The Executive Board of the Basketball European League (EuroLeague) ruled on Tuesday to bar all Russian professional basketball clubs from the 2021/2022 season and to annul all of their previous results, the press office of Russia’s CSKA basketball club said in a statement.
According to the Russian basketball club’s press office, this decision was made in view of Russia’s ongoing military operation on the territory of Ukraine.
"To withdraw the participation of Russian Federation teams in both the EuroLeague (CSKA Moscow, UNICS Kazan, Zenit St Petersburg) and the EuroCup (Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar) for the 2021-22 season, as the situation in Ukraine has not evolved in a favorable way," the Russian basketball club’s press service said in its statement.
"As announced after the ECA Shareholders Executive Board held on February 28th, 2022, all regular season game results versus Russian teams will be removed from any calculation of EuroLeague and EuroCup team standings," the statement from the Russian basketball club’s press office added.
On February 28, the administration of the EuroLeague Basketball suspended all Russian basketball clubs from their further participation in European tournaments. A statement from the European basketball body said at that time that previously recorded results of Russian clubs would be annulled in case of unfavorable developments in Ukraine.
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