FIBA European Champion Clubs' Cup 1959/60
FIBA European Champion Clubs' Cup 1959/60 | |||
Duration | November 18, 1959 - May 15, 1960 | ||
Order of execution | 3rd season | ||
organizer | FIBA | ||
Number of teams | 15 (21 with qualifying rounds) | ||
Play-offs | |||
master | ASK Riga | ||
Runner-up | BK Dinamo Tbilisi | ||
Finals - MVP | Jānis Krūmiņš (ASK Riga) | ||
The season 1959/60 was the third season of the FIBA Europe discharged European Cup champion , who today as Euro League operates.
As in the previous two years, ASK Riga from the Soviet Union won the title .
mode
The 13 champions of the respective national league, as well as the defending champion and another selected team from the Soviet Union, took part in the final round. First a qualification was played. 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 second round, in the quarter-finals, in the semi-finals and in the final were also determined in the two-legged matches.
1st round (qualification)
- Fenerbahçe Istanbul from Turkey made it into the finals without a fight because the intended opponent Maccabi Tel Aviv did not appear due to internal problems.
- Union Babenberg Vienna from Austria also got on without a fight, as the Italian champions were banned from the 1959/60 European Cup in the Simmenthal Milano preseason .
Participants in the final round
Attendees | |||||
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country | number | Teams | |||
Soviet Union * | 2 | ASK Riga | BK Dinamo Tbilisi | ||
Belgium | 1 | Antwerp BC | |||
Bulgaria | 1 | BK Akademik Plovdiv | |||
Finland | 1 | Helsingin pantterite | |||
France | 1 | GS Chorale Mulsant | |||
Yugoslavia | 1 | AŠK Olimpija Ljubljana | |||
Morocco | 1 | US Marocaine Casablanca | |||
Austria | 1 | Union Babenberg Vienna | |||
Poland | 1 | KS Polonia Warsaw | |||
Romania | 1 | CCA Bucharest | |||
Switzerland | 1 | Urania GS Geneva | |||
Spain | 1 | FC Barcelona | |||
Czechoslovakia | 1 | BK Slovan Orbis Prague | |||
Turkey | 1 | Fenerbahçe Istanbul |
* For the first time, two teams from the same country took part, as Riga was automatically seeded as the defending champion and another Soviet club was allowed to take part in the competition. In the league there, the championship was held without club teams in the 1958/59 season. Finally, Dinamo Tbilisi took part in the tournament.
2nd round
- Bye as defending champion : ASK Riga
Quarter finals
Semifinals
total | First leg | Return leg | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
BK Dinamo Tbilisi | 152 : 126 | KS Polonia Warsaw | 88 : 65 | 64 : 61 |
ASK Riga | 181 : 114 | BK Slovan Orbis Prague | 82 : 55 | 69 : 59 |
final
total | First leg | Return leg | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
BK Dinamo Tbilisi | 113: 130 | ASK Riga | 51: 61 | 62: 69 |
Web links
- History of the European championship on fibaeurope.com
- Statistics for the 1959/60 season on linguasport.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Champions Cup 1959-60 , linguasport.com. Retrieved July 22, 2013.