FIBA Europe Cup

FIBA Europe Cup

Current season	2019/20
sport	basketball
Association	FIBA
League foundation	2015
Teams	56
Country countries	All members of FIBA
Title holder	Dinamo Basket Sassari
Record champions	Fraport Skyliners Nanterre 92 Umana Reyer Venezia Dinamo Basket Sassari (1 each)
Website	fibaeurope.com
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The FIBA Europe Cup is under the umbrella of FIBA Europe be registered competition for European Basketball - club teams of men. It is in direct competition with ULEB's second competition, the Eurocup , in the same way that the FIBA Basketball Champions League is the counterweight to the ULEB Euroleague .

history

In the summer of 2015, FIBA ​​decided to discontinue the EuroChallenge and to offer more competition with a new competition, the FIBA Europe Cup , the ULEB , which has been organizing the most important European Cup competitions since 2001.

Since the majority of the much more renowned and larger clubs have registered for the competitions of the ULEB, the Euroleague and the Eurocup and thus played there in the 2015/16 season, the FIBA ​​Europe Cup - like its predecessor, the EuroChallenge - the third most important European basketball cup.

The first edition in 2015/16 was won by the Fraport Skyliners from Germany.

Game mode

The FIBA ​​Europe Cup will be played in the 2018/19 season as follows:

1st group stage

In the first group stage 32 teams in 8 groups (A – H) play against each other in home and away games until each team has played six games. The two best teams in each group qualify for the second group stage.

2nd group stage

In the second group phase, the remaining 16 teams compete in 4 groups (I – L) in home and away games until each team has played six games. The two best teams in each group qualify for the round of 16.

Knockout round

Of these 16 participants, the eight group winners and runners-up in the second group phase as well as the eight “relegated” from the group phase of the Basketball Champions League 2017/18 (fifth and sixth place of the four groups there) qualify for the round of 16, from the knockout system was continued.

The game is played in a knockout system, the addition of the results from the first and second leg counts. Consequently, a tie result in the first leg, which only serves as an interim result, is possible and only a tie result after adding both game results makes an extra time necessary in the second leg to determine a winner. This mode is held until the finals to determine the title winner.

Finals

season	venue	winner	opponent	Result
2015/16	Chalon-sur-Saône	Fraport Skyliners	Pallacanestro Varese	66: 62
2016/17	Chalon-sur-Saône & Nanterre	JSF Nanterre	Élan Chalon	58: 58 82: 79
2017/18	Avellino & Mestre	Umana Reyer Venezia	Sidigas Avellino	77: 69 81: 79
2018/19	Sassari & Würzburg	Dinamo Basket Sassari	s.Oliver Würzburg	89: 84 81: 79

Web links

• Website FIBA Europe Cup ( Engl. )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 56 Clubs Confirmed For New FIBA ​​Europe Club Competition , on fibaeurope.com, accessed on August 4, 2015.