The EuroLeague Final Four Most Valuable Player Award is presented and
awarded to the
basketball
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player who has exhibited the most exceptional play during the
EuroLeague Final Four
The EuroLeague Final Four is the final four format championship of the European-wide top-tier level EuroLeague professional club basketball competition. The Euroleague Basketball Company used the final four format for the first time in 2002, f ...
. The award often goes to the best player on
the European-wide top-tier level EuroLeague's best team. It is generally considered to be the most prestigious individual award in European
professional
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club
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Arts, entertainment, and media
* ''Club'' (magazine)
* Club, a '' Yie Ar Kung-Fu'' character
* Clubs (suit), a suit of playing cards
* Club music
* "Club", by Kelsea Ballerini from the album ''kelsea''
Brands and enterprises ...
basketball.
The Final Four MVP award was first given at the end of the
1987–88 season, when the competition that would later become called
EuroLeague, was then known as the FIBA European Champions Cup. Prior to the 1987–88 season, the
Top Scorer of the
EuroLeague Finals
The EuroLeague Finals are the championship finals of the EuroLeague competition. The EuroLeague is the highest level tier, and most important professional club basketball competition in Europe.
Title holders
* ......1958 Rīgas ASK
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was noted. However, an actual MVP was not named until the first EuroLeague Final Four of the modern era was held.
EuroLeague Finals Top Scorers (1958–1987)
From the
1958 to
1986–87 seasons, the Top Scorer of the
EuroLeague Finals
The EuroLeague Finals are the championship finals of the EuroLeague competition. The EuroLeague is the highest level tier, and most important professional club basketball competition in Europe.
Title holders
* ......1958 Rīgas ASK
* 1958 ...
was noted, regardless of whether he played on the winning or losing team. However, there was no actual
MVP
In team sports, a most valuable player award, abbreviated 'MVP award', is an honor typically bestowed upon an individual (or individuals, in the instance of a tie) whose individual performance is the greatest in an entire league, for a particu ...
award given.
Voting criteria
From the
1988 EuroLeague Final Four through the
2016 EuroLeague Final Four, the voting for the EuroLeague Final Four MVP was done by the accredited media members in attendance. Starting with the
2017 EuroLeague Final Four, the voting for the award includes an online vote of fans as well.
Fans to weigh in on Final Four MVP voting!
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All-time EuroLeague Final Four MVP award winners (1988–present)
Since the end of the 1987–88 season, when the first EuroLeague Final Four
The EuroLeague Final Four is the final four format championship of the European-wide top-tier level EuroLeague professional club basketball competition. The Euroleague Basketball Company used the final four format for the first time in 2002, f ...
( 1988 EuroLeague Final Four) was held, an MVP
In team sports, a most valuable player award, abbreviated 'MVP award', is an honor typically bestowed upon an individual (or individuals, in the instance of a tie) whose individual performance is the greatest in an entire league, for a particu ...
is named at the conclusion of each Final Four.
Notes:
: There was no awarding in the 2019–20, because the season was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic in Europe.
† The 2000–01 season was a transition year, with the best European teams splitting into two different major leagues: The SuproLeague, held by FIBA
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, and the EuroLeague, held by Euroleague Basketball
Euroleague Basketball is the private company that runs and operates the top continental-wide basketball men's professional sports club competitions in Europe, the first-tier level EuroLeague, and the second-tier level EuroCup. It has been org ...
. That season's EuroLeague Basketball tournament did not end with a Final Four tournament. Instead, it ended with a 5-game playoff series. So, Manu Ginóbili
Emanuel David Ginóbili Maccari (, , ; born 28 July 1977) is an Argentine former professional basketball player. Over a 23-year professional career, he became one of only two players (along with Bill Bradley) to have won a EuroLeague title, an ...
was named the ''EuroLeague Finals MVP'' that season.
Multiple honors
Players
NB:
* Kukoč won his first two awards in 1990 and 1991, as a citizen of SFR Yugoslavia
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; Croatia
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declared its independence on June 25, 1991, after that year's Champions Cup finals.
* Bodiroga won his first award in 2002, as a citizen of FR Yugoslavia
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. The country changed its name to Serbia and Montenegro
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in February 2003, three months before he won his second award; upon the dissolution of the latter state in 2006, he became a citizen of Serbia
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.
Player nationality
NB:
* Players from the former Yugoslavia
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are classified by their nationality in one of the current post-Yugoslav states.
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won his award in 2014, as a citizen of both the United States and Montenegro
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Teams
See also
* EuroLeague Awards
* EuroLeague Final Four
The EuroLeague Final Four is the final four format championship of the European-wide top-tier level EuroLeague professional club basketball competition. The Euroleague Basketball Company used the final four format for the first time in 2002, f ...
* EuroLeague All-Final Four Team
The EuroLeague All-Final Four Team, or FIBA SuproLeague All-Final Four Team, was an award given by Europe's premier level league, the EuroLeague, to the top five basketball players of each season's EuroLeague Final Four competition. The EuroLeag ...
* EuroLeague Basketball 2001–10 All-Decade Team
* EuroLeague Season MVP
* Euroscar
The Euroscar European Player of the Year Award is an annual basketball award given to the year's best male European basketball player. Its name is a portmanteau of Europe and Oscar, and the award is often referred to as "European basketball’s ...
* FIBA Europe Player of the Year Award
The FIBA Europe Men's Player of the Year Award was an annual official FIBA Europe award for the Player of the Year (POY), that was inaugurated in the year 2005, and bestowed until 2014. The winner was a basketball player who had European citizensh ...
* FIBA Europe Young Men's Player of the Year Award
The FIBA Europe Young Men's Player of the Year Award was an annual Player of the Year (POY) award that was given by FIBA Europe, the European division of FIBA, the international governing body of the sport of basketball, to the best basketball pla ...
* 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors (2008)
The 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors (2008) of FIBA European Champions Cup and EuroLeague history were awarded and chosen on February 3, 2008, in Madrid, Spain. The occasion was the fiftieth anniversary since the founding of the inaugural sea ...
* Mr. Europa
The Mister Europa European Player of the Year Award was an annual basketball award created in 1976, and given until 2010, by the panel of journalists of the Italian weekly magazine '' Superbasket''. Its purpose was to praise the best basketball p ...
References
External links
EuroLeague official webpage
InterBasket EuroLeague Basketball Forum
TalkBasket EuroLeague Basketball Forum
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Basketball most valuable player awards