Basketball Champions League rankings


The Basketball Champions League rankings are the competition's criteria for ordering teams and leagues according to their performance with the aim to give an objective process for determining the participation of clubs each season.

Country coefficient

The country coefficient is used to rank the basketball leagues of Europe, and thus determine the maximum number of clubs from an association that will participate in the Basketball Champions League.
This coefficient is determined by the results of the clubs of the leagues in the Basketball Champions League games over the past three seasons. Two points are awarded for each win by a club since the regular season. The number of points awarded each season is divided by the number of teams that participated for that association in that season. This number is then rounded up to one decimal place.
Bonus points are added to the number of points scored in a season. Bonus points are allocated for:
The ranking below takes into account of each league's performance in European competitions from 2016–17 to 2019–20, with the 2019–20 season currently taking place.
As of 11 March 2020 the ranking is as follows:
NR No rank

Top leagues by period

The following data indicates the three top-ranked leagues in each three-year period.

The table shows the ranking of nations with respect to the total number of years in the top three of the rankings:
League1st2nd3rdTotal
Liga ACB1001
LNB Pro A0101
Basketball Super League0011

Club ranking

The club coefficient is either the sum of the points earned by the club in the Basketball Champions League over the previous three seasons.
The clubs receive two points for a win since the regular season and no points for a defeat in games of the main stages of the tournament.
Qualifying round results are only taken into account for bonus points.
RoundPoints awarded
RoundChampions League
First qualifying round elimination1.0
Second qualifying round elimination2.0
Third qualifying round elimination4.0
Regular season participation5.0
Win in group stage or subsequent round2.0
Round of 16 participation5.0
Quarter-finals participation3.0
Final Four participation4.0
Third place1.0
Second place2.0
Champion4.0

This ranking is used by the BCL to determine a club's seeding in club competition draws.

Current ranking

The top 25 clubs as of 11 March 2020 are as follows:

Top club by period

The following data indicate the top-ranked clubs in each 3-year period.

Top-rated clubs listed by number of times they were top-ranked over a 3-year period:
RankClubTotal
1 Canarias1

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