The
Turkish Airlines Euroleague, commonly known as the
Euroleague, is
the highest level tier and most important professional
club basketball competition in Europe, with teams from up to 18 different countries, members of
FIBA Europe. For sponsorship reasons, for five seasons starting with 2010–11, it is named the
Turkish Airlines Euroleague. The competition is controlled by the privately held
Euroleague Basketball Company, and features clubs that come from a Europe-wide consortium of leading professional basketball leagues, called
ULEB. During the season, the Euroleague is broadcast on television in 199 countries and territories. It can be seen by up to 245 million (800 million via satellite) households weekly in China. It is also televised in the United States and Canada on
NBA TV and available online through
ESPN3. The
Euroleague Final Four is broadcast on television in 201 countries.