Journalists from Greek sports site Gazzetta spoke to Euroleague CEO Jordi Bertomeu prior to the Euroleague Final Four tipping off later today. Bertomeu confirmed what had already rumoured in the Serbian press: The qualification phase will be extended for next season to three rounds with sixteen teams instead of two rounds and eight…
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The Euroleague Assembly has yesterday – the day before the big draw – approved the proposed future Euroleague format, starting in the upcoming 09/10 season, by a 29 to 1 decision, when at least seven votes against the proposed format were needed in order to reject it. The sole rejection came from the…
As was rumoured in the last days and officially confirmed today, Ukrainian Euroleague preliminaries qualificant Azovmash Mariupol is not able to meet the requirements needed in order to participate in the 09/10 Euroleague campaign. According to the league ranking, Hemofarm of Serbia would technically be the next team to gain the right for…
Euroleague has just made official that ALBA Berlin is indeed going to receive the remaining wildcard for the preliminaries. This comes only hours after the news that BC Khimki Moscow will receive the C-licence-wildcard, meaning direct qualification for the Euroleague regular season. The Euroleague Shareholders Executive board is currently holding meetings in Barcelona.…
According to our partner site Talkbasket, there has been an agreement about the assignment of a direct qualification spot to BC Khimki Moscow in the Shareholders Executive Board meeting which took place in Barcelona yesterday. Khimki qualified for the preliminaries via finishing second in Superleague last season, but the new agreement would see…
With all domestic leagues finally coming to an end next week, a serious question arises: Who will receive the Euroleague wildcard? Is it everybody’s darling ALBA Berlin, 2nd in Euroleague attendance last season, is it a club from Greece, where budgets are rather going down than up, is it a team from ACB,…
The ACB club commission CBA issued a statement yesterday in which the commission declared that ACB clubs are not going to comply with the proposed Euroleague format for the 09/10 Euroleague season and after. In their statement, the commission once again claimed what the ACB press release from early May, as well as…
Since playoffs all around Europe have either already been finished or are entering the hot zone, the field of participants for the 09/10 Euroleague season is taking further shape, however, there are potential obstacles that might keep technically qualified teams from participating and open up opportunities for others in the process.
If the powerful ACB/HEBA front manages to make its influence count and is able to prevent Jordi Bertomeu’s proposed Euroleague system from being set in stone, our efforts to cover the the story might be to no avail. But we’ll do it anyway, who knows what’s going to happen next.
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Two nice interviews by Ballineurope and Heinnews offered us some insight on the Euroleague’s plans for the future. While Bertomeu did not speak about the 09/10 Euroleague system and the newest development – ESAKE’s and ACB’s response – regarding that matter [the interview was conducted at the Euroleague Final Four in Berlin], ALBA…
Two open letters, one message: We don’t want to be a part of this.
In two of Europe’s biggest leagues, resistance has been arising over the last months regarding Jordi Bertomeu’s proposed Euroleague system for the coming 09/10 season. In the last two days parties from both Spain and Greece came…
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