2011–12 Eurocup Basketball
The 2011–12 Eurocup Basketball season was the tenth edition of Europe's second-tier level transnational competition for men's professional basketball clubs, the EuroCup. The EuroCup is the European-wide league level that is one level below the EuroLeague. It ran from September 27, 2011, until April 15, 2012. The winner of this competition earned a place at the group stage of the next season's EuroLeague. Teams allocation. Distribution. 32 teams participated in the Eurocup Regular Season: Teams. The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round  (TH: EuroCup title holders; FEC: FBIA EuroChallenge title holders): Qualifying round. The eight winners of the qualifying round joined the regular season. The eight losers transferred to the EuroChallenge regular season. Regular season. The Regular Season ran from November 15, 2011, to December 20, 2011. If teams were level on record at the end of the Regular Season, tiebreakers were applied in the following order: Quarterfinals. The quarterfinals were two-legged ties determined on aggregate score. The first legs were played on March 20. The return legs were played on March 27. The group winners in each tie, listed as  Team 1, hosted the second leg. Final four. Euroleague Basketball Company announced that the 2011–12 Eurocup season would culminate with the Eurocup Finals in Khimki, Russia, on April 14 and 15.