- In response to the plans of the World Basketball Association Fiba the Euro League sets its own format.
- The new format with 30 group matches is controversial even in the German clubs Berlin, Bamberg and Munich.
- The basketball league could thus threaten a reduction to 16 teams.
If you want to give Jordi Bertomeu faith, then just Historical European basketball has occurred , “This is without a doubt since the founding of the most important decision in the history of the Euro League,” the president of Euro League Basketball already had almost too pathetic announced, background his joy was a meeting of the eleven teams with a guaranteed right to start in the UEFA Champions League in Barcelona, the have agreed with the Euro League in a new session.
This model looks of the upcoming season to a reduction in the previously 24 club teams to 16 teams, and an expansion of the first round to 30 games per club. A ten-year contract with the sports marketer IMG to let shine the whole thing to outside. In addition to the set of eleven clubs three more starting places will be awarded by wildcard to national champions, one gets the Eurocup winner, the last participant is determined in a qualifying tournament with eight teams. For the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL), which had in recent years, always with two teams (champions and a wild-card holder) here, the eligibility criteria are tightened considerably.
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While going, the German representative on the assumption that the most attractive continental competition continue the BBL champion may participate, still is not even clear whether the plans are being implemented in this form. The new format of the Euro League is the answer to a push of the world federation FIBA, who had wooed the eight major European club teams to similarly with a Champions League, the football and handball to install your own format. The reaction of the Euro League must occur as an evil provocation of Fiba. “15 home games against top European teams are only interesting times”, Marko Pesic will in any case, but the sporting director of FC Bayern München points out that the planned 30 additional games alone would mean the preliminaries for the clubs, difficult in the BBL Calendar . would integrate
Pesic is not surprised by this development, also sees other “competitive leagues like Spain, Italy or Turkey”, like the BBL feature a large starting field, face considerable difficulties: “The would be at the expense of the players. ” Is further exacerbated the problem in the season 2017/18 when the Fiba conceded two additional time window for international competitions for the national team during the season. In its current form, it would be in the Bundesliga “not perform,” Pesic.
believes A similar attitude has Marco Baldi, the sports director of the current BBL league leaders Alba Berlin, he sees the Euro League foray rather than the beginning a “power struggle between Euro League and FIBA.” The focus of interest are the eight major European clubs: Who can secure the participation of Panathinaikos, Olympiakos Piraeus, Barcelona, Madrid, Efes and Fenerbahce, CSKA Moscow and Tel Aviv, also has the better arguments – it comes naturally to money and influence. With those same clubs, the Fiba had therefore negotiated to petition to install their own competition.
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Eleven clubs firmly in Reformed Euro League
Panathinaikos Athens (Greece)
FC Barcelona Lassa (Spain)
Anadolu Efes Istanbul (Turkey)
Fenerbahce Istanbul (Turkey)
Laboral Kutxa Vitoria (Spain)
Real Madrid (Spain)
EA7 Emporio Armani Milan (Italy)
CSKA Moscow (Russia)
Olympiakos Piraeus (Greece)
Maccabi Tel Aviv (Israel)
Zalgiris Kaunas (Lithuania)
The overall objective of Euro League chief Bertomeu is against your own European League, as he admits openly, especially Israel, Russia or Greece sympathies for – countries in which individual clubs since years largely unrivaled dominate the league. So you will yearn for more competition, for greater attention because so can earn more money.
Whether the Fiba or the Euro League is at the front in favor of the clubs at the end? For the clubs, it is a pleasant situation as Andrei Vatutin, president of CSKA Moscow confirmed: “The best thing that can happen to us is if Fiba Euro League and compete for us.” Bartomeu believes, however, that he has created with the agreement of Barcelona facts. The Euro League has set itself a tight time frame, in the next four weeks she wants after SZ-information clarifying the last necessary details.
Smaller associations are not thinking of itself abolish
Alba itself -Sportdirektor Baldi holds against anything yet for decided: “This is now a fierce competition.” Because if the reform is implemented, it would in any case affect the BBL. Alternative fixtures were discussed in the BBL bodies already, also express the great clubs Bamberg, Berlin and Munich again sympathy for a reduction in the BBL from 18 to 16 teams. If the new Euro League, says Bamberg manager Rolf Beyer, “but it would be a necessary step to reduce the league”. However, the chances of success are low, the BBL is performed on a democratic basis, each club has one vote, so it is difficult to imagine that the smaller clubs to abolish itself. Rolf Bayer says: “It is so and so exciting.”
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