The 2016 FIBA Europe Cup Final Four was the inaugural Final Four tournament in

FIBA Europe Cup The FIBA Europe Cup (FEC) is an annual professional club basketball competition organised by FIBA for eligible European clubs. It is FIBA's European-wide second level. Clubs mainly qualify for the competition based on their performance in natio ...

history, and was the concluding stage of the

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season. The Final Four was held from 29 April until 1 May 2016. On 6 April 2016, FIBA announced that the tournament was to be held at

Le Colisée Le Colisée is an indoor arena in Chalon-sur-Saône, France. It is primarily used for basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete w ...

in Chalon-sur-Saône, France. German side

Fraport Skyliners The Skyliners Frankfurt, currently known as Fraport Skyliners for sponsorship reasons, are a professional basketball club based in Frankfurt, Germany. Their home arena is Ballsporthalle. The club has played in the Basketball Bundesliga sinc ...

won the tournament.

Venue

Teams

Road to the Final Four

Bracket

Semi-finals

Openjobmetis Varese vs Élan Chalon

Fraport Skyliners vs Enisey

Third place game

Final

This was Skyliners Frankfurt's first chance to win a European title ever in its club history. For Varese, this was already the 13th appearance in the Final of a European club competition; the Italians won the FIBA European Champions Cup (5 times) and

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(2 times) before. However, Varese's last European victory was back in 1980. Fraport Skyliners clawed their way back from a 12-point third-quarter deficit to edge out OpenjobMetis Varese 66–62 in a gripping FIBA Europe Cup final and lift the first European trophy in club history. Quantez Robertson of Fraport, who scored 15 points in the Final, was named Final Four MVP.