BELGRADE (Serbia) - The game that will raise the curtain on the most spectacular ever BCL Final Four, the first in the world to be played on a glass floor, features two teams that faced each other as recently as the Round of 16, albeit their pedigree in this competition could not be any more different: Lenovo Tenerife are two-time BCL champions, while Peristeri bwin reach the Final Four for the first time.

Lenovo Tenerife vs. Peristeri bwin

1st Semi-Final - 18:00 CEST - Belgrade Arena

This semi-final is also the latest installment in a rivalry between two BCL greats, Huertas and Ragland

● This will be the seventh time these two teams meet, with Tenerife leading the matchup 4-2. However, Peristeri won the last these two met, in the Round of 16 this year. The Greek team prevailed 90-82 at home, in March 2024.

● This will be Tenerife's fifth appearance in the BCL Semi-Finals. They are not only the first club in history to reach five but they are well clear of anyone else as no other club has more than two appearances in this stage. Tenerife won three of their previous four Semi-Finals, with the sole loss coming last year, when they fell 69-68 to Hapoel Jerusalem.

● Peristeri, who have reached the BCL Semi-Finals for the first ever time, are the second Greek club to achieve this feat after AEK, who made it in 2018 and 2020.

● Peristeri's seven BCL wins since January is a club record, as they had never won more than six BCL games in a single calendar year before. Perhaps more importantly, they have won five of their last six BCL games and that sole defeat didn't cost them anything as it was to Telekom Baskets Bonn in Game 2 of their Quarter-Final series, which the Greek side ended up winning in Game 3.

● Peristeri commit more fouls (25 per game) and give up the more free-throws (19.4 per game) than any other team in this season's BCL.

● Peristeri shot 61.5 percent from two-point range over their last four BCL games, after shooting 50.2 percent over their previous 13 games this season.

● Tenerife's Tim Abromaitis is poised to become on Friday the first player in BCL history to appear in 100 games in the competition. The veteran forward is the BCL all-time rebounding leader with a total of 462.

● Tenerife's Giorgi Shermadini is 18 points shy of becoming the BCL all-time scoring leader. He currently has 1,095 career points, while Vojtech Hruban, who is not playing in the Final Four, has 1,112 points.

● Marcelinho Huertas of Tenerife and Joe Ragland of Peristeri are the BCL all-time leaders in assists and double-doubles. Huertas has 586 career assists and Ragland has 503 assists. Meanwhile Ragland has 16 career double-doubles and Huertas has 11. They have faced each other in a Semi-Final before, at the 2022 Final Four in Bilbao (when Ragland was playing for Hapoel Holon), and they led their respective teams in scoring and assists. Huertas had 17 points and 9 assists, while Ragland had 22 and 5.

● Peristeri's Trevor Thompson had seven games this season in which he collected 10 or more rebounds, including five of his last six games. Thompson has already faced Tenerife in a BCL Semi-Final previously, in 2019, when he played for Telenet Giants Antwerp.