The 2024–25 EuroLeague regular season will begin on 3 October 2024 and will end on 11 April 2025. A total of 18 teams will compete in the regular season to decide the 10 places in the postseason of the 2024–25 EuroLeague.
A total of nine countries will be represented in the regular season. This will be the ninth season with the round-robin format, which replaces the group format used until the 2015–16 season.[1]Paris Basketball will make its debut appearance in the European top flight.[2]
Format
The regular season will begin on 3 October 2024 and will conclude on 11 April 2025. The 18 teams will play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format over 34 rounds where only 10 teams will advance to the postseason. Moreover, the top six teams from regular season will receive a bye to the playoffs, while the teams placed from seventh to 10th will participate in the play-in to get the last two playoff spots. At the tail end of the standings, teams placed from 11th to 18th will be eliminated after the regular season.
Tiebreakers
Teams will be ranked according to their win–loss record. If two or more teams are equal on win–loss record upon completion of the regular season, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine their rankings:
Best record in head-to-head games between all tied teams.
Higher cumulative score difference in head-to-head games between all tied teams.
Higher cumulative score difference for the entire regular season.
Higher total of points scored for the entire regular season.
Higher sum of quotients of points in favor and points against of each match played in the regular season.
If a tiebreaker does not resolve a tie completely, a new tiebreak process is initiated with only those teams that remain tied. All points scored in extra periods will not be counted in the standings, nor for any tie-break situation.[3]
The table lists the positions of teams after completion of each round. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included in the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards.
Note: Originally scheduled to be played on 19 December 2024, the game was postponed due to the home team having insufficient number of eligible players at that time.[7]
^CEST (UTC+2) for dates up to 26 October 2024 (rounds 1–5) and from 30 March 2025 (rounds 33–34), and CET (UTC+1) for dates between 27 October 2024 and 29 March 2025 (rounds 6–32).
^ abcdefghijklSince 24 October 2023, Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv play their home matches in Belgrade due to the inability to host matches in Israel as a result of the 2023 Israel–Hamas war until further notice.[5]