The 2025 Basketball Champions League Final Four powered by SUNEL, also known as the 2025 BCL Final Four, is the concluding tournament of the 2024–25 Basketball Champions League. The tournament is hosted at the SUNEL Arena in Athens, Greece.[1]
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| Season | 2024–25 season |
|---|---|
| Tournament details | |
| Arena | SUNEL Arena Athens, Greece |
| Dates | 9–11 May |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Unicaja (2nd title) |
| Runners-up |  Galatasaray |
| Third place |  AEK Athens Bettson |
| Fourth place | La Laguna Tenerife |
| Awards and statistics | |
| MVP | Tyson Carter (Unicaja) |
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Venue and Sponsorship
editThe 2025 Basketball Champions League Final Four will be hosted in Athens for the third time after 2018 and 2020, but will be the first one at the SUNEL Arena.[2]
| Athens | 2025 Basketball Champions League Final Four (Europe) |
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| SUNEL Arena | |
| Capacity: 9,025 | |
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Sponsorship
editThe sportsbook and casino company Betsson and solar energy company SUNEL became key sponsors of the BCL Final Four in collaboration with FIBA and the Basketball Champions League after AEK Betsson BC, which both companies sponsor, qualified for the tournament.[3][4]
Teams
editRoad to the Final Four
edit| Club | Clinched Final Four | Previous final tournament appearances | Season performance | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regular season
record |
Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | |||||||||
| Galatasaray |
15 April 2025 | 0 (debut) | 4–2
(2nd Group D) |
4–2
(2nd Group J) |
 ERA Nymburk |
2–0 | 80–106 (A) | 90–74 (H) | |||
| Unicaja |
15 April 2025 | 2 (2023, 2024) | 6–0
(1st Group B) |
5–1
(1st Group J) |
 Unahotels Reggio Emilia |
2–0 | 105–68 (H) | 72–82 (A) | |||
| La Laguna Tenerife |
16 April 2025 | 7 (2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024) | 6–0
(1st Group C) |
6–0
(1st Group K) |
Bertram Derthona |
2–0 | 93–89 (H) | 64–74 (A) | |||
| AEK Athens |
23 April 2025 | 2 (2018, 2020) | 4–2
(1st Group E) |
5–1
(1st Group I) |
 Nanterre 92 |
2–1 | 76–69 (H) | 82–70 (A) | 104–69 (H) | ||
Bracket
edit| Semifinals | Final | |||||
| 9 May | ||||||
| La Laguna Tenerife | 80 | |||||
| 11 May | ||||||
| Galatasaray | 90 | |||||
| Galatasaray | 67 | |||||
| 9 May | ||||||
| Unicaja | 83 | |||||
| AEK Betsson BC | 65 | |||||
| Unicaja | 71 | |||||
| Third place game | ||||||
| 11 May | ||||||
| La Laguna Tenerife | 73 | |||||
| AEK Betsson BC | 77 | |||||
Semifinals
edit2025 Final Four semifinals were played on May 9, 2025, at the SUNEL Arena in Athens, Greece.
| 9 May 2025 | La Laguna Tenerife |
80–90 | Galatasaray |
Athens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18:00 | Scoring by quarter: 24–20, 19–20, 12–24, 25–26 | |||
| Pts: Huertas 18 Rebs: Scrubb 5 Asts: Fitipaldo 6 PIR: Shermadini 17 |
Boxscore | Pts: Cummings, Izundu 21 Rebs: Izundu 10 Asts: three players 3 PIR: Izundu 28 |
Arena: SUNEL Arena Attendance: 7,211 Referees: Ademir Zurapovic (BIH), Yohan Rosso (FRA), Gvidas Gedvilas (LTU) |
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| 9 May 2025 | AEK Betsson BC |
65–71 | Unicaja |
Athens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21:00 | Scoring by quarter: 20–23, 11–14, 24–13, 10–21 | |||
| Pts: Golden 19 Rebs: Bryce 7 Asts: Golden 5 PIR: Golden 23 |
Boxscore | Pts: Osetkowski 14 Rebs: Osetkowski 10 Asts: Kalinoski, Taylor 3 PIR: Osetkowski 16 |
Arena: SUNEL Arena Attendance: 8,291 Referees: Wojciech Liszka (POL), Boris Krejić (SLO), Julio Anaya (PAN) |
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Third place game
edit| 11 May 2025 | La Laguna Tenerife |
73–77 | AEK Betsson BC |
Athens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17:00 | Scoring by quarter: 21–11, 18–17, 16–18, 18–31 | |||
| Pts: Krämer 15 Rebs: Shermadini 13 Asts: Huertas 3 PIR: Krämer 15 |
Boxscore | Pts: Tucker 20 Rebs: Golden 7 Asts: Gray 4 PIR: Tucker 19 |
Arena: SUNEL Arena Attendance: 8,291 Referees: Yohan Rosso (FRA), Mārtiņš Kozlovskis (LAT), Gatis Salins (LAT) |
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Final
editThe 2025 Basketball Champions League Final was contested at the SUNEL Arena in Athens on May 11, 2025, at 20:00 local time.
| 11 May 2025 | Galatasaray |
67–83 | Unicaja |
Athens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20:00 | Scoring by quarter: 13–19, 18–18, 18–19, 18–27 | |||
| Pts: Cummings, Wallace 14 Rebs: Izundu 11 Asts: Palmer 4 PIR: Wallace 16 |
Boxscore | Pts: Carter 14 Rebs: Pérez 11 Asts: Carter 5 PIR: Pérez 18 |
Arena: SUNEL Arena Attendance: 7,212 Referees: Wojciech Liszka (POL), Boris Krejić (SLO), Julio Anaya (PAN) |
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References
edit- ↑ "BCL Final Four, powered by SUNEL, general public tickets available from May 1". www.championsleague.basketball. 2025-04-25. Retrieved 2025-04-25.
- ↑ "Final Four 2025 Basketball Champions League Media Guide" (PDF).
- ↑ "BCL Final Four, powered by SUNEL, general public tickets available from May 1". www.championsleague.basketball. 2025-04-25. Retrieved 2025-04-25.
- ↑ Cronin, Ben (2025-05-19). "Betsson and Sunel add BCL Final Four to AEK team rights". SportBusiness Sponsorship. Retrieved 2026-05-01.