In preparation for the upcoming 2024-25 EuroLeague Girls season, FIBA has sorted the competing golf equipment into 4 regular-season teams. This highlights the primary of a number of modifications that will probably be made to the competitors’s format this coming season, which FIBA guarantees will “increase the stakes” of its regular-season (or “group”) part.
EuroLeague Girls final had a four-group system for everything of the 2020-21 common season. This time round, there will probably be two phases to group play. Within the first part, every membership will play its group opponents twice (described by FIBA as “round-robin” trend), after which the highest three golf equipment from every group will advance to the second part and be re-seeded into two new teams.
Within the second part of group play, competing golf equipment will as soon as once more play their group opponents in round-robin trend. The winners of those second-phase teams will advance to the brand new EuroLeague Girls Play-Ins, which can decide which golf equipment take part within the postseason; two golf equipment will make to the semifinals mechanically, skipping the quarterfinals, whereas the remaining 4 will play for the best to make the semifinals. This takes what was beforehand generally known as the EuroLeague Girls Closing 4 and creates a “Closing Six” as a substitute.
This will likely look like a variety of work logistically, but when all goes in line with plan, the tiered regular-season format will make issues extra thrilling. Within the earlier group play format, it was apparent immediately which golf equipment would find yourself competing for the EuroLeague Girls championship; whereas that may probably nonetheless be the case, by introducing a second part to group play, the pool of competitors will probably be diversified earlier on within the season. Alongside those self same traces, the primary spherical of the postseason may now be extra aggressive than in years previous.
Golf equipment chosen for regular-season teams and qualifiers
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There will probably be a complete of 16 golf equipment competing in EuroLeague Girls for 2024-25, and 13 have already been put into teams for the primary part of group play. These embrace defending champions Fenerbahçe Alagöz Holding, runners-up Villeneuve-d’Ascq and different frequent individuals similar to Perfumerias Avenida, ZVVZ USK Praha and Çukurova Basket Mersin.
The remaining three spots will probably be determined within the EuroLeague Girls qualifiers, that are set to be performed on September 18 and September 25. Contributors in these qualifiers embrace Casademont Zaragoza and Basket Landes, each of which performed in EuroLeague Girls final season. The three golf equipment that fail to advance out of the qualifiers will probably be positioned within the EuroCup Girls competitors, which will even start within the fall.
