FIBA EuroCup Challenge
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| sport | basketball |
| Association | FIBA |
| League foundation | 2002 |
| League dissolution | 2007 |
| Country countries |
 All members of FIBA
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| Record champions |
 Aris Thessaloniki Central German BC CSU Asesoft Ploieşti Ural Great Perm ZSK WWS Samara (1 title each)
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| Website | fibaeurope.com |
| ↑ EuroChallenge | |
The FIBA EuroCup Challenge was a competition for European Basketball - club teams of men, from the FIBA Europe was organized. It should not be confused with the overarching competition that was played out, which operated as the EuroCup between 2005 and 2008 and has since been referred to as the EuroChallenge .
In the first season 2002/03 it was the third most important, from the season 2003/04 the fourth most important European Cup behind the ULEB Euroleague , the ULEB Cup and the FIBA EuroChallenge .
The competition was particularly popular in Central and Eastern European countries, where basketball is very important, but for which there were not enough starting places available in the ULEB competitions .
history
The competition was held for the first time as the Europe Champions Cup in the 2002/03 season. The sporting importance was initially unclear because ULEB and FIBA could not agree. Since the top teams of the respective leagues took part in the Euroleague or the ULEB Cup, the EuroCup Challenge had the lowest priority.
For the 2003/04 season, the tournament was now called the Europe Cup , FIBA started its second European Cup, the EuroChallenge , which meant that the Europe Cup continued to lose importance, as the individual associations now registered their better teams in the EuroChallenge . For example, Greece sent five teams into the EuroCup Challenge in the first season, and none the following season. For the 2005/06 season the name was changed to EuroCup Challenge .
After the ULEB Cup was expanded from 24 to 54 participants in summer 2007, the FIBA EuroCup Challenge was discontinued.
Finals
| season | venue | winner | opponent | Result |
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| 2002/03 | Thessaloniki |
Aris Thessaloniki
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 Prokom Trefl Sopot
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84: 83 |
| 2003/04 | Izmir |
Central German BC
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 SAOS JDA Dijon
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84: 68 |
| 2004/05 | Ploieşti |
CSU Asesoft Ploieşti
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Rostov locomotive
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75: 74 |
| 2005/06 | Yuschne & Perm |
Urals Great Perm
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 Chimik Yuschne
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80: 67 & 74: 80 |
| 2006/07 | Nicosia & Samara |
ZSK WWS Samara
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 Keravnos Cyprus College
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101: 81 & 83: 85 |
statistics
| rank | country | title | final | Final Four |
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| 1 |
Russia
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2 | 3 | 3 |
| 2 |
Germany
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1 | 1 | 1 |
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Greece
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Romania
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| 5 |
France
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0 | 1 | 1 |
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Poland
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| 7th |
Ukraine
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0 | 1 | 0 |
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Cyprus
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| 9 |
 Turkey
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0 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 |
 Latvia
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0 | 0 | 1 |
 Serbia
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| year | player | society | nationality |
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| 2003 | Willie Solomon | Aris Thessaloniki |
 United States
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| 2004 | Marijonas Petravičius | Central German BC |
 Lithuania
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| 2005 | Vladimir Kuzmanović | CSU Asesoft Ploiesti |
 Montenegro
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| 2006 | Derrick Alston | Urals Great Perm |
United States
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| 2007 | Nikita Schabalkin | ZSK WWS Samara |
Russia
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See also
Web links
- History of the EuroCup Challenge
- Statistics and information on linguasport.com