EuroLeague 2002/03

EuroLeague 2002/03
Duration		October 10, 2002 - May 11, 2003
Order of execution		3rd season
organizer		ULEB
Number of teams		24
Main round
Main rounds - MVP		Joseph Blair (Ülker Istanbul)
Final Four
venue		Barcelona
master		FC Barcelona
Runner-up		Benetton Treviso
Finals - MVP		Dejan Bodiroga (FC Barcelona)
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ULEB Cup 2002/03 ↓

The season 2002/03 was the 3 . Season of the EuroLeague , the most important competition in European club basketball.

FC Barcelona from Spain won the title for the first time .

Main round

Preliminary round

In this first phase the 24 teams, divided into three groups (A to C), competed against each other in home and away games until each team had played 14 games. The five best from each group as well as the best group sixth qualified for the next round.

Group A

team	Sp	S.	N	P +	P-
1. Benetton Treviso	14th	11	3	1253	1108
2. FC Barcelona	14th	11	3	1137	1048
3. Efes Pilsen	14th	8th	6th	1072	998
4. Skipper Bologna	14th	8th	6th	1085	1087
5. KK Cibona Zagreb	14th	7th	7th	1066	1118
6. EB Pau-Orthez	14th	6th	8th	1076	1124
7th ALBA Berlin	14th	4th	10	1064	1172
8. AEK Athens	14th	1	13	1000	1098

	Treviso	Barcelona	Efes	Bologna	Cibona	Orthez	ALBA	AEK
Benetton	*	94 : 82	87 : 75	95 : 80	96 : 82	94 : 73	107 : 81	72 : 59
FC Barcelona	86 : 85	*	73 : 60	94 : 75	104 : 82	84 : 62	81 : 74	68 : 54
Efes Pilsen	84 : 83	91: 92 a.d.	*	75 : 57	91 : 57	69: 71	74 : 62	74: 79
Skipper	82 : 75	82 : 70	72: 73	*	76 : 71	85 : 75	88 : 78	82 : 76
Cibona Zagreb	71: 100	94 : 77	64 : 56	89 : 83 a.d.	*	66 : 62	90 : 72	85 : 71
Pau Orthez	88: 93	72: 84	74: 85	76 : 71	77 : 74	*	97 : 82	86 : 84
ALBA Berlin	75: 78	66: 80	63: 84	77: 80	84 : 70	82 : 80	*	80 : 76
AEK Athens	90: 94	57: 62	64: 81	63 : 62	69: 71	71: 83	87: 88 a.d.	*

Group B

team	Sp	S.	N	P +	P-
1. Panathinaikos Athens	14th	11	3	1103	1039
2. TAU Ceramica	14th	9	5	1126	1090
3. Olimpija Ljubljana	14th	9	5	1105	1052
4. Malaga CBD	14th	7th	7th	1060	1058
5. Maccabi Tel Aviv	14th	7th	7th	1129	1081
6. Montepaschi Siena	14th	6th	8th	1132	1092
7. Žalgiris Kaunas	14th	5	9	1141	1195
8. Budućnost Podgorica	14th	2	12	1108	1297

	Athens	DEW	Ljubljana	Unicaja	Tel Aviv	Siena	Zalgiris	Podgorica
Panathinaikos	*	86 : 83	65 : 63	77 : 65	64: 77	64 : 56	98 : 84	87 : 71
TAU Ceramica	75: 76	*	86 : 79	79 : 63	85 : 79	90 : 85	113 : 88	103 : 86
Olimpija	77 : 70	72: 76	*	83 : 82	81 : 76	94 : 92	76 : 55	83 : 71
Unicaja Málaga	69: 75	71 : 54	70: 77	*	76 : 68	87 : 74	77: 78	87 : 75
Maccabi	79: 86	69: 72	69 : 60	86: 89 a.d.	*	107 : 81	76 : 71	107 : 86
Montepaschi	77 : 69	77 : 62	86 : 79	73: 79	63: 73	*	81 : 74	112 : 49
Zalgiris Kaunas	79: 94	88 : 67	73: 81	87 : 67	87 : 74	74: 100	*	101 : 85
BC Buducnost	84: 92	71: 81	81: 100	72: 78	80: 89	91 : 75	106 : 102 a.d.	*

Group C

team	Sp	S.	N	P +	P-
1. CSKA Moscow	14th	12	2	1148	1004
2. Ülker Istanbul	14th	10	4th	1115	1064
3. Olympiacos Piraeus	14th	7th	7th	1066	1041
4. Virtus Bologna	14th	6th	8th	1102	1119
5. Asvel Villeurbanne	14th	6th	8th	1114	1138
6. Real Madrid	14th	6th	8th	1094	1113
7. Śląsk Wrocław	14th	5	9	1039	1125
8. Partizan Belgrade	14th	4th	10	1109	1183

	Moscow	Ulker	Piraeus	Bologna	Villeurbanne	Madrid	Śląsk	Belgrade
CSKA Moscow	*	78 : 62	74 : 67	80 : 65	85 : 65	90 : 85	73 : 45	93 : 57
Ülker Istanbul	63: 66	*	65: 82	105 : 78	65 : 63	85 : 84 a.d.	79 : 70	84 : 74
Olympiacos	77: 79	71: 77	*	80 : 66	83 : 77	71 : 68	78 : 71	78: 80
Virtus Bologna	83: 85	68: 88	73: 77	*	84: 88	91 : 82	96 : 70	81 : 64
Asvel	99 : 87	79: 82	85 : 74	74: 88	*	64: 76	87 : 80	104 : 103 a.d.
real Madrid	80: 93	81 : 77	73 : 66	73: 81	77: 85	*	79: 85	89 : 78
Śląsk Wrocław	73: 84	84: 93	72: 91	80 : 72	75 : 73	65: 71	*	83 : 74
Partizan	93 : 81	86: 90	81 : 71	73: 86	79 : 71	82: 86	85: 86	*

Intermediate round (Top 16)

In the second phase of the Euroleague, the remaining 16 teams were divided into four groups (D to G) of four teams each. The performance from the regular season was reflected in the seeding list for the draw. In this phase, too, the teams in each group competed against each other in home and return matches. The respective group winners qualified for the Final Four tournament.

Group D

team	Sp	S.	N	P +	P-
1. CSKA Moscow	6th	5	1	499	399
2. Efes Pilsen	6th	4th	2	425	431
3. Cibona Zagreb	6th	2	4th	447	499
4. Unicaja Málaga	6th	1	5	474	516

	Moscow	Efes	Zagreb	Málaga
CSKA Moscow	*	66 : 54	79 : 69	89 : 70
Efes Pilsen	71 : 69	*	68 : 62	82 : 78
Cibona Zagreb	59: 101	82 : 75 a.d.	*	88 : 81
Unicaja Málaga	76: 95	74: 75	95 : 87	*

Group E

team	Sp	S.	N	P +	P-
1. Montepaschi Siena	6th	4th	2	510	484
2. Skipper Bologna	6th	3	3	450	448
3. Panathinaikos Athens	6th	3	3	482	506
4. Ulker Istanbul	6th	2	4th	480	484

	Siena	Bologna	Athens	Ulker
Montepaschi	*	64: 68	82 : 76	84 : 79
Skipper	70: 85	*	88 : 63	82: 86 a.d.
Panathinaikos	111 : 103	81 : 67	*	78 : 74
Ulker Istanbul	80: 92	69: 75	92 : 73	*

Group F.

team	Sp	S.	N	P +	P-
1. Benetton Treviso	6th	6th	0	522	452
2. Maccabi Tel Aviv	6th	4th	2	537	477
3. TAU Ceramica	6th	2	4th	502	516
4. Virtus Bologna	6th	0	6th	448	564

	Treviso	Tel Aviv	DEW	Bologna
Benetton	*	93 : 80	81 : 68	98 : 76
Maccabi	83: 84	*	100 : 77	98 : 71
TAU Victoria	75: 84	79: 93	*	93 : 73
Virtus	70: 82	73: 83	85: 110	*

Group G

team	Sp	S.	N	P +	P-
1. FC Barcelona	6th	5	1	448	424
2. Olympiacos Piraeus	6th	3	3	427	419
3. Olimpija Ljubljana	6th	3	3	445	438
4. ASVEL Villeurbanne	6th	1	5	436	475

	Barcelona	Piraeus	Ljubljana	Villeurbanne
FC Barcelona	*	80 : 77	79 : 75	85 : 77
Olympiacos	55: 58	*	73 : 61	69 : 59
Olimpija	72 : 69	72: 74	*	87 : 66
ASVEL	68: 77	89 : 79	77: 78	*

Final Four tournament

In a tournament that took place within a weekend, two teams each competed in semi-finals. The winners qualified for the final from which the winner of the EuroLeague emerged.

Semifinals

The semi-finals took place on May 9th .

pairing			Result
Montepaschi Siena	-	Benetton Treviso	62: 65
FC Barcelona	-	CSKA Moscow	76 : 71

3rd place match

The game took place on May 11th .

pairing			Result
Montepaschi Siena	-	CSKA Moscow	79 : 78

final

The EuroLeague final took place on May 11, 2003 in the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona .

pairing	FC Barcelona - Benetton Treviso
Result	76  : 65
date	May 11, 2003
Stadion	Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona
spectator	16,670
referee	Nikolaos Pitsilkas, Iztok Rems, Stelios Koukoulekidis
FC Barcelona	Ignacio Rodriguez 2, Alfonso Alzamora, Gregor Fučka 17, Patrick Femerling 9, Cesar Bravo, Dejan Bodiroga 20, Juan Carlos Navarro 5, Roberto Dueñas 3, Šarūnas Jasikevičius 8, Rodrigo de la Fuente 11, Anderson Varejão 1, Remon van de Hare trainers : Svetislav Pešić
Benetton Treviso	Marcelo Nicola 5, Tyus Edney 16, Trajan Langdon 8, Riccardo Pittis 4, Denis Marconato 10, Massimo Bulleri 11, Krešimir Lončar , Manutschar Markoischwili 2, Jorge Garbajosa 9, Nick Eppehimer , Thomas Soltau Trainer : Ettore Messina

Awards

Regular Season MVP

Final Four MVP: Dejan Bodiroga

• Joseph Blair (Ülker Istanbul)

Top 16 MVP

• Mirsad Türkcan (Montepaschi Siena)

Final Four MVP

• Dejan Bodiroga (FC Barcelona)

All Euroleague First Team 2002-2003

• Tyus Edney (Benetton Treviso)
• Alphonso Ford (Montepaschi Siena)
• Dejan Bodiroga (FC Barcelona)
• Jorge Garbajosa (Benetton Treviso)
• Victor Alexander (CSKA Moscow)

All Euroleague Second Team 2002-2003

• Miloš Vujanić (Partizan Belgrade)
• Marcus Brown (Efes Pilsen)
• Andrés Nocioni (TAU Ceramica)
• Mirsad Türkcan (Montepaschi Siena)
• Nikola Vujčić (Maccabi Tel Aviv)

Web links

• Official website (English)