Country coefficient
The country coefficient is used to rank the basketball leagues of Europe, and thus determine the maximum number of clubs from an association that will participate in the Basketball Champions League. This coefficient is determined by the results of the clubs of the leagues in the Basketball Champions League games over the past three seasons. The number of points awarded each season is divided by the number of clubs that participated for that association in that season. This number is then rounded up to one decimal place (e.g. 2+2⁄3 would be rounded to 2.7). [1]
Current ranking
The ranking below takes into account of each league's performance in European competitions from 2022–23 to 2024–25.
As of May 2025 the ranking is as follows:
| Ranking 2025 | Ranking 2024 | League | Coefficient | Teams | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | Total | ||||
| 1 | 1 |  Spain | 30.17 | 32.20 | 34.00 | 96.4 | 0/5 |
| 2 | 4 |  Turkey | 17.00 | 20.40 | 28.75 | 66.2 | 0/4 |
| 3 | 3 |  France | 26.33 | 22.75 | 16.00 | 65.0 | 0/3 |
| 4 | 2 |  Israel | 27.67 | 20.00 | 17.00 | 64.7 | 0/2 |
| 5 | 5 |  Greece | 21.00 | 27.00 | 16.40 | 64.4 | 0/5 |
| 6 | 6 |  Germany | 21.00 | 18.50 | 15.25 | 54.8 | 0/4 |
| 7 | 17 |  Czechia | 6.50 | 5.00 | 38.00 | 49.5 | 0/1 |
| 8 | 12 |  Italy | 11.00 | 10.25 | 23.33 | 44.6 | 0/3 |
| 9 | 9 |  Lithuania | 13.00 | 9.50 | 15.50 | 38.0 | 0/2 |
| 10 | 7 |  Hungary | 6.00 | 11.00 | 19.00 | 36.0 | 0/1 |
| 11 | 11 |  Belgium | 17.00 | 9.00 | 8.00 | 34.0 | 0/2 |
| 12 | 14 |  Portugal | 18.00 | 8.00 | 8.00 | 34.0 | 0/1 |
| 13 | 10 |  Bosnia and Herzegovina | 15.00 | 5.00 | 11.00 | 31.0 | 0/1 |
| 14 | 13 |  Latvia | 8.00 | 11.00 | 8.00 | 27.0 | 0/1 |
| 15 | 16 |  Poland | 8.00 | 6.50 | 6.50 | 21.0 | 0/2 |
| 16 | 19 |  Denmark | 8.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 10.0 | 0/0 |
| 17 | 26 |  Serbia | 4.00 | 1.00 | 4.50 | 9.5 | 0/2 |
| 18 | 21 |  Switzerland | 2.00 | 1.00 | 4.00 | 7.0 | 0/1 |
| 19 | 23 |  Sweden | 1.00 | 4.00 | 2.00 | 7.0 | 0/1 |
| 20 | 25 |  Slovakia | 4.00 | 1.00 | 2.00 | 7.0 | 0/1 |
| 21 | 18 |  Estonia | 1.00 | 1.00 | 4.00 | 6.0 | 0/1 |
| 22 | 8 |  Romania | 2.00 | 1.00 | 2.00 | 5.0 | 0/1 |
| 23 | 22 |  Netherlands | 2.00 | 2.00 | 1.00 | 5.0 | 0/1 |
| 24 | 24 |  Cyprus | 2.00 | 2.00 | 1.00 | 5.0 | 0/1 |
| 25 | 27 |  Finland | 2.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 5.0 | 0/1 |
| 26 | 31 |  Kosovo | 1.00 | 1.00 | 2.00 | 4.0 | 0/1 |
| 27 | 35 |  Bulgaria | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 2.0 | 0/0 |
| 28 | 32 |  Great Britain | 1.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 2.0 | 0/1 |
| 29 | 34 |  Georgia | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 2.0 | 0/1 |
| 30 | 15 |  Ukraine | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.0 | 0/0 |
| 31 | 30 |  Austria | 2.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.0 | 0/0 |
| 32 | N/A |  Azerbaijan | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 1.0 | 0/1 |
| 33 | 29 |  Montenegro | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 1.0 | 0/0 |
| 34 | 36 |  North Macedonia | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.0 | 0/0 |
| 35 | 20 |  Russia | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0/0 |
| 36 | 28 |  Belarus | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0/0 |
| 37 | 33 |  Croatia | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0/0 |
| — (NR) |  Albania | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0/0 | ||
 Armenia | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0/0 | |||
 Iceland | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0/0 | |||
 Ireland | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0/0 | |||
 Luxembourg | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0/0 | |||
 Malta | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0/0 | |||
 Moldova | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0/0 | |||
 Norway | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0/0 | |||
 Slovenia | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0/0 | |||
NR No rank (league did not enter in any of the seasons used for computing coefficients)
Top leagues by period
The following data indicates the three top-ranked leagues in each three-year period.
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The table shows the ranking of nations with respect to the total number of years in the top three of the rankings:
| League | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liga ACB | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| National Basketball League | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| LNB Pro A | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Basket League | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Basketball Super League | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| VTB United League | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |