EuroLeague 2012/13

EuroLeague 2012/13
Duration		September 25, 2012 - May 12, 2013
Order of execution		13th season
organizer		ULEB
Number of teams		24
Main round
Main rounds - MVP		Vasilis Spanoulis (Olympiacos)
Alphonso Ford Trophy		Bobby Brown (Montepaschi)
Best defender		Stephane Lasme (Panathinaikos)
Rising Star Trophy		Kostas Papanikolaou (Olympiakos)
Alexander Gomelski Trophy		Georgios Bartzokas (Olympiakos)
Final Four
venue		London
master		Olympiacos Piraeus
Runner-up		real Madrid
Finals - MVP		Vasilis Spanoulis (Olympiacos)
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Eurocup 2012/13 ↓

The season 2012/13 was 13 . Season of the EuroLeague (officially Turkish Airlines EuroLeague ), the most important competition in European club basketball.

Olympiacos won the title . For the Greeks it was the second win in the EuroLeague.

mode

Of the 24 teams taking part in the EuroLeague, 23 were directly qualified for the group stage, and another place was played in an additional qualifying round. 14 of the directly qualified clubs are in possession of a long-term A license, with one of these licenses switched from Lottomatica Roma to EA7 Armani Jeans Milan before the season starts ; eight other teams qualified through their placement in national or supranational leagues in the preseason and received a B license limited to the 2012/13 season. The C license, which was limited to winning the Eurocup in the previous year , was vacant because the Russian Eurocup winner BK Chimki was already qualified with a B license. This C license was therefore given to the German representative Alba Berlin as a wildcard . The qualifying round was reduced from 16 teams to eight, with only the winner of the tournament getting a starting place for the regular season. The seven other teams started in the 2012/13 Eurocup .

The 24 men were divided into four groups of six teams, wherein each team one home and away game against any other side in the round robin mode ( English round robin denied). The four best-placed teams in each group were assigned to the two groups of the second group phase, in which each team also played one home and one away game against each other team. The seeding list for the draw for the second group phase corresponded to the placements in the preliminary round. The top four teams in the second group phase qualified for the knockout round, which was played as a play-off in the " best-of-five " mode. The four winning teams qualified for the Final Four tournament at The O ₂ in London, where the semi-finals and finals and the game for third place were played. These games were simple knockout games.

qualification

A total of eight teams from different countries competed for a starting place in the main round, including two teams that had played at least into the second group phase in the previous season. By awarding a wild card , the quarter-finalist of the previous year UNICS Kazan took part in this qualification, as did the top 16 participants of the previous year, Mapooro Cantù, who hosted the qualification weekend in Desio .

	1st qualifying round				2nd qualifying round				Qualifying finals
	25./26. September
	UNICS Kazan	91
					September 27th
	ratiopharm ulm	73
					UNICS Kazan	78
	25./26. September
					Le Mans Sarthe	86
	Le Mans Sarthe	61
									September 28th
	BK Donetsk	55
									Le Mans Sarthe	66
	25./26. September
									Mapooro Cantù	88
	ČEZ Nymburk	83
					September 27th
	Telenet Ostend	65
					ČEZ Nymburk	83
	25./26. September
					Mapooro Cantù	89
	Mapooro Cantù	87
	Lukoil Akademik Sofia	69

Participants in the main round

Country / League	team	Hall	capacity	VJP 1	License	Country / League	team	Hall	capacity	VJP 1	License
League ACB	FC Barcelona shelf	Palau Blaugrana	8250	M.	A.	Series A	Montepaschi Siena	Pala Sport Mens Sana	7025	M.	A.
	real Madrid	Palacio de Deportes	15000	F.	A.		EA7 Emporio Armani Milan 2nd	Mediolanum Forum	11200	F.	A.
	Caja Laboral	Fernando Buesa Arena	15504	HF	A.		Mapooro Cantù	PalaDesio	6500	VF	Q
	Unicaja Málaga	Palacio Carpena	10500	9	A.	Lietuvos Krepšinio Lyga	Žalgiris Kaunas	Žalgirio Arena	14502	M.	A.
Türkiye Basketbol Ligi	Beşiktaş JK Istanbul	Sinan Erdem Dome	16000	M.	B.		Lietuvos rytas Vilnius	Siemens Arena Vilnius	11000	F.	B.
	Anadolu Efes Istanbul			F.	A.	Basketball Bundesliga	Brose Baskets	Stechert Arena	6900	M.	B.
	Fenerbahçe Ülker Istanbul	Ülker Sports Arena	13500	VF	A.		Alba Berlin 4	O 2 World	14800	VF	C.
Basket League	Olympiacos Piraeus 3	Stadium of Peace and Friendship	14095	M.	A.	Ligue Nationale de Basket	Élan Chalon-sur-Saône	Le Colisée	5000	M.	B.
	Panathinaikos Athens	Olympic Hall Athens	18900	F.	A.	Košarkaška liga Srbije	KK Partizan Belgrade 5	Hala Pionir	8150	M.	B.
Professional basketball league	CSKA Moscow	ZSKA universal sports hall	5500	M.	A.	League UPC Telemach	KK Union Olimpia 5	Arena Stožice	12480	M.	B.
	BK Khimki Oblast Moscow	Nowator Sports Arena	6000	F.	B.	A-1 league	KK Cedevita Zagreb 5	Arena Zagreb	15200	F.	B.
Ligat ha'Al	Maccabi Tel Aviv	Nokia Arena	11700	M.	A.	Dominet Basket League	Asseco Prokom	Hala Sportowo-Widowiskowa Gdynia	5000	M.	A.

¹ : Previous year placement in the national leagues
² : Qualified by transferring the A license from Lottomatica Rome
³ : Qualified as the winner of the Euroleague of the 2011/12 season
⁴ : Qualified by transferring the Eurocup winner C license as a wild card
⁵ : Qualified by the Placement in the Adriatic Basketball Association

Main round

Preliminary round

The preliminary round was played between October 11 and December 14, 2012. For teams with the same number of wins, it was not the total basket point ratio that was decisive for the group placements, but only the added result in a direct comparison of the teams with each other.

Group A

team	Sp	S.	N	P +	P-
1. Real Madrid	10	7th	3	832	738
2. BK Khimki	10	6th	4th	753	754
3. Panathinaikos Athens	10	6th	4th	748	722
4. Fenerbahçe Ülker	10	5	5	727	738
5. Union Olimpija	10	3	7th	722	808
6. Mapooro Cantù	10	3	7th	708	730

	Athens	Madrid	Khimki	Fener	Ljubljana	Cantù
Panathinaikos Athens	*	79 : 68	67: 79	69 : 55	80 : 72	78 : 76
real Madrid	85 : 78	*	104 : 81	77 : 61	91 : 60	80 : 66
BK Khimki	78 : 77	86 : 85	*	71 : 70	75 : 65	77 : 53
Fenerbahçe	73 : 64	75: 83	92 : 80	*	85 : 68	77 : 69
Union Olimpija	67: 85	76: 89	74 : 72	75: 81	*	81 : 79
Mapooro Cantù	69: 71	76 : 70	67 : 54	82 : 58	71: 84	*

Group B

team	Sp	S.	N	P +	P-
1. Maccabi Electra	10	8th	2	810	708
2. Unicaja Málaga	10	8th	2	762	715
3. Montepaschi Siena	10	5	5	879	844
4th ALBA Berlin	10	4th	6th	722	748
5. Élan Chalon	10	3	7th	782	843
6. Asseco Prokom	10	2	8th	704	801

	Tel Aviv	Siena	Berlin	Málaga	Gdynia	Chalon
Maccabi Electra	*	70 : 68	78 : 62	62: 64	93 : 62	78 : 73
Montepaschi	89 : 87	*	82: 92	91 : 72	88: 95 a.d.	93 : 90
ALBA Berlin	76: 78	73: 75	*	63: 74	67 : 64	74 : 71
Unicaja Málaga	80: 85	91 : 89 a.d.	67 : 62	*	63 : 48	86 : 62
Asseco Prokom	73: 89	66: 101	77 : 66	75: 77	*	70: 76
Élan Chalon	61: 90	108 : 103 a.d.	82: 87	78: 88	81 : 74	*

Group C

team	Sp	S.	N	P +	P-
1. Žalgiris Kaunas	10	8th	2	804	693
2. Olympiacos Piraeus	10	8th	2	788	737
3. Anadolu Efes	10	5	5	738	740
4. Caja Laboral	10	4th	6th	749	778
5. EA7 Emporio Armani	10	3	7th	760	767
6. KK Cedevita	10	2	8th	725	849

	Piraeus	Vitoria	Efes	Kaunas	Milan	Zagreb
Olympiacos Piraeus	*	85 : 81	75 : 53	61: 79	82 : 81	79 : 77
Caja Laboral	72: 89	*	64: 76	71: 77	64 : 62	97 : 70
Anadolu Efes	98 : 72	76: 91	*	64: 77	77 : 71	85 : 66
Žalgiris Kaunas	63: 77	82 : 45	71 : 53	*	92 : 87	90 : 62
EA7 Milan	71: 84	85: 95	80 : 75	65: 67	*	75 : 60
KK Cedevita	62: 84	76 : 69	73: 81	108 : 106 a.d.	71: 83	*

Group D

team	Sp	S.	N	P +	P-
1. FC Barcelona	10	9	1	774	636
2. CSKA Moscow	10	9	1	783	709
3. Beşiktaş JK	10	5	5	699	749
4. Brose Baskets	10	3	7th	740	807
5. Lietuvos rytas	10	2	8th	670	724
6. Partizan mt: s	10	2	8th	731	772

	Barcelona	Moscow	Belgrade	Vilnius	Bamberg	Beşiktaş
FC Barcelona	*	75: 78	85 : 82	90 : 66	72 : 60	72 : 60
CSKA Moscow	60: 81	*	78 : 61	75 : 73	76 : 67	87 : 72
Partizan mt: s	67: 68 a.d.	71: 76 a.d.	*	75 : 74	72: 77	87 : 72
Lietuvos rytas	49: 67	62: 71	69 : 61	*	67 : 62	67: 73
brose baskets	66: 86	89: 97	92 : 90 a.d.	84 : 78	*	71: 86
Beşiktaş	48: 78	58: 85	81 : 65	66 : 65	83 : 72	*

Intermediate round (Top 16)

The intermediate round was played between December 27, 2012 and April 5, 2013. Just as in the preliminary round, for teams with the same number of wins, it was not the overall basket point ratio that was decisive for the group placements, but only the added result in a direct comparison of the teams with one another.

Group E

team	Sp	S.	N	P +	P-
1. CSKA Moscow	14th	11	3	1095	981
2. Real Madrid	14th	10	4th	1085	1021
3. Anadolu Efes	14th	9	5	1028	1031
4. Panathinaikos Athens	14th	9	5	1001	968
5. Unicaja Málaga	14th	7th	7th	988	1015
6. Žalgiris Kaunas	14th	6th	8th	1065	1040
7th ALBA Berlin	14th	4th	10	959	1036
8. Brose Baskets	14th	0	14th	1026	1155

	Madrid	Kaunas	Málaga	Moscow	Athens	Efes	Berlin	Bamberg
real Madrid	*	75 : 74	74: 77	86 : 78 a.d.	73: 74	86 : 66	77 : 72	76 : 73
Žalgiris	104: 105 a.d.	*	75 : 63	73: 87	73: 78	79 : 71	92 : 56	90 : 81
Unicaja	64: 72	67: 83	*	66: 70	66 : 60	73: 78	55: 68	85 : 82
CSKA Moscow	81 : 72	70 : 61	81: 94	*	86 : 69	90 : 71	80 : 65	90 : 83
Panathinaikos	54: 58	67 : 66	78 : 73	63: 69	*	75 : 62	82 : 58	76 : 73
Anadolu Efes	74 : 72	56 : 52	64: 70	63 : 60	78 : 64	*	71 : 62	89 : 86 a.d.
ALBA	63: 77	77 : 55	65: 67	57: 75	73: 79	86: 91	*	82 : 63
Brose Baskets	67: 82	87: 88 a.d.	65: 68	58: 78	60: 82	76: 94	72: 75	*

Group F.

team	Sp	S.	N	P +	P-
1. FC Barcelona Regal	14th	13	1	1151	986
2. Olympiacos Piraeus	14th	9	5	1068	1033
3. Maccabi Electra	14th	8th	6th	1105	1012
4. Caja Laboral Vitoria	14th	8th	6th	1093	1045
5. BK Khimki	14th	7th	7th	1133	1051
6. Montepaschi Siena	14th	7th	7th	1036	1057
7. Beşiktaş JK	14th	2	12	893	1104
8. Fenerbahçe Ülker	14th	2	12	1055	1246

	Tel Aviv	Barcelona	Khimki	Piraeus	Siena	Beşiktaş	Fener	Vitoria
Maccabi	*	77: 82	80 : 79	77: 78	92 : 61	101 : 58	91 : 73	70: 71
FC Barcelona	74 : 71	*	71 : 69	76 : 68	85 : 66	86 : 61	100 : 78	83 : 74
BK Khimki	88 : 67	78 : 65	*	82: 87	78 : 71	87 : 56	99 : 76	82: 86
Olympiacos	67: 73	77: 90	79 : 70	*	72: 74	77 : 64	82 : 71	82 : 74
Montepaschi	79 : 69	69: 77	82 : 76	67: 68	*	63 : 57	87 : 69	85 : 74
Beşiktaş JK	55: 77	59: 73	75: 80	60: 79	72 : 70	*	80 : 73	73: 83
Fenerbahçe	85: 94	60: 99	85 : 82	73: 78	92: 98	78 : 72	*	75: 97
Caja Laboral	62: 66	79: 90	71: 83	82 : 74	76 : 64	77 : 51	87 : 67	*

Quarter finals

The quarter-finals did not have to be drawn because the tournament schedule was set before the season.

In the “best of five” mode, the remaining eight teams competed against each other in four team encounters. The first and second 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. The games took place from April 9th ​​to April 26th, 2013.

pairing			1st game	2nd game	3rd game	4th game	5th game
CSKA Moscow	-	Caja Laboral Vitoria	89 : 78	90 : 68	72: 93	94 : 85
Olympiacos Piraeus	-	Anadolu Efes	67 : 62	71 : 53	72: 83	73: 74	82 : 72
FC Barcelona shelf	-	Panathinaikos Athens	72 : 70 a.d.	65: 66	63: 65	70 : 60	64 : 53
real Madrid	-	Maccabi Electra	79 : 53	75 : 63	69 : 57

Final Four

In a tournament that was played between May 10 and 12, 2013 at The O ₂ in London , two teams each competed in semifinals. The winners qualified for the final, from which the winner of the ULEB Euroleague emerged.

Semifinals

The semi-finals took place on May 10, 2013.

pairing			Result
CSKA Moscow	-	Olympiacos Piraeus	52: 69
FC Barcelona shelf	-	real Madrid	67: 74

3rd place match

The game for 3rd place took place on May 12, 2013.

pairing			Result
CSKA Moscow	-	FC Barcelona	74 : 73

final

The final took place on May 12, 2013.

pairing	Olympiacos - Real Madrid
Result	100  : 88
date	May 12, 2013
Stadion	The O 2 , London
spectator	15,169
referee	Guerrino Cerebuch, Ilija Belosević, Borys Ryzhyk
Olympiacos Piraeus	Pero Antić 10, Kyle Hines 12, Dimitrios Katsivelis , Acie Law 20, Kostas Papanikolaou 5, Efstratios Perperoglou 10, Josh Powell 10, Georgios Printezis 5, Giorgi Shermadini 3, Kostas Sloukas 11, Vasilis Spanoulis 22 Trainers : Georgios Bartzokas
real Madrid	Mirza Begić 6, Jaycee Carroll 5, Dontaye Draper , Rudy Fernández 21, Sergio Llull 14, Nikola Mirotić 7, Felipe Reyes 4, Sergio Rodríguez 17, Marcus Slaughter 9, Carlos Suárez 5 Trainers : Pablo Laso

Awards

Regular Season & Final Four MVP: Vasilios Spanoulis

MVP of the Euroleague season

• Vasilis Spanoulis (Olympiacos Piraeus)

Final Four MVP

• Vasilis Spanoulis (Olympiacos Piraeus)

All Euroleague First Team

• Ante Tomić (FC Barcelona)
• Nenad Krstić (CSKA Moscow)
• Rudy Fernández (Real Madrid)
• Dimitrios Diamantidis (Panathinaikos Athens)
• Vasilios Spanoulis (Olympiacos Piraeus)

All Euroleague Second Team

• Nikola Mirotić (Real Madrid)
• Viktor Chrjapa (CSKA Moscow)
• Shawn James (Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv)
• Miloš Teodosić (CSKA Moscow)
• Juan Carlos Navarro (FC Barcelona)

Best defender

• Stephane Lasme (Panathinaikos Athens)

Rising Star Trophy

• Kostas Papanikolaou (Olympiacos Piraeus)

Alphonso Ford Top Scorer Trophy

• Bobby Brown (Montepaschi Siena)

Trainer of the Year (Alexander Gomelski Trophy)

• Georgios Bartzokas (Olympiacos Piraeus)

Club Executive of the Year

• Tuncay Özilhan (Anadolu Efes)

Web links

• Official website (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2012-13 Turkish Airlines Euroleague license allocation criteria. EuroLeague , May 31, 2012, accessed July 12, 2012 . 
2. ↑ Haters gonna hate or another wildcard for ALBA Berlin. gruebelei.de, June 21, 2012, accessed on July 12, 2012 (article by “Gruebler” with an explanation of the award criteria). 
3. ↑ ECA Board meets in preparation for the 2012-13 season. EuroLeague , May 31, 2012, accessed July 12, 2012 . 
4. ↑ 2012-13 Turkish Airlines Euroleague Competition Format. ULEB Euroleague , accessed on July 12, 2012 .