Alba Berlin Euroleague will leave after 24 years and will play the basketball champions, organized by Fiba | Basketball Sport
After the Colatous season in Euroleague -5 victories and 29 losses -,,, Alba Berlin It was announced on Wednesday that it will leave the competition to join the basketball champions for the next season, a championship organized by the International Basketball Federation (Fiba). The German entity said: “After 24 years in the Eurobue basketball competitions, the Capital Club again joins the European competitions organized by the International Basketball Federation at Fiba,” the German entity said. In a statement issued by the 22 -time German champion, Marco Baldi, General Manager of the team, explains that “the conditions that can be reached to Euroleague have recently changed greatly.” “With our values and our program focuses on economic sustainability, cooperation and sport development, we want to continue to form the future of the European basketball ecosystems. We trust that European competitions under the umbrella of Fiba will develop significantly in the coming years.”
This director, Which also coincides with the potential decline in the American Professional League in EuropeHe had made noise since March when the club’s sports director, Hiela Oujida, spoke about the future of the team in the EuroLague for the next season in Podcast Dyn deadline. “We have a concept, an idea with everything that was on the table for years, and after the end of the four, when we have meetings with them, the situation will change. So now there is no concrete decision by Euroleague. I think this is our fifth or sixth year in our year, and if I do not make mistakes, there are three years.
In the statement issued by the German entity, Patrick Communos, CEO of the Basketball Champions League. “The inclusion of Alba Berlin in the Champions League represents an important milestone for our competitor, especially when we approach our tenth season. We are very proud to welcome Alba Berlin, the most successful basketball club in Germany, in the basketball champions family,” says Communos.
The last time Alba Berlin participated in the European competitions organized by the Fiba between the seasons of 1990/1991 and 2000/2001, a period in which it achieved its greatest success by winning the KORAC Cup in 1995.
This same movement was made by two Spanish teams: Unicaja and Gran Canaria. In 2021, the Andalusian team rejected EUROCUP for economic reasons and joined Fiba. Like Gran Canaria, who raised the Eurocup in 2023 and rejected the conflict over Euroleague, which was entitled to him.
The clouds will be held to form basketball champions in the next campaign on July 2 in Lucena (Switzerland) and the new season will start on October 7.
