Euro liga finale 2014
UNICS (as 2013–14 VTB League best qualified without A or B licence).Crvena Zvezda (one-year wildcard which substituted Cibona's B-licence).Dinamo Sassari (one-year wildcard which substituted Montepaschi Siena's A-licence, after it resigned in 2014).Alba Berlin (one-year wildcard which substituted Asseco Prokom's A-Licence removed in 2013).Valencia (C licence as 2013–14 Eurocup winner).Teams from Serbia and Croatia qualified through ABA League, and not through their national leagues.Ĭ licence, replacements and wildcards To the regular season.If in the allocation appeared a team with A licence, the next team in the criteria would receive the B licence, which qualified directly to the Regular Season. ī licences could be given to every team without an A licence. Montepaschi Siena did not play in the Euroleague, due to financial troubles.The A licence of EA7 Milano expired on June 2014, but Euroleague confirmed it as an A licensed team.If that happened three times in five years, the A licence of the club would have been cancelled.Įuroleague allocation criteria A licences Ĭlassification after the 2013–14 Euroleague, including also the 2011–12 and the 2012–13 seasons. In that case, the A licence club with the lowest position would play in Eurocup in the next season. In Spanish League, when the champion and/or the runner-up of the league were teams without an A licence.The club had ranked among the clubs placed in the bottom half of the national championship final standings.The club had the lowest ranking of all clubs with an A Licence, according to the Club Ranking.The Euroleague had the right to cancel an A licence for one of the following reasons: If the Eurocup champion was qualified by receiving a B licence or some team with it resigned from the competition, a wild card had to be given by the Euroleague.At least the first 9 of the remaining 16 teams were given places in the regular-season, and the next 6 were given places in the qualifying competition. When a country ranking spot had already been assigned to an A-Licence team, the assignation jumped to the next country appearing in the ranking, and their league was not granted an additional place in the competition. 13 teams were given both an A-Licence or C-Licence and a B-Licence. The rest of the teams places were allocated from a list of 28 teams given a B-Licence ranked according to their European national basketball league rankings over the last year.The 2013–14 Eurocup winner was given a C-Licence.The 12 teams with an A-Licence from the 2013–14 Euroleague, based on their Euroleague Club Ranking.There were three routes to participation in the Euroleague: 1.1.3 C licence, replacements and wildcards.