FIBA Intercontinental Cup

For the international basketball tournament named to William Jones, see William Jones Cup.
FIBA Intercontinental Cup
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2015 FIBA Intercontinental Cup
Sport Basketball
Founded 1966
Inaugural season 1966
Claim to fame Official Club World Championship
No. of teams 2
Country FIBA members
Continent Europe, North America & South America
Most recent champion(s) Spain Real Madrid
(5th title)
Most titles Spain Real Madrid
(5 titles)
Official website FIBA Intercontinental Cup

The FIBA Intercontinental Cup, commonly referred to as the FIBA World Cup for Champion Clubs, or the FIBA Club World Cup, is a professional basketball competition endorsed by FIBA, FIBA Americas and Euroleague Basketball Company. Historically, its purpose has been to gather the premier basketball clubs from each of the world's geographical zones, and to officially decide the best club of the world, which is officially crowned as the world club champion. The World Cup for Clubs has been contended mainly by the champions of the continents and/or world geographical regions that are of the highest basketball levels.

Currently, the champions of the FIBA Americas League play against the champions of the Euroleague, in an aggregate score two-legged series that determines the official world club champion. The league champions of the NBA, which would be considered the top club from the North American zone, currently decline participation.

FIBA announced plans to expand the tournament to include the champion teams from the FIBA Africa Clubs Champions Cup, the FIBA Asia Champions Cup, the NBL (FIBA Oceania), and possibly the NBA in the future.[1][2]

History

The FIBA Intercontinental Cup competition was originally organized between the years 1966 and 1987. The tournament had its origins with a friendly test game in São Paulo in 1965. The test game was contested by the South American Club Championship champions Corinthians, and the FIBA European Champions Cup champions, Real Madrid. Corinthians won the test game by a score of 118 to 109. After the success of the test tournament, the first official tournament took place in the year 1966.[3]

In 1973, the competition adopted the name FIBA Intercontinental Cup William Jones, to honor the secretary general of FIBA, William Jones. FIBA tried to rebirth the competition in 1996, by reorganizing the Intercontinental Cup into a best-of-three playoff tournament between the winners of the Euroleague and the winners of the South American League (the champions of all of South America). After that tournament however, the competition was succeeded by the McDonald's Championship, which preexisted and included NBA clubs. The McDonald's Championship however, was not an official tournament like the Intercontinental Cup.

In August 2013, an agreement reached between Euroleague Basketball Company, FIBA Americas, and FIBA, allowed for the World Cup for Champion Clubs to be relaunched, and to be played between the Euroleague champion and the FIBA Americas League champion.[4][5] Later in 2013, it was announced that FIBA had plans to expand the tournament, adding the champion teams from the FIBA Africa Clubs Champions Cup, the FIBA Asia Champions Cup, the NBL (FIBA Oceania), and possibly the NBA.[6][7]

Names of the competition

Part of the official logo with the current competition name

Title holders

Finals

Year Final Third and fourth place
Champion Score Second place
1966
Details
Italy
Varèse (Ignis)
66–59 Brazil
Corinthians
Spain
Real Madrid
United States
Chicago Jamaco Saints
1967
Details
United States
Akron Wingfoots (Goodyear)
78–72 Italy
Varèse (Ignis)
Italy
Olimpia Milano (Simmenthal)
Brazil
Corinthians
1968
Details
United States
Akron Wingfoots (Goodyear)
105–73 Spain
Real Madrid
Italy
Olimpia Milano (Simmenthal)
Brazil
Botafogo
1969
Details
United States
Akron Wingfoots (Goodyear)
84–71 Czechoslovakia
Spartak ZJŠ Brno
Brazil
Sírio
Spain
Real Madrid
1970
Details
Italy
Varèse (Ignis)
League Spain
Real Madrid
Brazil
Corinthians
Czechoslovakia
Slavia Prague
1972
Details
United States
NABL All-Stars
League Soviet Union
Soviet Union
Brazil
Brazil
Poland
Poland
1973
Details
Italy
Varèse (Ignis)
League Brazil
Sírio
Puerto Rico
Vaqueros de Bayamón
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Split (Jugoplastika)
1974
Details
United States
Maryland Terrapins
League Italy
Varèse (Ignis)
Brazil
Vila Nova
Spain
Real Madrid
1975
Details
Italy
Cantù (Forst)
League Brazil
Franca (Amazonas)
Spain
Real Madrid
United States
Penn Quakers
1976
Details
Spain
Real Madrid
League Italy
Varèse (Mobilgirgi)
Argentina
Obras Sanitarias
Brazil
Franca (Amazonas)
1977
Details
Spain
Real Madrid
League Italy
Varèse (Mobilgirgi)
Israel
Maccabi Tel Aviv (Elite)
Brazil
Franca (Atlética Francana)
1978
Details
Spain
Real Madrid
League Argentina
Obras Sanitarias
Brazil
Sírio
Italy
Varèse (Mobilgirgi)
1979
Details
Brazil
Sírio
League Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Bosna
Italy
Varèse (Emerson)
Puerto Rico
Piratas de Quebradillas
1980
Details
Israel
Maccabi Tel Aviv (Elite)
League Brazil
Franca (Atlética Francana)
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Bosna
Spain
Real Madrid
1981
Details
Spain
Real Madrid
109–83 Brazil
Sírio
United States
Clemson Tigers
Brazil
Franca (Atlética Francana)
1982
Details
Italy
Cantù (Ford)
League Netherlands
Den Bosch (Nashua)
Israel
Maccabi Tel Aviv (Elite)
United States
Air Force Falcons
1983
Details
Argentina
Obras Sanitarias
League Italy
Cantù (Jollycolombani)
Uruguay
Peñarol
Brazil
Monte Líbano
1984
Details
Italy
Virtus Roma (Banco di Roma)
League Argentina
Obras Sanitarias
Brazil
Sírio
Spain
FC Barcelona
1985
Details
Spain
FC Barcelona
93–89 Brazil
Monte Líbano
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Cibona
Argentina
San Andrés
1986
Details
Soviet Union
Žalgiris
84–78 Argentina
Ferro Carril Oeste
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Cibona
Brazil
Corinthians
1987
Details
Italy
Olimpia Milano (Tracer)
100–84 Spain
FC Barcelona
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Cibona
Israel
Maccabi Tel Aviv (Elite)
1996
Details
Greece
Panathinaikos
2–1 play-off
83–89 / 83–78 / 101–76
Argentina
Olimpia
2013
Details
Greece
Olympiacos
167–139
81–70 / 86–69
Brazil
Pinheiros (Sky)
2014
Details
Brazil
Flamengo
156–146
66–69 / 90–77
Israel
Maccabi Tel Aviv (Electra)
2015
Details
Spain
Real Madrid
181–170
90–91 / 91–79
Brazil
Bauru

Titles by club

Rank Club Titles Runner-up Champion Years
1. Spain Real Madrid 5 2 1976, 1977, 1978, 1981, 2015
2. Italy Varèse 3 4 1966, 1970, 1973
3. United States Akron Wingfoots 3 1967, 1968, 1969
4. Italy Cantù 2 1 1975, 1982
5. Brazil Sírio 1 2 1979
6. Argentina Obras Sanitarias 1 2 1983
7. Israel Maccabi Tel Aviv 1 1 1980
8. Spain FC Barcelona 1 1 1985
9. United States Maryland Terrapins 1 1974
10. Italy Virtus Roma 1 1984
11. Soviet Union Žalgiris 1 1986
12. Italy Olimpia Milano 1 1987
13. Greece Panathinaikos 1 1996
14. Greece Olympiacos 1 2013
15. Brazil Flamengo 1 2014
16. Brazil Franca 2
17. Brazil Corinthians 1
18. Czechoslovakia Brno 1
19. Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Bosna 1
20. Netherlands Den Bosch 1
21. Brazil Monte Líbano 1
22. Argentina Ferro Carril Oeste 1
23. Argentina Olimpia 1
24. Brazil Pinheiros 1
25. Brazil Bauru 1

Titles by country

Rank Country Titles Runners-up
1. Italy Italy 7 5
2. Spain Spain 6 3
3. United States United States 5
4. Brazil Brazil 2 8
5. Greece Greece 2
6. Argentina Argentina 1 4
7. Israel Israel 1 1
8. Soviet Union Soviet Union 1
9. Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 1
10. Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia 1
11. Netherlands Netherlands 1

Top scorers of the decisive game

Season Top Scorer Club Points Scored
1966 Italy Giovanni Gavagnin Italy Ignis Varèse 20
1967 Italy Tony Gennari Italy Ignis Varèse 25
1968 United States Miles Aiken Spain Real Madrid 23
1969 Czechoslovakia Jan Bobrovský Czechoslovakia Spartak ZJŠ Brno 34
1970 Czechoslovakia Jiří Zídek Sr. Czechoslovakia Slavia Prague 20
1973 N/A N/A N/A
1974 United States John Lucas II & United States Bob Morse United States Maryland Terrapins & Italy Ignis Varèse 24
1975 N/A N/A N/A
1976 Spain Rafael Rullán Spain Real Madrid 23
1977 United States Walter Szczerbiak Spain Real Madrid 29
1978 United States John Coughran Spain Real Madrid 26
1979 Brazil Oscar Schmidt Brazil Sírio 42
1980 United States Earl Williams Israel Maccabi Elite 28
1981 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Mirza Delibašić Spain Real Madrid 33
1982 Italy Antonello Riva & Netherlands Dan Cramer Italy Ford Cantù & Netherlands Nashua Den Bosch 22
1983 Brazil Julio Garavello Brazil Sírio 35
1984 United States Ray Townsend Italy Banco di Roma Virtus 29
1985 Spain Juan Antonio San Epifanio Spain FC Barcelona 39
1986 Soviet Union Arvydas Sabonis Soviet Union Žalgiris 26
1987 United States Bob McAdoo Italy Tracer Milano 25
1996 Argentina Jorge Racca Argentina Olimpia 28
2013 United States Brazil Shamell Stallworth Brazil Pinheiros 27
2014 United States Jeremy Pargo Israel Maccabi Electra 28
2015 Brazil Ricardo Fischer Brazil Bauru 26

MVP awards

Season Winner Club
1977 United States Walter Szczerbiak Spain Real Madrid
1987 Spain Juan Antonio San Epifanio Spain FC Barcelona
2013 Greece Vassilis Spanoulis[8][9] Greece Olympiacos
2014 Argentina Nicolás Laprovíttola[10][11] Brazil Flamengo
2015 Spain Sergio Llull Spain Real Madrid

1972 special version

In 1972, FIBA held a 4 team tournament, featuring the Soviet Union national basketball team, the Polish national basketball team, the Brazilian national basketball team, and the NABL All-Stars Team, which participated in the place of Team USA. Although this tournament is not a part of the actual Club World Cup, it is still listed in the event's history as a special version of the tournament, while the actual club competition was on hiatus between the years of 1970 and 1973.[12]

References

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