Málaga (EFE).- Lenovo Tenerife will face Israeli Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem and Unicaja will face German Telekom Bonn in the semifinals of the Final Between Four of the Basketball Champions League (BCL), according to the draw held on Tuesday at the Picasso Museum in Malaga for an appointment that will take place from May 12 to 14 at the José María Martín Carpena Sports Palace in this Andalusian city.
The Tenerife team will open the competition on Friday, May 12, and then that same day Unicaja will play the second semifinal, from which the winners who will meet in the final on Sunday will emerge.
The mayor of Malaga, Francisco de la Torre; the president of the Provincial Council, Francisco Salado; the general director of Sports Promotion, Healthy Habits and Sports Fabric of the Junta de Andalucía, María de Nova; in addition to the general director of the BCL, Patrick Comninos, and the president of Unicaja Basketball, Antonio Jesús López Nieto.
Unicaja, the current Copa del Rey champion, will be the host team and was the first to secure its place in this Final between Four, after beating UCAM Murcia 2-0 in the quarterfinals, and it will be the first time who disputed the final of the BCL in his second participation in this tournament.
Telekom Baskets Bonn beat French SIG Strasbourg 2-1 in their quarterfinal series and Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem defeated AEK Athens 2-1, so they are also set to make their first appearance in a Four-of-a-Kind Final. BCL.
The fourth contenders for the title, Lenovo Tenerife, have extensive experience in the final phase of this tournament, which they reached after eliminating BAXI Manresa 2-1 in the quarterfinals, as they are the reigning BCL champions, whose last matches were played last year in Bilbao, but they also won the first edition of this competition in the 2016-17 campaign and played in the 2018-19 final.
Some nine thousand seats will be put up for sale for the four teams and the distribution by contract is five percent for each club, so they will have about six hundred tickets each, with the cheapest ticket for the four games costing 68 euros. and the most expensive of 240 euros. EFE
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