It might look a simple enough group on the surface, but all of these are consolidated sides with a good recent history in Europe.

Montepaschi Siena is a familiar foe. The side coached by Simone Pianigiani includes an ex Barça man in new signing David Andersen. The club dominated Italian basketball last season and reached the Final Four in Barcelona, going out in the semi finals. 

Trip to Kazan
Regal Barça’s longest trip will be to Unics Kazan in Tartarstan, where the local side has such quality players as guard Terrell Lyday and centres Michael Wilkinson and Alexey Savrasenko.

Barça Regal also face Asseco Prokom of Poland and Union Olimpija of Slovenia, clubs they have already played in recent seasons.

Awkward encounters
The sixth team will be the winner of qualifying group B, but that doesn’t mean it will be easy, for potential rivals include Khimki of Russia, Alba Berlin and BC Donetsk of Ukraine. Other clubs involved are Nymburk (Czech Rep), Spirou Basket (Belgium), Banvit BK (Turkey), PG Turow (Poland) and VEF Riga (Latvia).

The complete draw is as follows:

Group A: Olympiacos, Caja Laboral, Fenerbahçe Ulker, Bilbao Basket, NGC Cantú and Sluc Nancy.
Group B: Panathinaikos, CSKA Moscow, Unicaja, Zalgiris Kaunas, Brose Baskets and KK Zagreb.
Group C: Real Madrid, Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv, Partizan Belgrade, Efes Istanbul, Emporio Armani and the winner of qualifying Group A.
Group D: FC Barcelona Regal, Montepaschi Siena, Unics Kazan, Asseco Prokom, Olimpija Ljubljana and the winner of qualifying Group B.

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