Alpe Adria Cup

Alpe Adria Cup

Full name	Sixt Alpe Adria Cup
Current season	AAC 2016/17
sport	basketball
abbreviation	AAC
League foundation	2015
Teams	last 13
Country countries	Croatia Austria Slovakia Slovenia
Title holder	Helios Suns Domžale
Website	alpeadriacup.com

The Alpe Adria Cup (AAC) is a supranational basketball competition for men's club teams. Participants are professional first division teams from the countries of the Alps-Adriatic alliance excluding Hungary , but similar to the former Austrian Slovak Women Basketball League from Slovakia . After two teams from all participating countries played at the premiere in the 2015/16 season, five Slovenian, three Austrian, two Slovak and finally two Croatian teams are represented in the competition in the second season 2016/17, after the Croatian club KK Kvarner 2010 withdrew and was replaced by the Czech team BK Děčín .

mode

In the first season, the eight participating teams played in a round robin tournament in two groups of four teams practically the "seedings" for the quarterfinals in the knockout system from. The first in the group met the last in the other group and the second in the group met the third in the other group. The addition of the first and second leg decided on progress from the quarterfinals, with the better placed team in the preliminary round having home rights in the second leg. The title winner was determined in a Final Four tournament, so that from the semi-finals onwards, a single game decided the winner. Host Helios Suns Domžale was able to win the title premiere and defeat national competitor KK Zlatorog Laško by just three points in the final .

From the second season onwards, four preliminary round groups were played; with 13 participating teams there were three groups with three teams each and one group with four teams. With the exception of the group of four, in which two Slovenian teams played, the competition in the respective group was split between teams from different nations, as at the premiere a year before.

history

Events

2015/16 Final Four in Domžale

	Semifinals					final
	1st March
	A1	Helios Suns Domžale	84
	B2	KK Zagreb	65			2nd March
						A1	Helios Suns Domžale	66
	1st March					B3	Zlatorog Laško	63
	B1	BC Prievidza	80
	B3	Zlatorog Laško	89
						3rd place match
						2nd March
						B2	KK Zagreb	94
						B1	BC Prievidza	73

Web links

• About Sixt Alpe Adria Cup - Brief presentation on its own website ( English )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Welcome Opening 2013. Austrian Women Basketball League , 2013, accessed on November 5, 2016 (media information).