Olympiacos B.C. accomplished a outstanding 2025–26 marketing campaign by capturing the EuroLeague title, reaffirming the membership’s standing amongst Europe’s basketball elite by means of self-discipline, expertise, and championship mentality. They received it by beating Actual Madrid in probably the greatest video games within the Finals within the newer EuroLeague historical past.
That is the 4th EuroLeague Trophy for the workforce from Pireaus, first one was in 1997, second and the third in 2012 and 2013.
At halftime of the 2026 EuroLeague Last 4 championship sport in Athens, Olympiacos Piraeus led Actual Madrid 46–44. Actual Madrid began stronger and received the primary quarter 26–19. Olympiacos answered with a dominant second quarter, particularly contained in the paint, exploiting Madrid’s lack of wholesome huge males. A key 7-0 shifted momentum earlier than the break.
Within the first half Olympiacos relied closely on Sasha Vezenkov, Evan Fournier and powerful rebounding presence. The OAKA/Telekom Middle crowd closely favored Olympiacos, making a home-court environment in Athens.
Third half completely belonged to Actual Madrid. The workforce from Spain scored 21, whereas “house workforce” received 15 in that a part of the match. However the final 10 minutes was actually men-on-men struggle. Olympiacos was scoring for 3 and having 50% 52 seconds earlier than the tip and was main by 6 (86-80). The workforce from Piraues used the truth that Actual is taking part in with out huge males and out-jump them fully (40-24 rebounds at 22.4 seconds earlier than the tip). 13 seconds earlier than the tip Campazzo was taking pictures free throws, missed the second on goal, Actual received the ball, however missed the shot, and on the opposite facet, Peters was good from the free-point line.
The ultimate rating was 92-85 for the “house workforce” and the highest participant for Olympiacos was Alec Peters (PIR 26), additionally the proprietor of the final two factors.
The MVP of the EuroLeague Last 4 match in Athens was Evan Fournier, the French participant with 20 factors within the Finals (PIR 21).
