2024–25 Basketball Champions League

The 2024–25 Basketball Champions League will be the 9th season of the Basketball Champions League (BCL), the European professional basketball competition for clubs launched by FIBA.

Unicaja are the defending champion.

Team allocation
The country ranking based on the country coefficients is used to determine the number of clubs from each national federation that enters various stages of the BCL:
 * All countries, if they entered, each have at least one team qualify.
 * The winners of the 2023–24 Basketball Champions League are given an additional entry if they do not qualify for the 2024–25 Basketball Champions League through their domestic league.
 * The organiser may grant access to the League through the attribution of up to 4 invitations (wild cards) to the Regular Season or to the Qualification Rounds.
 * If one or more clubs do not use their right to participate in the Basketball Champions League, the organiser may decide to allocate the respective place(s) to other clubs of the same or other National Federations.

National Federations ranking
For the 2024–25 Basketball Champions League, the countries are allocated places according to their 2024 country coefficients, which takes into account their performance from 2021–22 to 2023–24.

Teams
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
 * TH: Title holders
 * FEC: FIBA Europe Cup title holders
 * 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.: League positions of the previous season
 * WC: Wild card
 * AV: Allocated vacancy


 * Notes

Draw
The draw for the qualifying rounds will be made on 26 June 2024.

On 26 June 2024 the draw of the Basketball Champions League was made in the Patrick Baumann House in Swiss village of Mies. The four qualification tournaments will take place between September 15 and September 22 2024. More official informations about the Qualifiers will be announced in July.

The 24 teams were divided into twelve pots. The national champions from the unrepresented nations were placed into the Pots 1-6 which will be drawn into the two Champions paths, and the remaining clubs into the Pots 1–6 which will be drawn into the two Main paths. Pots are arranged based on the competition's club ranking and, for clubs that have not yet participated in the competition, on the country ranking.

Teams from pot 1 and pot 2 will be drawn directly into the Semi-Finals of the tournaments, while the teams in the other four pots will enter the tournament from the Quarter-Finals.

The four winners of the finals will then qualify for the regular season and join the 28 directly qualified teams in the main draw. The rest of the teams will be demoted, if they apply, to the FIBA Europe Cup.

Main paths

 * Notes


 * Indicates teams with no club points, therefore using the country points as a tiebreaker.

Regular season
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 (Regular season of) competition, on the three-year 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.

The 28 teams will play against each other in a group phase of eight groups with four teams. The first placed team of each group will directly join the Round of 16. The second and third placed teams will play in the Play Ins. The winner of each Play In match will join the Round of 16. Play Ins will be played in a Best of 3 format. In the Round of 16 the teams will be split in four groups of four teams. Each team plays against each other team in the Round of 16. The two first placed teams of each group will qualify for the Quarterfinals. The Quarterfinals will be played in a Best of 3 format. The winner of each Quarterfinal will be allowed to take place in the Basketball Champions League Final Four in May 2025.


 * Notes


 * Indicates teams with no club points, therefore using the country points as a tiebreaker.