The opening match of the new regular championship of the VTB United League with the participation of the finalists of the last edition of the tournament is a noisy poster and makes the start of the season as bright as possible, said the general director of the United League. Ilona Korstin .
The calendar for the new season was released on Tuesday; the championship begins on September 21. It will be opened by the match of the finalists of the last draw of the tournament CSKA And UNICS The game will take place in Moscow.
— For the second time in a row, the new United League championship will open with the match of last season’s finalists. It seems that this is becoming a good tradition.
— First of all, I would like to remind you that before the start of the season the United League Super Cup will take place, where CSKA, UNICS, Zenit, Lokomotiv-Kuban and foreign teams Crvena Zvezda and Besiktas will play.
We open the regular season with a meeting of the two finalists to remind how last season went and to make the start of the championship as bright as possible. The CSKA – UNICS match is always interesting, and it is already a proven match. It is interesting for fans and television.
For the first time, we are playing the championship in four rounds, there will be a total of 264 matches. During this time, each team will play two matches against each other at home and two away. The schedule is quite balanced. And, importantly, it turns out that United League matches can be watched almost every day. This makes me very happy. There will be a lot of matches and, hopefully, high-quality basketball. Such a number of matches will allow clubs to rotate and give young players the opportunity to prove themselves. The teams will be in good shape and fans will be able to attend more high-level matches in the regular season.
After the regular season, the teams that occupy the first to sixth place immediately qualify for the playoffs, while the championship participants that occupy the seventh to tenth place at the end of the season will compete for the playoffs in play-off matches. In other words, we still have play-in. We play the quarter-finals with three wins, the semi-finals and the finals with four. There are no changes here either,” Korstin told .
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