The 2016/17 7DAYS EuroCup Draw took place in Barcelona, where the clubs were divided into four groups of six teams each. The 24 clubs, which hail from 12 different countries and feature five former champs plus two past Euroleague winners, start with a 10-game, round-robin regular season, from which the best four in each group will advance to the Top 16. That stage will be comprised of four groups of four teams; after a six-game round-robin schedule, the best two in each group move on to the quarterfinals. The quarterfinals, like the semifinals and finals after it, will be played in a best-of-three series format with a new champion expected to be crowned in early April after playing a maximum of 25 games, which would be the most ever played by a single team in a EuroCup season.

2016/17 7DAYS Eurocup Draw Results:

Group A: Nizhny Novgorod (Russia), Herbalife Gran Canaria Las Palmas (Spain), Cedevita Zagreb (ABA League), Stelmet Zielona Gora (Poland), AEK Athens (Greece), Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia (Italy)

Group B: Khimki Moscow Region (Russia), ALBA Berlin (Germany), Dominion Bilbao Basket (Spain), Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius (Lithuania), FoxTown Cantu (Italy), Partizan NIS Belgrade (ABA League)

Group C: Unicaja Malaga (Spain), FC Bayern Munich (Germany), UCAM Murcia (Spain), Dinamo Banco di Sardegna Sassari (Italy), Zenit St Petersburg (Russia), Buducnost VOLI Podgorica (ABA League)

Group D: Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar (Russia), Valencia Basket (Spain), Union Olimpija Ljubljana (ABA League), Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem (Israel), ratiopharm Ulm (Germany), Dolomiti Energia Trento (Italy)

The 2016/17 7DAYS Eurocup schedulle will be publiched later.

Elena Nazarova, BC Khimki International Director:

"We are very happy to be in this group with so many teams with great basketball tradition. We know most of the teams and it will be interesting to bring them to our arena. It will be good for fans, too. We expect the EuroCup to be a very strong, very interesting competition. It will be a stronger EuroCup, with teams that played the EuroLeague for many years, but our goal is to lift the trophy. Some teams that played the EuroLeague are now in the EuroCup, which makes the competition more interesting — but our goal remains the same".