2020–21 EuroCup Basketball

A total of 24 teams from 10 leagues participate in the 2020–21 EuroCup Basketball. In response to the premature ending of the previous season caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the eight teams that qualified for the quarterfinals were awarded with guaranteed spots. The remaining spots were awarded to teams qualifying through their domestic league's final standings.^[1] On 15 June 2020, the preliminary team list for the season was approved.^[2] On 22 June 2020, the team list was approved by the ECA shareholders executive board, selecting Dolomiti Energia Trento to replace Fraport Skyliners who have withdrawn from the competition.^[3] On 17 September 2020, Mornar Bar replaced Maccabi Rishon LeZion which was forced to withdraw due to logistical difficulties and financial concerns complicated by the COVID-19 pandemic.^[4]

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:

• EC: EuroCup quarterfinalists
• 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.: League positions
• Abd-: League positions of abandoned season due to the COVID-19 pandemic as determined by the leagues

Qualified teams for 2020–21 EuroCup Basketball (by entry round)

Regular season
AS Monaco (EC)[Note FRA]	Germani Brescia (Abd-3rd)	Partizan NIS (EC)	Frutti Extra Bursaspor (Abd-9th)
Metropolitans 92 (Abd-4th)	Dolomiti Energia Trento (Abd-9th)	Budućnost VOLI (Abd-2nd)[Note ABA]	Bahçeşehir Koleji (Abd-13th)
JL Bourg (Abd-5th)	Unicaja (EC)	Cedevita Olimpija (Abd-4th)[Note ABA]	Telenet Giants Antwerp (Abd-3rd)
Nanterre 92 (Abd-7th)	MoraBanc Andorra (9th)[Note ESP]	Mornar (Abd-5th)[Note ABA]	ratiopharm Ulm (3rd)
Virtus Segafredo Bologna (EC)	Herbalife Gran Canaria (11th)	UNICS (EC)	Promitheas (EC)
Umana Reyer Venezia (EC)	Joventut (12th)	Lokomotiv Kuban (Abd-3rd)	Lietkabelis (Abd-3rd)

Notes

A total of 70 Euroleague Basketball referees set to work on the 2020–21 season:

The schedule of the competition is as follows.^[2][5] On November 16, 2021, EuroCup Board adapt the competition calendar to the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Board agreed to delay the start of the Top 16 phase of the competition, which was set to start on December 30, 2020, with the new start date being set for January 13, 2021. The calendar modification provided an extended window for any remaining rescheduled games to be played ahead of the following phase, reducing risk of games being cancelled. Additionally, the deadlines to play any remaining rescheduled games ahead of the regular season and Top 16 were set on January 5, 2021 and March 16, 2021 respectively.^[6]

The original schedule of the competition, as planned before the adjustments caused by the pandemic, was as follows.

The draw was held on 10 July 2020 in Barcelona, Spain.^[5] Media and clubs representatives were allowed to attend the draw due to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions.^[7]

The 24 teams were drawn into four groups of six, with the restriction that teams from the same league could not be drawn against each other. For the draw, the teams were seeded into six pots, in accordance with the Club Ranking, based on their performance in European competitions during a three-year period and the lowest possible position that any club from that league can occupy in the draw is calculated by adding the results of the worst performing team from each league.^[5]

Pot 1 Team Pts   Promitheas 135†   Unicaja 111   UNICS 106   Lokomotiv Kuban 99	Pot 2 Team Pts   Budućnost VOLI 82   MoraBanc Andorra 78   Herbalife Gran Canaria 73†   Joventut Badalona 73†	Pot 3 Team Pts   Maccabi Rishon LeZion 70†   Lietkabelis 69†   Partizan NIS 67   Dolomiti Energia Trento 62
Pot 4 Team Pts   Cedevita Olimpija 60   Virtus Segafredo Bologna 58†   Umana Reyer Venezia 58†   Germani Brescia 58†	Pot 5 Team Pts   AS Monaco 57   Frutti Extra Bursaspor 53†   Bahçeşehir Koleji 53†   ratiopharm Ulm 49	Pot 6 Team Pts   Nanterre 92 47†   Metropolitans 92 47†   JL Bourg 47†   Telenet Giants Antwerp 0

Notes

The fixtures were decided after the draw, using a computer draw not shown to public, with the following match sequence:^[5]

Note: Positions for scheduling do not use the seeding pots, e.g., Team 1 is not necessarily the team from Pot 1 in the draw.

There were scheduling restrictions: for example, teams from the same city in general were not scheduled to play at home on the same round (to avoid them playing at home on the same day or on consecutive days, due to logistics and crowd control).^[5]

 

 

Antwerp

 

Bourg

 

Monaco

 

Paris

 

Paris teams
  Metropolitans
  Nanterre

 

Ulm

 

Promitheas

 

Bologna

 

Brescia

 

Trento

 

Venezia

 

Lietkabelis

 

Budućnost

 

Mornar

 

Lokomotiv

 

UNICS

 

Partizan

 

Olimpija

 

Andorra

 

Joventut

 

Unicaja

 

Gran Canaria
(not on map)

 

 

Bursaspor

 

Bahçeşehir

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Location of teams of the 2020-21 EuroCup regular season.
  Red: Group A;   Green: Group B;   Blue: Group C;   Yellow: Group D.

In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners, runners-up, third-placed teams and fourth-placed teams advanced to the Top 16, while the fifth-placed teams and sixth-placed teams were eliminated.

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification		CJB	UNK	JLB	PAR	BSK	URV
1	Joventut	10	8	2	849	783	+66	Advance to Top 16		—	84–77	90–75	85–82	77–88	92–78
2	UNICS	10	6	4	827	797	+30			91–93	—	76–71	93–70	89–88	90–87
3	JL Bourg	10	6	4	810	777	+33			77–84	74–86	—	73–71	79–77	87–59[a]
4	Partizan NIS	10	6	4	810	784	+26			78–75	89–86	76–89	—	88–75	95–73
5	Bahçeşehir Koleji	10	2	8	810	827	−17			72–91	67–70	82–99	76–82	—	108–74
6	Umana Reyer Venezia	10	2	8	744	882	−138			75–89	85–78	76–86	59–79	88–82	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification		MET	UNI	MOR	BUD	ULM	BRE
1	Metropolitans 92	10	7	3	809	786	+23	Advance to Top 16		—	90–80	78–65	83–89	72–65	86–81
2	Unicaja	10	7	3	875	811	+64			96–88	—	98–72	91–87	90–94	86–69
3	Mornar	10	5	5	788	807	−19			89–78	90–80	—	85–82	66–82	95–76
4	Budućnost VOLI	10	5	5	785	785	0			71–73	66–90	78–84	—	73–68	93–81
5	ratiopharm Ulm	10	4	6	786	773	+13			80–86	76–81	84–76	73–77	—	88–76
6	Germani Brescia	10	2	8	751	832	−81			70–75	79–83	77–75	66–75	87–84	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification		VIR	LOK	ASM	MBA	LIE	ANT
1	Virtus Segafredo Bologna	10	10	0	861	745	+116	Advance to Top 16		—	85–79	94–85	92–81	82–73	92–73
2	Lokomotiv Kuban	10	8	2	910	811	+99			83–89	—	76–72	76–61	94–90	89–72
3	AS Monaco	10	6	4	786	724	+62			68–74	72–88	—	66–64	82–57	96–64
4	MoraBanc Andorra	10	3	7	746	776	−30			66–82	100–106	76–82	—	76–66	82–69
5	Lietkabelis	10	2	8	721	831	−110			61–76	76–105	64–88	77–69	—	80–73
6	Telenet Giants Antwerp	10	1	9	734	871	−137			76–95	94–114	67–75	60–71	86–77	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification		HGC	COL	TRE	NTR	BUR	PRO
1	Herbalife Gran Canaria	10	8	2	831	765	+66	Advance to Top 16		—	90–82	71–61	94–82	89–76	98–83
2	Cedevita Olimpija	10	7	3	838	737	+101			84–68	—	87–65	75–63	104–88[b]	77–73
3	Dolomiti Energia Trento	10	6	4	738	713	+25			56–67	61–51	—	102–104	89–80	78–51
4	Nanterre 92	10	4	6	791	806	−15			90–74	80–76	65–71	—	90–91[c]	91–70
5	Frutti Extra Bursaspor	10	3	7	853	907	−54			76–94	80–97	86–93	102–92	—	84–93
6	Promitheas	10	2	8	757	880	−123			75–86	69–105	80–89	88–72	75–100	—

In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advanced to the playoffs, while the third-placed teams and fourth-placed teams were eliminated.

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification		ASM	CJB	NTR	UNI
1	AS Monaco	6	5	1	548	480	+68	Advance to quarterfinals		—	97–82	98–94	90–71
2	Joventut	6	4	2	523	523	0			79–72	—	95–90	77–90
3	Nanterre 92	6	2	4	509	538	−29			65–93	88–95	—	80–74
4	Unicaja	6	1	5	493	532	−39			89–98	86–95	83–92	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification		MET	LOK	TRE	PAR
1	Metropolitans 92	6	4	2	435	441	−6	Advance to quarterfinals		—	61–83	92–86	79–62
2	Lokomotiv Kuban	6	3	3	489	464	+25			79–83	—	100–86	74–67
3	Dolomiti Energia Trento	6	3	3	441	446	−5			67–57	96–84	—	69–54
4	Partizan NIS	6	2	4	395	409	−14			70–75[d]	71–69	71–43	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification		VIR	BUD	COL	JLB
1	Virtus Segafredo Bologna	6	6	0	549	470	+79	Advance to quarterfinals		—	87–65	90–76	83–62
2	Budućnost VOLI	6	3	3	504	495	+9			89–99	—	79–66	108–80
3	Cedevita Olimpija	6	3	3	478	486	−8			98–108	74–71	—	94–91
4	JL Bourg	6	0	6	473	553	−80			87–99	89–92	64–77	—

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification		UNK	HGC	MBA	MOR
1	UNICS	6	5	1	494	418	+76	Advance to quarterfinals		—	73–62	85–63	86–61
2	Herbalife Gran Canaria	6	3	3	485	486	−1			96–90	—	63–66	100–102
3	MoraBanc Andorra	6	3	3	432	432	0			66–73	74–79	—	89–61
4	Mornar	6	1	5	446	521	−75			70–87	81–85	71–74	—

In the playoffs, teams play against each other must win two games to win the series. Thus, if one team wins two games before all three games have been played, the game that remains is omitted. The team that finished in the higher Top 16 place will play the first and the third (if it is necessary) legs of the series at home. The playoffs involves the eight teams which qualified as winners and runners-up of each of the four groups in the Top 16.

	Quarterfinals						Semifinals						Finals
	AS Monaco	76	74	90
	Budućnost VOLI	77	64	87
							AS Monaco		82	76
							Herbalife Gran Canaria		77	74
	Metropolitans 92		74	64
	Herbalife Gran Canaria		84	66
													AS Monaco		89	86
													UNICS		87	83
	Virtus Segafredo Bologna		80	84
	Joventut Badalona		75	78
							Virtus Segafredo Bologna	80	81	100
							UNICS	76	85	107
	UNICS	94	74	82
	Lokomotiv Kuban	88	86	78

The first legs were played on 23 March, the second legs on 26 March and the third legs on 31 March 2021, if necessary.

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
AS Monaco	2–1	Budućnost VOLI	76–77	74–64[e]	90–87
Metropolitans 92	0–2	Herbalife Gran Canaria	74–84	64–66	–
Virtus Segafredo Bologna	2–0	Joventut Badalona	80–75	84–78	–
UNICS	2–1	Lokomotiv Kuban	94–88	74–86	82–78

The first legs were played on 6 April, the second legs on 9 April and the third legs on 14 April 2021, if necessary.

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
AS Monaco	2–0	Herbalife Gran Canaria	82–77	76–74	–
Virtus Segafredo Bologna	1–2	UNICS	80–76	81–85	100–107

The first leg was played on 27 April, the second leg on 30 April.

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
UNICS	0–2	AS Monaco	87–89	83–86	–

All official awards of the 2020–21 EuroCup Basketball.^[17]

Player	Team	Ref.
Jamar Smith	UNICS Kazan	[18]

Player	Team	Ref.
Rob Gray	AS Monaco	[19]

All–7DAYS EuroCup First Team		All–7DAYS EuroCup Second Team		Ref
Player	Team	Player	Team
Miloš Teodosić	Virtus Segafredo Bologna	Mantas Kalnietis	Lokomotiv Kuban	[20][21]
Jamar Smith	UNICS Kazan	Jaka Blažič	Cedevita Olimpija
Isaïa Cordinier	Nanterre 92	Anthony Brown	Metropolitans 92
Mathias Lessort	AS Monaco	John Brown	UNICS Kazan
Willie Reed	Budućnost VOLI	Vince Hunter	Virtus Segafredo Bologna

Player	Team	Ref.
Zvezdan Mitrović	Monaco	[22]

Player	Team	Ref.
Aleksander Balcerowski	Herbalife Gran Canaria	[23]

Player	Team	Ref.
Miloš Teodosić	Virtus Segafredo Bologna	[24]

Player	Team	Ref.
Vince Hunter	Virtus Segafredo Bologna	[25]

Player	Team	Ref.
Mathias Lessort	AS Monaco	[26]

Player	Team	Ref.
Rob Gray	AS Monaco	[27]

Regular season

Week	Player	Team	PIR	Ref.
1	Troy Caupain	ratiopharm Ulm	34	[28]
2	Willie Reed	Budućnost VOLI	30	[29]
3	Alan Williams	Lokomotiv Kuban	33	[30]
4	Gytis Masiulis	Lietkabelis	38	[31]
5	Pierre Pelos	JL Bourg	33	[32]
6	Alan Williams (2)	Lokomotiv Kuban	36	[33]
7	Dylan Osetkowski	ratiopharm Ulm	41	[34]
8	Jamal Jones	Bahçeşehir Koleji	38	[35]
9	Isaiah Canaan	UNICS Kazan	39	[36]
10	Assem Marei	Metropolitans 92	37	[37]

Top 16

Week	Player	Team	PIR	Ref.
1	Isaiah Whitehead	Mornar	30	[38]
2	Luke Maye	Dolomiti Energia Trento	34	[39]
3	Jaka Blažič	Cedevita Olimpija	41	[40]
4	Alpha Kaba	Nanterre 92	33	[41]
5	Jaime Fernández	Unicaja	33	[42]
6	Mindaugas Kuzminskas	Lokomotiv Kuban	33	[43]

Quarterfinals

Game	Player	Team	PIR	Ref.
1–2	Willie Reed (2)	Budućnost VOLI	35	[44]
3	Mathias Lessort	AS Monaco	29	[45]

Semifinals

Game	Player	Team	PIR	Ref.
1–2	Miloš Teodosić	Virtus Segafredo Bologna	34	[46]
3	John Brown	UNICS Kazan	31	[47]

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