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1971–72 FIBA European Champions Cup
The 1971–72 FIBA European Champions Cup was the 15th installment of the European professional club basketball system, European top-tier level professional basketball club competition FIBA European Champions Cup (now called EuroLeague). The EuroLeague Finals, Final was held at the Nokia Arena (Tel Aviv), Yad Eliyahu Arena, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on March 23, 1972. It was won by Pallacanestro Varese, Ignis Varese, who defeated KK Split, Jugoplastika, by a result of 70–69. Competition system * 23 teams (European national domestic league champions, plus the then current title holders), playing in a tournament, tournament system, played knock-out rounds on a home and away basis. The aggregate score of both games decided the winner. * The 8 teams qualified for the Quarterfinals were divided into two groups of four. Every team played against the other three in its group in consecutive home-and-away matches, so that every two of these games counted as a single win or defeat (point differ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euroleague
The EuroLeague is a European men's professional basketball club competition. The league is widely recognised as the top-tier and the most prestigious men's basketball league in Europe. The league consists of 20 teams, of which 16 are given long-term licences and wild cards, making the league a semi-closed league. The league was first organized by FIBA in 1958, subsequently by ULEB in 2000 and then solely by Euroleague Basketball. The competition was introduced in 1958 as the FIBA European Champions Cup (renamed the FIBA EuroLeague in 1996), which operated under FIBA's umbrella until Euroleague Basketball was created for the 2000–01 season. The FIBA European Champions Cup and the EuroLeague are considered to be the same competition, with the change of name being simply a re-branding. Since 2010, it has been sponsored by Turkish Airlines. The EuroLeague is one of the most popular indoor sports leagues in the world, with an average attendance of 10,383 for league matches in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gezira (basketball Club)
Gezira Sporting Club () is a basketball club located on the island of Zamalek in Cairo, Egypt that plays in the Egyptian Basketball Super League. The club has won nine league titles, most recently in 2017. Achievements * Egyptian Basketball Super League :Champions (11): 1973, 1993, 1994, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2014‚ 2017 * Egypt Cup :Champions (4): 1989–90,1993–94, 2004–05, 2018–19 *Arab Club Basketball Championship :Champions (2): 2000, 2001 :Runners-up (1): 2004 :Third place (1): 2005 * FIBA Africa Basketball League :Champions (2): 1994, 1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ... Players Current roster Notable players * Amr Gendy (5 seasons: 2013–18) * Motaz Okasha (2014–present) * Kenneth Gasana (1 season: 2014–15) * St� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PBC Academic
BC Academic Metropol Region () is a reestablished Bulgarian professional basketball club based in the capital Sofia. In April 2022, Academic has been reborn and rebranded by the new owners, the German-Bulgarian ex-professional basketball players Viktor Vladov and Georgi Petrov. Founded in 1947 as part of the Academic Sofia sports club, they have won the championship of Bulgaria 26 times, won the Bulgarian Cup 11 times and won the Bulgarian Super Cup 1 time. Among their international honours are two FIBA European Champions Cup finals (both lost to Rīgas ASK) in 1958 and 1959 and an International Students' Cup in 1957. In 2000, the team were renamed Lukoil Academic as a sponsorship deal was signed with Russian oil giant Lukoil, and quickly established themselves as dominant in the Bulgarian Championship. Since then they have been a regular ULEB Cup participant, and won the FIBA Europe Regional Challenge Cup Conference South in 2003. In September 2020, Academic withdrew from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flamingo's Haarlem
Flamingo's Haarlem was a professional basketball team based in Haarlem, Netherlands. Flamingo's played in the Eredivisie from 1960 till 1983, excluding the 1961–62 season. The team won the Dutch championship and NBB Cup four times. The Flamingo's also played at the highest European stage many times: in the 1966–67, 1968–69, 1970–71, 1971–72, and 1973–74 season the team did at least play in the qualifying round. The team was founded in 1954 as Black Pirates by baseball players who before played for several different teams. In its first year, they were the city champions of Haarlem and finished third in the national league. The games were played in the Krelagehuis, despite there being no changing rooms and showers. The rent of the hall was so expensive, that the club did not make profit despite high attendance for games. Players of Flamingo's had to pay entrance for the games as well to cover the rent. Names Due to sponsorship reasons the club knew many names: * 1954� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fribourg Olympic
Fribourg Olympic Basket, commonly known as Fribourg Olympic, is a Switzerland, Swiss professional basketball club that is based in Fribourg. Due to name sponsorship reasons, the former name of the club was Benetton Fribourg. The club is a seventeen-time Swiss Basketball League champion. History Fribourg Olympic competed in seven seasons of the original version of the EuroLeague, the top-level European competition, when it was run by FIBA Europe, FIBA, due to being the Swiss League champions. In all those seasons, the club only qualified two times for the competition's second round, by winning their previous series. In 2007, Fribourg Olympic competed in the European-wide secondary competition, the 2007–08 ULEB Cup regular season, but they ended up in the last position of their group. In the 2015–16 Championnat LNA season, 2015–16 season, Fribourg won its first Swiss Basketball League (SBL) title in eight years. In the 2017–18 Swiss Basketball League, 2017–18 season, Fribo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bayer Giants Leverkusen
Bayer Giants Leverkusen is a professional basketball club, part of the Bayer 04 Leverkusen, TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen sports club based in Leverkusen, Germany. It currently plays in ProB, the third division of German basketball. Based on the number of titles, Bayer Leverkusen is the most successful team in the history of German Basketball with a record-14 championships and 10 Cups. In 2009, the Bayer company cut down sponsorship and the club went down to Germany's ProB (third division) to restructure. The license for the Basketball Bundesliga was transferred to the newly formed Giants Düsseldorf. The team is currently coached by two of its legends: Hansi Gnad and Michael Koch (basketball), Michael Koch as his assistant. History Founded as ''TuS Bayer 04 Leverkusen'' in 1961, the club moved up to first division Basketball Bundesliga in 1968. The club won 5 German champions (basketball), national championships and 4 German Basketball Cup, German Cups as TuS 04 Leverkusen before it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USK Praha
USK Praha (, University Sports Club Prague), formerly known as Slavia VŠ Praha (), is a Czech Republic, Czech professional basketball Club (organization), club that was founded in 1953 in the city of Prague. USK Praha plays in the National Basketball League (Czech Republic), NBL, the highest competition in the Czech Republic. It is a 14-times national champion. USK Praha became the first and so far the only men's basketball club in Czech Republic, as well as former Czechoslovakia, to win one of the European cup competitions, the FIBA Saporta Cup, FIBA Cup Winners' Cup in 1968–69 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup, 1969. History The club won the European professional club basketball system, 2nd tier FIBA Saporta Cup, FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup in the 1968–69 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup, 1968–69 season, only a year after losing the same title in the final game of the 1967–68 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup, 1967–68 season against AEK B.C., AEK. Slavia also reached t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maccabi Tel Aviv B
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Lier B
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Fath Union Sport
Fath Union Sport (), commonly known as FUS Rabat, is a Moroccan professional football club based in Rabat and currently playing in the first division. The club was founded on 10 April 1946. 'Fath Union Sport' is the name of the sports club which encompasses everything from Basketball to the game of Chess. History Foundation Founded on April 10, 1946 by the Marocain Nationalists, the Fath Union Sports is an omnisports club, located in a football section, based on the name of the most ancient clubs in the country. It was the héritier of the Union Musulmane de Rabat-Salé (USMRS), created in 1932, and was officially announced on 7 October 1932. The USM Rabat-Salé introduced the first Muslim clubs in the country, if this was not the first, and it was a veritable lance of a movement associated with the Marocaine Jeunesse. The club competes in the Champions League of the 1st Division Amateurs, qualified in the 3rd division of the Maroc Football Association League, which is import ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Real Madrid Baloncesto
Real Madrid Baloncesto (English: Royal Madrid Basketball) is a Spanish professional basketball club that was founded in 1931, as a division of Real Madrid CF. They play domestically in the Liga ACB, and internationally in the EuroLeague. They are widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball clubs in Europe. Real Madrid currently ranks first in the European professional basketball club rankings. Similarly to the Real Madrid athletic association football club, the basketball team has been the most successful of its peers in both Spain and Europe. Real Madrid CF is the only European sports club to have become the European champions in both 2017–18 UEFA Champions League, football and 2017–18 EuroLeague, basketball in the same season. The Real Madrid squads have won a record 36 List of Spanish basketball champions, Spanish League championships, including in 7-in-a-row and 10-in-a-row sequences. They have also won a record 29 Spanish Basketball King's Cup, Spanish Cup titles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virum BK
Virum Basketball Klub is a Danish professional basketball club based in Virum, a suburban neighbourhood in Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality. The Virum men's team plays in the First Division and the women's team in the second division after relegation of the 2010–11 season. For sponsorship reasons the club's current name is Virum Vipers. History Virum was founded in 1957 under the name ''"Virum Statsskoles Basketball Klub"'' (Virum State School Basketball Club), named after the then newly opened school, which today is called Virum Gymnasium. The club got its first senior team in 1961 and over the following makes both women's and men hold up through the ranks. In 1964, both teams became Copenhagen Champions, and for the men it meant promotion to the country's first division. In the early seventies the men's team became back to back champions and earned the right to participate in the FIBA European Champions Cup. In 1970–71 season the club played its first European games against ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
