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European basketball competition
Not to be confused with FIBA EuroCup Challenge, the defunct fourth-tier level competition.
Basketball league
The FIBA Europe Cup (FEC) is an annual professional club basketball competition organised by FIBA for eligible European clubs. It is FIBA Europe's second level competition. Clubs mainly qualify based on their performance in national leagues and cup competitions, although this is not the sole deciding factor. The winner is decided by a two-legged final.
The league was founded in 2015 as a replacement of the FIBA EuroChallenge.
On June 30, 2015, FIBA announced it would start a new league to compete with Euroleague Basketball's EuroCup. The new competition, which replaced FIBA EuroChallenge, was supposed to be open for up to 100 teams to enter. A former 4th-tier FIBA competition, the FIBA EuroCup Challenge, was named as FIBA Europe Cup between 2003 and 2005.
The tournament proper begins with a regular season of 32 teams, divided into eight groups. Seeding is used whilst making the draw for this stage, whilst teams from the same country may not be drawn into groups together. Each team meets the others in its group in home and away games, in a round-robin format. The winning team and runner-up from each group then progress to the second round with 16 teams divided into four groups. Each team meets the others in its group in home and away games, in a round-robin format.
For the play-offs, the winning team and runner-up from each group join them and play a two-legged format. Until 2019, the fifth-placed teams and sixth-placed teams were dropped from the Basketball Champions League regular season. The regular season is usually played from October to December and the second round is played from December to January, whilst the play-offs start in February.
Finals
The Finals were played in either a Final Four tournament format or with a two-legged series.
Map of countries, teams from which have reached the regular season of the FIBA Europe Cup. FIBA member country that has been represented in the regular season FIBA member country that has been represented in the qualifying rounds Not represented
Main article: FIBA Europe Cup records and statistics
A total number of 140 clubs from 38 FIBA member countries have participated in the competition. The competition has been won by eight clubs from seven different countries.
Teams from Italy have been most successful, as two teams won the title and three other teams finished as runners-up.
After each round, the FIBA Europe Cup awards the "Top Performer" honour to the best player of the given round. In its inaugural season, in 2016, the competition had a Final Four MVP award for the best player of its final four. The final four format was later abandoned in favor of playoffs with two-legged finals. Since 2020, the league awards a Final MVP trophy again.
Niners Chemnitz (1st title) 
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Bahçeşehir Koleji
Nanterre 92
Reyer Venezia
Ironi Nes Ziona
Anwil Włocławek
SEN
USA
DEN
NED
CRO
Teemu Rannikko
Dejan Kravić
Janar Talts
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