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)
← FIBA European Champion Clubs' Cup 1958/59 FIBA European Champion Clubs' Cup 1960/61 →

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 .

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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)

	total		First leg	Return leg
US Marocaine Casablanca	95 : 92	Académica de Coimbra	54 : 48	41: 44
PAOK Thessaloniki	121: 159	CCA Bucharest	61: 80	60: 79
HSG Science Berlin	154: 162	Pantterite Helsinki	88 : 84	66: 78
USC Heidelberg	90: 113	Urania GS Geneva	46: 55	44: 58
BBC Sparta Bertrange	92: 137	GS Chorale Mulsant	47: 60	45: 77

• 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
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

	total		First leg	Return leg
Fenerbahçe Istanbul	116: 139	BK Akademik Plovdiv	61: 69	55: 70
US Marocaine Casablanca	124: 173	FC Barcelona	63 : 60	61: 113
CCA Bucharest	155: 173	BK Dinamo Tbilisi	87 : 83	68: 90
Pantterite Helsingin	162: 184	KS Polonia Warsaw	84: 88	78: 96
Union Babenberg Vienna	134: 184	AŠK Olimpija Ljubljana	83: 84	51: 100
Urania GS Geneva	128: 142	BK Slovan Orbis Prague	54: 62	74: 80
GS Chorale Mulsant	115 : 109	Antwerp BC	54 : 53	61 : 56

• Bye as defending champion : ASK Riga

Quarter finals

	total		First leg	Return leg
BK Akademik Plovdiv	133: 148	BK Dinamo Tbilisi	64: 76	69: 72
FC Barcelona	105: 114	KS Polonia Warsaw	64: 65	41: 49
AŠK Olimpija Ljubljana	142: 174	ASK Riga	79: 95	63: 79
GS Chorale Mulsant	120: 124	BK Slovan Orbis Prague	68 : 59	52: 65

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

1. ↑ ^{a b} Champions Cup 1959-60 , linguasport.com. Retrieved July 22, 2013.