2017–18 Basketball Champions League
The 2017–18 Basketball Champions League was the second season of the Basketball Champions League (BCL), a European-wide professional basketball competition for clubs, that was launched by FIBA. The competition began on 19 September 2017, with the qualifying rounds, and concluded on 6 May 2018, including 20 domestic champions.
| Basketball Champions League | |||||||||||||
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| Season | 2017–18 | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 19 September – 2 October 2017 (qualifying) 10 October 2017 – 6 May 2018 (competition proper) | ||||||||||||
| Number of teams | 32 (competition proper) 56 (qualifying) | ||||||||||||
| Regular season | |||||||||||||
| Season MVP | Manny Harris | ||||||||||||
| Finals | |||||||||||||
| Champions | AEK Athens (1st title) | ||||||||||||
| Runners-up | Monaco | ||||||||||||
| Third place | UCAM Murcia | ||||||||||||
| Fourth place | MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg | ||||||||||||
| Final Four MVP | Mike Green | ||||||||||||
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| Winning streak | 13 games Monaco | ||||||||||||
| Highest attendance | 17,984 Monaco 94–100 AEK Athens (6 May 2018) | ||||||||||||
The Final Four, which was held 4–6 May, was hosted at the Olympic Indoor Hall in Athens, Greece. Hosts AEK Athens won their first Champions League title after defeating Monaco in the final. UCAM Murcia finished in third place while MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg was fourth.
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