Overview

• EuroLeague will feature 20 clubs in 2025/26, upping each team’s regular-season schedule to 38 games before play-ins and playoffs.
• When combined with domestic leagues, EuroLeague contests, playoffs and national tournaments, players could face as many as 100 games next season.
• FIBA Europe Secretary General Kamil Novak warned that the current workload is already “far too much” and questioned where the limit lies amid rising injuries and fatigue.
• To protect athlete welfare, FIBA Europe moved its European Championship to a four-year cycle, guaranteeing players a fully free summer besides EM, WM and Olympic events.
• Despite those reforms, talks are underway to expand EuroLeague to 24 teams, a step critics say would worsen fixture congestion.