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Balkan International Basketball League began in 2008 and European North Basketball League started in 2021. The VTB United League is made up of mostly Russian clubs, as well as a smaller number of clubs from nearby countries - currently Belarus and Kazakhstan .
The EuroLeague, officially the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague, is a European men's professional basketball club competition. The league is widely recognised as the top-tier men's league in Europe. [3] [4] The league consists of 18 teams, of which 16 are given long-term licences and wild cards, [5] making the league a semi-closed league.
The European professional basketball club rankings are determined by the results of the professional basketball clubs in the EuroLeague and the EuroCup over the previous three seasons, excluding the competition's qualifying rounds. This ranking is exhaustive and does not include all the European club as it is based on closed ligue participation.
Clubs participate pan-European leagues in two ways. Larger clubs play in Euroleague Basketball's system, with several of them having long-term licenses and others having annual licenses (irrespective of domestic league results), akin to the franchise model in North American sports .
Euroleague Basketball run by ECA (Euroleague Commercial Assets) is a private company that runs and operates the top continental-wide basketball men's professional sports club competitions in Europe, the first-tier level EuroLeague, and the second-tier level EuroCup.
The European Basketball Club Super Cup and the FIBA SuproLeague are considered semi–official tournaments by FIBA Europe and thus not included in this list. Spanish side Real Madrid have won a record total of 17 titles in European competitions, seven more than Italian club Cantù. The Italian clubs have won the most titles (44), ahead of clubs ...
EuroLeague Women is the main women's club basketball competition in Europe. First established by FIBA in September 1958, the inaugural European women's club competition consisted of 10 teams and came about following the success of an equivalent tournament for men's clubs earlier in the same year.
The overall combined European domestic league rankings (by country), from 1958–2007. These were the all-time domestic league rankings that were based on play in all of the European continental-wide club basketball competitions, the EuroLeague, the Saporta Cup, the Korać Cup, the EuroCup, the EuroChallenge, and the EuroCup Challenge. These ...