2008–09 Euroleague

Template:Future sport The Euroleague 2008-09 season will be ninth international basketball club competition for elite clubs throughout Europe under the ULEB umbrella. The season, which features 24 teams from 13 different countries, will culminate in the 2008-09 Euroleague Final Four at the new O₂ World arena in Berlin, Germany.

Teams of the 2008-2009 Euroleague

Country	Teams	Teams (ranking in 2007-08 national championship)
Spain	5	TAU Cerámica (1)	AXA FC Barcelona (2)	DKV Joventut (3)	Unicaja Málaga (4)	Real Madrid (5)
Italy	4	Montepaschi Siena (1)	Lottomatica Roma (2)	Air Avellino (3)	AJ Milano (4)
Greece	3	Panathinaikos (1)	Olympiacos (2)	Panionios (3)
Turkey	2	Fenerbahçe Ülker (1)	Efes Pilsen (4)
France	2	SLUC Nancy (1)	Le Mans (4)
Lithuania	1	Žalgiris Kaunas (1)
Germany	1	ALBA Berlin (1)
Croatia	1	Cibona Zagreb (3)
Russia	1	CSKA Moscow (1)
Israel	1	Maccabi Tel Aviv (2)
Slovenia	1	Olimpija Ljubljana (1)
Serbia	1	Partizan Igokea (1)
Poland	1	Prokom Trefl Sopot (1)

• DKV Joventut qualified as ULEB Cup winners.

Format

Regular season

The first phase is a regular season, in which the competing teams are drawn into four groups, each containing six teams. Each team plays every other team in its group at home and away, resulting in 10 games for each team in the first stage. The top 4 teams in each group advance to the next round. Games will be played from October 22, 2008 to January 15, 2009.

Top 16

The surviving teams are divided into four groups of four teams each, and again a round robin system is adopted resulting in 6 games each, with the top 2 teams advancing to the quarterfinals. Tiebreakers are identical to those used in the Regular Season.

Quarterfinals

In the quarterfinals, the top placed teams from each Top 16 group play second placed teams from a different group in a best-of-five playoff series, with the winners of those series advancing to the Final Four. This is the first season in which the quarterfinals will be best-of-five; previously, they had been best-of-three.

Final Four

The culminating stage of the Euroleague in which the four remaining teams play a semifinal match and the winners of those advance to the final. The losers play in a third-place playoff. The team which is victorious in the Final will be Euroleague champion.

Regular Season

Group A

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Maccabi Tel Aviv	0	0	0	0	0	0
2.	Olympiacos	0	0	0	0	0	0
3.	Unicaja Málaga	0	0	0	0	0	0
4.	Cibona Zagreb	0	0	0	0	0	0
5.	Le Mans	0	0	0	0	0	0
6.	Air Avellino	0	0	0	0	0	0

Group B

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Montepaschi Siena	0	0	0	0	0	0
2.	AXA FC Barcelona	0	0	0	0	0	0
3.	Panathinaikos	0	0	0	0	0	0
4.	Žalgiris Kaunas	0	0	0	0	0	0
5.	Prokom Trefl Sopot	0	0	0	0	0	0
6.	SLUC Nancy	0	0	0	0	0	0

Group C

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	TAU Cerámica	0	0	0	0	0	0
2.	Fenerbahçe Ülker	0	0	0	0	0	0
3.	Lottomatica Roma	0	0	0	0	0	0
4.	Olimpija Ljubljana	0	0	0	0	0	0
5.	DKV Joventut	0	0	0	0	0	0
6.	ALBA Berlin	0	0	0	0	0	0

Group D

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	CSKA Moscow	0	0	0	0	0	0
2.	Partizan Igokea	0	0	0	0	0	0
3.	Real Madrid	0	0	0	0	0	0
4.	Efes Pilsen	0	0	0	0	0	0
5.	AJ Milano	0	0	0	0	0	0
6.	Panionios	0	0	0	0	0	0

External links

• Euroleague official site
• European Basketball website

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