MADRID, 3 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The acb has revealed this Thursday the official calendar of the 2023-24 season, which will begin on September 16 and 17 with the Endesa Super Cup in Murcia and will continue a week later, on Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 September. with the start of the Endesa League.
On the other hand, the Copa del Rey in Malaga will be held between February 15 and 18 and the Regular League will end on May 12, to give rise to a Playoff that will start on May 14 or 15 depending on the teams classified for the European finals, and will conclude at the latest on June 17, in the event of a fifth match in the semifinals and final.
The Endesa League will thus start on September 23 with four games (Valencia Basket-Bàsquet Girona, Coviran Granada-UCAM Murcia, Monbus Obradoiro-Zunder Palencia and Unicaja-Lenovo Tenerife) and this first day will close with an always interesting Catalan derby between Barça and Joventut , with the signing of Barça Joel Parra against his old team.
We won’t have to wait long to experience the first Clásico, a Real Madrid-Barça matchup that will reissue the last final on Sunday, October 1 (6:30 p.m., at the WiZink Center). The whites will star in the last game of 2023, at home against Valencia Basket, and also the first of 2024, in Vitoria against Baskonia.
The Endesa League Playoff, which will be played with the usual format of quarterfinals in three games and semifinals and a best-of-five final, will be played after the end of the Regular League. The playoffs would begin on May 14 if there is a Spanish team in the Euroleague Final Four, and on May 15 if it were not. It will last until a maximum date of June 17.