Euroleague in Morocco: the 2026/27 basketball season at 1xBet
The Euroleague is the top club competition in European basketball. It is run by Euroleague Basketball, a private league of clubs rather than a federation, and it sits above the EuroCup, the second tournament of the same organiser, whose final is the sporting route into the top tier. The 2026/27 season brings together twenty clubs from ten countries: every club meets every other twice, home and away, over 38 rounds, and the table that results feeds a play-in, best-of-five play-offs and a Final Four where the trophy is decided in a single weekend.
Real Madrid, Barcelona, Olympiacos, Panathinaikos, FenerbahΓ§e, Bayern Munich: the names on the calendar are the biggest in the European game π Olympiacos holds the title and defends it from the opening round. The regular season sorts the field into direct play-off qualifiers, play-in contenders and clubs whose season ends in April, so the fight for position runs from September to the last matchday.
Format of the 2026/27 season: from the regular season to the Final Four
The regular season opens on 24 September 2026 and closes on 16 April 2027. Each club plays half its games at home and half away, and every result counts towards a single table with no groups or conferences. The stages that follow are packed into the spring, with a knockout element at every step.
Stage | Dates | What it decides |
|---|---|---|
Regular season | 24 September 2026 β 16 April 2027 | 38 rounds; the top six go straight to the play-offs |
Play-In Showdown | 20 and 23 April 2027 | The last two places in the play-off bracket |
Play-offs | 27 April β 12 May 2027 | Four series, eight clubs |
Final Four | 28 and 30 May 2027 | Semi-finals on the Friday, the final on the Sunday |
The play-in gives a club that stumbles in the autumn a second route into the spring and keeps the last rounds of April alive for the middle of the table: two nights of play-in fill the places in the bracket left open by the direct qualifiers. From there, each series is first to three wins, so a round can be over in three games or stretch to five. The four series winners meet at the Final Four, where the third-place game was dropped from 2026, so the two beaten semi-finalists play no further match.
The 20 clubs of 2026/27: who is in π
Ten countries share the twenty places, and the spread runs from four Spanish clubs to a single representative from Germany, Lithuania and the United Arab Emirates. BeΕiktaΕ is the only new name compared with 2025/26; the other places are held by clubs that were already in the competition last season.
Country | Clubs in 2026/27 |
|---|---|
Spain | Real Madrid, Barcelona, Baskonia, Valencia Basket |
Turkey | FenerbahΓ§e, Anadolu Efes, BeΕiktaΕ |
Greece | Olympiacos, Panathinaikos |
Serbia | Crvena zvezda, Partizan |
France | ASVEL (Villeurbanne), Paris Basketball |
Italy | Olimpia Milano, Virtus Bologna |
Israel | Maccabi Tel Aviv, Hapoel Tel Aviv |
Germany, Lithuania, UAE | Bayern Munich, Ε½algiris (Kaunas), Dubai Basketball |
The same-country clashes come around twice before any play-off pairing: Olympiacos against Panathinaikos, Fenerbahçe against Anadolu Efes, Crvena zvezda against Partizan, Maccabi Tel Aviv against Hapoel Tel Aviv. Add the rematches between the four teams of the 2026 Final Four, and the season has its posters well before May.
Watching from Morocco: the clΓ‘sico crowd and the French clubs π²π¦
No Moroccan club is among the twenty, yet the competition has a ready audience in the country. Real Madrid and Barcelona have huge followings in Morocco, and their basketball sections meet twice in the regular season, with a play-off series as a possible third act. ASVEL from Villeurbanne and Paris Basketball give French-speaking fans two more clubs to keep an eye on through the winter.
The clock helps too. Rounds are played on weekday evenings, so a game in Madrid, Paris or Munich is an evening watch in Morocco, and the result is known before the night is out. Once a game tips off, it moves to the in-play basketball page, where the prices follow every run and every timeout. Before then, the full programme of the season, alongside every other competition of the sport, is listed in the Basketball section of the pre-match line.
Euroleague at 1xBet: pre-match, live and season-long markets
Every round gets a pre-match page for each game, opened ahead of tip-off with the standard basketball offer: the winner, the total points and the handicap, for the full game and for shorter stretches of it. Games from the play-in, the play-offs and the Final Four join the line as soon as the pairings are known.
For a position that runs the length of the season, the outright section lists the champion, the winner of the regular season and the clubs that reach the Final Four. An outright placed in September stays open until the game that settles it, so the play-in and the play-offs are followed with a ticket already in hand.
Accounts in Morocco are kept in dirhams (MAD), and the cashier works with CIH Bank, Attijari (L'bankalik), Al Barid Bank and Cash Plus. A newcomer can set up a 1xBet account before the first round, and the competition itself is one entry in the pre-match line for every sport, next to every other league of the week.
How the 2026 Final Four ended, and what comes next π
Athens staged the 2026 Final Four from 22 to 24 May, with Olympiacos, Real Madrid, Fenerbahçe and Valencia Basket in the draw. Olympiacos beat Fenerbahçe 79:61 in one semi-final and Real Madrid beat Valencia Basket 105:90 in the other.
The final went to Olympiacos, 92:85 against Real Madrid, and Evan Fournier of France was named MVP of the Final Four. The trophy was the fourth in the club's history and the first since 2013.
All four of those semi-finalists are back in the 2026/27 field, and Real Madrid gets a rematch with the champion twice over before the spring. Between now and the last weekend of May, the front page of 1xBet Morocco carries the day's programme across every sport, EuroLeague evenings included, while this page holds the schedule and the prices of the competition round by round.