FIBA European Champion Clubs' Cup 1958

FIBA European Champion Clubs' Cup 1958
Duration		February 22, 1958 - July 19, 1958
Order of execution		1st season
organizer		FIBA
Number of teams		8 (22 with qualifying rounds)
Play-offs
master		ASK Riga
Runner-up		Akademik Sofia
Finals - MVP		Viktor Radew (Academic Sofia)
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The season 1958 was the first season of the FIBA Europe discharged European Cup champion , who today as Euro League operates. It was the first ever international season in basketball.

The first game in the history of the European Basketball Cup was played on February 22, 1958 as part of the qualification for the main round of the Royal SC Anderlecht from Belgium and BBC Etzella from Luxembourg . Anderlecht won the game with 82:43.

ASK Riga from the Soviet Union won the title .

mode

Eight champions from their respective national leagues took part in the final round. First, a qualification was played, which was occupied in four groups divided by region, of which two teams qualified for the final round. The winners of the pairings were determined in the first and second leg. The decisive factor was the overall basket ratio in both games. The winners of the pairings in the quarter-finals, in the semi-finals and in the final were also determined in the two-game leg.

qualification

Group A (North-East Europe)

	total		First leg	Return leg
ASK Riga	176 : 112	HSG Science Berlin	85 : 56	91 : 56
Pantterite Helsinki	131: 133	Legia Warsaw	64 : 62	67: 71

Group B (Central Europe)

Elimination round

	total		First leg	Return leg
Jonction Geneva	54: 84	Slovan Orbis Prague	54: 84	just a game
Union Babenberg Vienna	98: 191	Honvéd Budapest	55: 83	43: 108
Simmenthal Milano	205 : 89	Wolves Amsterdam	115 : 47	90 : 42

Qualification group

The three winners of the elimination round played the two participants in the main round in a blitz tournament in Milan .

team	Sp	S.	N	P +	P-
1. Simmenthal Milano	2	2	0	145	119
2. Honvéd Budapest	2	1	0	108	117
3. Slovan Orbis Prague	2	0	2	124	141

	Milano	Budapest	Prague
Milano	-	65 : 47	80 : 72
Budapest	*	-	61 : 52
Prague	*	*	-

Group C (South-East Europe)

Elimination round

	total		First leg	Return leg
Akademik Sofia	157 : 101	CJS Aleppo	84 : 58	73 : 43
Panellionios Athens	132: 138	CCA Bucharest	60: 63	72: 75
Modaspor Külübu	112: 161	Olimpia Ljubljana	67: 74	45: 86

Qualifying round

	total		First leg	Return leg
Akademik Sofia	161 : 144	Olimpia Ljubljana	81 : 80	80 : 64
CCA Bucharest	147 : 126	Maccabi Tel Aviv	84 : 65	63 : 61

Group D (South-West Europe)

Elimination round

	total		First leg	Return leg
Royal SC Anderlecht	145 : 79	BBC Etzella	82 : 43	63 : 36

Qualifying round

	total		First leg	Return leg
Royal SC Anderlecht	174 : 127	ASVEL Lyon	81 : 51	93 : 76
Barreirense Barreiro	90: 154	real Madrid	51: 68	40: 86

Participants in the final round

Attendees
country	number	Teams
Belgium	1	Royal SC Anderlecht
Bulgaria	1	Akademik Sofia
Italy	1	Simmenthal Milano
Romania	1	CCA Bucharest
Poland	1	Legia Warsaw
Soviet Union	1	ASK Riga
Spain	1	real Madrid
Hungary	1	Honvéd Budapest

Quarter finals

	total		First leg	Return leg
CCA Bucharest	142: 150	Akadamik Sofia	64: 73	78 : 77
Simmenthal Milano	163: 194	Honvéd Budapest	80 : 72	85: 95
real Madrid	121 : 116	Royal SC Anderlecht	78 : 59	43: 57
ASK Riga	154 : 122	Legia Warsaw	93 : 59	61: 63

Semifinals

	total		First leg	Return leg
Honvéd Budapest	151: 165	Akademik Sofia	87: 89	64: 76
ASK Riga	: *	real Madrid	:	:

^* The Spanish government forbade the Real Madrid team to travel to the Soviet Union, which is why ASK Riga reached the final without a fight.

final

	total		First leg	Return leg
ASK Riga	170 : 152	Akademik Sofia	86 : 81	84 : 71

Web links

• History of the European championship on fibaeurope.com
• Statistics for the 1958 season on linguasport.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ NN: February 22, 1958: The day it all started. ( Memento of June 16, 2011 on the Internet Archive ) Archived June 16, 2011 from: EuroLeague website; Barcelona, ​​February 22, 2008 (in English).