Basketball Champions League rankings

The Basketball Champions League rankings are the competition's criteria for ordering teams and leagues according to their performance with the aim to give an objective process for determining the participation of clubs each season.[1]

## Ranking calculation

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The clubs receive 2 points for a win and no points for a defeat from the regular season and the following stages. Bonus points are added to the number of points scored in a season. Since the 2020–21 season, 3 points were awarded instead of 2 points for a regular season win due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the change of competition format.[1]

Bonus points are allocated for:[1]

* Clubs that are eliminated in the qualifying rounds (1 bonus point for the first round, 2 for the second round and 4 for the third round if it is played)
* Clubs that qualify for the regular season of the Champions League (5 bonus points).
* Clubs that qualify for the Play-in round of the Champions League (1 bonus point).
* Clubs that qualify for the round of 16 of the Champions League (5 bonus points). Since the 2021–22 season, only the 8 group winners.
* Clubs that qualify for the quarterfinals of the Champions League (3 bonus points).
* Clubs that qualify for the Final Four of the Champions League (4 bonus points and 1 additional point if finishes third, 2 if second and 4 if it wins the competition).

## Country coefficient

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The country coefficient is used to rank the basketball leagues of Europe, and thus determine the maximum number of clubs from an association that will participate in the Basketball Champions League. This coefficient is determined by the results of the clubs of the leagues in the Basketball Champions League games over the past three seasons. The number of points awarded each season is divided by the number of clubs that participated for that association in that season. This number is then rounded up to one decimal place (e.g. 2+2⁄3 would be rounded to 2.7).[1]

### Current ranking

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The ranking below takes into account of each league's performance in European competitions from 2022–23 to 2024–25.

As of May 2025 the ranking is as follows:

Ranking

2025

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2024

| League  | Coefficient  | Teams

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2022-23  | 2023-24  | 2024-25  | Total
1  | 1  |  Spain | 30.17  | 32.20  | 34.00  | 96.4 | 0/5
2  | 4  |  Turkey | 17.00  | 20.40  | 28.75  | 66.2 | 0/4
3  | 3  |  France | 26.33  | 22.75  | 16.00  | 65.0 | 0/3
4  | 2  |  Israel | 27.67  | 20.00  | 17.00  | 64.7 | 0/2
5  | 5  |  Greece | 21.00  | 27.00  | 16.40  | 64.4 | 0/5
6  | 6  |  Germany | 21.00  | 18.50  | 15.25  | 54.8 | 0/4
7  | 17  |  Czechia | 6.50  | 5.00  | 38.00  | 49.5 | 0/1
8  | 12  |  Italy | 11.00  | 10.25  | 23.33  | 44.6 | 0/3
9  | 9  |  Lithuania | 13.00  | 9.50  | 15.50  | 38.0 | 0/2
10  | 7  |  Hungary | 6.00  | 11.00  | 19.00  | 36.0 | 0/1
11  | 11  |  Belgium | 17.00  | 9.00  | 8.00  | 34.0 | 0/2
12  | 14  |  Portugal | 18.00  | 8.00  | 8.00  | 34.0 | 0/1
13  | 10  |  Bosnia and Herzegovina | 15.00  | 5.00  | 11.00  | 31.0 | 0/1
14  | 13  |  Latvia | 8.00  | 11.00  | 8.00  | 27.0 | 0/1
15  | 16  |  Poland | 8.00  | 6.50  | 6.50  | 21.0 | 0/2
16  | 19  |  Denmark | 8.00  | 2.00  | 0.00  | 10.0 | 0/0
17  | 26  |  Serbia | 4.00  | 1.00  | 4.50  | 9.5 | 0/2
18  | 21  |  Switzerland | 2.00  | 1.00  | 4.00  | 7.0 | 0/1
19  | 23  |  Sweden | 1.00  | 4.00  | 2.00  | 7.0 | 0/1
20  | 25  |  Slovakia | 4.00  | 1.00  | 2.00  | 7.0 | 0/1
21  | 18  |  Estonia | 1.00  | 1.00  | 4.00  | 6.0 | 0/1
22  | 8  |  Romania | 2.00  | 1.00  | 2.00  | 5.0 | 0/1
23  | 22  |  Netherlands | 2.00  | 2.00  | 1.00  | 5.0 | 0/1
24  | 24  |  Cyprus | 2.00  | 2.00  | 1.00  | 5.0 | 0/1
25  | 27  |  Finland | 2.00  | 1.00  | 1.00  | 5.0 | 0/1
26  | 31  |  Kosovo | 1.00  | 1.00  | 2.00  | 4.0 | 0/1
27  | 35  |  Bulgaria | 0.00  | 0.00  | 2.00  | 2.0 | 0/0
28  | 32  |  Great Britain | 1.00  | 0.00  | 1.00  | 2.0 | 0/1
29  | 34  |  Georgia | 0.00  | 1.00  | 1.00  | 2.0 | 0/1
30  | 15  |  Ukraine | 2.00  | 0.00  | 0.00  | 2.0 | 0/0
31  | 30  |  Austria | 2.00  | 0.00  | 0.00  | 2.0 | 0/0
32  | N/A  |  Azerbaijan | 0.00  | 0.00  | 1.00  | 1.0 | 0/1
33  | 29  |  Montenegro | 0.00  | 1.00  | 0.00  | 1.0 | 0/0
34  | 36  |  North Macedonia | 1.00  | 0.00  | 0.00  | 1.0 | 0/0
35  | 20  |  Russia | 0.00  | 0.00  | 0.00  | 0.0 | 0/0
36  | 28  |  Belarus | 0.00  | 0.00  | 0.00  | 0.0 | 0/0
37  | 33  |  Croatia | 0.00  | 0.00  | 0.00  | 0.0 | 0/0
— (NR) |  |  Albania | 0.00  | 0.00  |  | 0.00 | 0/0
|  Armenia | 0.00  | 0.00  |  | 0.00 | 0/0
|  Iceland | 0.00  | 0.00  |  | 0.00 | 0/0
|  Ireland | 0.00  | 0.00  |  | 0.00 | 0/0
|  Luxembourg | 0.00  | 0.00  |  | 0.00 | 0/0
|  Malta | 0.00  | 0.00  |  | 0.00 | 0/0
|  Moldova | 0.00  | 0.00  |  | 0.00 | 0/0
|  Norway | 0.00  | 0.00  |  | 0.00 | 0/0
|  Slovenia | 0.00  | 0.00  |  | 0.00 | 0/0

Indicates active countries which have all their teams still competing in this year's Basketball Champions League.

Indicates active countries which have some teams still competing in this year's Basketball Champions League.

Indicates countries which have no teams remaining in this year's Basketball Champions League.

NR No rank (league did not enter in any of the seasons used for computing coefficients)

### Top leagues by period

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The following data indicates the three top-ranked leagues in each three-year period.

| Years  | 1st Place  | Coeff.  | 2nd Place  | Coeff.  | 3rd Place  | Coeff.

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2016–2019  |  Liga ACB | 101.75  |  LNB Pro A | 91.25  |  Super League | 90.75
2017–2020  |  Liga ACB | 86.75  |  Basket League | 81.75  |  National Basketball League | 81.67
2018–2021  |  Liga ACB | 105.50  |  National Basketball League | 94.67  |  VTB United League | 87.00

The table shows the ranking of nations with respect to the total number of years in the top three of the rankings:

League  | 1st  | 2nd  | 3rd  | Total

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Liga ACB | 3  | 0  | 0  | 3
National Basketball League | 0  | 1  | 1  | 2
LNB Pro A | 0  | 1  | 0  | 1
Basket League | 0  | 1  | 0  | 1
Basketball Super League | 0  | 0  | 1  | 1
VTB United League | 0  | 0  | 1  | 1

## Club ranking

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The club coefficient is either the sum of the points earned by the club in the Basketball Champions League over the previous three seasons. This ranking is used by the BCL to determine a club's seeding in club competition draws.[1]

### Current ranking

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The top 25 clubs as of May 2023 are as follows:[2]

Ranking  | Club  | League  | Points

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2020–21  | 2021–22  | 2022–23  | Total
1 | Lenovo Tenerife |  Spain | 36 | 53 | 50  | 139
7 | SIG Strasbourg |  France | 37 | 28 | 36  | 101
3 | Hapoel Holon |  Israel | 33 | 41 | 26  | 100
4 | Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem |  Israel | 11 | 17 | 54  | 82
5 | BAXI Manresa |  Spain | 0 | 48 | 33  | 81
6 | Unicaja |  Spain | 0 | 29 | 49  | 78
7 | AEK |  Greece | 27 | 8 | 38  | 73
8 | Hereda San Pablo Burgos |  Spain | 53 | 20 | 0  | 73
9 | Pınar Karşıyaka |  Turkey | 42 | 17 | 12  | 71
10 | Tofaş |  Turkey | 24 | 33 | 12  | 69
11 | JDA Dijon |  France | 17 | 25 | 26  | 68
12 | Rytas |  Lithuania | 11 | 26 | 29  | 66
13 | MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg |  Germany | 0 | 44 | 20  | 64
14 | Telekom Baskets Bonn |  Germany | 0 | 0 | 62  | 62
15 | Galatasaray Nef |  Turkey | 8 | 27 | 24  | 59
16 | ERA Nymburk |  Czech Republic | 36 | 11 | 11  | 58
17 | Igokea |  Bosnia and Herzegovina | 24 | 17 | 15  | 56
18 | Darüşşafaka |  Turkey | 8 | 24 | 23  | 55
19 | Falco Szombathely |  Hungary | 14 | 27 | 11  | 52
20 | Filou Oostende |  Belgium | 11 | 21 | 17  | 49
21 | Casademont Zaragoza |  Spain | 47 | 0 | 0  | 47
22 | Nizhny Novgorod |  Russia | 33 | 11 | 0  | 44
23 | Banco di Sardegna Sassari |  Italy | 21 | 8 | 11  | 40
24 | U-BT Cluj-Napoca |  Romania | 1 | 38 | 0  | 39
25 | VEF Rīga |  Latvia | 18 | 12 | 8  | 38

Indicates teams still active in this year's Basketball Champions League.

Indicates teams still active in this year's Basketball Champions League qualifying rounds.

Indicates teams no longer active in this year's Basketball Champions League.

Indicates teams that do not take part in this year's Basketball Champions League.

### Top club by period

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The following data indicate the top-ranked clubs in each 3-year period.

| Years  | Club  | Points

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2016–2019  |  Iberostar Tenerife | 137
2017–2020  |  AEK | 132
2018–2021  |  Lenovo Tenerife | 133
2019–2022  |  Lenovo Tenerife | 123
2020–2023  |  Lenovo Tenerife | 139

Top-rated clubs listed by number of times they were top-ranked over a 3-year period:

Rank  | Club  | Total

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1  |  Lenovo Tenerife | 4
2  |  AEK | 1

## See also

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* Historical European national basketball league rankings

## References

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1. ^ a b c d e "Access List Principles". Basketball Champions League. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
2. ^ "Club Ranking". Basketball Champions League. Retrieved 16 May 2023.

## External links

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* Official website

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Seasons|

* 2016–17
* 2017–18
* 2018–19
* 2019–20
* 2020–21
* 2021–22
* 2022–23
* 2023–24
* 2024–25
* 2025–26

Playoffs|

* 2016–17
* 2017–18
* 2018–19
* 2019–20
* 2020–21
* 2021–22
* 2022–23
* 2023–24
* 2024–25

Final Four / Eight|

* 2017
* 2018
* 2019
* 2020
* 2021
* 2022
* 2023
* 2024
* 2025

Finals|

* 2017
* 2018
* 2019
* 2020
* 2021
* 2022
* 2023
* 2024
* 2025

Awards|

* MVP of the Season
* Top Scorer
* Final Four MVP
* Star Lineup
* Best Young Player
* Game Day MVP
* Best Coach

* Finals
* Final Four
* Awards
* Records and statistics
* Rankings
* European club system

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