The 2024 Basketball Champions League Final Four, also known as the 2024 BCL Final Four, is the concluding tournament of the
2023–24 Basketball Champions League
The 2023–24 Basketball Champions League was the 8th season of the Basketball Champions League (BCL), the premier European professional basketball competition for clubs launched by FIBA. The season began on 17 October 2023 and ended with the ch ...
. The tournament was hosted at the
Belgrade Arena
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Belgrade
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, Serbia.
Teams
Unicaja qualified for a second consecutive Final Four appearance.
returned to the Final Four after a 6-year absence.
will play their record-extending sixth Final Four, and their sixth in eight years.
Peristeri
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will make their Final Four debut and become the second Greek team to qualify (after
AEK Athens
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Establishe ...
).
Three teams from Spain qualified for the Final Four, which is the first time in the league's history that it features teams from the same country.
Venue and floor
On 21 March 2024, FIBA Europe revelead the
Belgrade Arena
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Belgrade
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, Serbia, as the venue for the Final Four at a ceremony in
Mies, Switzerland.
It is the first time the league's final four is hosted in Serbia, and the second time a neutral venue is selected (following
Bilbao
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in
2022
The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...
).
Željko Rebrača
Željko Rebrača ( sr-Cyrl, Жељко Ребрача; born 9 April 1972) is a Serbian former professional basketball player and currently the president of KK Vojvodina, Vojvodina basketball club. After playing in Europe and the National Basketba ...
was named ambassador for the Final Four.
The games will be played on a glass floor equipped with LED panels, provided by ASB GlassFloor. It will be the first time this type of floor is used in an international basketball club competition game.
Bracket
Semifinals
In the first semifinal,
Kyle Guy of
Lenovo Tenerife set a new Final Four record for most points in a game with 34 points.
Third place game
Final
It was the second time in league history that the final was contested by two Spanish teams, and the fifth time in all European competitions. Tenerife's
Marcelo Huertas was named league MVP at age 40 one day before the final. Unicaja forced Lenovo Tenerife to commit 19 turnovers on their way to the 80–75 win.
Kendrick Perry
Kendrick Dennard Perry (born December 23, 1992) is an American-born naturalized Montenegrin professional basketball player for Unicaja of the Spanish Liga ACB. He played college basketball at Youngstown State University.
High school career
Perr ...
won the Final Four MVP award after scoring a team-high 17 points in 20 minutes off the bench.
Notes
References
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Basketball Champions League Final Four
The Basketball Champions League Final Four (BCL Final Four) is the concluding final four tournament of each season's Basketball Champions League. The tournament's full official name is ''FIBA Basketball Champions League Europe Final Four''. The BCL ...
2023–24 Basketball Champions League
Basketball Champions League Final Four
The Basketball Champions League Final Four (BCL Final Four) is the concluding final four tournament of each season's Basketball Champions League. The tournament's full official name is ''FIBA Basketball Champions League Europe Final Four''. The BCL ...