FIBA European Champion Clubs' Cup 1969/70

FIBA European Champion Clubs' Cup 1969/70
Duration		November 6, 1969 - April 9, 1970
Order of execution		13th season
organizer		FIBA
Number of teams		15 (24 with qualifying rounds)
Play-offs
master		Ignis Pallacanestro Varese
Runner-up		CSKA Moscow
Finals - MVP		Sergei Below (CSKA Moscow)
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FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup 1969/70 ↓

The season 1969/70 was the 13th season of the FIBA Europe discharged European Cup champions in basketball , which today as Euro League operates.

Ignis Pallacanestro Varese from Italy won the title for the first time .

mode

The 15 champions of the respective national league took part in the final round, including defending champion CSKA Moscow. 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 round of 16, in the top 8 group stage and in the semifinals were also determined in the first and second leg. The final was played in one game at a neutral location.

1st round (qualification)

	total		First leg	Return leg
KS Partizani	141: 165	CS Dinamo Bucharest	65: 70	76: 95
Boroughmuir BC	204: 267	Racing Bell Mechelen	84: 123	120: 144
Union Radés Transport	0: 4 *	ASVEL Lyon	0: 2	0: 2
Sporting Lisbon	108: 226	real Madrid	52: 98	56: 128
VfL Osnabrück	133: 180	Honvéd Budapest	74: 88	59: 92
IFK Helsingborg	138: 142	Tapion Honka Espoo	73 : 67	65: 75
BBC Sparta Bertrange	176: 241	KK Red Star Belgrade	92: 112	84: 129
EK Engelmann Vienna	149 : 144	Galatasaray Istanbul	100 : 74	49: 70
DSBV Punch Delft	153: 164	CWKS Legia Warsaw	74: 80	79: 84

^* The Tunisian representative did not run.

Participants in the final round

Attendees
country	number	Teams
Belgium	1	Racing Bell Mechelen
Bulgaria	1	Akademik Sofia
Finland	1	Tapion Honka Espoo
France	1	ASVEL Lyon
Greece	1	Panathinaikos Athens
Israel	1	Hapoel Tel Aviv
Italy	1	Ignis Pallacanestro Varese
Yugoslavia	1	KK Red Star Belgrade
Austria	1	EK Engelmann Vienna
Romania	1	CS Dinamo Bucharest
Soviet Union	1	CSKA Moscow
Spain	1	real Madrid
Czechoslovakia	1	TJ Slavia Prague
Poland	1	CWKS Legia Warsaw
Hungary	1	Honvéd Budapest

Round of 16

	total		First leg	Return leg
CS Dinamo Bucharest	146: 182	Racing Bell Mechelen	73: 95	73: 87
Hapoel Tel Aviv	131: 155	ASVEL Lyon	70 : 69	61: 86
real Madrid	163 : 161	Honvéd Budapest	95 : 76	68: 85
Tapion Honka Espoo	114: 187	Ignis Pallacanestro Varese	59: 88	55: 99
KK Red Star Belgrade	166 : 147	Panathinaikos Athens	91 : 66	75: 83
TJ Slavia Prague	199 : 147	EK Engelmann Vienna	106 : 68	93 : 79
CWKS Legia Warsaw	157: 159	Akademik Sofia	91 : 80	66: 79

• Bye as defending champion : CSKA Moscow

Group stage (Top 8)

The winners of the pairings in the group stage were determined in the first and second leg. The overall result of both games was decisive. Whoever decided this was awarded the victory.

If two or three teams were tied, it was not the basket ratio that decided, but a direct comparison between them.

Group A

team	Sp	S.	N	P +	P-
1. Real Madrid	3	2	1	516	501
2. TJ Slavia Prague	3	2	1	457	457
3. Racing Bell Mechelen	3	1	2	446	440
4. Sofia Academy	3	1	2	452	473

	Madrid	Prague	Mechelen	Sofia
Madrid	*	95 : 80	80 : 70	97 : 83
Prague	78 : 76	*	80 : 68	87 : 65
Mechelen	89 : 82	78 : 70	*	80 : 73
Sofia	101 : 86	75 : 62	55: 61	*

Group B

team	Sp	S.	N	P +	P-
1. CSKA Moscow	3	3	0	540	472
2. Ignis Pallacanestro Varese	3	2	1	485	420
3. ASVEL Lyon	3	1	2	448	529
4. KK Red Star Belgrade	3	0	3	462	514

	Moscow	Varese	Lyon	Belgrade
Moscow	*	83 : 60	109 : 70	105 : 92
Varese	79 : 59	*	96 : 70	99 : 65
Lyon	89: 99	69: 76	*	75 : 73
Belgrade	82: 85	74: 75	76 : 75	*

Semifinals

	total		First leg	Return leg
real Madrid	159: 198	Ignis Pallacanestro Varese	86: 90	73: 108
TJ Slavia Prague	154: 220	CSKA Moscow	79: 107	75: 113

final

The final took place in Sarajevo .

	Result
Ignis Pallacanestro Varese	79 : 74	CSKA Moscow

Web links

• History of the European championship on fibaeurope.com
• Statistics for the 1969/70 season on linguasport.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Champions Cup 1969-70 , on linguasport.com. Retrieved April 18, 2014