1972–73 FIBA European Champions Cup

1972-73 FIBA European Champions Cup
League	FIBA European Champions Cup
Sport	Basketball
Final
Champions	Ignis Varèse
Runners-up	CSKA Moscow

The 1972–73 FIBA European Champions Cup was the 16th installment of the European Champions Cup club competition, predecessor of the Euroleague. The Final was held at the Country Hall du Sart Tilman in Liège, Belgium on March 22, 1973. It was won by Ignis Varèse for the second time in a row. They defeated CSKA Moscow in the finals, by a result of 71–66.

Competition System

27 teams (domestic champions and title holder) playing knock-out rounds on a home and away basis. The aggregate score of both games decides the winner.
The 8 teams qualified for the Quarterfinals are divided into two groups of four. Every team plays against the other three in its group in consecutive home-and-away matches, so that every two of these games count as a single win or defeat (point difference being a decisive factor here). In case of a tie between two or more teams after this group stage, the following criteria is used: 1) one-to-one games between the teams; 2) basket average; 3) individual wins and defeats.
The group winners and the runners-up of the Quarterfinal Group Stage qualify for the Semifinals. The final is played at a predetermined venue.

First round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bayer Leverkusen	160-165	Simmenthal Milano	73–75	87–90
Union Wienerberger	137-126	İTÜ	81–68	56–58
Etzella Ettelbruck	152-160	Epping Avenue	81–91	71–69
ÍR	102-210	Real Madrid	65–117	37–93
Alvik	144–190	Maccabi Elite	74–103	70–87
Honvéd	144–169	BUS Fruit Lier	85–77	59–92
FUS Rabat	139–193	ASVEL	65–82	74–111
Porto	149-202	Slavia Prague	81–93	68–109
Jeunesse Sportivo Alep	0-4*	Partizani Tirana	0–2	0–2
Levi's Flamingo's Haarlem	164-179	Crvena Zvezda	88–72	74–107
Dinamo București	172-132	Knorr Stars Honka	95–58	77–74
Academic	154-141	Panathinaikos	76–57	78–84

*Jeunesse Sportivo Alep withdrew before the first leg and Partizani Tirana received a forfeit (2-0) in both games.

Round of 16

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Stade Francais Geneva	172-242	CSKA Moscow	92–121	80–121
Simmenthal Milano	175-156	Union Wienerberger	93–76	82–80
Epping Avenue	109-229	Real Madrid	62–119	47–110
Maccabi Elite	162-146	BUS Fruit Lier	97–74	65–72
ASVEL	148-153	Slavia Prague	66–63	82–90
Partizani Tirana	157-193	Crvena Zvezda	83–94	74–99
Dinamo București	141-133	Academic	72–75	69–58

Automatically qualified to the group stage

Ignis Varèse (title holder)

Quarter finals group stage

The quarterfinals 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.	Simmenthal Milano	3	6	3	0	552	512	+40
2.	Crvena Zvezda	3	5	2	1	521	533	-12
3.	Real Madrid	3	4	1	2	485	487	-2
4.	Maccabi Elite	3	3	0	3	550	576	-26

Group B

	Team	Pld	Pts	W	L	PF	PA	PD
1.	CSKA Moscow	3	6	3	0	510	453	+57
2.	Ignis Varèse	3	5	2	1	503	475	+28
3.	Dinamo București	3	4	1	2	469	505	-36
4.	Slavia Prague	3	3	0	3	489	538	-49

Semi finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Simmenthal Milano	169–212	Ignis Varèse	72–97	100–115
Crvena Zvezda	173–198	CSKA Moscow	90–98	83–100

Final

March 22, Country Hall du Sart Tilman, Liège

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Ignis Varèse	71–66	CSKA Moscow

1972-73 FIBA European Champions Cup Champions
Ignis Varèse 3rd Title

References

External links

Champions Cup 1972–73

Ignis Varèse 1972–73 Euroleague Champions

Morse Meneghin Raga Ossola Flaborea Rusconi Bisson Zanatta Polzot Lucarelli Bertolucci Chiarini Coach Nikolić

FIBA European Champions Cup and Euroleague

FIBA European Champions Cup era, 1958–2001

Seasons	1958 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 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

Finals	1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001

Euroleague Basketball era, 2000–present

Seasons	2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17

Finals	2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

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