The 7DAYS EuroCup Draw on Friday, which may be followed live at 13:15 CEST on YouTube and Facebook, will mark the start of a special era as the competition enters its third decade with a new and exciting look.
EuroCup Draw on Friday unveils new competition format
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The 7DAYS EuroCup Draw on Friday, which may be followed live at 13:15 CEST on YouTube and Facebook, will mark the start of a special era as the competition enters its third decade with a new and exciting look.
The 2021-22 EuroCup will be played in a brand-new competition format that starts with a greatly expanded regular season and continues to its conclusion with dramatic single-game knock-out rounds.
For the regular season, the draw will divide 20 teams into two groups of 10. Within each group, all opponents will play in a round-robin, home-and-away format for a total of 18 games stretching from October 20, 2021, to April 6, 2022. The top eight clubs in each regular season group will advance to the knock-out phases.
Those elimination rounds consist of the eighthfinals, quarterfinals, semifinals and final, all played in a single-game format in which the higher ranked team from the regular season will hold home-court advantage.
The revamped competition model provides the clubs with more guaranteed home games than ever before, which maximizes the fun for their fans. In addition, each regular season game will have an increased importance given that the higher-ranked teams from each group will serve as hosts in the elimination games.
EuroCup already allows a champion and a runner-up to qualify to the next season's Turkish Airlines EuroLeague as per current regulations, and is now set to serve the players, clubs and fans with even more excitement all season long.
