Four Azerbaijani basketball clubs to compete in the main stages of European competitions

Four Azerbaijani basketball clubs to compete in the main stages of European competitions for the first time in history.

AzB.az reports that four Azerbaijani basketball clubs will compete in the main stages of European competitions in the 2026/27 season.

Reigning Azerbaijani champions “Sabah” will compete in the FIBA Basketball Champions League, while last season’s silver medalists “LANDAU Lions”, bronze medalists “Ganja” and fourth-placed “Neftchi” will take part in the FIBA Europe Cup.

“Sabah” will face Türkiye’s “Trabzonspor”, France’s “Nanterre” and Lithuania’s “Rytas” in Group A of the Basketball Champions League.

The groups featuring Azerbaijani clubs in the FIBA Europe Cup are as follows:

Group C: “Ganja”, “Universitatea Craiova”, “Sporting”, “Rilski Sportist”, “Kolossos”, “Esenler Erokspor”.

Group G: “LANDAU Lions”, “Prievidza”, “Lions de Geneve”, “Benfica”, “Bakken Bears Aarhus”, “Yukatel Denizli Basket”.

Group H: “Neftchi”, “Oradea”, “Fribourg Olympic”, “VEF Riga”, “Mykonos”, “Lokomotiv Plovdiv”.