ENBL announcement on January 24, 2026
- marisnoviks
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Go+ Peja will not continue to participate in the European North Basketball league after a club refused to play the home game against BK Olomoucko scheduled on Monday, January 26.
Go+ Peja was eliminated from the Kosovo Cup on Thursday, January 22, after losing quarterfinal series against Bashkimi Prizren.
Fans of the Peja team threw smoke bombs on the floor, endangering the players, and accused club`s leadership.
On Friday, January 23, Go+ Peja informed ENBL about a cancellation of the upcoming home game against BK Olomoucko.
ENBL previously awarded a forfeit to Go+ Peja for not showing up to the regular season game at BK Olomoucko on Tuesday, January 13, in Prostejov, Czechia.
Repeated no-show leads to a second forfeit, makes it impossible for Go+ Peja to continue pool play, and, as a result, leads to a cancellation of the home game against Newcastle Eagles on February 11.
A standard practice after two forfeits is an automatic disqualification of the team and annulment of all results.
ENBL leadership finds impossible to annull all results with a participation of Go+ Peja due to a unique competition format of season 2025-2026 as the annulment of results will put the teams from Pool Three into disadvantage against the teams from Pool One and Pool Two.
In order to protect integrity and continuity of competition, the European North Basketball league takes full responsibility and decides:
to award a forfeit to Go+ Peja for a cancellation of the home game against BK Olomoucko,
to cancel a game between Go+ Peja and Newcastle Eagles after a former team has received two forfeits,
to apply a third forfeit to Go+ Peja due to impossibility to host a home game against Newcastle Eagles, according to official Basketball rules,
to apply a penalty of 25 000 euros to Go+ Peja,
to explore further sanctions against Go+ Peja, including a ban to return to the competition,
as a result, Go+ Peja have a 1-7 record and six points out of nine possible, BK Olomoucko have a 4-2 record and ten points, Newcastle Eagles have a 1-5 record and seven points.
The other games will proceed as planned.
ENBL classification as of January 24, 2026
First place: Syntainics MBC 6-0, 548:422, 1.2985, 100.0%
Second place: Iraklis BC 6-1, 619:516, 1.1996, 85.7%
Third place: CSO Voluntari 6-1, 647:561, 1.1533, 85.7%
Fourth place: Dinamo Zagreb 5-1, 548:525, 1.0438, 83.3%
Fifth place: Dziki Warszawa 5-2, 627:528, 1.1875, 71.4%
Sixth place: Manchester 5-2, 642:574, 1.1185, 71.4%
Seventh place: BK Opava 5-2, 622:580, 1.0724, 71.4%
Eighth place: Tindastoll 5-2, 687:623, 1.1027, 71.4%
Classification 9-16
Ninth place: Valmiera 4-2, 528:524, 1.0076, 66.7%
Tenth place: Olomoucko 4-2, 348:346, 1.0058, 66.7%
Eleventh place: Donar Groningen 5-3, 713:667, 1.0689, 62.5%
Twelfth place: Riga Zelli 4-3, 581:583, 0.9966, 57.1%
Thirteenth place: Brussels 3-3, 454:429, 1.0582, 50.0%
Fourteenth place: Dubrava Zagreb 3-3, 478:461, 1.0369, 50.0%
Fifteenth place: Sigal Prishtina 4-4, 692:679, 1.0191, 50.0%
Sixteenth place: TalTech Alexela 3-3, 451:447, 1.0089, 50.0%
Classification 17-26
Seventeenth: Slovan Bratislava 3-4, 565:572, 0.9877, 42.8%
Eighteenth: Bristol Flyers 3-4, 589:598, 0.9849, 42.8%
Nineteenth: Spartak Pleven 3-4, 577:604, 0.9553, 42.8%
Twentieth: Newcastle Eagles 1-5, 418:475, 0.8800, 16.7%
Twenty first: Alkar Sinj 1-5, 403:482, 0.8361, 16.7%
Twenty second: Hefte Helfen Bulls 1-6, 556:602, 0.9236, 14.3%
Twenty third: Fyllingen Lions 1-6, 539:671, 0.8033, 14.3%
Twenty fourth: Gimle Basket 1-7, 611:734, 0.8324, 12.5%
Twenty fifth: Keila Coolbet 1-7, 633:738, 0.8577, 12.5%
Twenty sixth: Go+ Peja 1-7, 412:547, 0.7532, 11.1%
Five teams – Hefte Helfen Bulls, Gimle Basket, Fyllingen Lions, Keila Coolbet, Go+ Peja – are eliminated from the playoffs.
ENBL bracketology as of January 24, 2026
(1)SYNTAINICS MBC Q
(16)TalTech/ALEXELA
vs
(8)Tindastoll Q
(9)Valmiera Glass ViA
(5)Dziki Warszawa Q
(12)Riga Zelli
vs
(4)Dinamo Zagreb Q
(13)Brussels Basketball
(6)Manchester Basketball Q
(11)Donar Groningen Q
vs
(3)CSO Voluntari Q
(14)Dubrava Zagreb
(7)BK Opava Q
(10)Olomoucko
vs
(2)Iraklis BC Q
(15)SIGAL Prishtina
Classification of teams
ENBL uses official FIBA Basketball rules, when determining team classification
See appendix D – classification of teams – page 81.
D.1.3 If 2 or more teams have the same win-loss record of all games in the group, the
game(s) between these 2 or more teams shall decide on the classification. If these 2
or more teams have the same win-loss record of the games between them, further
criteria shall be used in the following order:
• Higher game points difference of the games between them.
• Higher number of game points scored in the games between them.
• Higher game points difference of all games in the group | 26 teams in ENBL case
• Higher number of game points scored in all games in the group | 26 teams in ENBL case
ENBL regular season 2025-2026 | local time | CET
Monday, January 26
19:30 | 19:30 Go+ Peja – BK Olomoucko 0-20
Tuesday, January 27
20:30 | 20:30 Brussels Basketball – Dinamo Zagreb
19:30 | 20:30 Newcastle Eagles – KK Dubrava Zagreb
Wednesday, January 28
18:30 | 17:30 TalTech/Alexela – Valmiera Glass ViA
19:00 | 19:00 Fyllingen Lions – Alkar Sinj
Tuesday, February 3
19:30 | 19:30 Syntainics MBC – Hefte Helfen Bulls Kapfenberg
19:00 | 19:00 KK Dubrava Zagreb – Dziki Warszawa
19:00 | 19:00 Dinamo Zagreb – Manchester Basketball Re-scheduled from February 4
Wednesday, February 4
18:00 | 18:00 Slovan Bratislava – BK Opava
18:00 | 18:00 BK Olomoucko – Iraklis BC
Friday, February 6
19:30 | 20:30 Newcastle Eagles – BK Olomoucko Re-scheduled from January 6
Tuesday, February 10 | LIVE BLOG, starting 19.00 CET
19:15 | 20:15 Tindastoll Saudarkrokur – Brussels Basketball
Wednesday, February 11 | LIVE BLOG, starting 16.00 CET
19:00 | 19:00 Alkar Sinj – Valmiera Glass ViA
20:00 | 21:00 Bristol Flyers – TalTech/Alexela
19:30 | 19:30 Peja – Newcastle Eagles 0-20
19:00 | 18:00 CSO Voluntari – Syntainics MBC Added on August 23
19:30 | 18:30 Riga Zelli – Spartak Pleven Added on November 5
February 23 – March 3, 2026
International window for men`s basketball
March 4-12, eightfinals
Single elimination game at the higher seed
March 17-April 2, quarterfinals
Best-of-two, home and away series
April 21-23, Final Four
Location to be confirmed
Playoffs picture as of January 23, 2026
Playoffs picture as of January 16, 2026
2025-2026 ENBL format and pools
2025-2026 ENBL schedule UPD16
2025 ENBL classification
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