Euro Leagues: End of Year Special
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Steve Crossman is joined by Guillem Balague, James Horncastle, Rafa Honigstein and ESPN's Julien Laurens for this year's Euro Leagues End of Year Special!
For the first half of the pod we keep the festive spirits going by looking back on some of the best Scandinavian stories of the year. New head coach of Swedish league winners Mjallby, Karl Marius Aksum, is back on the show! Norway's title winner was Viking FK, winning their first championship since 1991! Their Sporting Director and former Manchester United and Fulham forward, Erik Nevland, joins the pod. And finally, former chairman of Santa Claus FC in Lapland, Finland, Juha Etelainen speaks to the team!
Then, in the second half of the Special, we bring you a 'You're Better Than That' Euro Leagues quiz! The teams are tested on their knowledge of european football history, geography, literature and even maths!
Timecodes: 02:12 Mjallby Head Coach, Karl Marius Aksum, returns to Euro Leagues 10:00 Viking FK Sporting Director Erik Nevland reflects on their title win 23:47 Former chairman of FC Santa Claus, Juha Etelainen, joins the team 32:28 You're Better Than That quiz
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| 0:43.0 | Hello there, welcome to a special Euroleague's end of year special. |
| 0:47.8 | It is still the festive period in our book at least until the beginning of January. |
| 0:53.4 | So on this episode, we've got a festive |
| 0:55.8 | Scandinavian football feast for you. That feels like the right part of the world to be in. |
| 1:00.8 | So we're going to be in Lapland. We're going to speak to the chairman of FC Santa Claus. |
| 1:05.0 | We'll also reflect on Viking FK's remarkable title in Norway with their sporting director, |
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