| Founded | 2017 |
|---|---|
| Region | Europe (FIBA Europe) |
| Number of teams | 2 |
| Current champions |  Telekom Baskets Bonn (1st title) |
| Most successful club(s) |  San Pablo Burgos, Canarias (2 titles each) |
 2022–23 Basketball Champions League | |
The Basketball Champions League is a seasonal basketball competition established in 2016. It is open to all member nations of FIBA Europe. After a regular season and playoffs, two teams face off in the final.
| † | Match was won after overtime |
| Season | Winners | Score | Runners-up | Venue | Att. | Champions coach | Final Four MVP | Ref. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nation | Team | Nation | Team | |||||||
| 2016–17 | | Canarias | 63–59 |  | Banvit | Pabellón Insular Santiago Martín, La Laguna, Spain | 5,050 | Txus Vidorreta | Marius Grigonis | [1] [2] |
| 2017–18 |  | AEK Athens | 100–94 |  | Monaco | O.A.C.A. Olympic Indoor Hall, Athens, Greece | 17,984 | Zvezdan Mitrović | Mike Green | [3] |
| 2018–19 |  | Virtus Bologna | 73–61 | | Canarias | Sportpaleis, Antwerp, Belgium | 16,437 | Aleksandar Đorđević | Kevin Punter | [4] |
| 2019–20 | | San Pablo Burgos | 85–74 | | AEK Athens | O.A.C.A. Olympic Indoor Hall, Athens, Greece | 0 | Joan Peñarroya | Thad McFadden | |
| 2020–21 | | San Pablo Burgos | 64–59 | | Karşıyaka | Trade Union Sport Palace, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia | 1,265 | Joan Peñarroya | Vítor Benite | |
| 2021–22 | | Canarias | 98–87 | | Manresa | Bilbao Arena, Bilbao, Spain | 8,157 | Txus Vidorreta | Marcelo Huertas | |
| 2022–23 | | Baskets Bonn | 77–70 |  | Hapoel Jerusalem | Palacio de Deportes José María Martín Carpena, Málaga, Spain | 10,437 | Tuomas Iisalo | T. J. Shorts | [5] |
A team with an * denotes that they lost in the finals. The current record for most points in a BCL final is hold by T. J. Shorts who scored 29 points in the 2023 final.
| Year | Player | Club | Points | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 |  Marius Grigonis | Canarias | 18 | [1] [2] |
| 2018 |  Mike Green | AEK Athens | 19 | |
| 2019 | Kevin Punter | Virtus Bologna | 26 | [4] |
| 2020 |  Thad McFadden | San Pablo Burgos | 18 | |
| 2021 | Amath M'Baye | Karşıyaka* | 17 | |
| 2022 |  Chima Moneke | Manresa* | 24 | |
| 2023 | T. J. Shorts | Baskets Bonn | 29 | [5] |
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