Euroleague Basketball has announced that the 2009-10 Eurocup season will culminate with the Eurocup Finals in one of the continent's strongest basketball markets, Vitoria, Spain, on April 17 and 18. The newest Eurocup champion will be crowned at the10,000-seat Fernando Buesa Arena in Vitoria, the homecourt of Euroleague club Caja Laboral. The two-day, four-team tournament will feature semifinals on Saturday, April 17 leading to the next day's title game, whose winner will not only lift the Eurocup trophy, but also qualify for the following season's Euroleague!

The Eurocup is enjoying its eighth season as the second-best league in Europe. Vitoria becomes the third host city for the crowning of the competition's champion since the competition went to a single-game final format, in 2003. The title game was held four times, between 2004 and 2007, in Charlerloi, Belgium. The last two years, the Eurocup Final Eight took place in Turin, Italy.

Vitoria has proven a hotbed for basketball fans for two decades or more during which Saski Baskonia's Tau Ceramica team - now Caja Laboral - became one of Europe's best-known in all of Europe, reaching four consecutive Final Fours. Besides the Fernando Buesa Arena, Vitoria and Saski Baskonia also boast the state-of-the-art Bakh Sports City, a lifestyle center that includes indoor-outdoor facilities for at least eight sports, classrooms, spa, fitness, restaurants and other services.

Tickets for the Eurocup Finals will go on sale later in February.

The results of the Eurocup draw

A total of 32 teams will play in the Eurocup regular season

Two more years for the Ukrainian

• Matt Nielsen: "This team deserves this success"
  EuroCup 18.04.2010, 22:42 0
• Matt Nielsen (Power Electronics Valencia), MVP of the EuroCup final
  EuroCup 18.04.2010, 22:36 0
• EuroCup Final: Alba Berlin 44-Power Electronics Valencia 67
  EuroCup 18.04.2010, 22:18 0
• Fotis Katsikaris (Bilbao Basket): "All the players were affected emocionally"
  EuroCup 18.04.2010, 20:37 0
• EuroCup: Bizkaia Bilbao Basket 76-Panellinios 67
  EuroCup 18.04.2010, 19:34 0
• Luka Pavicevic: "We're allowed to feel good, but not to celebrate"
  EuroCup 17.04.2010, 23:14 0
• Fotis Katsikaris: "We needed to play more intense"
  EuroCup 17.04.2010, 22:34 0
• EuroCup: Alba Berlin 77-Bizkaia Bilbao Basket 70
  EuroCup 17.04.2010, 22:32 0
• Neven Spahija: "We have to play much better defense"
  EuroCup 17.04.2010, 20:18 0
• Ilias Zouros: "It was impossible for Valencia to lose"
  EuroCup 17.04.2010, 19:45 0

• EuroCup: Power Electronics Valencia 92-Panellinios 79
  EuroCup 17.04.2010, 19:33 0
• Bizkaia Bilbao Basket-Alba Berlín (previa)
  EuroCup 16.04.2010, 20:50 1
• Power Electronics Valencia-Panellinios (Preview)
  EuroCup 16.04.2010, 19:47 0
• 2009-10 Eurocup MVP: Marko Banic, Bizkaia Bilbao Basket
  EuroCup 12.04.2010, 14:21 0
• Panellinios forward Josh Davis returns
  EuroCup 12.04.2010, 12:24 0
• 2009-10 All-Eurocup first, second teams announced
  EuroCup 09.04.2010, 14:07 0
• 2009-10 Eurocup Coach of the Year: Ilias Zouros, Panellinios BC
  EuroCup 08.04.2010, 22:32 0
• 2009-10 Eurocup Rising Star Trophy Victor Claver, Power Electronics Valencia
  EuroCup 07.04.2010, 14:56 0
• Mithat Demirel to enter in Alba Berlin's management
  EuroCup 06.04.2010, 21:13 0
• Quarterfinals Game 2 MVP: Matt Nielsen, Power Electronics Valencia
  EuroCup 05.04.2010, 11:51 0