The 2017 EuroCup Finals were the concluding games of the 2016–17 EuroCup season, the 15th season of

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's secondary club

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tournament organised by Euroleague Basketball, the ninth season since it was renamed from the ULEB Cup to the EuroCup, and the first season under the title

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name of 7DAYS. The first leg was played at the Fuente de San Luis in

Valencia Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area al ...

, Spain, the second leg was played at the Martín Carpena in Málaga, Spain, on 31 March 2017 and the third leg was played at the Fuente de San Luis in

, Spain, between Spanish sides

Unicaja Unicaja is a Spanish savings bank based in Málaga and chartered as a caja de ahorros providing retail banking services. The banks full name is ''Monte de Piedad y Caja de Ahorros de Ronda, Cádiz, Almería, Málaga y Antequera'' after the n ...

and

Valencia Basket Valencia Basket Club S.A.D., commonly known as Valencia Basket (), is a professional basketball team based in Valencia, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB and the EuroLeague, with home games played at the Fuente de San Luis. The club is spon ...

. It was the first ever Finals appearance ever of

, after 15 seasons in EuroLeague and it was the third ever final appearance in any European competition after two consecutive finals in

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. For Valencia Basket, it was its fifth Finals appearance, after winning three of the previous four. Also, it was the seventh ever final appearance, including two losses in finals of the Saporta Cup. It was also the second EuroCup Finals that both finalists were from the same country.

won the Finals 1–2, and qualified for the 2017–18 EuroLeague.

Venues

The Fuente de San Luis was the first leg venue and, if necessary, the third leg venue as

venue. The arena was originally built in 1983. Valencia Basket started to play its games in the arena in 1987. The arena was also used as the home arena of the women's basketball team, Ros Casares Valencia, and the

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team Valencia FS. In April 2010, ''La Fonteta'' hosted the 2009–10 EuroLeague Women Final Four, where Ros Casares Valencia was defeated in the final by

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. In 2016, Valencia Basket financed the renovation of the arena with €500,000, and also installed a new €150,000 center-hung scoreboard. The Martín Carpena was the second leg venue as

venue. Martín Carpena arena opened in 1999. The arena originally had a seating capacity of 9,743 spectators, and an area of around 22,000 square meters. In 2007, a project was proposed to expand the capacity of the venue to 17,000 spectators, due to the high demand for seats and tickets by fans of

. Ultimately, the expansion project was approved, but to a new capacity of 13,000 spectators, rather than the originally planned 17,000. The expansion project was then scheduled to be completed in separate phases. The first expansion phase, which was completed in 2010, increased the seating capacity from 9,743 to 11,300.

Road to the Finals

''Note: In the table, the score of the finalist is given first (H = home; A = away).''

First leg

Bojan Dubljević Bojan Dubljević (born 24 October 1991) is a Montenegrin professional basketball player and the team captain for Valencia of the Spanish Liga ACB and the EuroLeague. He also represents the senior Montenegrin national basketball team in nationa ...

became the all-time leading scorer in EuroCup history in the second quarter when he passed the mark of 1,189 which was set by teammate Rafa Martínez.

Second leg

Third leg

Alen Omić Alen Omić (born 6 May 1992) is a Slovenian professional basketball player for Cedevita Olimpija of the ABA League. Professional career Omić started playing professional basketball for Zlatorog Laško. In 2009, he signed with Zlatorog and s ...

was disqualified in the third quarter for entering the court to prevent an altercation. In the last quarter, Unicaja was trailing by 13 when it came back with an 18–0 run to win the title. Unicaja was the first newcomer to win the EuroCup title since

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in 2003–04.

Joan Plaza Joan Plaza Durán (born 26 December 1963) is a Spanish professional basketball coach, who was most recently worked for Coosur Real Betis of the Liga ACB. He trained Real Madrid Baloncesto for three years, winning one Liga ACB championship, an ...

became the third coach to have won multiple EuroCup titles.

Finals MVP

References

External links

Official website
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