2018–19 Basketball Champions League
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.
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The Sportpaleis in Antwerp hosted the Final Four | |||||||||||||
| Season | 2018–19 | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 20 September 2018 – 5 May 2019 | ||||||||||||
| Number of teams | 55 | ||||||||||||
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| 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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| Biggest home win | Tenerife 97–38 Opava (30 January 2019) | ||||||||||||
| Highest attendance | 17,289 Tenerife 70–54 Antwerp Giants (3 May 2019) | ||||||||||||
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.
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