{"id":76501,"date":"2026-02-28T02:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T01:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/news\/adidas-nextgen-euroleague-2026-focus-the-top-under-18-competition\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T02:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T01:02:14","slug":"adidas-nextgen-euroleague-2026-focus-the-top-under-18-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/news\/adidas-nextgen-euroleague-2026-focus-the-top-under-18-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Adidas NextGen EuroLeague 2026: focus the top Under-18 competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bologna, February 27 &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a closer look at how the Adidas NextGen EuroLeague works, the continent&#8217;s top under-18 competition, now in its 24th edition. The event is divided into four qualifying tournaments. The winner of each event earns a place in the 2026 Adidas NextGen EuroLeague finals, which will once again take place during the EuroLeague Final Four in Athens. The qualifier already held was in Ulm (Germany, February 6-8), won by Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana, while the one in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates, February 27-March 1) is currently taking place. Along with the one in Bologna, it will be followed by Belgrade (Serbia, March 20-22).<\/p>\n<p>The group stage, which will be hosted at the PalaDozza in Bologna from March 13 to 15 (<a href=\"https:\/\/bestunion.queue-it.net\/?c=bestunion&amp;e=vivaticketserver&amp;ver=p2.0.4&amp;t=https%3A%2F%2Fvirtusbo.vivaticket.it%2F\"><strong>tickets here<\/strong><\/a>), will feature:<\/p>\n<p><strong>GROUP A:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dolomiti Energia Trento<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>FC Barcelona<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>FC Bayern Munich<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Paris Basketball<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>GROUP B:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Fundacion Baskonia-Alaves <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u2022 Virtus Bologna <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u2022 Panathinaikos Athens <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u2022 Next Generation Team\u00a0<\/strong>(composed of prominent players from clubs not represented in the qualifiers, will continue to participate in all stages of the calendar, without the right to qualify for the final phase).<\/p>\n<p>The matches will consist of six games in the first two days and the final four games (8th-7th, 6th-5th, 4th-3rd, 2nd-1st) on the final day, Sunday 15. The final will be played at 4 p.m., so that fans can then watch the big league match between Virtus Olidata Bologna and EA7 Emporio Armani Milano (<a href=\"https:\/\/virtusbo.vivaticket.it\/it\/event\/virtus-olidata-bologna-ea7-olimpia-milano\/296084\"><strong>tickets available here<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":76440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[307,268,259,257,248],"tags":[403,308,269,267,265],"class_list":["post-76501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague-en","category-primo-piano-en","category-youth-sector","category-events","category-news","tag-eventi","tag-euroleague-en","tag-app-en","tag-youth-banner","tag-evidence"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}