1974–75 FIBA European Champions Cup

1974–75 FIBA European Champions Cup
League	FIBA European Champions Cup
Sport	Basketball
Final
Champions	Ignis Varese
Runners-up	Real Madrid
FIBA European Champions Cup seasons
← 1973–74 1975–76 →

The 1974–75 FIBA European Champions Cup was the 18th edition of the European top-tier level professional basketball club competition FIBA European Champions Cup (now called EuroLeague). The Final was held at the Arena Deurne, in Antwerp, Belgium, on April 10, 1975. In a reprise of a previous year's final, Ignis Varese defeated Real Madrid, by a result of 79–65.

Competition system

24 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 twelve teams qualified for the Quarterfinals were divided into two groups of six. Every team played against the other five 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 this group stage, the following criteria were 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 qualified for the Semifinals. The final was played at a predetermined venue.

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Alvik	184–172	Csepel	91–70	93–102
Honka Playboys	150–152	SSV Hagen	84–79	66–73
Fribourg Olympic	154–168	Panathinaikos	76–89	78–99
Sparta Bertrange	159–193	Partizani Tirana	89–103	70–90
Transol RZ	194–120	Sutton & Crystal Palace	107–55	87–65

Second round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Wisła Kraków	173–180	Alvik	94–87	79–93
SSV Hagen	168–184	Maes Pils	85–81	83–103
Panathinaikos	156–203	Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv	76–90	80–113
Partizani Tirana	0–4*	Balkan Botevgrad	0–2	0–2
Transol RZ	185–141	Muhafızgücü	96–65	89–76
Slavia VŠ Praha	201–155	Al-Zamalek	110–65	91–90
Sefra Wien	254–112	KR	132–34	122–78

*Partizani Tirana withdrew before the first leg, so Balkan Botevgrad went through with a walkover.

Automatically qualified to the group stage

Quarterfinals 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.	Ignis Varese	5	10	5	0	990	789	+121
2.	Zadar	5	9	4	1	909	819	+90
3.	Maes Pils	5	8	3	2	895	879	+16
4.	Sefra Wien	5	7	2	3	803	863	-60
5.	Balkan Botevgrad	5	6	1	4	746	889	-143
6.	Slavia VŠ Praha	5	5	0	5	771	875	-104

Group B

	Team	Pld	Pts	W	L	PF	PA	PD
1.	Real Madrid	4	8	4	0	833	649	+184
2.	Berck	4	6	2	2	708	723	-15
3.	Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv	4	6	2	2	748	734	+14
4.	Transol RZ	4	6	2	2	697	706	-9
5.	Alvik	4	4	0	4	609	783	-174
6.	CSKA Moscow*	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

*CSKA Moscow withdrew before the group stage for political reasons. Therefore, all the scheduled games of the Soviet team were considered forfeits (2–0) for their rivals, although they were not counted in the final standing of the group.

Semifinals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Real Madrid	239–199	Zadar	109–82	130–117
Berck	164–184	Ignis Varese	85–86	79–98

Final

April 10, Arena Deurne, Antwerp

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Ignis Varese	79–66	Real Madrid

1974–75 FIBA European Champions Cup Champions
Ignis Varese 4th Title

Awards

FIBA European Champions Cup Finals Top Scorer

Bob Morse ( Ignis Varese)

References

External links

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FIBA European Champions Cup and Euroleague Basketball

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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