FIBA Eurobasket kicks off: the Italian national team and the stars of Europe live on Sky
The brightest stars of European basketball will compete from Wednesday, August 27 to Sunday, September 14 on the parquet floors of FIBA EuroBasket 2025, live on Sky and streaming on NOW. The 2025 edition of the European Championships will deliver excitement, balance and spectacle, and the Sky Sports basketball team is ready to report on it minute by minute.
With a new feature: the Sky Sport Basket channel, the new “home” for all hoops fans, is moving and from tomorrow, Wednesday, August 27, will be available on channel 205 of the Sky lineup.
Sky Sport Basket will be the point of reference of FIBA EuroBasket 2025, with live coverage of the challenges, at least two for each day of competition, pre and post studies (also live on Sky Sport 24) of the games that will see the Azzurra National Team on the court, entrusted to the conduction of Francesco Bonfardeci, as well as the daily studies of presentation and commentary of the matches.
The Azzurra National Team will play the matches of the first phase at Spyros Kyprianou Arena in Limassol (Cyprus): in the commentary station, the commentators of Italy’s matches will be Flavio Tranquillo and Davide Pessina while correspondent Gaia Accoto will be in charge of interviews with the protagonists. The other matches will be narrated by Sky Sport’s basketball team reporters, including Geri De Rosa and Andrea Solaini, with technical commentary by Andrea Meneghin, Matteo Soragna and Laura Macchi.
SKY’S BASKET – The FIBA EuroBasket 2025 European Championships are the first event of the 2025/2026 season of great basketball in Sky’s House of Sports. Sky Sport Basket, the brand new channel that subscribers will find on Sky’s 205 from August 27, will bring together Italian, European and U.S. basketball in a unique destination for fans. For the next 3 seasons, in fact, LBA basketball Serie A lands on Sky and NOW, with 60 regular season games, 2 for each round and always the big match of the day; 2 games per day of the playoff quarterfinals; all semifinals and all finals. In addition, on Sky and NOW all matches of the next 3 seasons of the Italian Super Cup and Coppa Italia, for which Sky has also acquired free-to-air broadcasting rights. From the end of September on Sky and NOW the EuroLeague and EuroCup, exclusively for the next 3 seasons and, from October, the new NBA challenges. In addition to live matches also daily updates from Sky Sport 24, weekly columns, news on the skysport.it website and on Sky Sport’s official social profiles.
The matches of the first phase:
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Wednesday, Aug. 27
17 Latvia-Turkey live on Sky Sports Basketball and NOW
8:15 p.m. Serbia-Estonia live on Sky Sports Basketball and NOW
Thursday, August 28
14 p.m. Georgia-Spain live on Sky Sports One, Sky Sports Basketball and NOW
8:30 p.m. Greece-ITALY live on Sky Sport Uno, Sky Sport Basket and NOW
Friday, Aug. 29
15.30 Lithuania-Montenegro live on Sky Sport Basket and NOW
7:30 p.m. Finland-Great Britain live on Sky Sport Basketball and NOW
Saturday, August 30
14 ITALY-Georgia live on Sky Sport Basket and NOW
17 France-Slovenia live on Sky Sport Basket and NOW
8:30 p.m. Latvia-Serbia delayed on Sky Sport Basket and NOW
Sunday, Aug. 31
14 p.m. Georgia-Greece live on Sky Sports Basketball and NOW
8:30 p.m. Bosnia-ITALY live on Sky Sport Uno, Sky Sport Basket and NOW
Monday, Sept. 1
3:30 p.m. Germany-Great Britain live on Sky Sport Basket and NOW
8:15 p.m. Serbia-Czech Republic live on Sky Sport Basketball and NOW
Tuesday, Sept. 2
14 p.m. Greece-Bosnia live on Sky Sport Uno, Sky Sport Basket and NOW
8:30 p.m. ITALY-Spain live on Sky Sport Uno, Sky Sport Basket and NOW
Wednesday, Sept. 3
17 p.m. Czech Republic-Latvia live on Sky Sport Basket and NOW
8:15 p.m. Turkey-Serbia live on Sky Sports Basketball and NOW
Thursday, Sept. 4
5:15 p.m. ITALY-Cyprus live on Sky Sport Uno, Sky Sport Basket and NOW
8:30 p.m. Spain-Greece live on Sky Sport Basket and NOW
