The League in It already has a date to start your first season. After months of preparation, the basketball league of the ACB For Sub-22 players, it will begin next October and will have 15 teams of players born 2004 onwards.
The competition, which has the participation of the Feb and the Ministry of Education, Professional Training and Sports and the Higher Sports Council, will have two different groups. On the one hand will be the Table a CB Canary Islands, Badalona Youth, Real MadridUnicaja and Valencia Basket.
On the other, the Table b Be composed of the Bàsquet Girona, Bilbao Basket, Burgos Grupo de Santiago, Força Lleida, Gran Canaria, Stellantis & You Granada and Ucam Murcia.
An initiative that has been fulfilled thanks to the participation of ACB clubs for the creation of the new competition, aimed at enhance the lower categories of basketball and improve sports training at the highest level. Adenmás, the players will have scholarships to make their studies compatible with the competition.
The competition will start on October 10 and will last until May 17, 2026date that will close with a final at 6 to decide the first champion. Regarding the format of the U Liga, between the two groups a minimum of 24 games and a maximum of 33 in eight months of competition, always taking care of compatibility with academic training.
You have to keep in mind that The criteria for classifying the 15 teams are based on the level shownplacing in the 'A' the eight teams that have obtained the best results in the Spanish Junior Championship in the accumulated of the last five years, and the 'B' with the other seven sets
La Liga U: Tournament format
In one First phase, between October 10 and January 4the teams of each group will play with each other (14 days). At the end of this initial round, the first classified of Group B will go to A, where the 8th will go down, and a single match will be played between the 2nd and 3rd of the B against the 7th and 6th of the A, respectively.
The winners of the players will complete group A in a second phase between January 16 and April 19, in which the teams of each group will play another 14 days. The first four of the group will advance to the final at 6and the last two places will leave a decisive play-in a single match with 5th and 6th of group A against 2nd and 1st of Group B, respectively.
The final at 6 will be played between May 15 and 17 in a headquarters to be determined, with three qualifiers to decide the first champion. The first and second of the group will wait in the semifinals to the winners of the quarterfinals, with matches on Friday 15 between the 3rd and the 4th and the two winners of the Play-In. After the semifinal duels of Saturday, the grand final of Sunday 17 will decide who raises the first trophy.
