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Quote:There will be 32 teams in the next year's edition of the ULEB Cup. According to lrytas.lt 24 teams will get direct qualification. Adriatic league, France, Germany, Russia, Spain and Turkey will all have 2 teams in the competition. Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Greece, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland Ukraine will have one representitive.



Two more teams will be selected by ULEB.



There will be 24 teams playing in the qualifying tournament. 16 of them will begin the first round of knockout stage. There will be teams from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Holland, Poland, Russia, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine playing in the first round. 8 teams that will progress will be joined by two teams from Adriatic league and Spain and one team from each: France, Poland, Russia. The 8th team will be selected by ULEB.



There will be 16 teams in the second qualifying round. Half of them will qualify for the ULEB Cup. All the teams knocked in first and second qualifying rounds will join FIBA Europe Cup.



The first qualifying round will be staged on October 14th and 21st. The matches of the second round will be played on November 4th and 11th.



The final ULEB Cup stage should begin in the second half of November.

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so Siauliai will be there, and what about Rytas?

[quote name='"AdaS234":1ojm8dx1']so Siauliai will be there, and what about Rytas?[/quote]

If Rytas don't play in Euroleague next season, then they will be among 24 teams that will be automatically qualified. Then Siauliai would be among 16 teams that will play qualifying games. If Rytas go to Euroleague, then Siauliai get automatic qualification <!-- s -->[img]{SMILIES_PATH}/wink.gif[/img]<!-- s -->

And how Rytas can get to euroleague? <!-- s -->[img]{SMILIES_PATH}/smile.gif[/img]<!-- s -->

Well ULEB could give one invitation to the team of their choice and according to the rumours Rytas, Dynamo Moscow and maybe Barcelona are the teams on that list.

[quote name='"Vilius":13ik3eux']Well ULEB could give one invitation to the team of their choice and according to the rumours Rytas, Dynamo Moscow and maybe Barcelona are the teams on that list.[/quote]

This words maybe have to be in Euroleague format <!-- s -->[img]{SMILIES_PATH}/smile.gif[/img]<!-- s --> but I want to ask you- Does Akasvayu can qualificate to Euroleague?

I they can. Check [url="http://http"]Lietuvos rytas thread[/url] in Lithuanian forum. I made a post about that some time ago.

I just wander, Who'll be the 3 "free cards" teams....