2017–18 Basketball Champions League
| Season | 2017–18 |
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| Teams | 32 (competition proper) 56 (qualifying) |
| Dates | September 19 – October 2, 2017 (qualifying) October 10, 2017 – May 6, 2018 (competition proper) |
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2018–19 →
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The 2017–18 Basketball Champions League will be the second season of the Basketball Champions League (BCL), a European-wide professional basketball competition for clubs, that was launched by FIBA. The competition will begin on 19 September 2017, with the qualifying rounds, and will conclude on 6 May 2018.
For the 2017–18 season, the league went back to the initial format of the 2016–17 season, which includes a regular season of four groups of eight teams, followed by a knock-out stage. 24 teams will be qualified directly, while eight teams will come from the three qualifying rounds that will be implemented. In the Round of 16 and quarterfinals, two-legged series will be played, and the season will be capped off with the Final Four.
FIBA agreed to adopt eligibility rules, forcing the clubs to have at least 5 home-grown players in rosters of 11 or 12 players, or at least four, if the team has got less players.
A total of 56 teams from 32 countries will participate in the 2017–18 Basketball Champions League.
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round (TH: Basketball Champions League title holders; FEC: FIBA Europe Cup title holders):
The schedule of the competition is as follows (all draws are held at the FIBA headquarters in Mies, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise):
The draw for the qualifying rounds was held on 11 July 2017, at the FIBA headquarters in Mies, Switzerland.
In the qualifying rounds, teams are divided into seeded and unseeded teams, based on their club coefficients, and then drawn into two-legged home-and-away ties. Teams from the same country cannot be drawn against each other. However, 19 of 24 losing teams enter the 2017–18 FIBA Europe Cup regular season.
A total of 16 teams are expected to play in the first qualifying round. The first legs were played on 19 September, and the second legs were played on 21 September 2017.
A total of 16 teams are expected to play in the second qualifying round: Eight teams which enter in this round, and the eight winners of the first qualifying round. The first legs were played on 24 September, and the second legs will be played on 26 September 2017.
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