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| Season | 2018–19 | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 20 September 2018 – 5 May 2019 | ||||||||||||
| Number of teams | 55 | ||||||||||||
| Regular season | |||||||||||||
| Season MVP |  Tyrese Rice | ||||||||||||
| Finals | |||||||||||||
| Champions |  Segafredo Virtus Bologna (1st title) | ||||||||||||
| Runners-up |  Iberostar Tenerife | ||||||||||||
| Third place |  Telenet Antwerp Giants | ||||||||||||
| Fourth place |  Brose Bamberg | ||||||||||||
| Final Four MVP |  Kevin Punter | ||||||||||||
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| Records | |||||||||||||
| Biggest home win | Tenerife 97–38 Opava (30 January 2019) | ||||||||||||
| Highest attendance | 17,289 Tenerife 70–54 Antwerp Giants (3 May 2019) | ||||||||||||
The 2018–19 Basketball Champions League was the third season of the Basketball Champions League (BCL), a European-wide professional basketball competition for clubs, that was launched by FIBA. The competition began in September 2018, with the qualifying rounds, and concluded in May 2019. It featured 19 domestic champions including two from France and Italy.
The Final Four was held in the Sportpaleis in Antwerp on 3 and 5 May 2019.
Virtus Bologna won its first BCL championship. As such, the team qualified for the 2020 FIBA Intercontinental Cup.
Eligibility of players
In 2017, FIBA agreed to adopt eligibility rules, forcing the clubs to have at least 5 home-grown players in rosters of 11 or 12 players, or at least four, if the team has got fewer players.
Team allocation
A total of 56 teams (19 of which are champions) from 28 countries will participate in the 2018–19 Basketball Champions League.[1] On July 11, 2018, Kalev/Cramo was replaced by Z-Mobile Prishtina. On July 12, 2018, Eskişehir announced their withdrawal from the competition, leaving an open spot in group C[2] that would be occupied by Lietkabelis.[3]
Teams
League positions after eventual playoffs of the previous season shown in parentheses (TH: Champions League title holders; FEC: FIBA Europe Cup title holders).
Round and draw dates
The schedule of the competition is as follows (all draws are held at the FIBA headquarters in Mies, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise):[4]
| Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
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| Qualifying rounds | First qualifying round | 11 July 2018 | 20–21 September 2018 | 22–24 September 2018 |
| Second qualifying round | 25–26 September 2018 | 27–29 September 2018 | ||
| Third qualifying round | 1 October 2018 | 4 October 2018 | ||
| Regular season | Matchday 1 | 9–10 October 2018 | ||
| Matchday 2 | 16–17 October 2018 | |||
| Matchday 3 | 23–24 October 2018 | |||
| Matchday 4 | 30–31 October 2018 | |||
| Matchday 5 | 6–7 November 2018 | |||
| Matchday 6 | 13–14 November 2018 | |||
| Matchday 7 | 20-21 November 2018 | |||
| Matchday 8 | 11–12 December 2018 | |||
| Matchday 9 | 18–19 December 2018 | |||
| Matchday 10 | 8–9 January 2019 | |||
| Matchday 11 | 15–16 January 2019 | |||
| Matchday 12 | 22–23 January 2019 | |||
| Matchday 13 | 29–30 January 2019 | |||
| Matchday 14 | 5–6 February 2019 | |||
| Play-offs | Round of 16 | 8 February 2019 | 5–6 March 2019 | 12–13 March 2019 |
| Quarter-finals | 26–27 March 2019 | 2–3 April 2019 | ||
| Final Four | Semi-finals | 11 April 2019 | 3 May 2019 | |
| Final | 5 May 2019 | |||
Qualifying rounds
The first qualifying rounds were held on 20–21 September and 22–24 September 2018. The second round was held on 25–26 September and 27–29 September 2018. The third round was played on 30 September and 2 October 2018.[5] The losers of all the rounds entered the 2018–19 FIBA Europe Cup regular season.
Draw
The 24 teams that entered in the first round were divided into four pots. Teams of pot A would play against teams from pot D in games 1 to 6, and pot B teams will face the ones of the pot C.[6] Teams from pots A and B would play the second leg at home.
In the second round, teams from games 7 to 12 would play the first leg at home.