2024 Basketball Champions League Final Four

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2024 Basketball Champions League Final Four
Season2023–24 season
Tournament details
ArenaBelgrade Arena
Belgrade, Serbia
Dates26–28 April 2024
2023
2025

The 2024 Basketball Champions League Final Four, also known as the 2024 BCL Final Four, is the concluding tournament of the 2023–24 Basketball Champions League. The tournament will be hosted at the Belgrade Arena in Belgrade, Serbia.

Teams

Unicaja qualified for a second consecutive Final Four appearance.[1] UCAM Murcia returned to the Final Four after a 6-year absence.[2] Lenovo Tenerife will play their record-extending fifth Final Four, and their fifth in eight years.[3] Peristeri will make their Final Four debut and become the second Greek team to qualify (after AEK Athens).[4]

Three teams from Spain qualified for the Final Four, which is the first time in the league's history that it features teams from the same country.[5]

Team Qualified on Previous final tournament appearances[a]
Spain UCAM Murcia 9 April 2024[2] 1 (2018)
Spain Unicaja 9 April 2024[1] 1 (2023)
Greece Peristeri 16 April 2024[4] 0
Spain Lenovo Tenerife 17 April 2024[3] 5 (2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)

Venue and floor

On 21 March 2024, FIBA Europe revelead the Belgrade Arena in Belgrade, Serbia, as the venue for the Final Four at a ceremony in Mies, Switzerland.[6] It is the first time the league's final four is hosted in Serbia, and the second time a neutral venue is selected (following Bilbao in 2022).[6] Željko Rebrača was named ambassador for the Final Four.

The games will be played on a glass floor equipped with LED panels, provided by ASB GlassFloor. It will be the first time this type of floor is used in an international basketball club competition game.[7]

Bracket

References

  1. ^ a b "Kalinoski steals fire from Promitheas, sends Unicaja to another Final Four". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 2024-04-20.
  2. ^ a b "UCAM Murcia end six-year wait, return to the BCL Final Four". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 2024-04-20.
  3. ^ a b "Message sent: Another Huertas double-double as Tenerife punch last ticket to Belgrade". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 2024-04-20.
  4. ^ a b "A Spanoulis masterclass: Peristeri eliminate defending champions Bonn, reach Final Four". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 2024-04-20.
  5. ^ "Spain's mastery hits 43% of berths in the BCL Final Four". Eurohoops. 2024-04-19. Retrieved 2024-04-20.
  6. ^ a b "Belgrade unveiled as Final Four host on night of Serbian legends". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 2024-04-20.
  7. ^ "The future is now: Belgrade Final Four to be played on ASB GlassFloor in world first". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 2024-04-20.


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