EuroLeague 2008/09

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EuroLeague 2008/09
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Duration October 23, 2008 - May 3, 2009
Order of execution 9th season
organizer ULEB
Number of teams 24
Main round
Main rounds - MVP SpainSpain Juan Carlos Navarro (FC Barcelona)
Alphonso Ford Trophy SerbiaSerbia Igor Rakočević (TAU Ceramica)
Best defender GreeceGreece Dimitrios Diamantidis (Panathinaikos)
Rising Star Trophy SerbiaSerbia Novica Veličković (Partizan)
Alexander Gomelski Trophy SerbiaSerbia Duško Vujošević (Partizan)
Final Four
venue GermanyGermany Berlin
master GreeceGreece Panathinaikos Athens
   Runner-up      RussiaRussia CSKA Moscow
Finals - MVP GreeceGreece Vasilios Spanoulis (Panathinaikos)

← EuroLeague 2007/08

The season 2008/09 was the 9 . Playing time of the EuroLeague (officially Turkish Airlines EuroLeague ).

Panathinaikos Athens won the title . It was the third title win for the Greeks .

Participating teams

Surname city Venue lampholder
assets 		ULEB-Euroleague title **
RussiaRussia CSKA Moscow * Moscow ZSKA universal sports hall 05,000 2
GreeceGreece Panathinaikos Athens Olympic Hall Athens 19,250 2
GreeceGreece Olympiacos Piraeus Stadium of Peace and Friendship 14,171 -
GreeceGreece Panionios Athens Helliniko Indoor Hall 08,600 -
SpainSpain real Madrid Madrid Palacio Vistalegre 15,000 -
SpainSpain FC Barcelona Barcelona Palau Blaugrana 08,000 1
SpainSpain Unicaja Málaga Málaga Palacio de Deportes José María Martín Carpena 10,500 -
SpainSpain TAU Vitoria Vitoria-Gasteiz Fernando Buesa Arena 09.323 -
SpainSpain Joventut de Badalona Badalona Pavelló Olímpic de Badalona 12,500 -
ItalyItaly Air Avellino Avellino Palasport Giacomo Del Mauro 05,300 -
ItalyItaly Armani Jeans Milano Milan Forum di Assago 11,200 -
ItalyItaly Lottomatica Roma Rome PalaLottomatica 11,200 -
ItalyItaly Montepaschi Siena Siena Pala Sport Mens Sana 06,000 -
FranceFrance Le Mans Sarthe Basket Le Mans Antares 06,000 -
FranceFrance SLUC Nancy Basket Nancy Palais des sports Jean Weille 06,027 -
TurkeyTurkey Efes Pilsen Istanbul Abdi İpekçi Arena 12,500 -
TurkeyTurkey Fenerbahçe Ülkerspor Istanbul Abdi İpekçi Arena 12,500 -
LithuaniaLithuania Žalgiris Kaunas Kaunas Daliaus ir Gireno Sporto Halé 05,000 -
GermanyGermany Alba Berlin Berlin O 2 World Berlin 14,800 -
SerbiaSerbia Partizan Belgrade Belgrade Hala Pionir 07,000 -
SloveniaSlovenia Olimpija Ljubljana Ljubljana Hala Tivoli 05,600 -
PolandPoland Prokom Trefl Sopot Sopot Hala Olivia 05,500 -
CroatiaCroatia Cibona Zagreb Zagreb Dražen Petrović basketball hall 05,200 -
IsraelIsrael Maccabi Tel Aviv Tel Aviv Nokia Arena 11,700 2
* Defending champion
** At the time of the start of the competition

Main round

Preliminary round

In this first phase, the 24 teams divided into four groups (A to D) competed against each other in home and away games until each team had played 10 games. The four best from each group qualified for the next round.

Group A

team Sp S. N P + P-
1. Unicaja Málaga SpainSpain 10 8th 2 771 698
2. Olympiacos Piraeus GreeceGreece 10 6th 4th 815 748
3. Maccabi Tel Aviv IsraelIsrael 10 6th 4th 815 811
4. Cibona Zagreb CroatiaCroatia 10 5 5 760 772
5. Air Avellino ItalyItaly 10 3 7th 754 814
6. Le Mans Sarthe FranceFrance 10 2 8th 747 819
  Tel Aviv Piraeus Málaga Zagreb Le Mans Avellino
Maccabi Tel Aviv * 96 : 83 73: 80 88 : 83 82 : 80 a.d. 90 : 83
Olympiacos Piraeus 84 : 65 * 83 : 72 93 : 64 68: 78 91 : 66
Unicaja Málaga 92 : 69 60 : 56 * 77 : 67 84 : 79 72 : 68
Cibona Zagreb 81 : 79 85 : 76 76: 77 * 89 : 70 82 : 79 a.d.
Le Mans Sarthe 73: 87 93: 98 a.d. 55: 87 54: 58 * 92 : 88
Air Avellino 72: 86 69: 83 72 : 70 79 : 75 78 : 73 *

Group B

team Sp S. N P + P-
1. FC Barcelona SpainSpain 10 9 1 813 650
2. Montepaschi Siena ItalyItaly 10 8th 2 835 750
3. Panathinaikos Athens GreeceGreece 10 7th 3 763 707
4. Prokom Trefl Sopot PolandPoland 10 2 8th 675 734
5. Žalgiris Kaunas LithuaniaLithuania 10 2 8th 716 812
6. SLUC Nancy FranceFrance 10 2 8th 706 855
Siena Barcelona Athens Žalgiris Prokom Nancy
Montepaschi Siena * 71 : 61 82 : 77 100 : 93 80 : 71 86 : 63
FC Barcelona 87 : 61 * 90 : 66 90 : 68 74 : 62 91 : 68
Panathinaikos Athens 81 : 76 76: 87 * 78 : 51 75 : 53 83 : 69
Žalgiris Kaunas 67: 93 60: 75 69: 80 * 79 : 68 105 : 94
Prokom Trefl 71: 83 64: 76 60: 67 65 : 60 * 91 : 62
SLUC Nancy 79: 103 54: 82 70: 80 69 : 64 78 : 70 *

Group C

team Sp S. N P + P-
1. TAU Vitoria SpainSpain 10 8th 2 916 808
2. Lottomatica ItalyItaly 10 6th 4th 814 786
3. Fenerbahçe Ülkerspor TurkeyTurkey 10 6th 4th 779 755
4th ALBA Berlin GermanyGermany 10 4th 6th 691 748
5. Joventut de Badalona SpainSpain 10 4th 6th 800 810
6. Olimpija Ljubljana SloveniaSlovenia 10 2 8th 725 818
DEW Istanbul Roma Ljubljana Badalona Berlin
TAU Vitoria * 80 : 70 90: 93 101 : 69 91 : 83 106 : 65
Fenerbahçe 69: 81 * 90 : 86 a.d. 89 : 87 a.d. 89 : 63 82 : 73
Lottomatica 96: 103 a.d. 76 : 67 * 74 : 69 a.d. 85 : 71 70 : 64
Olimpija 90 : 91 70: 90 67: 78 * 65: 86 77 : 69
Joventut 105 : 100 67: 70 97 : 93 81 : 64 * 75: 79
ALBA Berlin 68: 73 72 : 63 68 : 63 59: 67 74 : 72 *

Group D

team Sp S. N P + P-
1. CSKA Moscow RussiaRussia 10 7th 3 774 644
2. Real Madrid SpainSpain 10 6th 4th 740 707
3. Armani Jeans Milano ItalyItaly 10 5 5 734 745
4. Partizan Belgrade SerbiaSerbia 10 5 5 706 687
5. Efes Pilsen TurkeyTurkey 10 4th 6th 713 762
6. Panionios Athens GreeceGreece 10 3 7th 668 790
Moscow Belgrade Madrid Istanbul Milano Athens
CSKA Moscow * 63: 66 78: 82 90 : 68 90 : 64 93 : 61
Partizan 62: 63 * 81 : 77 83 : 77 81 : 76 80 : 57
real Madrid 54: 58 68 : 67 * 80 : 69 70 : 69 87 : 66
Efes Pilsen 55: 74 61 : 60 81: 95 * 74 : 67 69: 78
Armani jeans 80 : 79 73 : 59 70 : 61 71: 81 * 77 : 73
Panionios Athens 52: 86 72 : 67 68 : 66 64: 78 77: 87 *

Intermediate round (Top 16)

In the second phase of the Euroleague, the remaining 16 teams were divided into four groups (E to H) 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 two best teams in each group qualified for the next round.

Group E

team Sp S. N P + P-
1. Olympiacos Piraeus GreeceGreece 6th 5 1 496 446
2. TAU Vitoria SpainSpain 6th 4th 2 556 474
3. Armani Jeans Milano ItalyItaly 6th 3 3 455 529
4. Prokom Trefl Sopot PolandPoland 6th 1 5 444 502
Vitoria Piraeus Milano Prokom
TAU Vitoria * 80: 88 108 : 90 99 : 77
Olympiacos 73 : 70 * 84 : 81 84 : 71
Armani jeans 74: 107 76 : 74 * 72: 96
Prokom Trefl 72: 92 68: 93 60: 62 *

Group F.

team Sp S. N P + P-
1. FC Barcelona SpainSpain 6th 5 1 508 429
2. Real Madrid SpainSpain 6th 5 1 505 487
3. Maccabi Tel Aviv IsraelIsrael 6th 2 4th 459 481
4th ALBA Berlin GermanyGermany 6th 0 6th 427 502
Barcelona Madrid Tel Aviv Berlin
FC Barcelona * 90 : 79 85 : 65 85 : 69
real Madrid 85 : 83 * 98 : 79 83 : 82
Maccabi 74: 90 69: 73 * 96 : 65
ALBA Berlin 57: 75 84: 87 70: 76 *

Group G

team Sp S. N P + P-
1. Panathinaikos Athens GreeceGreece 6th 5 1 503 428
2. Partizan Belgrade SerbiaSerbia 6th 4th 2 420 434
3. Unicaja Málaga SpainSpain 6th 2 4th 484 461
4. Lottomatica Roma ItalyItaly 6th 1 5 441 525
Málaga Roma Athens Belgrade
Unicaja Málaga * 99 : 64 69: 81 74: 78 a.d.
Lottomatica 75: 88 * 71: 90 88 : 72
Panathinaikos 103 : 95 a.d. 92 : 67 * 81 : 63
Partizan Belgrade 60 : 59 84 : 76 63 : 56 *

Group H.

team Sp S. N P + P-
1. CSKA Moscow RussiaRussia 6th 5 1 454 377
2. Montepaschi Siena ItalyItaly 6th 4th 2 472 456
3. Cibona Zagreb CroatiaCroatia 6th 2 4th 423 456
4. Fenerbahçe Ülkerspor TurkeyTurkey 6th 1 5 384 444
Moscow Siena Istanbul Zagreb
CSKA Moscow * 95 : 71 77 : 60 87 : 61
Montepaschi 74 : 56 * 87 : 79 86 : 70
Fenerbahçe 48: 66 68: 73 * 64: 86
Cibona Zagreb 63: 73 88 : 81 55: 65 *

Quarter finals

In a “best-of-five” 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 fifth play-off game. The four teams that won these duels qualified for the Final Four tournament.

pairing
 1st game 2nd game 3rd game 4th game 5th game
GreeceGreece Olympiacos Piraeus - SpainSpain real Madrid 88 : 79 79 : 73 63: 71 78 : 75
SpainSpain FC Barcelona - SpainSpain TAU Vitoria 75: 84 85 : 62 62: 69 84 : 63 78 : 62
GreeceGreece Panathinaikos Athens - ItalyItaly Montepaschi Siena 90 : 85 79: 84 72 : 53 91 : 84
RussiaRussia CSKA Moscow - SerbiaSerbia Partizan Belgrade 56 : 47 77 : 50 67 : 56

Final Four tournament

In a tournament that took place between May 1st and 3rd, 2008, two teams competed against each other in semifinals. The winners qualified for the final from which the winner of the EuroLeague emerged.

Semifinals

The semi-finals took place on May 1st, 2009 in the O 2 World in Berlin .

pairing
 Result
GreeceGreece Olympiacos Piraeus - GreeceGreece Panathinaikos Athens 82: 84
SpainSpain FC Barcelona - RussiaRussia CSKA Moscow 78: 82

3rd place match

The game for 3rd place took place on May 3rd .

pairing
 Result
GreeceGreece Olympiacos Piraeus - SpainSpain FC Barcelona 79: 95

final

The EuroLeague final took place on May 3rd, 2009 in the O 2 World in Berlin .

pairing GreeceGreece Panathinaikos Athens - CSKA Moscow RussiaRussia
Result 73  : 71
date May 3, 2009
Stadion O 2 World , Berlin
spectator 13,238
referee SpainSpainJuan Carlos Arteaga, Shmuel Bachar, Romuldas Brazauskas IsraelIsraelLithuaniaLithuania
Panathinaikos Athens Michael Batiste 6, Dimitrios Diamantidis 10, Antonios Fotsis 13, Šarūnas Jasikevičius 10, Drew Nicholas 7, Nikola Peković 6, Efstratios Perperoglou 6, Vasilios Spanoulis 13, Konstantinos Tsartsaris 2
Trainers : Željko Obradović
CSKA Moscow Wiktor Chrjapa 9, JR Holden 14, Alexander Kaun 3, Trajan Langdon 13, Erazem Lorbek 5, Terence Morris, Zoran Planinić 5, Ramūnas Šiškauskas 13, Matjaž Smodiš 9, Nikolaos Zisis
Trainer : Ettore Messina

Awards

MVP of the Euroleague season 2008–2009

Regular Season MVP: Juan Carlos Navarro

Final Four MVP

Final Four MVP: Vasilios Spanoulis

All Euroleague First Team 2008-2009

All Euroleague Second Team 2008-2009

Best defender

Rising Star Trophy

Alphonso Ford Top Scorer Trophy

  • SerbiaSerbia Igor Rakočević (TAU Ceramica)

Trainer of the Year (Alexander Gomelski Trophy)

Club Executive of the Year

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Final Four in Berlin's O2 World