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club competition FIBA European Champions Cup (now called EuroLeague). It was won by

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, after they beat

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in a three-legged EuroLeague Finals, after the two first games ended with an

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. CSKA won the third and decisive game, by a score of 99–80, and thus won its second European Champions Cup.

Competition system

26 teams. European national domestic league champions, plus the then current FIBA European Champions Cup title holders only, playing in a tournament system. The finals were a two-game home-and-away aggregate.

First round

*series decided over one game in Casablanca.

Second round

;Automatically qualified to the quarter finals: *

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(title holder)

Quarterfinals

*A tie-break was played in Madrid on 2 April 1963:

– Honvéd 77–65.

Semifinals

Finals

First leg Fiesta Alegre fronton;Attendance 5,000, 23 July 1963Champions Cup 1962–63
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Second leg Lenin Palace of Sports;Attendance 20,000, 31 July 1963 *Third leg Lenin Palace of Sports;Attendance 20,000, 1 August 1963,

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Awards

FIBA European Champions Cup Finals Top Scorer

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References

External links

1962–63 FIBA European Champions Cup
* ttp://www.linguasport.com/baloncesto/internacional/clubes/c1/C1_63.htm 1962–63 FIBA European Champions Cupbr>Champions Cup 1962–63 Line-ups and Stats
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EuroLeague seasons