EuroLeague playoffs 2022: all participants, format and exciting pairs / News - Basketnews.com

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With Maccabi's win in the ultimate game of the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague regular season, the final playoffs picture has been cleared.

FC Barcelona clinched the first seed of the EuroLeague regular season for the second straight year.

Barca, Olympiacos Piraeus, Real Madrid, and AX Armani Exchange Milan will have home-court advantage in the playoffs stage.

Five teams from last year's Top 8 will participate in the playoffs of the 2021-22 EuroLeague campaign: Barca, Milan, Real, Anadolu Efes, and Bayern.

Meanwhile, AS Monaco became the first EuroCup team to qualify for EuroLeague playoffs in their first season of the competition.

Regular-season standings

Pos Team GM W L HW HL PPG PPG A Diff STR L5 % 1 FC Barcelona 28 21 7 12 2 82.6 76.1 6.5 -2 --+++ 75 2 Olympiacos Piraeus 28 19 9 13 1 80.2 73.8 6.4 +2 ++-++ 67.9 3 AX Armani Exchange Milan 28 19 9 10 4 74.1 71.5 2.6 +1 +-++- 67.9 4 Real Madrid 28 18 10 12 2 79.1 75.1 4 -4 ----+ 64.3 5 Maccabi Tel Aviv 28 17 11 12 2 81.1 78.9 2.3 +6 +++++ 60.7 6 Anadolu Efes Istanbul 28 16 12 12 2 83.8 80.3 3.5 -1 -++-+ 57.1 7 AS Monaco 28 15 13 9 5 83.8 80.8 3 +5 +++++ 53.6 8 FC Bayern Munich 28 14 14 9 5 75.8 75.2 0.6 +1 +--+- 50 9 Bitci Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz 28 12 16 9 5 75.6 78.1 -2.5 +1 +-+++ 42.9 10 ALBA Berlin 28 12 16 8 6 75.8 80.0 -4.2 -1 -+-++ 42.9 11 Crvena Zvezda Belgrade 28 12 16 10 4 73.3 75.1 -1.9 +1 +---- 42.9 12 Fenerbahce Istanbul 28 10 18 9 5 73.3 75.0 -1.7 -2 --+-- 35.7 13 Panathinaikos Athens 28 9 19 7 7 74.6 79.8 -5.2 +1 +-+-+ 32.1 14 LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne 28 8 20 4 10 72.7 80.0 -7.3 -3 ---+- 28.6 15 Zalgiris Kaunas 28 8 20 6 8 75.1 81.1 -6 +1 +---- 28.6

Further competition format

Eight teams play best-of-five series, which will take place from April 19 to May 4. Series winners advance to the Final Four. The playoffs schedule can be found here.

Belgrade is the host city of EuroLeague Final Four 2022. The tournament's finale will be played at Stark Arena.

The semifinals will kick off on Thursday, May 19 at 18:00 CEST and 21:00 CEST, while the third-place game and championship game will be on Saturday, May 21 at 16:00 CEST and 19:00 CEST, respectively.

Quarterfinals pairs

FC Barcelona (1st seed) vs FC Bayern Munich (8th seed) Olympiacos Piraeus (2nd seed) vs AS Monaco (7th seed) AX Armani Exchange Milan (3rd seed) vs Anadolu Efes Istanbul (6th seed) Real Madrid (4th seed) vs Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv (5th seed)

Semifinals pairs

Semifinal A: Barcelona or Bayern vs Real or Maccabi Semifinal B: Milan or Efes vs Olympiacos or Monaco

Third-place game

Barcelona, Bayern, Real or Maccabi vs Milan, Efes, Olympiacos or Monaco

Championship game

Barcelona, Bayern, Real or Maccabi vs Milan, Efes, Olympiacos or Monaco

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