EuroLeague 2009/10

EuroLeague 2009/10
Duration		September 29, 2009 - May 9, 2010
Order of execution		10th season
organizer		ULEB
Number of teams		24
Main round
Main rounds - MVP		Miloš Teodosić (Olympiakos)
Alphonso Ford Trophy		Linas Kleiza (Olympiacos)
Best defender		Viktor Chrjapa (CSKA)
Rising Star Trophy		Ricky Rubio (FC Barcelona)
Alexander Gomelski Trophy		Xavier Pascual (FC Barcelona)
Final Four
venue		Paris
master		FC Barcelona
Runner-up		Olympiacos Piraeus
Finals - MVP		Juan Carlos Navarro (FC Barcelona)
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Eurocup 2009/10 ↓

The season 2009/10 was 10 . Playing time of the EuroLeague (officially Turkish Airlines EuroLeague ).

FC Barcelona from Spain won the title for the second time .

mode

24 teams took part in the EuroLeague. Of these, 22 teams qualified directly for the group stage. One of them was the winner of the 2008/09 Eurocup , the Lithuanian team BC Lietuvos Rytas . The remaining 21 places were determined by A and B licenses. A-licenses are the right to play in the EuroLeague for several years to eight specific clubs, which are valid until the 2011/2012 season. In addition, 14 B licenses were issued that were valid for this season. The remaining two places were played out through a qualification among eight teams. The decision as to which teams get a B license and which have to qualify is made by the ULEB, taking into account the placement and league strength of the domestic leagues as well as the audience rating of the teams. In addition, three wildcards were also awarded under these criteria .

The 24 teams were divided into four groups of six teams each, with each team playing one home and one away game against every other team. The first four teams in each group came into the second group phase with four groups of four teams, in which each team also played a home and away game against every other team. The second group stage was drawn on January 18, 2010 in Barcelona . The best two teams in the second group phase qualified for the knockout system, which was played in the best-of-five mode. The teams that prevailed qualified for the Final Four tournament at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris, where the semi-finals and finals and the game for third place were played. These games were simple knockout games.

qualification

	Entente Orléans	53	81
	Spirou Charleroi	55	56
						Entente Orléans	82	80
						Benetton Treviso	73	82
	BK Ventspils	78	76
	Benetton Treviso	73	88
	Le Mans Sarthe Basket	61	62
	Alba Berlin	60	77
						Alba Berlin	70	75
						Marousi Athens	79	70
	Aris Thessaloniki	69	60
	Marousi Athens	67	89

Participants in the main round

Country / League	team	Hall	capacity	VJP 1	License	Country / League	team	Hall	capacity	VJP 1	License
Basketball Bundesliga	EWE Baskets Oldenburg	Weser-Ems-Halle	5050	M.	B.	Dominet Basket League	Asseco Prokom 5 ( Gdynia )	Hala Sportowo-Widowiskowa Gdynia	5000	M.	B.
Ligue Nationale de Basket	ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne	Astroballe	5643	M.	B.	Superleague Russia	BK Khimki 5	Basketball center of the Moscow region	6000	FI	WC
	Entente Orléans	Zénith d'Orléans	6900	FI	Q		PBK CSKA Moscow 5	ZSKA universal sports hall	5500	M.	A.
A1 Ethniki	Marousi Athens	OAKA Olympic Indoor Hall	19250	HF	Q	Naša Liga	KK Partizan Belgrade 4	Hala Pionir	8150	M.	B.
	Panathinaikos Athens	OAKA Olympic Indoor Hall	18900	M.	A.	League UPC Telemach	KK Union Olimpia 4 ( Ljubljana )	Hala Tivoli	6000	M.	B.
	Olympiacos Piraeus	Stadium of Peace and Friendship	14095	FI	A.	League ACB	FC Barcelona	Palau Blaugrana	8250	SI	A.
Ligat ha'Al	Maccabi Tel Aviv	Nokia Arena	11700	M.	A.		real Madrid	Palacio Vistalegre	15000	HF	A.
Lega Basket Serie A	Armani Jeans Milan	Mediolanum Forum	11200	FI	B.		Unicaja Málaga	Palacio de Deportes José María Martín Carpena	10500	HF	A.
	Lottomatica Rome	PalaLottomatica	11200	VF	A.		Saski Baskonia ( Vitoria-Gasteiz )	Fernando Buesa Arena	9900	FI	A.
	Montepaschi Siena	Pala Sport Mens Sana	7025	M.	A.	Türkiye Basketbol Ligi	Efes Pilsen Istanbul	Abdi İpekçi Arena	12500	M.	A.
A1 league	Cibona Zagreb 4	Dražen Petrović basketball hall	5400	M.	B.		Fenerbahçe Ülkerspor ( Istanbul )			FI	A.
Lithuanian basketball league	Žalgiris Kaunas 3  5	Kaunas sports hall	5000	M.	A.
	BC Lietuvos Rytas 2  3 ( Vilnius )	Siemens Arena	11000	FI	B.

¹ Last year's placement in the national leagues

²Qualified as the winner of the Eurocup of the 2008/09 season

³These teams have also at the Baltic Basketball League participated

^4thThese teams have also at the Adriatic Basketball Association participated

⁵These teams have also in the VTB United League participated

Group stage

Preliminary round

The group phase and the qualifying matches were drawn on July 8, 2009 in Barcelona, ​​with the participants in the final four tournament of the previous season being set as group heads.

Group A

team	Sp	S.	N	P +	P-
1. FC Barcelona	10	10	0	833	625
2. Montepaschi Siena	10	8th	2	830	689
3. Žalgiris Kaunas	10	3	7th	673	739
4. Cibona Zagreb	10	3	7th	637	742
5. ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne	10	3	7th	680	749
6. Fenerbahçe Ülkerspor	10	3	7th	690	799

	Barcelona	Siena	Zagreb	Ulker	Kaunas	Villeurbanne
FC Barcelona	*	85 : 70	81 : 59	89 : 55	89 : 55	76 : 62
Montepaschi Siena	65: 84	*	90 : 64	101 : 58	84 : 64	83 : 74
Cibona Zagreb	66: 80	40: 85	*	80 : 77	64 : 52	73 : 71
Fenerbahçe Ülkerspor	59: 82	83: 87	67 : 62	*	68: 76	61: 68
Žalgiris Kaunas	70: 77	72: 83	68 : 61	78: 84	*	71 : 52
ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne	64: 90	65: 82	71 : 68	76: 78 a.d.	77 : 67	*

Group B

team	Sp	S.	N	P +	P-
1. Olympiacos Piraeus	10	8th	2	884	787
2. Unicaja Málaga	10	7th	3	784	775
3. Partizan Belgrade	10	5	5	745	757
4. Efes Pilsen Istanbul	10	4th	6th	808	793
5. BC Lietuvos Rytas	10	4th	6th	741	784
6. Entente Orléans	10	2	8th	722	788

	Piraeus	Belgrade	Málaga	Istanbul	Rytas	Orleans
Olympiacos Piraeus	*	81 : 60	89 : 68	105 : 90	97 : 73	94 : 72
Partizan Belgrade	86 : 80	*	64: 72	93 : 92	97 : 67	78 : 71
Unicaja Málaga	86 : 68	64: 72	*	93 : 88 a.d.	91 : 84	72: 88
Efes Pilsen Istanbul	85: 93 a.d.	77 : 67	77: 79	*	77 : 62	77 : 64
BC Lietuvos Rytas	83: 89 a.d.	78 : 56	71: 73	77 : 70	*	77 : 72
Entente Orléans	84: 88	75 : 72	74: 86	60: 75	62: 69	*

Group C

team	Sp	S.	N	P +	P-
1. CSKA Moscow	10	8th	2	730	700
2. Caja Laboral	10	7th	3	779	735
3. Maccabi Tel Aviv	10	6th	4th	794	737
4. Marousi Athens	10	4th	6th	744	764
5. Lottomatica Rome	10	4th	6th	713	737
6. Union Olimpia	10	1	9	677	764

	Moscow	Caja	Tel Aviv	Rome	Olimpia	Athens
CSKA Moscow	*	84 : 83	77 : 72	69: 74	79 : 69	78 : 65
Caja Laboral	67: 71	*	86 : 81	67 : 60	62 : 53	73 : 65
Maccabi Tel Aviv	71 : 54	82: 91	*	79 : 59	85 : 65	75 : 67
Lottomatica Rome	57: 72	77 : 65	90: 92 a.d.	*	69 : 48	74: 87
Union Olimpia	77: 80 a.d.	76: 82	65: 82	87 : 70	*	75: 81
Marousi Athens	65: 66	86: 103	83 : 75	71: 83	74 : 62	*

Group D

team	Sp	S.	N	P +	P-
1. Real Madrid	10	8th	2	811	690
2. Panathinaikos Athens	10	8th	2	792	697
3. BK Khimki	10	6th	4th	740	733
4. Asseco Prokom	10	4th	6th	747	810
5. Armani Jeans Milan	10	3	7th	724	741
6. EWE Baskets Oldenburg	10	1	9	657	800

	Athens	Madrid	Milan	Prokom	Khimki	Oldenburg
Panathinaikos Athens	*	67: 76	80 : 63	74 : 66	101 : 66	96 : 63
real Madrid	80 : 70	*	82 : 69	94 : 72	70 : 59	73 : 60
Armani Jeans Milan	67: 75	66: 75	*	82 : 69	68: 72	79 : 51
Asseco Prokom	65: 75	82 : 76	88 : 83	*	75 : 70	81: 87
BK Khimki	82: 87 a.d.	84 : 81 a.d.	79 : 63	89 : 67	*	77 : 72
EWE Baskets Oldenburg	64: 67	61: 104	70: 79	80: 82	49: 62	*

Intermediate round (Top 16)

In the second phase of the Euroleague, the remaining 16 teams were divided into four groups (E to H) of four teams each. The performance from the regular season was reflected in the seeding list for the draw. In this phase, too, the teams in each group competed against each other in home and return matches. The two best teams in each group qualified for the next round.

Group E

team	Sp	S.	N	P +	P-
1. FC Barcelona	6th	5	1	465	398
2. Partizan Belgrade	6th	3	3	389	422
3. Panathinaikos Athens	6th	2	4th	439	442
4. Marousi Athens	6th	2	4th	419	452

	Barcelona	Athens	Belgrade	Marousi
FC Barcelona	*	83 : 71	82 : 64	79 : 69
Panathinaikos	67: 70	*	59: 64	82 : 79
Partizan Belgrade	67 : 66 a.d.	66: 82	*	79 : 76
Marousi Athens	58: 85	80 : 78	57 : 49	*

Group F.

team	Sp	S.	N	P +	P-
1. Maccabi Tel Aviv	6th	4th	2	444	423
2. Real Madrid	6th	3	3	447	444
3. Montepaschi Siena	6th	3	3	481	497
4. Efes Pilsen Istanbul	6th	2	4th	445	453

	Madrid	Siena	Tel Aviv	Istanbul
real Madrid	*	77 : 69	64: 66	77 : 70
Montepaschi Siena	83 : 76	*	76 : 72	93 : 87
Maccabi Tel Aviv	81 : 76	97 : 82	*	72 : 62
Efes Pilsen Istanbul	75: 77	88 : 78	63 : 56	*

Group G

team	Sp	S.	N	P +	P-
1. CSKA Moscow	6th	5	1	494	448
2. Asseco Prokom	6th	3	3	471	455
3. Unicaja Málaga	6th	2	4th	450	452
4. Žalgiris Kaunas	6th	2	4th	454	514

	Moscow	Málaga	Kaunas	Prokom
CSKA Moscow	*	86 : 78	84 : 71	84 : 73
Unicaja Málaga	70: 76	*	86 : 68	50: 70
Žalgiris Kaunas	68: 83	89 : 81	*	93 : 88
Asseco Prokom	88 : 81	63: 82	89 : 65	*

Group H.

team	Sp	S.	N	P +	P-
1. Olympiacos Piraeus	6th	5	1	536	504
2. Caja Laboral	6th	3	3	515	521
3. BK Khimki	6th	3	3	476	487
4. Cibona Zagreb	6th	1	5	486	501

	Piraeus	Caja	Khimki	Zagreb
Olympiacos Piraeus	*	102 : 85	87 : 69	78 : 75
Caja Laboral	85: 89	*	71: 82	102 : 90 a.d.
BK Khimki	96 : 83	83: 94	*	83 : 70
Cibona Zagreb	94: 97	75: 78	82 : 63	*

Final round

The quarter-finals were held in the best-of-five mode from March 23 to April 7, the Final Four from May 7 to 9 in Paris. No draw was necessary, as the placement in the group stage decided on the placement in the second group stage.

FC Barcelona	68	63	84	84
real Madrid	61	70	73	78
							FC Barcelona	64
							CSKA Moscow	54
CSKA Moscow	86	83	53	74
Caja Laboral	63	63	66	70
											FC Barcelona	86
											Olympiacos Piraeus	68
Maccabi Tel Aviv	77	98	73	67
Partizan Belgrade	85	78	81	76							3rd place match
							Partizan Belgrade	80			CSKA Moscow	90
							Olympiacos Piraeus	83			Partizan Belgrade	88
Olympiacos Piraeus	83	90	78	86
Asseco Prokom	79	73	81	70

final

The EuroLeague final took place on May 9, 2010 at the Palais Omnisports in Paris .

pairing	FC Barcelona - Olympiacos Piraeus
Result	86  : 68
date	May 10, 2010
Stadion	Palais Omnisports , Paris
spectator	14,768
referee	David Chambon, Shmuel Bachar, Romuldas Brazauskas
FC Barcelona	Gianluca Basile 6, Jordi Trias, Ricky Rubio 9, Jaka Lakovič , Juan Carlos Navarro 21, Fran Vázquez 6, Boniface N'dong 7, Terence Morris 8, Víctor Sada 7, Erazem Lorbek 8, Roger Grimau Trainer : Xavier Pascual
Olympiacos Piraeus	Theodoros Papaloukas 12, Scoonie Penn, Josh Childress 15, Nikola Vujčić 2, Panagiotis Vasilopoulos , Ioannis Bourousis 9, Yotam Halperin , Linas Kleiza 13, Loukas Mavrokefalidis 1, Patrick Beverley , Miloš Teodosić 10, Sofoklis Schortsanitis 6 Trainer : Panagiot

Awards

Alphonso Ford top scorer: Linas Kleiza

MVP of the Euroleague season

• Miloš Teodosić (Olympiacos Piraeus)

Final Four MVP

Final Four MVP: Juan Carlos Navarro

• Juan Carlos Navarro (FC Barcelona)

All Euroleague First Team

• Miloš Teodosić (Olympiacos Piraeus)
• Juan Carlos Navarro (FC Barcelona)
• Linas Kleiza (Olympiacos Piraeus)
• Viktor Kryapa (CSKA Moscow)
• Aleks Marić (Partizan Belgrade)

All Euroleague Second Team

• Lester McCalebb (Partizan Belgrade)
• Josh Childress (Olympiacos Piraeus)
• Ramūnas Šiškauskas (CSKA Moscow)
• Erazem Lorbek (FC Barcelona)
• Tiago Splitter (TAU Ceramica)

Best defender

• Viktor Kryapa (CSKA Moscow)

Rising Star Trophy

• Ricky Rubio (FC Barcelona)

Alphonso Ford Top Scorer Trophy

• Linas Kleiza (Olympiacos Piraeus)

Trainer of the Year (Alexander Gomelski Trophy)

• Xavier Pascual (FC Barcelona)

Club Executive of the Year

• Przemyslaw Seczkowski (Asseco Prokom)

Web links

• Official website (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ euroleague.net video on licensing (English)
2. ↑ euroleague.net draw and procedure of the second group phase (English)
3. ↑ ^{a b} euroleague.net allocation of B-licenses and wildcards (English)
4. ↑ euroleague.net group stage draw (English)
5. ↑ euroleague.net Dates quarterfinals (English)