball Champions League. 29 October 2021. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
                          9. "The Croatian Sensation Ivan Buva picks up MVP of November award". Basketball Champions League. 1 December 2021. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
                          10. "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.
                          11. "They have Dodo, you don't: Ozdemiroglu is the MVP of January". Basketball Champions League. 3 February 2022. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
                          12. "Only getting started: 36-year-young David Holston is MVP of February". Basketball Champions League. 28 February 2022. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
                          13. "Leadership at its best: Joe Ragland is MVP of March". Basketball Champions League. 1 April 2022. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
                          14. "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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