Euroleague Basketball have revealed a list of proposed teams that will compete in this season’s Euroleague and Eurocup competitions.

The lists will be now be submitted to the ECA Shareholders meeting for approval. The meeting is scheduled to take place on July 8.

For the Euroleague, in addition to the 11 teams with A Licences the list is comprised of Limoges as French League champions, Stelmet Zielona Gora as champions in Poland, Red Star Belgrade and Cedevita Zagreb as Adriatic League champion and runner-up, respectively, Khimki Moscow Region as Russian League runner-up (VTB United League), Brose Baskets Bamberg as German League champion and Dinamo Sassari as Italian League champion. The Board has also proposed to provisionally grant one B Licence to the Turkish League champion this summer Pinar Karsiyaka Izmir for the 2015-16 Euroleague season only.

This direct qualification is conditional on the creation of a professional basketball league in Turkey over the next 12 months, as is already the case in all other Euroleague markets.

Bayern Munich, Strasbourg, Lokomotiv Kuban and Darussafaka Dogus Istanbul are the teams proposed to receive one-year wild cards to play in the 2015-16 Euroleague.

The Board evaluated a number of different criteria before proposing the wild cards, including market growth strategy and the competitive standard of the team, amongst others.

The complete list of 2015-16 Euroleague teams, as voted by the majority of the Board members, is as follows:

TEAMSCOUNTRYDOMESTIC STANDINGS
Anadolu Efes (A-Licence)TurkeyFinalist
BC Khimki Moscow (B- Licence)RussiaFinalist
Brose Baskets Bamberg (B-Licence)GermanyChampion
*Cedevita Zagreb (B-Licence)CroatiaFinalist ABA League
*Red Star Belgrade (B-Licence)SerbiaChampion ABA League
CSKA Moscow (A-Licence)RussiaChampion
Darussafaka Dogus (Wildcard)TurkeyQuarterfinalist
Dinamo Sassari (B-Licence)ItalyChampion
EA7 Milan (A-Licence)ItalySemifinalist
FC Barcelona (A-Licence)SpainFinalist
 Bayern Munich (Wildcard)GermanyFinalist
Fenerbahce Ulker (A-Licence)TurkeySemifinalist
Laboral Kutxa (A-Licence)SpainQuarterfinalist
Limoges (B-Licence)FranceChampion
Lokomotiv Kuban (Wildcard)RussiaSemifinalist
Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv (A-Licence)IsraelSemifinalist
Olympiacos (A-Licence)GreeceChampion
Panathinaikos (A-Licence)GreeceFinalist
Pinar Karsiyaka Izmir (B-Licence)TurkeyChampion
Real Madrid (A-Licence)SpainChampion
Stelmet Zielona Gora (B-Licence)PolandChampion
Strasbourg  (Wildcard)FranceFinalist
**Unicaja Malaga (B-Licence)SpainSemifinalist
Zalgiris (A-Licence)LithuaniaChampion

 

* The registrations of teams from the ABA League will be considered complete only when the new ABA League including all participating teams submit the necessary documentation to ensure that it fulfills the criteria required of all domestic leagues including its relationship with ECA.

** Following the limitation of three A-Licences per country that the ECA Shareholders Meeting approved in Barcelona on July 9, 2014, Unicaja Malaga, as the lowest-ranked A-Licence team participating in the Spanish League has lost its A-Licence. Unicaja gains a spot in the 2015-16 Euroleague thorugh a B-Licence, being the best ranked team in the Spanish Domestic League without an A-Licence. 

For the 2015-16 Eurocup season, the proposed list of 36 teams includes nine wild cards: AEK Athens and Aris Thessaloniki of Greece, Besiktas and Galatasaray of Turkey, CAI Zaragoza of Spain, Enel Basket Brindisi of Italy, Krasny Oktyabr Volgograd of Russia, Neptunas of Lithuania and Steaua Bucharest of Romania.

The complete list of 2015-16 Eurocup teams, as voted by the majority of the Board members, is as follows:

TEAMSCOUNTRYDOMESTIC STANDINGS
AEK Athens (Wildcard)GreeceQuarterfinalist
ALBA BerlinGermanySemifinalist
Aris Thessaloniki (Wildcard)GreeceSemifinalist
Banvit BandirmaTurkeyQuarterfinalist
Besiktas (Wildcard)Turkey9th Qualified Regular Season
*BuducnostMontenegroABA League semifinalist
CAI Zaragoza (Wildcard)Spain9th Qualified Regular Season
CEZ NymburkCzech RepublicChampion
Dolomiti Energia TrentoItalyQuarterfinalist
Bilbao BasketSpainQuarterfinalist
Enel Basket Brindisi (Wildcard)ItalyQuarterfinalist
Galatasaray (Wildcard)TurkeyQuarterfinalist
Reggio EmiliaItalyFinalist
Hapoel JerusalemIsraelChampion
Gran CanariaSpainQuarterfinalist
JSF NanterreFranceQuarterfinalist
Juventus UtenaLithuaniaSemifinalist
Krasny Oktyabr Volgograd (Wildcard)RussiaRegular Season
Le MansFranceSemifinalist
Lietuvos RytasLithuaniaFinalist
Neptunas (Wildcard)LithuaniaSemifinalist
Nizhny NovgorodRussiaSemifinalist
PAOK ThessalonikiGreeceSemifinalist
PGE TurowPolandFinalist
ratiopharm UlmGermanySemifinalist
SLUC NancyFranceSemifinalist
Steaua Bucharest (Wildcard)RomaniaSemifinalist
Telekom Baskets BonnGermanyQuarterfinalist
Telenet OstendBelgiumChampion
TrabzonsporTurkeySemifinalist
Umana Reyer VeniceItalySemifinalist
Unics KazanRussiaQuarterfinalist
*Union OlimpijaSloveniaABA League 5th Qualified Regular Season
Valencia BasketSpainSemifinalist
VEF RigaLatviaChampion
Zenit St. PetersburgRussiaQuarterfinalist

* The registrations of teams from the ABA League will be considered complete only when the new ABA League including all participating teams submit the necessary documentation to ensure that it fulfills the criteria required of all domestic leagues including its relationship with ECA.

The first step of a new and exciting season will take place when Euroleague Basketball hosts draws for the 2015-16 Euroleague and Eurocup on Thursday, July 9 at the Mediapro Auditorium in Barcelona, Spain.