The 1972–73
FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup
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was the seventh edition of
FIBA
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's
2nd-tier level European-wide professional club
basketball
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competition, contested between national domestic cup champions, running from 18 October 1972, to 21 March 1973. It was contested by 26 teams, five more than in the
previous edition.
1971 runner-up Spartak Leningrad, defeated
Jugoplastika
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in the final, to become the first
Soviet League team to win the competition, ending a 3-year period of
Italian League dominance.
Basketball – Spartak Leningrad wins the Cup Winners' Cup
El Mundo Deportivo
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, 22 March 1973 It was the second straight final lost by a Yugoslav League team.
Participants
First round
Second round
;Automatically qualified to the eighth finals:
* Spartak Leningrad
Top 12
Quarterfinals
The quarter finals were played with a round-robin system, in which every Two Game series (TGS) constituted as one game for the record.
Semifinals
Final
March 20, Alexandreio Melathron
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, Thessaloniki
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References
External links
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FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup 1972–73
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Cup
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FIBA Saporta Cup