The 1999–2000 FIBA EuroLeague was the 43rd installment of the
European top-tier level professional
club
Club may refer to:
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
* ...
competition for
basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...
clubs (now called simply
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 lon ...
). It began on September 23, 1999, and ended on April 20, 2000. The
competition's Final Four was held at
PAOK Sports Arena
P.A.O.K. Sports Arena () is an indoor arena located in Pylaia, Thessaloniki, Greece, and it hosts the P.A.O.K. B.C., men's basketball, P.A.O.K. women's basketball, women's basketball, P.A.O.K. V.C., men's volleyball and P.A.O.K. Women's Volleybal ...
,
Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki (; ), also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, Salonika, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece (with slightly over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area) and the capital cit ...
, with
Panathinaikos
Panathinaikos Athlitikos Omilos (, literally in English: "Panathenaic Athletic Club" or Panathinaikos A.C.), also known simply as Panathinaikós , is a major Greek multi-sport club based in the City of Athens. Panathinaikos is one of the mos ...
defeating
Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv in the
EuroLeague Final
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.
Real Madrid have won the European championship o ...
, in front of 8,500 spectators.
Efes Pilsen
Anadolu Efes Biracılık ve Malt Sanayii A.Ş.'' (lit. Anadolu Efes Brewery and Malt Industries)'' produces and markets beer and malt and non-alcoholic beverages in Turkey, the United States, Russia, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), E ...
finished in the third position, and
FC Barcelona
Futbol Club Barcelona (), commonly known as FC Barcelona and colloquially as Barça (), is a professional Football club (association football), football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top flight of ...
finished fourth.
Competition system
*24 teams (the national domestic league champions from the best leagues, and a variable number of other clubs from the most important national domestic leagues). The competition culminated in a Final Four.
Country ranking
For the 1999–2000 EuroLeague, the countries are allocated places according to their place on the FIBA country rankings, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1996–97 to 1998–99.
;Note
Team allocation
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
* 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.: League position after Playoffs
* WC:
Wild card
Wild card most commonly refers to:
* Wild card (cards), a playing card that substitutes for any other card in card games
* Wild card (sports), a tournament or playoff place awarded to an individual or team that has not qualified through normal pla ...
Preliminary round
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Qualification round
(The individual scores and standings of the First stage were accumulated in the Second stage)
If one or more clubs were level on won-lost record, tiebreakers were applied in the following order:
#Head-to-head record in matches between the tied clubs
#Overall point difference in games between the tied clubs
#Overall point difference in all group matches (first tiebreaker if tied clubs were not in the same group)
#Points scored in all group matches
#Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each group match
Group E
Group F
Group G
Group H
Play Offs
Bracket
Teams in bold advanced to the next round. The numbers to the left of each team indicate the team's seeding, the numbers to the right indicate the result of games including result in bold of the team that won in that game, and the numbers furthest to the right indicate the number of games the team won in that round.
Eight-Finals
Quarter-Finals
Final Four
Semifinals
April 18, PAOK Sports Arena
P.A.O.K. Sports Arena () is an indoor arena located in Pylaia, Thessaloniki, Greece, and it hosts the P.A.O.K. B.C., men's basketball, P.A.O.K. women's basketball, women's basketball, P.A.O.K. V.C., men's volleyball and P.A.O.K. Women's Volleybal ...
, Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki (; ), also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, Salonika, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece (with slightly over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area) and the capital cit ...
Third place game
April 20, PAOK Sports Arena
P.A.O.K. Sports Arena () is an indoor arena located in Pylaia, Thessaloniki, Greece, and it hosts the P.A.O.K. B.C., men's basketball, P.A.O.K. women's basketball, women's basketball, P.A.O.K. V.C., men's volleyball and P.A.O.K. Women's Volleybal ...
, Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki (; ), also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, Salonika, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece (with slightly over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area) and the capital cit ...
Final
April 20, PAOK Sports Arena
P.A.O.K. Sports Arena () is an indoor arena located in Pylaia, Thessaloniki, Greece, and it hosts the P.A.O.K. B.C., men's basketball, P.A.O.K. women's basketball, women's basketball, P.A.O.K. V.C., men's volleyball and P.A.O.K. Women's Volleybal ...
, Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki (; ), also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, Salonika, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece (with slightly over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area) and the capital cit ...
Awards
All official awards of the 1999–00 FIBA EuroLeague.
FIBA EuroLeague Final Four MVP
* Željko Rebrača
Željko Rebrača ( sr-Cyrl, Жељко Ребрача; born 9 April 1972) is a Serbian former professional basketball player and currently the president of KK Vojvodina, Vojvodina basketball club. After playing in Europe and the National Basketba ...
( Panathinaikos
Panathinaikos Athlitikos Omilos (, literally in English: "Panathenaic Athletic Club" or Panathinaikos A.C.), also known simply as Panathinaikós , is a major Greek multi-sport club based in the City of Athens. Panathinaikos is one of the mos ...
)
FIBA EuroLeague All-Final Four Team
FIBA EuroLeague Top Scorer
* Miljan Goljović
Miljan Goljović (born August 27, 1971) is a retired Slovenian professional basketball player. He was a 2.03 m tall small forward, that was a remarkable talent on offense.
Club career
Goljović was the EuroLeague Top Scorer, Top Scorer of the Eur ...
( Pivovarna Laško)
FIBA EuroLeague Finals Top Scorer
* Nate Huffman
Nathaniel Thomas Huffman (April 2, 1975 – October 15, 2015) was an American professional basketball player, who played most of his career with Maccabi Tel Aviv. He was the 2001 Israeli Basketball Premier League MVP, as well as the 2001 FIBA Su ...
( Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv)
Statistics
Individual statistics
Points
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Rebounds
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Assists
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Blocks
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Other statistics
Individual game highs
Team statistics
See also
* 1999–00 FIBA Saporta Cup
* 1999–00 FIBA Korać Cup
References
External links
1999–2000 FIBA EuroLeague
*
Eurobasket.com 1999–2000 FIBA EuroLeague
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