{"id":32542,"date":"2012-07-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/maccabi-draws-to-group-b-with-siena-berlin-malaga-prokom-and-chalon\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:43:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:43:24","slug":"maccabi-draws-to-group-b-with-siena-berlin-malaga-prokom-and-chalon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/maccabi-draws-to-group-b-with-siena-berlin-malaga-prokom-and-chalon\/","title":{"rendered":"Maccabi Draws to Group B with Siena, Berlin, Malaga, Prokom and Chalon"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

\tBy Amy Samin<\/span><\/p>\n

\tMaccabi Electra Tel Aviv has drawn to Group B of the 2012 \u2013 2013 Euroleague regular season, along with Montepaschi Siena <\/span>of Italy<\/span>, <\/span>German team <\/span>Alba Berlin, Unicaja Malaga <\/span>of <\/span>Spain, Asseco Prokom Gdynia (Poland) and <\/span>newly-minted French champions Elan Chalon-Sur-Saone<\/span>.<\/span> The exact schedule will be announced shortly.<\/span><\/p>\n

\tThe regular season will get underway on 11 October and will end on 14 December. The top four teams in the group will qualify for the Top 16 round which begins on 27 December and concludes<\/span> on 5 April. The playoffs will run from 9 \u2013 25 April, and the season will conclude with the Final Four which will take place 10 \u2013 12 May 2013 in London. The groups for the Top 16 will be crafted according to the following formula:<\/span><\/p>\n

\tGroup E<\/span>: A \u2013 1, B \u2013 2, C \u2013 3, D \u2013 4, C \u2013 1, D \u2013 2, <\/span>A<\/span> <\/span>\u2013 3, B \u2013 4<\/span>
\tGroup F<\/span>: B \u2013 1, C \u2013 2, D \u2013 3, A \u2013 4, D \u2013 1, A \u2013 2, B \u2013 3, C \u2013 4<\/span><\/p>\n

\tGroup A<\/span>
\tPanathinaikos Athens<\/span>
\tReal Madrid<\/span>
\tBC Khimki Moscow Region<\/span>
\tFenerbahce Ulker Istanbul<\/span>
\tUnion<\/span> Olimpija Ljubljana<\/span>
\tQR Champion<\/span><\/p>\n

\tGroup B<\/span>
\tMaccabi Electra Tel Aviv<\/span>
\tMontepaschi Siena<\/span>
\tAlba Berlin<\/span>
\tUnicaja Malaga<\/span>
\tAsseco Prokom Gdynia<\/span>
\tElan Chalon-Sur-Saone<\/span><\/p>\n

\tGroup C<\/span>
\tOlympiacos Piraeus<\/span>
\tCaja Laboral Vitoria<\/span>
\tAnadolu Efes Istanbul<\/span>
\tZalgiris Kaunas<\/span>
\tEA7 Emporio Armani Milan<\/span>
\tCedevita Zagreb<\/span><\/p>\n

\tGroup D<\/span>
\tFC Barcelona Regal<\/span>
\tCSKA Moscow<\/span>
\tPartizan Mt:s Belgrade<\/span>
\tLietuvos Rytas Vilnius<\/span>
\tBrose Baskets Bamberg<\/span>
\tBeskitas JK Istanbul<\/span><\/p>\n

\tDavid Blatt:<\/span> <\/span>“<\/span>Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv is proud and happy for its fans around the world to open a new season. We look forward to new challenges and are preparing accordingly. We are building a quality team that will know how to deal with the expectations and challenges and will bring joy to our wonderful and devoted fans and with proudly represent the symbol and great tradition of Maccabi Tel Aviv. The rest of the teams in our group, just like us, have not completed their rosters and even if we don\u2019t face the strongest teams, there is no chance we will be overconfident. We will have a relatively new team and during the regular season we will have to come together. \u201c<\/span><\/p>\n

\tShimon Mizrahi<\/span>: <\/span>“<\/span>We have been drawn against teams with great Euroleague tradition<\/span>s,<\/span> like Siena and Malaga. Alba and Prokom also know the Euroleague well and Chalon had a great season in France. You don\u2019t win games on paper. We need to come as strong as possible to advance to the Top 16, which will be even more thrilling with its new format. We are working hard to complete our squad for the coming season and I can promise everyone that we will have a great team.\u201d <\/span> \t <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv draws to Group B in the Euroleague, together with Montepaschi Siena (Italy), Alba Berlin (Germany), Unicaja Malaga (Spain), Asseco Prokom Gdynia (Poland) and Elan Chalon-Sur-Saone (France).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-32542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-54"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496890,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32542\/revisions\/496890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32542"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=32542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}