BOSNA BH Telecom Sarajevo will substitute AS Monaco in Group D of the 2026-27 BKT EuroCup after Monaco was dominated ineligible for the competitors, Euroleague Basketball announced Tuesday. The Bosnian membership receives a one-season participation spot and returns to the EuroCup for the primary time since 2007-08.
Euroleague Basketball stated Monaco was unable to meet the necessities established within the official BKT EuroCup By-Legal guidelines, leading to its ineligibility. BOSNA will now be a part of Bahcesehir Faculty Istanbul, Balkan Botevgrad, Youngsters&Us Manresa, Lietkabelis Panevezys, PAOK Thessaloniki, ratiopharm ulm and Roma Basketball in Group D.
BOSNA’s EuroCup marketing campaign will start on Sept. 30 with a highway sport towards Lietkabelis Panevezys. That matchup comes 6,791 days after the membership’s earlier look within the competitors.
The Sarajevo membership has performed within the EuroCup solely as soon as earlier than, throughout the 2007-08 season. BOSNA reached the knockout rounds after one of the crucial uncommon video games in European basketball historical past, shedding to ALBA Berlin 141-127 on Dec. 4, 2007, after 5 overtimes.
The sport stays the longest in EuroCup historical past. 5 BOSNA gamers performed greater than 40 minutes, with Kyle Hill main the crew after spending 53 minutes and 18 seconds on the courtroom.
Regardless of the five-overtime defeat, BOSNA superior to the knockout stage earlier than shedding to Gran Canaria within the Final 32. The membership will now return to the competitors practically 19 years after its final EuroCup sport.
BOSNA enters the event because the reigning champion of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The membership received its fifth nationwide league championship final season, including to a home historical past that features three Yugoslav Championship titles in 1978, 1980 and 1983.
The Sarajevo membership additionally owns one of the crucial important achievements in European basketball historical past. On April 5, 1979, BOSNA defeated Pallacanestro Varese 96-93 in Grenoble, France, to win the European Champions Cup.
Led by Mirza Delibasic and Zarko Varajic, BOSNA grew to become the primary membership from the previous Yugoslavia to win Europe’s premier membership competitors. Varajic scored 45 factors within the ultimate, a document for a championship sport within the competitors.
BOSNA’s return subsequently combines a present home championship with a European historical past that dates again a long time. Its first EuroCup look since 2007-08 will start towards Lietkabelis on Sept. 30, with the membership coming into Group D instead of Monaco.
