The 2022–23 Basketball Champions League was the 7th season of the Basketball Champions League (BCL), the premier European professional basketball competition for clubs launched by FIBA. The season began on 3 October 2022 and ended 14 May 2023 with the championship game.
Telekom Baskets Bonn defeated Hapoel Jerusalem in the final of the Final Four, which was played in the Palacio de Deportes José María Martín Carpena in Málaga. Bonn became the first German club to win the Basketball Champions League title. As the winners, Bonn automatically qualified for the 2023 FIBA Intercontinental Cup in Singapore.
Lenovo Tenerife were the defending champions, but lost in the semi-finals by Hapoel Jerusalem.
Team allocation
A total of 52 teams from 29 countries will participate in the 2022–23 Basketball Champions League. 18 of them were domestic champions in the previous season.
Teams
League positions after eventual playoffs of the previous season shown in parentheses. The Basketball Champions League rankings are taken into consideration. TH: Champions League title holders FEC: FIBA Europe Cup champions. WC: Wild card.
Referees
A total of 60 officials set to work on the 2022–23 season in Basketball Champions League:
Schedule
The schedule of the competition will be as follows.
Qualifying rounds
Draw
The 24 teams will be divided into six pots based firstly on the competition's club ranking and, for clubs that have not yet participated in the competition, on the country ranking. For the quarterfinals round of qualifications, teams from Pot 6 will be drawn against teams from Pot 3, and teams from Pot 4 will face teams from Pot 5. Clubs from Pot 1 and 2 will be seeded, and will enter directly in the semifinals stage of qualifications and will face the winners from the quarterfinals round. The winners of the semifinals stage will face each other in the finals of qualifications. The four winners of the finals will then qualify for the regular season and join the 28 directly qualified teams in the main draw. The rest of the teams will be demoted, if they apply, to the FIBA Europe Cup.
Notes
Indicates teams with no club points, therefore using the country points as a tiebreaker.
Qualification Group A (Skopje, North Macedonia)
Qualification Group B (Málaga, Spain)
Qualification Group C (Lisbon, Portugal)
Qualification Group D (Belgrade, Serbia)
Regular season
Draw
The 28 teams that entered in the regular season directly were divided into four pots based firstly on the club ranking and, for clubs that have not yet participated in the competition, on the country ranking. The country protection rule will apply for the stage of the draw. Clubs cannot be drawn in groups with other clubs from the same country.
Notes
Indicates teams with no club points, therefor using the country points as a tiebreaker.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Group G
Group H
Play-ins
The Play-ins took place from January 3 to 18. The teams classified in second and third place in their respective groups of Basketball Champions League, went to the Play-ins. Winners advanced to the round of 16. The first legs were played on 3–4 January, the second legs on 10–11 January. Eventual third legs was played on 17–18 January.
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Round of 16
The Round of 16 will take place from January 24 until March 22, 2023. The groups will be formed by the winners of each Regular Season Group and by eight Play-Ins winners. The 16 teams were divided in 4 groups, 4 teams each. The first two of each groups advanced to the quarter-finals.
Group I
Group J
Group K
Group L
Playoffs
The playoffs began on April 4, 2023 and ends with the 2023 Basketball Champions League Final Four.
Final Four
Semifinals
The semifinals were played on 12 May 2023.
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Third place game
The third place game was played on 14 May 2022.
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Final
The final was played on 14 May 2022.
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Individual awards
Season awards
The annual season awards were announced on 13 May.