The 2022–23 EuroCup Basketball season was the 21st season of Euroleague Basketball's secondary level professional club basketball tournament. It is the 15th season since it was renamed from the ULEB Cup to the EuroCup, and the seventh and final season under the title sponsorship name of 7DAYS. The season began on 11 October 2022 and ended 3 May 2023.
The schedule of the competition was as follows.[5]
Schedule for 2022–23 EuroCup Basketball
Phase
Round
Draw date
Round date
Regular season
Round 1
8 July 2022
11–12 October 2022
Round 2
18–19 October 2022
Round 3
25–26 October 2022
Round 4
1–2 November 2022
Round 5
22–23 November 2022
Round 6
29–30 November 2022
Round 7
6–7 December 2022
Round 8
13–14 December 2022
Round 9
20–21 December 2022
Round 10
10–11 January 2023
Round 11
17–18 January 2023
Round 12
24–25 January 2023
Round 13
31 January–1 February 2023
Round 14
7–8 February 2023
Round 15
7–8 March 2023
Round 16
14–15 March 2023
Round 17
21–22 March 2023
Round 18
28–29 March 2023
Playoffs
Eighthfinals
12–13 April 2023
Quarterfinals
18–19 April 2023
Semifinals
25–26 April 2023
Final
3 May 2023
Draw
The draw was held on 8 July 2022 in Barcelona, Spain.[5]
The 20 teams were drawn into two groups of 10, with the restriction that teams from the same league could not be drawn against each other, except when there were more than two teams from the same league participating in the regular season. For the draw, the teams were seeded into 10 pots, in accordance with the Club Ranking, based on their performance in European competitions during a three-year period and the lowest possible position that any club from that league can occupy in the draw is calculated by adding the results of the worst performing team from each league.[5]
The fixtures were decided after the draw, using a computer draw not shown to public, with the following match sequence:[5]
Note: Positions for scheduling do not use the seeding pots, e.g., Team 1 is not necessarily the team from Pot 1 in the draw.
Round
Matches
Round 1
10 v 5, 6 v 4, 7 v 3, 8 v 2, 9 v 1
Round 2
1 v 10, 2 v 9, 3 v 8, 4 v 7, 5 v 6
Round 3
10 v 6, 7 v 5, 8 v 4, 9 v 3, 1 v 2
Round 4
2 v 10, 3 v 1, 4 v 9, 5 v 8, 6 v 7
Round 5
10 v 7, 8 v 6, 9 v 5, 1 v 4, 2 v 3
Round 6
3 v 10, 4 v 2, 5 v 1, 6 v 9, 7 v 8
Round 7
10 v 8, 9 v 7, 1 v 6, 2 v 5, 3 v 4
Round 8
10 v 4, 5 v 3, 6 v 2, 7 v 1, 8 v 9
Round 9
9 v 10, 1 v 8, 2 v 7, 3 v 6, 4 v 5
Round
Matches
Round 10
5 v 10, 4 v 6, 3 v 7, 2 v 8, 1 v 9
Round 11
10 v 1, 9 v 2, 8 v 3, 7 v 4, 6 v 5
Round 12
6 v 10, 5 v 7, 4 v 8, 3 v 9, 2 v 1
Round 13
10 v 2, 1 v 3, 9 v 4, 8 v 5, 7 v 6
Round 14
7 v 10, 6 v 8, 5 v 9, 4 v 1, 3 v 2
Round 15
10 v 3, 2 v 4, 1 v 5, 9 v 6, 8 v 7
Round 16
8 v 10, 7 v 9, 6 v 1, 5 v 2, 4 v 3
Round 17
4 v 10, 3 v 5, 2 v 6, 1 v 7, 9 v 8
Round 18
10 v 9, 8 v 1, 7 v 2, 6 v 3, 5 v 4
There were scheduling restrictions: for example, teams from the same city in general were not scheduled to play at home on the same round (to avoid them playing at home on the same day or on consecutive days, due to logistics and crowd control).[5]
Location of teams of the 2021–22 EuroCup. Red: Group A; Green: Group B. Team in italics will play its home games in a different cities due to the Russo-Ukrainian War.
The 20 teams are divided into two groups of 10 teams each. In each group, teams will play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format for a total of 18 games played by each team. The top eight teams from each group will advance to the playoffs, while the last two teams from each group will be eliminated. The regular season started on 18 October 2022 and will end on 5 April 2023.
^ abcDue to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian teams were required to play their home matches at neutral venues.[7] Therefore, Prometey played at Arena Riga, Riga, Latvia, instead of their regular arena Sportkompleks Slobozhanskyy, Slobozhanske.[8]