The 2015 Euroleague Final Four was the concluding
EuroLeague Final Four tournament of the
2014–15 Euroleague
The 2014–15 Turkish Airlines Euroleague was the 15th season of the modern era of Euroleague Basketball and the fifth under the title sponsorship of the Turkish Airlines. Including the competition's previous iteration as the FIBA Europe Champi ...
season. The Final Four was held on 15 and 17 May 2015. All of the games were played at the
Barclaycard Center
Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid (English: ''Sports Palace of the Regional Community of Madrid''), officially WiZink Center since November 2016 for sponsorship reasons, is an indoor sporting arena located in Madrid, Spain.
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, in
Madrid
Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...
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Spain
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. It was the third time the city of Madrid hosted the Final Four, and the 6th time the
Final of the EuroLeague was played there.
Real Madrid
Real Madrid Club de Fútbol (, meaning ''Royal Madrid Football Club''), commonly referred to as Real Madrid, is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid.
Founded in 1902 as Madrid Football Club, the club has traditionally wor ...
won its 9th
EuroLeague title, after they beat
Olympiacos
Olympiacós Sýndesmos Filáthlon Peiraiós ( el, Ολυμπιακός Σύνδεσμος Φιλάθλων Πειραιώς, Olympic Club of Fans of Piraeus) is a major multi-sport club based in Piraeus, Greece. Olympiacos is parent to a numbe ...
, by a score of 78–59.
CSKA Moscow
CSKA Moscow (russian: ЦСКА Москва) is a Russian sports club based in Moscow. It was created in 1911 in the Russian Empire on base of OLLS (Skiing Society, founded 1901). Later, during the Soviet era, it was a central piece of the big So ...
took the third place, while
Fenerbahçe Ülker finished in fourth.
Road to the Final Four
Bracket
Semifinals
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CSKA Moscow vs. Olympiacos
CSKA Moscow came into the semifinals, widely considered to be the favourite. It was a rematch of the
2012
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Final and
2013
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Semifinal. Both of those previous games were won by Olympiacos.
Olympiacos rallied late in the fourth quarter, after it had been down by 9 with four minutes to go.
Vassilis Spanoulis came up clutch, as he scored 11 points in the fourth quarter, to pull Olympiacos away from CSKA.
Aaron Jackson set a Final Four record during the game, with 7 steals.
Real Madrid vs. Fenerbahçe Ülker
The hosts, Real Madrid, were considered the favourites to win the game against Fenerbahçe, which made its Final Four debut.
Real Madrid dominated in the first half, and they led 55–35 at halftime.
A fourth quarter rally by Fenerbahçe came up too little, too late.
Gustavo Ayón
Gustavo Alfonso Ayón Aguirre (born April 1, 1985) is a Mexican former professional basketball player. His last team was Capitanes de Arecibo of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN). He also represents the senior Mexican national basketball te ...
was top scorer for Real, with 18 points.
Andrew Goudelock scored 26 for Fenerbahçe.
Third place game
Championship game
The game was a re-match of the
2013 Euroleague Final and the
1995 FIBA European League Final.
See also
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2015 Eurocup Finals
The 2015 Eurocup Finals were the concluding two games of the 2014–15 Eurocup Basketball season. BC Khimki and Herbalife Gran Canaria faced of in a two-legged series.
It was the third time that Khimki played in a Eurocup Finals, after their leag ...
*
2015 EuroChallenge Final Four
The 2015 EuroChallenge Final Four was the concluding tournament of the 2014–15 EuroChallenge season. The tournament was held in the Hayri Gür Arena in Trabzon, home of Trabzonspor Medical Park, one of the semifinalists. JSF Nanterre took the ...
References
External links
EuroLeague website
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Final Four
2014-15
2014–15 in Greek basketball
2014–15 in Russian basketball
2014–15 in Spanish basketball
2014–15 in Turkish basketball
International basketball competitions hosted by Spain
Sports competitions in Madrid
2015 in Madrid