2025–26 FIBA Europe Cup
The 2025–26 FIBA Europe Cup will be the 11th season of the FIBA Europe Cup, a European basketball competition for clubs launched by FIBA Europe.
Bilbao Basket are the defending champions, and will defend their title in the competition.
Team allocation
A total of 47 teams from 19 of the 50 FIBA Europe member associations will be expected to participate in the 2024–25 FIBA Europe Cup season. The official list of teams were announced by FIBA on 11 July 2025.After the release of the teams, Rīgas Zeļļi from Latvia withdrew from the [|qualifying round], which led to the automatic placement in the regular season of Peristeri, based on the Club Competition Rankings.
Teams
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:- 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.: League position after eventual Playoffs
- CL QR: Transferred from Champions League qualifying rounds
- TH: Title holders
Draw
The draw for both the qualifying rounds and regular season was held on 23 July 2025 in Munich, Germany.Qualifying round
The qualifying round took place on 24 September and 1 October 2025 in two-legged ties in which the series winners advanced to the regular season.Lucky losers
The additional spots were made available after Patrioti Levice, Bursaspor and Élan Chalon qualified for the Basketball Champions League. The three lucky losers were determined by the best loser series from the FIBA Europe Cup Qualifying Round in accordance to Section D of the Official Basketball Rules.Regular season
The regular season was played by 40 teams divided into 10 groups of four in which 14 teams received direct spots, 10 teams advanced from the qualifying round and 16 teams came from the Basketball Champions League qualifying rounds. It began on 14 October 2025 and concluded on 19 November 2025. In each group, teams were played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. And the end of the regular season, the top team from each regular season group plus the best six [|second-placed teams] will advance to the second round, while the rest of the teams will be eliminated after the regular season.Vâlcea 1924 and Neftçi İK will make their debut appearances in a European competition.
No team from Israel participated in the competition for the third season in-a-row.