1974–75 FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup

1974–75 FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup
League	FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup
Sport	Basketball
Finals
Champions	Spartak Leningrad
Runners-up	Crvena Zvezda

The 1974–75 FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup was the ninth edition of FIBA's competition for European basketball national cup champions, running from 6 November 1974 to 26 March 1975. It was contested by 22 teams, three less than in the previous edition.^[1]

Spartak Leningrad defeated Crvena Zvezda, the former European Cup Winner's Cup champion in the final, held in Nantes, and become the first and only Soviet team to win the competition for the second time.

Participants

Country	Teams	Clubs
Yugoslavia	2	Jugoplastika Split	Crvena Zvezda
Austria	1	Soma Wien
Belgium	1	Thorens Antwerpen
Bulgaria	1	CSKA Sofia
Czechoslovakia	1	Dukla Olomouc
Egypt	1	Al-Gezira
England	1	Embassy All Stars
Finland	1	KaU
France	1	Moderne
Greece	1	AEK
Hungary	1	Honvéd
Israel	1	Maccabi Ramat Gan
Italy	1	Sinudyne Bologna
Luxembourg	1	T71 Dudelange
Netherlands	1	Raak Punch
Soviet Union	1	Spartak Leningrad
Spain	1	Juventud Schweppes
Sweden	1	Solna
Switzerland	1	Federale
Turkey	1	Şeker
West Germany	1	Bayer Leverkusen

First round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Raak Punch	71–74	AEK	0–2*	71–72
Maccabi Ramat Gan	196–168	Soma Wien	113–80	83–88
Honvéd	173–159	Şeker	89–67	84–92
Al-Gezira	105–181	Juventud Schweppes	51–69	54–112
T71 Dudelange	129–148	Dukla Olomouc	61–76	68–72
Embassy All-Stars	161–148	Bayer Leverkusen	77–65	84–83
Federale	176–202	Thorens Antwerpen	86–99	90–103
Solna	175–114	KaU	87–57	88–57

Second round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
AEK	146–159	CSKA Sofia	87–85	59–74
Maccabi Ramat Gan	176–182	Sinudyne Bologna	114–94	62–88
Honvéd	163–170	Juventud Schweppes	83–96	80–74
Dukla Olomouc	152–183	Jugoplastika Split	82–84	70–99
Embassy All-Stars	181–241	Moderne	100–127	81–114
Thorens Antwerpen	178–148	Solna	98–67	80–81

Automatically qualified to the Quarter finals group stage

Crvena Zvezda (title holder)
Spartak Leningrad

Quarter finals

The quarter finals were played with a round-robin system, in which every Two Game series (TGS) constituted as one game for the record.

Key to colors
	Top two places in each group advance to semifinals

Group A

	Team	Pld	Pts	W	L	PF	PA	PD
1.	Crvena Zvezda	3	6	3	0	547	507	+40
2.	CSKA Sofia	3	4	1	2	429	442	-13
3.	Thorens Antwerpen	3	4	1	2	470	493	-23
4.	Juventud Schweppes	3	4	1	2	457	461	-4

Group B

	Team	Pld	Pts	W	L	PF	PA	PD
1.	Spartak Leningrad	3	6	3	0	497	427	+70
2.	Jugoplastika Split	3	5	2	1	472	474	-2
3.	Sinudyne Bologna	3	4	1	2	467	469	-2
4.	Moderne	3	3	0	3	444	510	-66

Semi finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
CSKA Sofia	136–143	Spartak Leningrad	57–64	69–79
Jugoplastika Split	151–157	Crvena Zvezda	88–76	63–81

Final

March 26, Palais des Sports de Beaulieu, Nantes

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Spartak Leningrad	63–62	Crvena Zvezda

1974–75 FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup Champions
Spartak Leningrad 2nd title

References

↑ "Saporta Cup (C2)". linguasport.com. Retrieved 2014-07-17.

Spartak Leningrad 1974–75 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup Winners

Belov Pavlov Bolshakov Arzamaskov Shtukin Makeev Yakovlev Kuznetsov Silantev Ivanov Fjodorov Coach: Kondrashin

Saporta Cup seasons

1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02

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