BADALONA (Spain) - Four teams, one common goal: it's Final Four time in the Basketball Champions League, powered by Ameresco SUNEL. And, as usual, it's time to get to know more about the Semi-Finals.
Whether you will be in Badalona supporting your team from Vilnius, Tenerife, Athens, or Malaga, or whether you're at home enjoying the action from the screen, take a look at these 22 must-know facts.
Rytas Vilnius vs. La Laguna Tenerife - May 7 at 18:00 CET
La Laguna Tenerife have won three of their previous four meetings with Rytas Vilnius in the BCL, but were defeated in the most recent one (78-85 in December 2022).
Rytas will play their first Semi-Final in the BCL and Lithuania will become the 9th country to have a team representing them at that stage.
Rytas have lost their last four BCL games played in Spain, with all those defeats ending with a margin of 13+ points and allowing 82+ points on each occasion.
Tenerife will play their 7th Semi-Final in the BCL, at least three more than any other team, the 5th one in a row; they have lost two of their last three appearances at that stage, though after winning the previous three.
Tenerife have only lost one of their 31 non-Regular Season games played in Spain against a non-Spanish team; however, the only defeat was in the Semi-Finals, 68-69 vs. Hapoel Jerusalem in Malaga in 2023.
Rytas have scored 90.8 points per game in the BCL this season, the highest scoring average of any team in 2025-26; only one team have ended a BCL campaign with an average of 90 or more points scored per game (Unicaja, 93.4ppg in 2024-25).
Rytas and Tenerife are two of the five teams averaging more than 10 made three-pointers per game in the BCL this season, with the Lithuanians making 10.2 shots per game from behind the arc and the two-time BCL champions averaging 10.4 made threes. Consequently, they are also the two teams with the lowest load of points in the paint per game (Rytas, 36.7% & Tenerife, 35.6%).
Tenerife are the only team averaging fewer than 10 turnovers per game in the BCL this season (9.8); thus, they allow their opponents to score the fewest points per game from turnovers (11ppg).
Jerrick Harding has scored 15+ points for Rytas in each of his last four games in the BCL; in fact, he has fewer than 12 points in only three of his last 20 BCL appearances, with two of those occasions being precisely against Tenerife (6 & 9pts in the 2023 Quarter-Finals).
Marcelinho Huertas is averaging 20.5 points per game in his four appearances at the BCL Semi-Finals, the highest scoring average of any player to have taken part in multiple Semi-Finals in league history; he has also made 5.5 assists in this phase of the competition.
Hosting Andorra at home, Tenerife lost 90-89 despite Marcelinho Huertas' 24 points and 8 assists; Rytas had a similar outcome against Lietkabelis, suffering the 96-71 defeat on the road.
Unicaja vs. AEK BC - May 7 at 21:00 CET
Unicaja (4) and AEK BC (4) are two of the three teams, alongside Tenerife (7), to have reached the Semi-Finals of a BCL season more than twice.
Unicaja have won their previous three games against AEK in the BCL, including the Semi-Final in 2025 (71-65); AEK have either scored 65 or 66 points in each of their previous three meetings with Unicaja.
Unicaja have won their last 10 games played in stages from the Quarter-Finals onward in the BCL; they have won their last two league Semi-Finals played and will attempt to become the first team to reach three Championship Games in a row in the competition.
Unicaja have won their last 20 games played in Spain against a non-Spanish team in the BCL, scoring 90+ points in 11 of the most recent 12; however, their last such defeat was in a Semi-Final, 67-69 against Telekom Baskets Bonn in 2023.
AEK have always faced a Spanish side in a BCL Semi-Final (Unicaja x2, UCAM Murcia and Casademont Zaragoza), and they will play a Final Four away from home for the first time. Their first three appearances at that stage were all played in Athens (2018, 2020 & 2025).
If they beat Unicaja, AEK will become the second team to reach 100 wins in the BCL, after Tenerife (128). However, they have lost their last four trips to Spain, trailing by more than 10 points at halftime in three of those games.
Unicaja’s bench players have scored 45.1 points per game, the highest average of any second unit in the BCL this season; they are one of the three teams to have more points being scored from their players coming off the bench than from their starting lineup (also ALBA BERLIN and ERA Nymburk).
AEK have allowed 34 points per game in the second half, the best defensive average of any team in the BCL this season; in comparison, they have conceded 40.9 points per game in the first 20 minutes this term.
Kendrick Perry has scored in double figures in each of his three previous BCL Semi-Finals with Unicaja, with the reigning champions winning the two games in which Perry came off the bench and losing the Semi-Final in which he started. Kendrick Perry is yet to miss a free-throw in a BCL Semi-Final (11-of-11).
Frank Bartley has scored 16 or more points in eight of his last nine BCL games with AEK; the Greeks are undefeated in the league when Bartley has scored 16+ points (W11) and have lost two of their four games in which the 32-year-old scored below that mark.
While Unicaja's game against Asisa Joventut was suspended in the ACB, AEK didn't play during the week in Greece.