2024–25 East Asia Super League Explained

East Asia Super League
Duration:October 2, 2024 – March 9, 2025
Teams:10
Season:2024–25
Finals:Final Four
Finals Link:
  1. Final round
Prevseason Link:2023–24 East Asia Super League
Prevseason Year:2023–24
Nextseason Link:2025–26 East Asia Super League
Nextseason Year:2025–26

The 2024–25 East Asia Super League will be the third regular season of the East Asia Super League, an international basketball club competition involving teams from Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, South Korea, Philippines and Taiwan.[1] [2]

Five cities outside the Philippines have signified interest to host the Final Four segment of the 2024–25 EASL.[2]

Team allocation

Like the previous season, the 2024–25 East Asia Super League will have eight teams.[1] If precedent would serve as basis for the team allocation, the finalist of the Taiwan's (Chinese Taipei) P. League+, Japan's B.League and South Korea's Korean Basketball League are expected to qualify and take part for the 2024–25 season alongside two teams from the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).[3]

The allocation process for Philippine teams was not immediately known since the PBA has two conferences or tournaments for its 2023–24 season.[3] The PBA decided to send the champions of those two conferences.[4]

On 14 August, 2024, a team each from Hong Kong and Macau were announced as expansion teams.[5]

League Country or region Berths
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Qualified teams

Team Domestic league standing
2023–24 P. League+ champions
2023–24 P. League+ runners-up
2023–24 B.League runners-up
Busan KCC Egis2023–24 Korean Basketball League champions
Suwon KT Sonicboom2023–24 Korean Basketball League runners-up
San Miguel Beermen2023–24 PBA Commissioner's Cup champions
Meralco Bolts2024 PBA Philippine Cup champions
2023–24 Hong Kong A1 Division Championship champions
2024 Macau Senior Category of the Silver Medal Basketball Tournament champions

Draw

The result of the draw for the group stage of the 2024–25 season was announced in April 2024 at the time when only the Korean Basketball League qualifying teams are already known; but the champions and runner-up Korean teams are still to be determined. For the placeholder teams team 1 would be the champions, and team 2 would be the runners-up.[6] For the Philippines' case it was the PBA Commissioner's Cup champions which was designated as Team 1 and the PBA Philippine Cup champions as Team 2.[4]

The Hong Kong and Macau team were belatedly added to Group A and Group B respectively.[7]

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Final round

Final

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Terrado . Reuben . EASL set to expand to 16 teams, eyes China, more PBA squads . 16 March 2024 . Sports Interactive Network Philippines . 14 March 2024 . en.
  2. News: Henson . Joaquin . Five cities eye next EASL Final Four . 16 March 2024 . The Philippine Star . 12 March 2024.
  3. News: Terrado . Jonas . EASL looking to address PBA ‘challenges’ . 16 March 2024 . Philippine Daily Inquirer . 10 March 2024 . en.
  4. News: PBA sends champion teams San Miguel, Meralco to EASL . 19 July 2024 . Tiebreaker Times . 19 July 2024.
  5. News: Ramos . Gerry . Hong Kong Eastern, Macau Black Bears join expanded EASL . 14 August 2024 . Sports Interactive Network Philippines . 14 August 2024 . en.
  6. Web site: Who's in the EASL 2024-25 Season? . EASL . East Asia Super League Ltd. . 19 July 2024 . en.
  7. Web site: East Asia Super League expands to 10 teams as Hong Kong Eastern and Macau Black Bears enter 2024-25 Season EASL . East Asia Super League Ltd. . 14 August 2024 . en.