The 1973–74

FIBA Korać Cup The FIBA Korać Cup was an annual basketball club competition held by FIBA Europe between the 1971–72 and 2001–02 seasons. It was the European professional club basketball system, third-tier level club competition in European basketball, a ...

was the third edition of

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's new competition, running from 6 November 1973 to 11 April 1974. It was contested by 37 teams, twenty-five more than in the previous edition. Birra Forst Cantù defeated Partizan in the final to become the competition's first back-to-back champion.

Season teams

First round

*Originally,

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and 1.FC Bamberg were drawn to play against the Israeli teams

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and Maccabi Ramat Gan, respectively, but

cancelled these match-ups and declared the former clubs winners. ** Soma Wien withdrew before the first leg and HAN Thessaloniki received a forfeit (2–0) in both games.

Second round

;Automatically qualified to round of 12: * Birra Forst Cantù (title holder)

Round of 12

The round of 12 were played with a round-robin system, in which every Two Game series (TGS) constituted as one game for the record.

Semi finals

Finals

References

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1973–74 FIBA Korać Cup
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