Euroleague 2025/26 Season Preview
Panathinaikos are right in the mix when it comes to the 2025/26 EuroLeague and the Greek team are the most likely winners at the time of writing. They were able to win twelve of their first eighteen matches, with Ergin Ataman coaching a team with a rich history of success in this competition. They were crowned champions in the 2023-24 season and might take some beating this time.
However, there’s another strong Greek side in the form of Olympiacos who are expected to make a big impact. Things haven’t gone completely according to plan for Georgios Bartzokas’ side this term, although they are virtually certain to secure a top ten spot and could then go deep in the postseason bracket. Their last EuroLeague success was in 2013 although they were runners up in 2023.
There’s likely to be a strong challenge from Israel in the form of Hapoel Tel Aviv, with the team having enjoyed a spate of victories during the normal season. Dimitrios Itoudis is a highly experienced coach who has enjoyed plenty of success during his career to date. Perhaps the former Greece manager will deliver the goods although there haven’t been any EuroLeague successes for the club during their history.
Then we have a Turkish giant in the form of Fenerbache, with this side being the reigning champion after succeeding in 2024-25. They were able to see off Monaco in the final after a slender win in the Final Four match over Panathinaikos. The same side were second in the regular standings and there could be improvement as the campaign wears on considering a modest win rate thus far.
Monaco are hoping to go one better after last season’s runner-up spot last term, with the French side having won twelve and lost seven of their first nineteen games. Vassilis Spanoulis takes charge of a team who were also in third place come the end of the 2022-23 campaign, with the team nearly always making it to the business end of the competition.
Barcelona and Real Madrid are no strangers to success in the EuroLeague. It’s the former who are in better shape at the halfway stage of the regular season, with the Catalan side having won twelve of nineteen games played. They were runners-up come the end of the 2020-21 campaign although their last success was in 2010.
Real Madrid have eleven EuroLeague successes to their name although it’s been fairly alarming how many defeats have been suffered so far in the regular season. They were victorious last in the 2022/23 season, with a runner-up spot being banked a year later. They were beaten 3-1 by Olympiacos in the play-offs last time out.