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2025 Basketball Champions League Final Four

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2025 Basketball Champions League Final Four powered by SUNEL
Season2024–25 season
Tournament details
ArenaSUNEL Arena
Athens, Greece
Dates9–11 May
Final positions
ChampionsSpain Unicaja (2nd title)
Runners-upTurkey Galatasaray
Third placeGreece AEK Athens Bettson
Fourth placeSpain La Laguna Tenerife
Awards and statistics
MVPTyson Carter (Unicaja)
2024
2026
Unicaja Malaga 2024-25 Basketball Champions League championship ceremony

The 2025 Basketball Champions League Final Four powered by SUNEL, also known as the 2025 BCL Final Four, is the concluding tournament of the 2024–25 Basketball Champions League. The tournament is hosted at the SUNEL Arena in Athens, Greece.[1]

Venue and Sponsorship

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The 2025 Basketball Champions League Final Four will be hosted in Athens for the third time after 2018 and 2020, but will be the first one at the SUNEL Arena.[2]

Athens
2025 Basketball Champions League Final Four (Europe)
SUNEL Arena
Capacity: 9,025

Sponsorship

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For the Final Four, SUNEL[3] expanded its partnership through a new collaboration with FIBA and the Basketball Champions League, serving as the official name sponsor of the event. The partnership also reflects a joint commitment to environmental awareness.[4]

Teams

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Road to the Final Four

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Club Clinched Final Four Previous final tournament appearances Season performance
Regular season

record

Round of 16 Quarterfinals
Turkey Galatasaray 15 April 2025 0 (debut) 4–2

(2nd Group D)

4–2

(2nd Group J)

Czech Republic ERA Nymburk 2–0 80–106 (A) 90–74 (H)
Spain Unicaja 15 April 2025 2 (2023, 2024) 6–0

(1st Group B)

5–1

(1st Group J)

Italy Unahotels Reggio Emilia 2–0 105–68 (H) 72–82 (A)
Spain La Laguna Tenerife 16 April 2025 7 (2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024) 6–0

(1st Group C)

6–0

(1st Group K)

Italy Bertram Derthona 2–0 93–89 (H) 64–74 (A)
Greece AEK Athens 23 April 2025 2 (2018, 2020) 4–2

(1st Group E)

5–1

(1st Group I)

France Nanterre 92 2–1 76–69 (H) 82–70 (A) 104–69 (H)

Bracket

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SemifinalsFinal
 
      
 
9 May
 
 
Spain La Laguna Tenerife80
 
11 May
 
Turkey Galatasaray90
 
Turkey Galatasaray67
 
9 May
 
Spain Unicaja83
 
Greece AEK Betsson BC65
 
 
Spain Unicaja71
 
Third place game
 
 
11 May
 
 
Spain La Laguna Tenerife73
 
 
Greece AEK Betsson BC77

Semifinals

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2025 Final Four semifinals were played on May 9, 2025, at the SUNEL Arena in Athens, Greece.

9 May 2025 La Laguna Tenerife Spain 80–90 Turkey Galatasaray Athens
18:00 Scoring by quarter: 24–20, 19–20, 12–24, 25–26
Pts: Huertas 18
Rebs: Scrubb 5
Asts: Fitipaldo 6
PIR: Shermadini 17
Boxscore Pts: Cummings, Izundu 21
Rebs: Izundu 10
Asts: three players 3
PIR: Izundu 28
Arena: SUNEL Arena
Referees: Ademir Zurapovic (BIH), Yohan Rosso (FRA), Gvidas Gedvilas (LTU)
9 May 2025 AEK Betsson BC Greece 65–71 Spain Unicaja Athens
21:00 Scoring by quarter: 20–23, 11–14, 24–13, 10–21
Pts: Golden 19
Rebs: Bryce 7
Asts: Golden 5
PIR: Golden 23
Boxscore Pts: Osetkowski 14
Rebs: Osetkowski 10
Asts: Kalinoski, Taylor 3
PIR: Osetkowski 16
Arena: SUNEL Arena
Referees: Wojciech Liszka (POL), Boris Krejić (SLO), Julio Anaya (PAN)

Third place game

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11 May 2025 La Laguna Tenerife Spain 73–77 Greece AEK Betsson BC Athens
17:00 Scoring by quarter: 21–11, 18–17, 16–18, 18–31
Pts: Krämer 15
Rebs: Shermadini 13
Asts: Huertas 3
PIR: Krämer 15
Boxscore Pts: Tucker 20
Rebs: Golden 7
Asts: Gray 4
PIR: Tucker 19
Arena: SUNEL Arena
Referees: Yohan Rosso (FRA), Mārtiņš Kozlovskis (LAT), Gatis Salins (LAT)

Final

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The 2025 Basketball Champions League Final was contested at the SUNEL Arena in Athens on May 11, 2025, at 20:00 local time.

11 May 2025 Galatasaray Turkey 67–83 Spain Unicaja Athens
20:00 Scoring by quarter: 13–19, 18–18, 18–19, 18–27
Pts: Cummings, Wallace 14
Rebs: Izundu 11
Asts: Palmer 4
PIR: Wallace 16
Boxscore Pts: Carter 14
Rebs: Pérez 11
Asts: Carter 5
PIR: Pérez 18
Arena: SUNEL Arena
Referees: Wojciech Liszka (POL), Boris Krejić (SLO), Julio Anaya (PAN)

References

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  1. ^ "BCL Final Four, powered by SUNEL, general public tickets available from May 1". www.championsleague.basketball. 2025-04-25. Retrieved 2025-04-25.
  2. ^ "Final Four 2025 Basketball Champions League Media Guide" (PDF).
  3. ^ https://www.sunelgroup.com/
  4. ^ "BCL Final Four, powered by SUNEL, general public tickets available from May 1". www.championsleague.basketball. 2025-04-25. Retrieved 2025-04-25.