2012 Euroleague Final Four

2012 Euroleague Final Four

Season	2011–12 Euroleague
Tournament details
Arena	Sinan Erdem Dome Istanbul, Turkey
Dates	May 11, 2012 – May 13, 2012
Final positions
Champions	Olympiacos (2nd title)
Runners-up	CSKA Moscow
Third place	FC Barcelona
Fourth place	Panathinaikos
Awards and statistics
MVP	Vassilis Spanoulis
Attendance	61,048 (total)
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The 2012 Euroleague Final Four was the concluding EuroLeague Final Four tournament of the 2011–12 Euroleague season. It was held on May 11–13, 2012. The tournament was hosted at the Sinan Erdem Dome, in Istanbul, Turkey. Olympiacos won its second ever EuroLeague championship, after beating CSKA Moscow in the Final.

In the Final, Georgios Printezis hit a floater with 0.7 seconds remaining on the game clock, after receiving an assist from Vassilis Spanoulis, to win the EuroLeague cup. Spanoulis won his second Final Four MVP after the tournament.

Venue

On May 8, 2011, Euroleague Basketball announced that the Final Four would be held at the Sinan Erdem Dome, in Istanbul.^[1] It has a seating capacity of 22,500 for concerts, and 16,000 for the sport of basketball, making it Turkey's largest multi-purpose indoor venue, and the third largest in Europe (although it is not the third largest in Europe in capacity for basketball use). The arena is named after Sinan Erdem (1927–2003), who was the President of the Turkish Olympic Committee, from 1989, until his death in 2003.

Istanbul	Istanbul 2012 Euroleague Final Four (Europe)
Sinan Erdem Dome
Capacity: 16,647

Bracket

All times are CEST (UTC+2).

	Semifinals May 11				Championship game May 13
	CSKA Moscow	66
	Panathinaikos	64
					CSKA Moscow	61
					Olympiacos	62
	Olympiacos	68
	FC Barcelona Regal	64
					Third place game
					Panathinaikos	69
					FC Barcelona Regal	74

Semifinal 1

11 May 2012 17:00

Report

CSKA Moscow	66–64	Panathinaikos
Scoring by quarter: 15–29, 17–5, 19–21, 15–9
Pts: Kirilenko 17 Rebs: Kirilenko 9 Asts: Khryapa 5		Pts: Jasikevičius 19 Rebs: Kaimakoglou 8 Asts: Diamantidis 6

Sinan Erdem Dome, Istanbul Attendance: 15,262 Referees: Carl Jungebrand (FIN), José Martín (ESP), Streten Radović (CRO)

Semifinal 2

11 May 2012 20:00

Report

Olympiacos	68–64	FC Barcelona Regal
Scoring by quarter: 17–11, 16–18, 17–18, 18–17
Pts: Spanoulis 21 Rebs: Mantzaris 6 Asts: Spanoulis 6		Pts: Navarro 18 Rebs: Vázquez 7 Asts: Navarro 3

Sinan Erdem Dome, Istanbul Attendance: 15,262 Referees: Luigi Lamonica (ITA), Robert Lottermoser (GER), Tolga Sahin (ITA)

Third-place game

13 May 2012 17:00

Report

Panathinaikos	69–74	FC Barcelona Regal
Scoring by quarter: 20–21, 17–27, 15–10, 17–16
Pts: Diamantidis 17 Rebs: Marić 11 Asts: Calathes 2		Pts: Huertas 21 Rebs: Ndong, Vázquez 5 Asts: Huertas 3

Sinan Erdem Dome, Istanbul Attendance: 15,262 Referees: Recep Ankarali (TUR), Robert Lottermoser (GER), Olegs Latisevs (LAT)

Championship game

13 May 2012 20:00

Report

CSKA Moscow	61–62	Olympiacos
Scoring by quarter: 10–7, 24–13, 19–20, 8–22
Pts: Teodosić 15 Rebs: Kirilenko 10 Asts: Teodosić 3		Pts: Papanikolaou 18 Rebs: three players 4 Asts: three players 2

Sinan Erdem Dome, Istanbul Attendance: 15,550 Referees: Luigi Lamonica (ITA), José Martín (ESP), Tolga Sahin (ITA)

CSKA Moscow

Olympiacos

Starters: P R A PG 4 Miloš Teodosić 15 4 3 SG 8 Ramūnas Šiškauskas 8 3 1 SF 31 Victor Khryapa 3 6 1 PF 15 Andrei Kirilenko 12 10 0 C 12 Nenad Krstić 11 1 0 Reserves: P R A PF 7 Darjuš Lavrinovič 5 1 1 PF 11 Sammy Mejia DNP SG 18 Evgeny Voronov 0 0 0 PF 20 Andrey Vorontsevich 0 1 2 PG 23 Alexey Shved 3 2 2 C 24 Sasha Kaun 2 0 0 SG 44 Jamont Gordon 2 1 1 Head coach: Jonas Kazlauskas

2011–12 Euroleague Champions Olympiacos 2nd title

Starters: P R A PG 17 Vangelis Mantzaris 3 4 2 SG 7 Vassilis Spanoulis 15 0 2 SF 10 Marko Kešelj 3 0 0 PF 6 Pero Antić 7 2 0 C 9 Joey Dorsey 0 2 0 Reserves: P R A PF 4 Kyle Hines 0 3 1 C 12 Lazaros Papadopoulos 0 0 0 SF 13 Martynas Gecevičius DNP PF 15 Georgios Printezis 12 4 1 SF 16 Kostas Papanikolaou 18 4 0 SG 18 Kostas Sloukas 4 3 2 PG 55 Acie Law 0 2 0 Head coach: Dušan Ivković

References

External links

• Official Site

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