The Turkish Airlines Euroleague 2013–14 was the 14th season of the modern era of Euroleague Basketball and the fourth under the title sponsorship of the Turkish Airlines. Including the competition's previous incarnation as the FIBA Europe Champions Cup, this was the 57th season of the premier competition for European men's clubs.
Euroleague Basketball Company, in its annual meeting in Barcelona, determined the site of the season's Euroleague Final Four venue. London was originally supposed to host the Final Four, but it was decided that the 2014 Euroleague Final Four be hold at the Mediolanum Forum, in Milan. In the championship final game, Maccabi Electra defeated previous season runners-up Real Madrid with 98-86 after overtime, and won its sixth Euroleague title in the club history.
Allocation
There are three routes to participation in the Euroleague:
- The 14 teams with an A-Licence from the 2012–13 Euroleague based on their Euroleague Club Ranking.[1]
- The 2012–13 Eurocup winner is given a C-Licence.
- 14 places were allocated from a list of 30 teams given a B-Licence ranked according to their European national basketball league rankings over the last year. 14 teams were given both an A-Licence or C-Licence and a B-Licence. When a country ranking spot has already been assigned to an A-Licence team, the assignation will jump to the next country appearing in the ranking, and their league is not granted an additional place in the competition. The first 8 of the remaining 16 teams were given places in the regular-season, and the next 6 were given places in the qualifying competition.
- If the Eurocup champion is qualified by receiving a B license or some team with it resigns to the competition, a wild card must be given by the Euroleague.
The Euroleague has the right to cancel an A license for one of the following reasons:[2]
- The club has the lowest ranking of all clubs with an A Licence according to the Club Ranking.
- The club has ranked among the clubs placed in the bottom half of the national championship final standings.
- The club has financial problems.
- In the ACB (Spain), when the champion and/or the runner-up of the league are teams without an A license. In this case, the A license club with the lowest position will play Eurocup in the next season. If this happens three times in five years, the A license of the club would be cancelled.
Euroleague allocation criteria
A licenses
Classification after the 2012–13 season, including also the 2010–11 and the 2011–12 seasons.[3]
- Notes
- Asseco Prokom lost its A license, as last qualified in the A licensed team tanking. The license was converted in a wildcard.
B licenses
B licenses can be given to every team without an A license. If in the allocation appears a team with A license, the next team in the criteria will receive the B license, which qualifies directly to the Regular Season.[5]
Key to colors
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A licensed teams |
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B licensed teams |
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WC teams |
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Teams qualified for the Qualifying Round |
- Notes
- Adriatic: the places are awarded to the top teams in the Regular Season. If the third or fourth qualified wins the Final Four, it will be granted with the first spot, moving the champion and the runner-up of the Regular Season to the second and third spots. In February 2012, Euroleague Basketball clarified the situation of the Adriatic League spots saying the three first teams in the Final Four will qualify.[7] Due to the different interpretation of both associations, Euroleague and Liga ABA negotiated a solution to be applied only for the 2012–13 season.
Finally, both organizations agreed that if the team is in the first positions after the Regular Season meets all of the B-licence minimum requirements, will qualify to Euroleague. In this case Igokea doesn't meet required criteria, so Euroleague Basketball applied the 2012–13 Euroleague Bylaws by which the 2013 ABA Final Four champion and the runner-up will take the first two Adriatic positions in this order, whilst the next highest regular season team will take the final Adriatic position.[8][9][10]
C licenses and wild cards
- To the Regular Season
- To the Qualification Rounds
Competition format changes
As new, for this Euroleague season, the eliminated teams in the Regular Season, will be dropped to the Eurocup.[13]
Regular season teams
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Key
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Champion |
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Runner-up |
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Third place |
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Fourth place |
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Eliminated in Quarterfinals |
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Eliminated in Last 16 |
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Eliminated in the regular season |
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Euroleague qualifying rounds
The eight teams participated in a single-venue tournament format. The winner advanced to the Euroleague regular season.
Teams
The eight teams are:
Draw
The draws for the 2013–14 Turkish Airlines Euroleague qualifying rounds was held on Thursday, 4 July.
Teams were seeded into four pots of two teams in accordance with the Club Ranking, based on their performance in European competitions during a three-year period and the teams granted a Wild Card by ECA were seeded above the rest of the teams.
Bracket
Draw
The draws for the 2013–14 Turkish Airlines Euroleague were held on Thursday, 4 July.
Teams were seeded into six pots of four teams in accordance with the Club Ranking, based on their performance in European competitions during a three-year period.
Two teams from the same country could not be drawn together in the same Regular Season group.
Regular season
Location of teams of the
2013–14 Euroleague group stage.
Red: Group A;
Green: Group B;
Blue: Group C;
Yellow: Group D.
The regular season was played between October 17 and December 20.
If teams are level on record at the end of the Regular Season, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:
- Head-to-head record.
- Head-to-head point differential.
- Point differential during the Regular Season.
- Points scored during the regular season.
- Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each Regular Season match.
Key to colors
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Top four places in each group advance to Top 16 |
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Bottom two teams in each group enter 2013–14 Eurocup Basketball Last 32 round |
Top 16
The Top 16 began on January 2 and ended on April 11, 2014.
If teams were level on record at the end of the Top 16, tiebreakers were applied in the following order:
- Head-to-head record.
- Head-to-head record between teams still tied.
- Head-to-head point differential.
- Point differential during the Top 16.
- Points scored during the Top 16.
- Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each Top 16 match.
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Top four places in each group advance to Playoffs |
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Eliminated |
See the detailed group stage page for tiebreakers if two or more teams are equal on points.
Quarter-finals
Team 1 hosted Games 1 and 2, plus Game 5 if necessary. Team 2 hosted Game 3, and Game 4 if necessary.
Final Four
Maccabi supporters during the final
The Final Four is the last phase of each Euroleague season, and is held over a weekend. The semifinal games are played on Friday evening. Sunday starts with the third-place game, followed by the championship final.
Semifinals
May 16, Mediolanum Forum, Milan
3rd place game
May 18, Mediolanum Forum, Milan
Final
May 18, Mediolanum Forum, Milan
Final standings
Final Four 2014 MVP
Tyrese Rice (Maccabi Electra)
Attendances
Top 10
| | Round | Game | Home team | Visitor | Attendance | Sources |
| 1 |
Top 16 | 1 |
 Partizan |
 Real Madrid |
21,374 |
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| 2 |
Regular Season | 1 |
Crvena Zvezda |
 Lokomotiv Kuban |
19,000 | |
| 3 |
Top 16 | 5 |
 Panathinaikos |
FC Barcelona |
18,500 | |
| 4 |
Top 16 | 11 |
Panathinaikos |
 Fenerbahçe Ülker |
17,500 | |
| 5 |
Top 16 | 7 |
Panathinaikos |
Olympiacos |
17,500 | |
| 6 |
Top 16 | 3 |
Partizan |
CSKA Moscow |
16,523 |
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| 7 |
Top 16 | 5 |
Partizan |
Lokomotiv Kuban |
15,565 |
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| 8 |
Regular Season | 8 |
Partizan |
 Budivelnyk |
15,200 | |
| 9 |
Quarter-finals | 4 |
Panathinaikos |
CSKA Moscow |
14,750 | |
| 10 |
Regular Season | 7 |
Laboral Kutxa |
Panathinaikos |
14,196 |
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Average home attendances
| Pos | Team | GP |
Total |
High |
Low |
Average |
| 1 |
Panathinaikos |
14 |
168,842 | 18,500 | 5,192 |
12,060 |
| 2 |
Partizan |
12 |
150,931 | 21,374 | 7,500 |
12,578 |
| 3 |
Fenerbahçe Ülker |
12 |
137,753 | 12,968 | 3,230 |
11,313 |
| 4 |
 Maccabi Electra |
14 |
154,580 | 11,060 | 10,800 |
11,041 |
| 5 |
Laboral Kutxa |
12 |
128,106 | 14,196 | 8,246 |
10,676 |
| 6 |
Real Madrid |
15 |
155,528 | 13,192 | 6,899 |
10,369 |
| 7 |
 Žalgiris |
12 |
118,433 | 12,000 | 8,150 |
9,869 |
| 8 |
Crvena Zvezda |
5 |
48,500 | 19,000 | 7,000 |
9,700 |
| 9 |
Olympiacos |
13 [14] |
125,074 | 11,500 | 5,500 |
9,656 |
| 10 |
 EA7 Milano |
14 |
125,264 | 12,331 | 4,630 |
8,947 |
| 11 |
Galatasaray |
13 |
114,809 | 11,470 | 3,829 |
8,831 |
| 12 |
 Brose |
5 |
34,000 | 6,800 | 6,800 |
6,800 |
| 13 |
Unicaja |
12 |
73,604 | 10,600 | 3,512 |
6,134 |
| 14 |
Lietuvos Rytas |
5 |
30,350 | 8,450 | 3,350 |
6,070 |
| 15 |
Bayern Munich |
12 |
72,445 | 6,700 | 5,011 |
6,037 |
| 16 |
Lokomotiv Kuban |
12 |
70,481 | 7,470 | 4,274 |
5,873 |
| 17 |
Montepaschi Siena |
5 |
27,549 | 6,755 | 4,020 |
5,510 |
| 18 |
FC Barcelona |
14 |
71,620 | 6,938 | 3,134 |
5,116 |
| 19 |
CSKA Moscow |
15 |
70,674 | 5,293 | 4,201 |
4,712 |
| 20 |
Anadolu Efes |
12 |
55,311 | 8,078 | 2,080 |
4,609 |
| 21 |
 Strasbourg |
5 |
22,715 | 6,150 | 3,340 |
4,543 |
| 22 |
JSF Nanterre |
5 |
21,000 | 4,500 | 3,000 |
4,200 |
| 23 |
 Stelmet Zielona Góra |
5 |
20,859 | 4,853 | 3,251 |
4,172 |
| 24 |
Budivelnyk |
5 |
19,800 | 5,600 | 1,500 |
3,960 |
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- Updated to games played on 25 April 2014
Source: Euroleague Basketball
Individual statistics
Rating
Points
Rebounds
Assists
Other statistics
Game highs
Awards
Euroleague 2013–14 MVP
Euroleague 2013–14 Final Four MVP
All-Euroleague Team 2013–14
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Best Defender
Rising Star
MVP Weekly
Regular season
Top 16
Quarter-finals
MVP of the Month
See also
References
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