2021-22 season starts tomorrow in THY Europa League

Turkey will again appear in the THY Europa League with two teams this season. Fenerbahce Beko, who won the cup in 2017 with Anadolu Efes, the last Europa League champion, will represent Turkey.

Anadolu Efes will face Spain’s Real Madrid team away in the first week’s match at 21:45 CET.

Fenerbahçe Beko will host Serbia’s Red Star mts team on Friday, October 1 at 20:45.

– 18 teams will compete

THY Europa League will be played with 18 teams again.

In the organization, which will be played according to the double-circuit league method, the top 8 teams in the 34-week regular season will advance to the quarter-finals.

In the quarter final series, the teams that will achieve a total of 3 wins will have their names written in the Final Four.

Teams that finish the regular season in the top four will have the home advantage in the quarterfinals. According to the league order, quarter-finals will be matched as 1-8, 2-7, 3-6 and 4-5.

The regular season in the league will start tomorrow and will try to end on April 14, 2022. The play-off series will begin on May 6. The Final Four will be held in Germany, this time in the capital Berlin, on 27-29 May 2022.

– Strict measures due to the pandemic

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In the THY Europa League, the 2021-2022 season will start again in the shadow of the Kovid-19 outbreak.

After the 2019-2020 season, which could not be completed due to the new type of coronavirus (Kovid-19) epidemic, most of the matches and the Final Four were played without spectators last season.

Due to the continuation of the pandemic, the Europa League Management announced that strict health measures will be implemented this season and announced the Health and Safety Protocol.

The highlights of the protocol are as follows:

– Players, technical staff and referees will be required to have their vaccinations completed. (Each vaccine has a separate rule)
– The person who has Kovid-19 will be able to take part in the games for 180 days after the disease quarantine ends.
– Officials who are not vaccinated or have the disease will have a PCR test 3 days before the away matches and 2 days before the home matches.
– If the opposing team cannot go to that country due to the restrictions imposed by the countries, the match will be postponed or taken to a neutral place.
– If a team lists less than 8 players due to Covid-19, the match will be postponed.
– Any game will be postponed up to 3 times during the regular season. After reaching the maximum number of delays, the side that causes the match not to be played will be deemed to be forfeited 20-0.
– If the regular season is suspended, the next stage will be based on the final standings. After the teams with missing matches complete their matches, the final standings will be revealed.

– League history

The biggest cup, which was organized for the first time in 1958 under the name of FIBA ​​European Champion Clubs Cup, was played under the name of FIBA ​​Europa League in 1991.

The organization played as two separate cups (FIBA Suprolig and ULEB Europa League) in the 2000-2001 season due to the disagreement between the International Association of Basketball Federations (FIBA) and the European Basketball Leagues Union (ULEB), has been played as a single cup by the European League management since 2001-2002. began to be organized.

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The 2019-2020 season was suspended at week 28 due to the pandemic and the league could not be completed.

– 10 country teams are featured

Teams from 10 countries will compete in the THY Europa League this season.

The most represented country in the Europa League with 3 teams will be Spain and Russia. Real Madrid, Barcelona and Baskonia will represent Spain, Russia will be represented by CSKA Moscow, UNICS Kazan and Zenit.

In the organization, France (ASVEL, Monaco), Greece (Olympiakos-Panathinaikos), Germany (Bayern Munich-Alba Berlin) and two each from Turkey, Italy (AX Armani Exchange Olimpia Milan), Serbia (Red Star mts), Israel (Maccabi Playtika) One team each from Lithuania (Zalgiris) will compete.

– The champion will be determined again in Germany

The excitement of the Final Four in the THY Europa League will be experienced in Germany this season as well.

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Last season in Cologne, Germany, the Final Four was held without an audience due to the pandemic. Taking this into consideration, the Europa League Management again gave the Final Four to Germany.

Teams will fight for the championship on May 27-29 at the Final Four in Berlin, the capital of Germany.

Berlin will host the Final Four organization in 1988 for the third time. After 2009 and 2016, the German capital will again give the trophy to Europe’s biggest basketball team.

The Final Four organization will be held in Germany for the 6th time. Outside of Berlin, it was previously held in Munich in 1989 and 1999, and in Cologne in 2021.

– First week matches

The first week match schedule (TSI) of the 2021-2022 season in the THY Europa League is as follows:

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Thursday, September 30:
20.00 Monaco (France) – Panathinaikos (Greece)
21.05 Maccabi Playtika (Israel) – Bayern Munich (Germany)
21.30 AX Armani Exchange Olimpia Milan (Italy) – CSKA Moscow (Russia)
21.45 Real Madrid (Spain)-Anadolu Efes

Friday, October 1st:
19.00 UNICS Kazan (Russia) – Zenit (Russia)
20.45 Fenerbahce Beko-Kızılyıldız mts (Serbia)
21.00 ASVEL (France) – Zalgiris (Lithuania)
21.00 Olympiakos (Greece) – Baskonia (Spain)
22.00 Barcelona (Spain) – Alba Berlin (Germany)