

The winningest team in the history of the 7DAYS EuroCup, Valencia Basket is back, which generally is bad news for the rest of the teams. Valencia has lifted the trophy four times, including in the EuroCup's inaugural season in 2003. Strong rosters, a great fan base, committed front office and sound business structure have turned Valencia into a continental power.

Founded in 1986, Valencia reached the top Spanish League in 1988, but did not stick for good until 1996. Two years later Valencia claimed its first trophy, the Copa del Rey, by downing DKV Joventut Badalona in epic fashion. Soon the then-named Pamesa Valencia became a regular in the Spanish playoffs. In Europe, Valencia reached the Saporta Cup final twice, but lost in 1999 to Benetton Treviso and in 2002 to Montepaschi Siena. Everything changed for Valencia in the 2002-03 season. First came the EuroCup title as it swept Krka Novo Mesto in the finals led by Finals MVP Dejan Tomasevic, Nacho Rodilla and Fabricio Oberto. Valencia then climbed to the Spanish League finals before losing to Barcelona. In its debut EuroLeague season in 2003-04, Valencia reached the Top 16 and came within one win of the Final Four.

Valencia had plenty of success in the EuroCup, but didn't capture the trophy again until 2010 when the then-named Power Electronics Valencia bested ALBA Berlin in the championship game in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. A year later, Valencia went all the way to the EuroLeague Playoffs before losing to Real Madrid. Valencia made it to another EuroCup final in 2012, but fell to Khimki Moscow Region. It returned to the EuroCup Finals in 2014 and left no doubts by sweeping UNICS Kazan behind an outstanding Justin Doellman. Valencia reached three finals in 2017: it lost against Real in the Copa del Rey final and against Unicaja Malaga in the EuroCup Finals, but claimed its first Spanish League title by defeating Real in the finals with Bojan Dubljevic taking MVP honors.

After playing the 2017-18 EuroLeague, Valencia came back to the EuroCup and promptly won the competition for the fourth time. Valencia won 16 of its final 17 games and bested ALBA in the finals to reclaim a EuroLeague spot. Will Thomas was chosen as the EuroCup Finals MVP while Dubljevic and Sam Van Rosson earned All-EuroCup honors. Valencia comes off consecutive EuroLeague campaigns for the first time ever and missed the playoffs last season despite a 19-15 record. It also reached the Spanish League semifinals for the seventh time in the last eight seasons. Now back in the EuroCup, Valencia is instantly among the favorites to win the competition and will be a force to be reckoned with.


The winningest team in the history of the 7DAYS EuroCup, Valencia Basket is back, which generally is bad news for the rest of the teams. 

Club profile: Valencia Basket



Dolomiti Energia Trento is back for its sixth 7DAYS EuroCup appearance and fifth straight since 2017-18. Aquila Basket Trento was founded in 1995 and the initiative of Gianni Brusinelli and Marco Angelini slowly gained momentum. The club began in the seventh tier of Italian basketball and the arrival of Giovanni Zobele - who would stay with the team for 13 years - as team president brought its first promotion to a higher level. But that was only the start of things to come.

Over the next five seasons, the club climbed two more tiers and in the 2004-05 season, Aquila Basket won a lower league by taking the fifth division championship. Trento's appetite grew as it came close to promotion again before it acquired Lumezzane Basket's license to get into the Italian third division in 2009. By 2011-12, Aquila Basket was already on top of the third division. Trento had immediate success in the second-best Italian level and lifted the Second Division Cup by downing Pistoia in the final. The team also reached the playoff semifinals. By the next season, Trento won the regular season and stormed through the playoffs against Agrigento, Turin and Capo d'Orlando to earn promotion into the Italian first division.

Trento played its first top-flight season in 2014-15 and finished fourth in the Italian League regular season led by league MVP Tony Mitchell, which earned it a spot in the 2015-16 EuroCup. Behind Coach Buscaglia and forwards Julian Wright and Davide Pascolo, Trento went on a historic run to the semifinals against all odds. In 2017-18, Trento reached the EuroCup Top 16 and the Italian League finals. Trento was back in the Top 16 in 2019-20 and again last season.

This season will see Lele Molin start the campaign as head coach. His new approach after a few seasons as an assistant with the team will try to push the envelope a little further for Trento, as it will try to repeat its results from its debut season in the competition.


Dolomiti Energia Trento is back for its sixth 7DAYS EuroCup appearance and fifth straight since 2017-18. 

Club profile: Dolomiti Energia Trento

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Boulogne Metropolitans 92 strengthened its frontcourt with the addition of forward Bandja Sy who signed a two-year contract, the club announced on Wednesday

Metropolitans adds size, experience with Sy

Sy (2.04 meters, 31 years old) arrives from MoraBanc Andorra where he spent the past two years. Last season he posted 4.9 points and 2.4 rebounds in the 7DAYS EuroCup, and also posted 5.8 points and 3.9 rebounds in the Spanish League action. Sy is a veteran of five EuroCup seasons, after playing in the competition for SLUC Nancy of France in 2014-15 and 2015-16 and Partizan NIS Belgrade in 2018-19. Sy played college basketball for New Mexico in the United States, before starting his professional basketball career in 2013 with French side Pau-Orthez. In between his stints with Nancy and Partizan, Sy played the 2016-17 season with LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne and had a brief stint with AEK Athens of Greece. Born on the outskirts of the French capital, Sy now returns home to solidify Metropolitans' front line.



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Boulogne Metropolitans 92 strengthened its frontcourt with the addition of forward Bandja Sy who signed a two-year contract, the club announced on Wednesday.

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Turk Telekom Ankara enters its sixth experience in the competition, but it is just its second time around since 2010. One of the traditional powerhouses in Turkish basketball, Telekom comfortably made it to the Turkish League playoffs last season and is ready to keep its momentum building. It is a perfect fit: an ambitious club looking for new, high-level challenges.

The club was founded in 1954, backed by the national telephone company PTT, though its basketball section did not open until 1980. PTT Ankara played in several regional leagues throughout the 1980s, before joining the second division in 1990 and immediately earning promotion to the Turkish first division. Turk Telekom went on to win the Turkish League regular season in 1994, though it fell in the playoff semifinals. Around that time, Turk Telekom also began making waves in Europe, coached by Ergin Ataman, and even played in the 1996-97 EuroLeague, the same season in which the team also reached the Turkish League finals and won the Turkish President's Cup, the club's first title.

A few trips to the playoff semifinals and appearances in the Turkish Cup final in 2001 and 2003 cemented Telekom's status among the best clubs in Turkey. Three years after making its EuroCup debut, Telekom was back and looked like a contender after Khalid El-Amin and Michael Wright led it to a 9-1 regular season with its only loss coming against eventual champ DKV Joventut, however Wright was lost to injury and the team fell to UNICS Kazan in the first knockout stage. In each of the next two seasons, the club advanced one stage in the competition, but no more. The club won the Turkish Cup and reached the Turkish finals in 2008 and lifted the Presidents Cup in 2009, however soon a lengthy dry spell ensued. Telekom failed to claim a Turkish League playoff berth for four seasons from 2010 through 2014, and was relegated to the second division for the 2016-17 campaign. It took the club two years to dig itself back to the top league, but a 26-2 start last season allowed the team to cruise to first place and a guaranteed ticket back to the top league and a spot in the EuroCup.

In its last EuroCup appearance, Telekom kept its Top 16 chances open until the last game, led by Vladimir Stimac and Sylven Landesberg, but a road loss against Partizan NIS Belgrade prevented the team from going past the Regular Season. The club made it to the Turkish League playoffs in 2019 and 2021, and it is a first step to be more competitive in the near future. Last season, Telekom was one win away from the Turkish League semifinals. In 2020, the club reached the Turkish Cup semifinals but Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul stood on its way to the final with a narrow 83-81 victory.

Telekom is clearly on the rise and ready for bigger goals. As one of the main sports references in Ankara, the Turkish capital, Telekom has all it takes to be successful in the 2021-22 EuroCup.


Turk Telekom Ankara enters its sixth experience in the competition, but it is just its second time around since 2010.

Club profile: Turk Telekom Ankara

Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana invested in its future signing a four-year deal with power forward Blaz Habot, the club announced on Tuesday

Cedevita inks Habot long term

Habot (2.06 meters, 20 years old) arrives a fellow Slovenian side Hopsi Polzela, where he averaged 4.8 points and 1.9 rebounds in the Slovenian League. Habot started his professional career with Konjice in the third Slovenian division, before joining Hopsi last year. He will now have a chance to make his 7DAYS EuroCup debut.

"We have followed Blaz Habot the entire last season", Cedevita head coach Jurica Golemac said. "He is making an unbelievable progress and wants to work. We are certain that by signing Blaz we made an excellent move."

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Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana invested in its future signing a four-year deal with power forward Blaz Habot, the club announced on Tuesday.

Promitheas Patras strengthened its frontcourt by signing center Dario Hunt for the coming season, the club announced Tuesday.

Promitheas signs Hunt at center

Hunt (2.06 meters, 32 years old) arrives from Italian side Fortitudo Bologna, for which he averaged 10.1 points and 5.6 rebounds in the Italian League last season. He posted 12.3 points and 5.8 in the Basketball Champions League, too. Last season was Hunt's fourth in Italy after stints with Capo d'Orlando, Juvecaserta and Germani Brescia Leonessa. He has also suited up for Odessa in Ukraine, Gussing in Austria, Rio Grande in the D-League, SLUC Nancy in France, Spirou Charleroi in Belgium, Perth in Australia and Mornar Bar in Montenegro. Hunt will debut in the EuroCup this season with Promitheas.

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The most decorated Polish basketball club, Slask Wroclaw returns to the 7DAYS EuroCup after more years away. The 2007-08 season was the last time the 17-time Polish League and 14-time Polish Cup champions were participating in the competition, and the club that has been on a roller coaster ride ever since, now returns with a new found poise and ambition to get back to its old glory.

Founded in 1948, Slask has turned Wroclaw into a basketball city known not only in Poland, but all around Europe. The club won six Polish League titles in the period between 1965 and 1981, with the first coming behind Polish basketball legends Kazimierz Frelkiewicz and Mieczyslaw Lopatka. Slask won another title again in 1987, before establishing a dynasty like few others in the 1990's.

Slask won 10 league titles in a span of 12 seasons. It was the coach Andrej Urlep, who took the team to another level as Slask won five consecutive titles between 1998 and 2002 during the period called the Great Slask Era and players like Maciej Zielinski, Joseph McNaull, Rajmonds Miglinieks, Dominik Tomczyk or Adam Wojcik. No one knew the 2002 title would be the last one for Slask.

As a result of its domestic dominance, Slask played three Turkish Airlines EuroLeague seasons between 2001 and 2004, combining for a 15-27 record, and even knocked on the door of the Top 16 in 2003-04 behind an outstanding Lynn Greer, but it lost its last four regular season games and was eliminated in a six-way tie at 6-8 record.

That same season Slask won the first of two consecutive Polish Cups, before making its EuroCup debut in 2004-05. The team reached the EuroCup eighthfinals before being swept by Maroussi. After a pair of down seasons, Slask improved with the return of coach Urlep and returned to the EuroCup for the 2007-08 campaign. The team once again made it out of the regular season group, but got swept in the Last 32 home-and-away series against Dynamo Moscow.

However, financial problems hit the club hard and Slask declared bankruptcy ahead of the 2008-09 season. The club was relegated into the third Polish division where it stayed for four years before earning promotions in back-to-back seasons to return among Polish elite for the 2013-14 campaign. Even though the team missed the playoffs, a win in the 2014 Polish Cup reminded of Slask's glory days.

However, in 2016 Slask was once again facing financial problems, and was again saw its relegation into the third rank. This time, a climb back up the ladder lasted only three years, and Slask was back competing for Polish silverware in 2019. After a COVID-19 pandemic stopped Slask's first season back among the Polish elite, the 2020-21 was another season to remember. Against all the expectations, team played well the entire season and led by Strahinja Jovanovic, Elijah Stewart , Kyle Gibson and Aleksander Dziewa, reached the playoff semifinals before beating Legia Warszaw in the third-place series to win the bronze medal, its first Polish League podium finish in 13 years.

Slask is now ready to build on recent success, and continue its climb back to prominence, as it embarks on its first EuroCup campaign in more than 13 years.


The most decorated Polish basketball club, Slask Wroclaw returns to the 7DAYS EuroCup after more years away. 