{"id":763395,"date":"2026-06-27T09:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T09:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/763395\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T09:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T09:06:10","slug":"euroleague-opt-out-clause-to-end-up-being-more-than-e200m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/763395\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroLeague opt-out clause to end up being more than \u20ac200M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Aris Barkas\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/en\/euroleague\/1985128\/euroleague-opt-out-clause-to-end-up-being-more-than-e200m\/mailto:barkas@eurohoops.net\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">barkas@eurohoops.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The EuroLeague\u00a0reiterated on Friday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/en\/euroleague\/1984894\/euroleague-confirms-20-team-field-expansion-plans-and-franchise-roadmap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the start of the transition to a franchise model,<\/a>\u00a0keeping the 13 clubs-shareholders on its fold, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/real-madrid\/?lang=en\" title=\"Real Madrid\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Real Madrid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the key issues in this evolution is that by becoming franchises, leaving the EuroLeague will end up being really expensive for anyone.<\/p>\n<p>As Eurohoops has reported, the opt-out clause <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/en\/euroleague\/1978568\/euroleague-real-madrid-pushes-for-change-to-franchises-with-opt-out-fees-moving-to-100m-euros-monaco-and-besiktas-duel-for-the-last-open-spot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">was expected to rise to\u00a0\u20ac100M,<\/a>\u00a0and this number may end up to\u00a0\u00a0\u20ac200M.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s true that next season, with the NBA project still being planned, the top-tier teams need to play in a top-tier competition, with EuroLeague being the only option, and opt-out clauses are still included.<\/p>\n<p>So if a team wants to be part of the new competition and make a bid to join it, it has a way to do it.<\/p>\n<p>However, the opt-out clause is currently \u20ac10M plus damages, and this is where things are starting to get to levels unprecedented in European basketball.<\/p>\n<p>The key part is the \u201cplus damages\u201d mention, which, depending on the rising valuation of the league, may end up being a whopping \u20ac200M as early as next year.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, with the numbers circulated on European basketball becoming more and more unthinkable compared to even two years before, even this number may end up being modest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Aris Barkas\/ barkas@eurohoops.net The EuroLeague\u00a0reiterated on Friday the start of the transition to a franchise model,\u00a0keeping the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-763395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}