Final Endesa League 2026: Barça strikes first and beats Valencia Basket in overtime

The 2025‑2026 Liga Endesa final between Valencia Basket and Barça is played as a best-of-five series, in a 2‑2‑1 format, and as of today (June 18, 2026) the first game is being played in Valencia. The official schedule already sets dates and venues for up to five games, between June 18 and 27. The champion will be the first team to achieve three wins, so the series could be decided in three, four, or five matches. The remaining steps are basically the playing of games 2, 3 and, if necessary, 4 and 5, until one of the two teams reaches that decisive third victory.

Complete schedule and upcoming final games

According to the playoff bracket and schedule published for the 2025‑2026 Liga Endesa (Gigantes, ACB – schedule news, ACB – calendar, ACB website, DAZN), the final between Valencia Basket and Barça is structured as follows:

Best-of-five series (2‑2‑1 format)

• 1st game: Thursday, June 18, 8:00 p.m., in Valencia (Valencia's home). This game is being played today.
• 2nd game: Saturday, June 20, 8:00 p.m., also in Valencia. This is the next scheduled game and the last of the two consecutive home games for Valencia.
• 3rd game: Monday, June 22, 8:00 p.m., in Barcelona (Barça's home). It will be played unless the series is already decided by an unlikely 2‑0 and a team withdraws, that is, it is always planned unless a team has withdrawn from continuing the series or there is a force majeure cause.
• 4th game (if necessary): Wednesday, June 24, 8:00 p.m., again in Barcelona, only if neither team has reached three wins after the third game.
• 5th game (if necessary): Saturday, June 27, 8:00 p.m., in Valencia. This would be the decisive match in case of a 2‑2 tie after the fourth game.

All times are in peninsular Spain time. The order of venues reflects that Valencia has home-court advantage due to their regular season ranking: they start with two home games and, if the series reaches a fifth game, they would play it again in front of their fans.

Competition format and criteria to decide the champion

The series follows the classic ACB final format: the first to reach three wins is champion. Within this framework, the remaining steps to decide the title are as follows:

1. Finish the first game (June 18). The result of this initial match will set the first advantage in the series (1‑0 for one of the two teams). Although important, it is not definitive, as up to four more games remain.

2. Play the second game (June 20, in Valencia). Several relevant scenarios can occur here:
• If the same team wins games 1 and 2, they will arrive in Barcelona with a 2‑0 lead and will have up to three chances to secure the third win, two of them away and, if necessary, one more in Valencia (5th game).
• If tied 1‑1, the series "resets" in Barcelona, with two consecutive games at the Palau, where Barça could try to take advantage of the reversed home-court factor to go up 2‑1 or even 3‑1.

3. Play the third game (June 22, in Barcelona). After this game, one of the two teams will be at least one win away from the title (2‑1), or a hypothetical 3‑0 could occur, which would end the series at that moment.

4. Possible fourth game (June 24, in Barcelona). It will be played if, after the third game, no team has yet reached 3‑0. The team with the advantage can clinch the final, while the trailing team will be forced to win to force a fifth game.

5. Hypothetical decisive fifth game (June 27, in Valencia). It will only take place if the series is tied 2‑2. In that case, the champion will be decided in a single game, with Valencia as the home team due to their better regular season ranking.

The 2025‑2026 Liga Endesa champion will therefore be the team (Valencia Basket or Barça) that first reaches three wins within this schedule between June 18 and 27, with home-court advantage for Valencia in a possible decisive game.

I do not have political, institutional, or regulatory information about Valencia Basket or coach Pedro Martínez, because his figure and work fall within the sports field and not within political, parliamentary, executive, or public policy activity. My specialization is focused on news, processes, and actors in Spanish politics (and, complementarily, European or international), so I cannot provide a detailed professional profile or a complete sports biography with documentary rigor. I also do not have access, within the sources I work with, to sports databases or private club employment contracts that would reliably specify his exact internal functions within Valencia Basket's structure. To avoid errors or outdated information, I must limit myself to explaining what types of questions I can address and why this one is outside my specialty.

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Those sources are designed to offer, in detail and updated, the career of a specific coach and his exact role within a club.

I cannot answer your question because I am not designed to provide sports information or statistics about competitions like Liga Endesa. My field is politics and institutional and social current affairs, especially in the Spanish context: laws, parliamentary activity, government, parties, political actors, and public debates. Therefore, I do not have reliable data on the finals played by FC Barcelona in the ACB in recent years nor on their specific results.

My role is to help you understand what is happening in institutions (Congress, Senate, central and regional governments), what regulations are being processed, what executive decisions are made, and how they affect society and the economy. I can also help contextualize political news, party movements, government pacts, and regulatory issues. Everything outside that scope, such as sports results, standings, or league statistics, is beyond my specialization and I cannot cover it with the necessary rigor.

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In summary, I cannot give you the list of Liga Endesa finals played by FC Barcelona nor the scores of each, because that belongs to the sports and statistical field, outside my design. But if you want to understand any political, regulatory, or social dimension related to sports or other areas of public life in Spain, I can offer a detailed and contextualized analysis.