Basketball Champions League

Galatasaray will compete in the Basketball Champions League starting from the 2020/21 season, The Lions confirmed Friday on their website.

AEK is the proud winner of the 2019 FIBA Intercontinental Cup, a trophy it has won for the first time in its history to become the third Greek club after Panathinaikos and Olympiakos to reach for the global throne.

In the tournament's final on Sunday AEK defeated host Flamengo at Rio de Janeiro with an 86-70 score, after downing Americas champion San Lorenzo in Friday's semifinal.

PAOK dumped Basketball Champions League winner AEK out of the Basket League semifinals and Promitheas Patras will play in Europe for the first time in its history, as the best-of-three first round of the play-offs ended for all pairs after Game 2 on Saturday. Panathinaikos and Olympiakos strolled through.

AEK won the third European trophy of its history and its first Basketball Champions League, triumphing 100-94 over Monaco in the final staged on Sunday in its home court, the Olympic Sports Hall in Athens.

AEK beat Murcia 77-75 in a dramatic Basketball Champions League semifinal in Athens on Friday and will contest Sunday's final with favorite Monaco.

The team captains of the four clubs that have reached the Final Four of FIBA's Basketball Champions League pose ahead of Friday's  tipoff at the Olympic Sports Hall in Athens. In the first semifinal at 6.30 p.m., Germany's Ludwigsburg will go up against Monaco, while tournament host AEK Athens will greet Spain's UCAM Murcia in the second.

BASKETBALL: AEK has qualified to the Final Four of the Basketball Champions League after getting an 83-83 result at Strasbourg on Wednesday night to win their quarterfinal tie by nine points on aggregate. On Thursday it also found out it will host the Final Four at the Olympic Sports Hall in Athens, on May 4-6.

AEK and PAOK grabbed the results they needed on Tuesday night and advanced to the knock-out stages of the Basketball Champions League. While PAOK did so in style, with a 21-point away win at Ventspils, AEK's advance was particularly dramatic, and determined a few minutes after the end of its game against Bayreuth in Athens.

Panathinaikos edged even closer to clinching the top spot in the regular season of the Basket League after ending AEK's unbeaten home record on Sunday.

Panathinaikos is alone on top of the Basket League after defeating hitherto unbeaten Promitheas Patras 96-64 on Monday, while the Basketball Champions League obligations appear to take their tool on Greece's participants, who suffered in the local championship.