 The competition attracted 15 national domestic league champions, and teams from 30 European national leagues, which represented it as a truly pan-European event.However, the competition was only able to attract second division clubs from Italy and Spain, and the newly promoted champions of the Israeli and Bosnian second divisions.The league was unable to make a good commercial impact, and was then dropped to being the European 4th-tier level in the following 2003–04 season, as FIBA launched the FIBA Europe League to replace it.