Dubai Basketball beat Real Madrid 78–77 at Coca-Cola Arena on Thursday, 24 September, on opening night of the 2026–27 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague regular season (EuroLeague official box score). It was a rematch of the teams’ SuperCup semifinal in Abu Dhabi; Real Madrid went on to lift that trophy with a 93–89 final win over Olympiacos (Basketball Sphere; Eurohoops). All seven Thursday games in Round 1 are complete on the official sheet.
Dwayne Bacon led Dubai with 24 points, five rebounds, four assists and a 31 PIR (EuroLeague official box score). Real Madrid led 44–38 at halftime and Dubai won the third quarter 25–18 (WAM). Andrés Feliz’s three with exactly three minutes left put Pedro Martínez’s team up by six, but those were Real’s last points. Elie Okobo hit a fading jumper, Mfiondu Kabengele made his free throws, and Wright buried a three in the final minute for the lead (Basketball Sphere; Mundo Deportivo). Petrušev then defended Feliz on Real’s last possession and forced the miss (Eurohoops; Basketball Sphere).
Wright finished with 12 points for Xavi Pascual’s side. For Real Madrid, Théo Maledon and Timothé Luwawu-Cabarrot scored 11 each, and Mikael Jantunen and Damian Jones had 10 apiece (EuroLeague official box score). Before tip-off, the arena observed a minute’s silence in memory of the late Sheikh Ahmed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (WAM).
Bayern beat Hapoel Tel Aviv 86–84 at Arena 8888 in Sofia (euroleague.net). Bayern led by 18 early in the fourth quarter before Hapoel answered with a 14–0 run behind Vasilije Mičić and went ahead in the last two minutes. Johannes Voigtmann’s three with 35 seconds left won it (Basketball Sphere; Eurohoops). Andreas Obst scored 19 for Bayern and Johannes Thiemann 15; Dan Oturu had 20 points and 12 rebounds for Hapoel (EuroLeague official box score). It was Anton Gavel’s first win as a EuroLeague head coach (Basketball Sphere).
In Belgrade, Žalgiris beat Crvena Zvezda 83–77. Jonas Valančiūnas, in his first EuroLeague game since 2010–11, had 13 points, eight rebounds, three blocks and a 24 PIR (EuroLeague official box score; Eurohoops). Nigel Williams-Goss led Žalgiris with 14 points and six assists, and Azuolas Tubelis had 10 points and 12 rebounds. Chris Jones led Zvezda with 15 points and eight assists (EuroLeague official box score).
Obradović’s official return to the Panathinaikos bench in the EuroLeague after 14 years ended in a 91–72 win over Paris in Athens before 17,013 fans (Basketball Sphere; EuroLeague official box score). Sylvain Francisco scored 18 and Mathias Lessort had 15 points and nine rebounds; Tyson Etienne led Paris with 17 (EuroLeague official box score).
Defending champion Olympiacos won 106–89 at Baskonia. Tyler Dorsey scored 25, and Sasha Vezenkov had 22 points in 19 minutes on 8-of-10 shooting for a 30 PIR (EuroLeague official box score; Basketball Sphere). A.J. Lawson scored 20 for Baskonia.
Barcelona came back from 15 points down to beat Anadolu Efes 89–82 at Palau Blaugrana in Aleksander Sekulić’s EuroLeague coaching debut for the club (FC Barcelona; Basketball Sphere). Darío Brizuela scored 20 and Kevin Punter 19; Mike James had 22 for Efes (EuroLeague official box score). ASVEL beat Maccabi Tel Aviv 84–74 for Tony Parker’s first official EuroLeague win as head coach, with Jae Crowder scoring 19 and Patty Mills 15 (Basketball Sphere; EuroLeague official box score).
Round 1 finishes Friday, 25 September, with Beşiktaş–Valencia at 19:00 CEST (13:00 ET), Fenerbahçe–Virtus Bologna at 19:45 CEST (13:45 ET), and Partizan–EA7 Milan at 20:45 CEST (14:45 ET) (euroleague.net). Those games had not tipped at press time.
Floor: Dubai 78–77 Real Madrid (Bacon 24/5/4, 31 PIR; Wright late three; Petrušev final stop); Bayern 86–84 Hapoel at Arena 8888, Sofia; Žalgiris 83–77 at Zvezda (Valančiūnas 13/8/3, 24 PIR); Panathinaikos 91–72 Paris; Olympiacos 106–89 at Baskonia; Barcelona 89–82 Efes; ASVEL 84–74 Maccabi (EuroLeague official box scores; Eurohoops; Basketball Sphere).