EuroLeague

The EuroLeague is the top-tier European professional basketball club competition, organized by Euroleague Basketball since 2000. The FIBA European Champions Cup and the EuroLeague are considered to be the same competition, with the change of name being simply a re-branding. The EuroLeague is one of the most popular indoor sports leagues in the world.

The EuroLeague operates under a league format. The champions of the best European national domestic leagues, along with some of the other biggest teams from the most important national domestic leagues play in a true European-wide league system format. The league culminates with a Final Four.

The EuroLeague is made up of 18 teams, which each play each other twice, once at home and once away, in a double round robin league regular season, each team playing 34 games.

The top 8 placed teams at the end of the regular season advance to playoffs, each playing a 5 game playoff series against a single opponent. The regular season standings are used to determine which teams play each other, and in each pairing the higher placed team has home-court advantage in the series, playing 3 of the 5 games at home. The winners of each of the four playoff series advance to the Final Four, held at a predetermined site. The Final Four features two semifinals, a third place game, and the championship game, all on the same weekend.

Each team plays a maximum 41 games per season: 34 in the regular season, a maximum of 5 during the playoffs, and 2 in the Final Four.