EuroChallenge
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sport | basketball |
Association | FIBA |
League foundation | 2003 |
League dissolution | 2015 |
Teams | 32 |
Country countries | All members of FIBA |
Title holder | JSF Nanterre (1st title) |
Record champions | 12 clubs with 1 title each |
↑ ULEB Eurocup |
The FIBA Euro Challenge was under the auspices of FIBA Europe be registered competition for European Basketball - club teams of men. As part of the annual European Basketball Cup, it was the third most important of all competitions behind the ULEB Euroleague and the ULEB Eurocup .
A total of twelve seasons were completed from 2003 to 2015, in which the competition was sometimes also called the Europe League or EuroCup . In the summer of 2015, FIBA decided to discontinue the EuroChallenge and to offer more competition with a new competition, the FIBA Europe Cup , the ULEB , which has been organizing the most important European Cup competitions since 2001.
history
After the European Champion 's Cup, which was run by FIBA, was discontinued in 2001 and the ULEB Euroleague had already started very successfully a year earlier, FIBA founded the EuroCup Challenge for the 2002 season , which was discontinued in 2007.
For the 2003/04 season, FIBA created another European Cup. The EuroChallenge started operations as the Europe League . After two completed seasons, the name of the competition was changed to EuroCup in 2005 . After consultation with FIBA, ULEB changed the name of its ULEB Cup to ULEB Eurocup , whereupon FIBA hosted its tournament as a EuroChallenge from now on. This made the EuroChallenge the only competition for men directed by FIBA and the least significant of the three European Cup basketball competitions, as the top teams of the individual countries competed in the Euroleague or the Eurocup.
Game mode
The EuroChallenge was played as follows in its last season 2014/15:
- 1st group stage
- In the first group stage, 32 teams in 8 groups (A – H) played against each other in home and away games until each team had played six games. The two best teams in each group qualified for the second group stage. This group stage was held in two regional conferences in order to reduce travel and travel costs for the clubs.
- 2nd group stage
- In the second group phase, the 16 remaining teams played against each other in 4 groups (I – L) in home and away games until each team had played six games. The two best teams in each group qualified for the quarter-finals. The application of two regional conferences as in the first group phase was not practiced here.
- Quarter finals
- In a “ best of three ” mode , the remaining eight teams competed against each other in four team encounters. The first in the group from the second phase enjoyed home rights in a possibly required third play-off game. The four teams that won these duels qualified for the final tournament.
- Final Four
- In a tournament that took place within a weekend, two teams each competed in semifinals. The winners qualified for the final, from which the winner of the EuroChallenge emerged. The two finalists qualified for the 2015/16 Eurocup season.
Historical game modes
In every EuroChallenge held, the final round consisted of a quarter-finals and the final final four.
The organizers changed the mode of the group stage several times. There were major differences to the group phase practiced today in the first two seasons, when the game was played with two groups of seven and two groups of eight, the best four teams of which reached the round of 16.
Finals
season | venue | winner | opponent | Result | MVP * |
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2003/04 | Kazan | UNICS Kazan | TIM-Maroussi Athens | 87: 63 | Martin Müürsepp |
2004/05 | Istanbul | BK Dynamo Saint Petersburg | BK Kiev | 85: 74 | / Kelly McCarty |
2005/06 | Kiev | DKV Joventut de Badalona | BK Khimki | 88: 63 | Rudy Fernández |
2006/07 | Girona | Akasvayu Girona | BK Azovmash Mariupol | 79: 72 | / Ariel McDonald |
2007/08 | Limassol | BK Barons Rīga | Dexia Mons-Hainaut | 63: 62 | Giedrius Gustas |
2008/09 | Bologna | Virtus Bologna Fiere | Cholet Basket | 77: 75 | Keith Langford |
2009/10 | Goettingen | BG Göttingen | Krasnye Krylja Samara | 83: 75 | / Taylor Rochestie |
2010/11 | East End | KK Krka Novo mesto | Kuban Krasnodar locomotive | 83: 77 | Goran Ikonic |
2011/12 | Debrecen | Beşiktaş Milangaz | Élan Sportif Chalonnais | 91: 86 | Pop's Mensah Bonsu |
2012/13 | Izmir | Krasnye Krylja Samara | Pınar Karşıyaka | 77: 76 | Chester Simmons |
2013/14 | Bologna | Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia | Triumph Lyubertsy | 79:65 | Andrea Cinciarini |
2014/15 | Trabzon | JSF Nanterre | Trabzonspor | 64: 63 | Jamal Shuler |
* The “ Most Valuable Player ” (MVP) belonged to the winning team of the “ Final Four ” tournament.
statistics
No club has won the EuroChallenge more than once. With Krasnye Krylja Samara there is a club that reached the finals twice.
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