EuroLeague CEO Chus Bueno and competitions manager Diego Guillen traveled to Israel to meet with basketball officials and discuss the possibility of allowing Israeli teams to host European competition games in the country again.
During their visit, the two officials attended Maccabi Tel Aviv’s opening game of the 2026-27 Israeli league season on Saturday, when the team defeated Galil Elion 120-93.
Maccabi also organized a meeting involving EuroLeague representatives, European ambassadors and club officials to discuss the current security situation in Israel.
The club confirmed the meeting in a statement released on Sunday.
“On the initiative of Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball club, today the EuroLeague CEO Chus Bueno and competitions manager Diego Guillen met with European ambassadors and club leaders.
“In the meeting, the ambassadors updated Bueno and Guillen on the sense of security and the full normal routine in which life is conducted in Israel.”
The discussions focused on whether conditions would allow EuroLeague games to return to Israel after an extended period of Israeli teams playing their European home games abroad.
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Maccabi Tel Aviv has been using Belgrade, Serbia, as its temporary home venue and is planning to relocate its European home games to Cyprus.
The club hopes to eventually return to playing EuroLeague games in Tel Aviv, although no official decision has been announced.
The security situation in the Middle East remains a major factor in determining whether European competition games can take place in Israel.
