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7DAYS EuroCup basketball to be available on BT Sport in UK and Ireland

BT Sport is to broadcast basketball’s 7DAYS EuroCup during the upcoming 2022/23 season, with live coverage from the group stages through to the semi-finals and final next May. The UK will be represented by the London Lions, while the current champions are Virtus Bologna.

BT Sport’s upcoming live broadcasts of the competition include (BST on air times listed):

11 October – 6pm - Hapoel Tel Aviv v London Lions - BT Sport 10
18 October – 7.15pm - London Lions v Dolomiti Energia Trento - BT Sport 1
26 October – 7.45pm - Gran Canaria v London Lions - BT Sport 8
11 November – 7.15pm - London Lions v Buducnost VolI Podgorica - BT Sport 9
22 November – 6.15pm - Veolia Towers Hamburg v London Lions - BT Sport 1
30 November – 7.15pm - London Lions v Slask Wroclaw- BT Sport 1

"We are delighted to welcome BT to our family of broadcasters" states Alex Ferrer Kristjansson, Euroleague Basketball Marketing and Communication Senior Director. "Together with the addition of London Lions to the 2022-23 7DAYS EuroCup teams, it was of high priority to find the right partner that would allow us to bring this content to the biggest number of fans possible and help us grow the appeal for professional basketball in the UK. BT is the perfect fit to achieve that.”

Rachel Knight, sports rights director, BT Sport, said: “We are looking forward to bringing British basketball fans coverage of this European club basketball competition, which will see the London Lions bid to win the 7DAYS EuroCup for the first time.”

Euroleague Basketball (EB) is a global leader in the sports and entertainment business, devoted to running the top European competitions of professional basketball clubs under a unique and innovative organizational model. Owned and administered by some of the most successful and historic clubs in the world, EB manages the continent’s two premier men’s basketball competitions, the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague and the 7DAYS EuroCup, as well as the sport’s premier under-18 showcase, the EB Adidas Next Generation Tournament.

The EB competitions bring the elite of European basketball to all five continents and to the entire sports community through the OTT platform EuroLeague TV. EB also organizes a series of community and educational activities, led by the One Team program, in alignment with the United Nations Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. On the academic side, the EB Sports Business MBA trains future professionals in sports management.