ANKARA
Turkish Airlines Euroleague 2014-15 season starts on Wednesday with a clash between Basque side Laboral Kutxa Vitoria and Lithuanian team Neptunas Klaipeda in Vitoria-Gasteiz.
The game will be played at the Fernando Buesa Arena will tip off at 2030 CET (1930 GMT).
Reigning Euroleague champions, Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv from Israel will meet French team Limoges CSP at the Nokia Arena on Thursday; the Group B game will start at 2005 CET (1905 GMT).
Turkish club Anadolu Efes will encounter Russia's Unics in Istanbul on Thursday. Anadolu Efes has signed several significant players such as Olympiakos' Greek forward Stratos Perperoglou, former CSKA Moscow center Nenad Krstic and ex-Panathinaikos player Stephane Lasme plus well-known Serbian head coach Dusan Ivkovic.
The Group A game at Abdi Ipekci Arena will tip off at 1900 CET (1800 GMT).
City rivals and Turkish Basketball League reigning champions Fenerbahce Ulker have also strengthened their squad with former Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv point guard Ricky Hickman, Serbian guard Bogdan Bogdanovic and towering Czech forward Jan Vesely.
The Istanbul side will host Italian EA7 Emporio Armani Milano at the Ulker Sports Arena on Friday. The game between the sides will tip off at 2100 CET (2000 GMT).
Another Turkish club, Galatasaray Liv Hospital, will play away to Serbia's Crvena Zvezda Telekom Belgrade (commonly known as Red Star Belgrade) on Thursday. The Group D game at the Kombank Arena will begin at 2045 CET (1945 GMT).
Fixtures in the first round of the Turkish Airlines Euroleague are as follows:
Group A
Oct. 16 - Anadolu Efes v Unics at 19:00 CET (1800 GMT)
Oct. 17 - Nizhny Novgorod v Dinamo Sassari at 18:00 CET (1700 GMT)
Oct. 17 - Real Madrid v Zalgiris Kaunas at 19:30 CET (1830 GMT)
Group B
Oct. 16 - Cedevita Zagreb v Unicaja Malaga at 19:00 CET (1800 GMT)
Oct. 16 - Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv v Limoges CSP at 20:05 CET (1905 GMT)
Oct. 17 - ALBA Berlin v CSKA Moscow at 20:15 CET (1915 GMT)
Group C
Oct. 17 - Panathinaikos v PGE Turow at 20:30 CET (1930 GMT)
Oct. 17 - Fenerbahce Ulker v EA7 Emporio Armani Milano at 21:00 CET (2000 GMT)
Oct. 17 - Barcelona v Bayern Munich at 21:30 CET (2030 GMT)
Group D
Oct. 15 - Laboral Kutxa Vitoria v Neptunas Klaipeda at 2030 CET (1930 GMT)
Oct. 16 - Crvena Zvezda Telekom Belgrade v Galatasaray Liv Hospital at 2045 CET (1945 GMT)
Oct. 16 - Valencia Basket v Olympiakos at 2100 CET (2000 GMT)
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