1968–69 FIBA European Champions Cup

1968–69 FIBA European Champions Cup
League	FIBA European Champions Cup
Sport	Basketball
Final
Champions	CSKA Moscow
Runners-up	Real Madrid
FIBA European Champions Cup seasons
← 1967–68 1969–70 →

The 1968–69 FIBA European Champions Cup was the twelfth installment of the European top-tier level professional basketball club competition FIBA European Champions Cup (now called EuroLeague). The Final was held at Palau dels Esports, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, on April 24, 1969, and it was won by CSKA Moscow, who defeated Real Madrid 103–99.

Competition system

25 teams (European national domestic league champions, plus the then current title holders), playing in a tournament system, played knock-out rounds on a home and away basis. The aggregate score of both games decided the winner.
The eight teams qualified for 1/4 Finals were divided into two groups of four. Every team played against the other three in its group in consecutive home-and-away matches, so that every two of these games counted as a single win or defeat (point difference being a decisive factor there). In case of a tie between two or more teams after the group stage, the following criteria were used to decide the final standings: 1) one-to-one games between the teams; 2) basket average; 3) individual wins and defeats.
The group winners and runners-up of the 1/4 Finals round qualified for 1/2 Finals. The final was played at a predetermined venue.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Edinburgh Hornets	123–194	ASVEL	76–81	47–113
Alvik	122–149	Gießen 46ers	60–61	62–88
Aldershot Warriors	103–238	Real Madrid	59–103	44–135
Tapion Honka	158–180	Standard Liège	76–81	82–99
Black Star Mersch	104–221	Oransoda Cantù	51–97	53–124
Flamingo's Haarlem	113–170	Vorwärts Leipzig	70–75	43–95
Engelmann Wien	145–160	Dinamo București	88–75	57–85
İTÜ	147–139	Wisła Kraków	91–70	56–69
Lourenço Marques	161–207	AEK	77–89	84–118

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
ASVEL	141–142	Zadar	74–54	67–88
Gießen 46ers	152–199	Real Madrid	81–97	71–102
Honvéd	146–163	Standard Liège	70–55	76–108
Partizani Tirana	136–163	Oransoda Cantù	73–73	63–90
Vorwärts Leipzig	126–141	CSKA Moscow	54–66	72–75
Dinamo București	169–181	Spartak ZJŠ Brno	100–85	69–96
İTÜ	142–151	Maccabi Tel Aviv	83–79	59–72
AEK	127–134	Academic	73–58	54–76

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

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Real Madrid	193–135	Standard Liège	84–46	109–89
CSKA Moscow	184–158	Spartak ZJŠ Brno	101–66	83–92

Team 1	Score	Team 2
CSKA Moscow	103–99	Real Madrid

1968–69 FIBA European Champions Cup Champions
CSKA Moscow 3rd Title

v t e CSKA Moscow 1968–69 FIBA European Champions Cup champions
Belov Volnov Lipso Andreev Selikhov Sidjakin Astakhov Kapranov Kulkov Nesterov Kovyrkin A. Blik Coach Alachachian

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 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24
Finals	2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 ~~2020~~ 2021 2022 2023 2024

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