De ‘Longhi will host the “bubble” from 13 to 17 September with English, Dutch, Danish, Belarusian and Belgian rivals
TREVISO. One of the six “Qualification Rounds” of the Basketball Champions League 21/22 will be hosted at Palaverde with the organization entrusted by FIBA Europe to Treviso Basket, giving access to the Regular Season of the 6th edition of the continental trophy. Group B of the qualifying tournament will see six teams from all over Europe involved from 13 to 17 September in a draw with dry matches, only one team qualifying for the regular season groups after the final.
There will be four teams in total, coming from the four “Qualification Rounds” (24 teams involved) that will reach the 28 teams already qualified for the Regular Season. Palaverde will start on 13 September with the first two quarter-final matches: TVB, freshman in European competitions will play the first round with the English of the London Lions, in the other challenge of the “quarters” the Dutch of ZZ Leiden will face the Belgians of Belfius Mons-Hainaut. We return to Palaverde on September 15 for the semifinals: the winner of Treviso-London will face the Danish champions Bakken Bears, on the other hand the winner between Belgians and Dutch will meet the Belarusians of Tsmoki Minsk. On the 17th the final that will decide the team that will participate in the Regular Season in group D with the Greeks of AEK Stene, the Lithuanians of Riga and the Hungarians Falco Szombathely, already qualified by right.
Qualification Round Tournament 2 (Group B) – Treviso, ITA – Palaverde Game days: 13, 15 & 17 September 2021
Participating Clubs: Bakken Bears (DEN), Belfius Mons-Hainaut (BEL), De’Longhi Treviso (ITA), London Lions (GBR), Tsmoki-Minsk (BLR) and ZZ Leiden (NED).
Quarter-Final 1: London Lions vs De’Longhi Treviso
Quarter-Final 2: Belfius Mons-Hainaut vs ZZ Leiden
Semi-Final 1: Bakken Bears vs Winner of London Lions/De’Longhi Treviso
Semi-Final 2: Tsmoki-Minsk vs Winner of Belfius Mons-Hainaut/ZZ Leiden
Final: Winner SF1 – Winner SF2
Giovanni Favaro, General Manager of De ‘Longhi Treviso Basket, comments on this assignment which also means a great organizational commitment of the young company from Treviso: “We are proud that FIBA wanted to propose to us to organize this group in the year in which Treviso of basketball returns to the European stage. We are a company that has recently entered the great basketball world, for the first time TVB is making the cups, but the name of our city is always important in European basketball and this will be an extra incentive to give the maximum in terms of organizational commitment, we want to do ourselves honor even off the pitch with our staff to guarantee hospitality to the foreign delegations that will come to Treviso and give the right setting for an important event for our territory. It will be a great responsibility for our club also because we will have to offer maximum security and attention to Covid regulations, in addition to the requirements to host the teams dre and television production, we are ready with the enthusiasm and commitment that has always distinguished us. The hope is that it will be a great basketball party and that above all we can experience it in our Palaverde with the public, even if with a reduced capacity, but with the people at the Palaverde after a long time. We hope in this sense that the vaccination campaign will bring good news for the gradual reopening of stadiums and arenas. “
“It is obvious that the economic and organizational commitment that the company will put in place for such an event in collaboration with the territory – continues Giovanni Favaro who oversaw relations with FIBA to obtain this event in Treviso – is aimed at giving everything the support to the team of coach Menetti to realize the dream of entering the cup season, the hope is to challenge Riga on the first day of the group on October 5 at Palaverde. The teams participating in these preliminaries have international experience and are still unknown because the transfer market is yet to be concluded, but we want to play with it, in our home, all the possibilities to fulfill the dream of all our fans. “