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EuroLeague Finals
The EuroLeague Finals are the championship finals of the EuroLeague competition. The EuroLeague is European professional club basketball pyramid, the highest level tier, and most important professional sports, professional sports club, club basketball competition in Europe. Real Madrid Baloncesto, Real Madrid have won the European championship on 11 occasions, more than any other club, with its most recent victory in 2023 EuroLeague Final Four#Championship game, 2023. Panathinaikos B.C., Panathinaikos of Athens is the current holder of the Euroleague championship of 2023-2024. Title holders * ......1958 Rīgas ASK * 1958–59 Rīgas ASK * 1959–60 Rīgas ASK * 1960–61 PBC CSKA Moscow, CSKA Moscow * 1961–62 BC Dinamo Tbilisi, Dinamo Tbilisi * 1962–63 PBC CSKA Moscow, CSKA Moscow * 1963–64 Real Madrid Baloncesto, Real Madrid * 1964–65 Real Madrid Baloncesto, Real Madrid * 1965–66 Pallacanestro Olimpia Milano, Simmenthal Milano * 1966–67 Real Madrid Balonc ... [...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] |
KK Cibona
Košarkaški klub Cibona, commonly referred to as Cibona Zagreb or simply Cibona, is a men's professional basketball club based in Zagreb, Croatia. The club is a founding member and shareholder of the Adriatic Basketball Association, and competes in the ABA League 2 and the Croatian League. History Formation and early years Cibona's history dates to late autumn of 1945 when Sloboda (''Freedom'') was founded as a sports society of bank workers, craftsmen, traders, and clerks. On April 24, 1946, thanks to basketball enthusiast Branimir Volfer and his friends Ljubo Prosen and Joso Miloš, basketball section of Sloboda, the predecessor of today's Cibona, was formed. Its first game was against local rival Slavija on May 7, 1946. Sloboda did not last too long under that name as in November 1946, it merged with Tekstilac, Amater and Grafičar into Sportsko društvo Zagreb (''Sports Society Zagreb''). Name changing continued through the next four years. In late 1948 it was known as V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1958 FIBA European Champions Cup Finals
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1958 FIBA European Champions Cup
The 1958 FIBA European Champions Cup was the inaugural season of the European top-tier level professional basketball club competition FIBA European Champions Cup (now called EuroLeague). It was won by Rīgas ASK, after they won both EuroLeague Finals games against Academic. Previously, they had not played the semifinals, as Real Madrid was not allowed to travel to Soviet Riga by the Francoist authorities. The first game was held on February 22, 1958, in Brussels, Belgium, where Belgian League champion Royal IV, defeated the Luxembourger League champions, Etzella Ettelbruck, by a score of 82–43. The most notable contributors to Riga's first title included center Jānis Krūmiņš and head coach Alexander Gomelsky. Competition system 23 teams. European national domestic league champions only, playing in a tournament system. The Finals were a two-game home and away aggregate. Preliminary round Group A (Northeast Europe) Group B (Central Europe) First round *Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anadolu Efes S
Anadolu (from Ancient Greek , 'east') is the Turkish form of Anatolia, which refers to a region of the world that is now part of the nation of Turkey, also known as Asia Minor (Medieval and Modern Greek). Anadolu may also refer to: Education * Anadolu University, Turkish university * Bursa Anadolu Lisesi, Bursa Anatolian High School Sports * Anadolu Efes S.K., Turkish basketball club * Anadolu Üsküdar 1908, Turkish football club Transportation * Anadolu Airport, Turkish airport *AnadoluJet, Turkish airline *Isuzu (Anadolu), a coach-manufacturing company Other uses *Proper name of the star WASP-52 * Anadolu Efes Biracılık ve Malt Sanayii A.Ş., Turkish brewing company *''Anadolu Mecmuası'', a periodical published by Hilmi Ziya Ülken and Reşat Kayı *Anadolu Agency, Turkish news agency *Anadolu Medical Center, hospital in Turkey * Anadolu pony, a breed of horse native to the region *Anadolu Shipyard, a Turkish shipbuilding company in the defense industry *Anadoluh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic In Europe
The global COVID-19 pandemic arrived in Europe with its first confirmed case in Bordeaux, France, on 24 January 2020, and subsequently spread widely across the continent. By 17 March 2020, every country in Europe had confirmed a case, and all have reported at least one death, with the exception of Vatican City. Italy was the first European country to experience a major outbreak in early 2020, becoming the first country worldwide to introduce a national lockdown. By 13 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Europe the epicentre of the pandemic and it remained so until the WHO announced it was overtaken by South America on 22 May. By 18 March 2020, lockdowns introduced in Europe affected more than 250 million people. Despite deployment of COVID-19 vaccines, Europe became the pandemic's epicentre once again in late 2021. On 11 January 2022, Dr. Hans Kluge, the WHO Regional Director for Europe said, "more than 50 percent of the population in the region wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FC Barcelona Bàsquet
FC Barcelona Bàsquet (English: FC Barcelona Basketball), commonly referred to as FC Barcelona () and colloquially known as Barça (), is a professional basketball team based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is a part of the FC Barcelona sports club, multi-sports club, and was founded on 24 August 1926, which makes it the oldest club in the Liga ACB. The team, which competes in the Liga ACB and the EuroLeague, is one of the most successful basketball teams domestically as well as internationally. Two times European champions, Barça completed a European Basketball Triple Crown, triple crown in 2003 by winning the season's league, cup and EuroLeague. Their home arena is the Palau Blaugrana, which was opened on 23 October 1971. They share the facilities with the FC Barcelona Hoquei, roller hockey, FC Barcelona Futsal, futsal and FC Barcelona Handbol, handball teams of the club. Some of the well-known players that have played with the team included Pau Gasol, Rony Seikaly, Marc Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BC Žalgiris
Basketball Club Žalgiris () commonly known as BC Žalgiris, is a professional basketball club based in Kaunas, Lithuania. They compete domestically in the Lietuvos krepšinio lyga, Lithuanian Basketball League (''Lietuvos krepšinio lyga'') and internationally as a long-term licensed EuroLeague team. Since the 2011–12 season, Žalgiris has played its home games in Žalgiris Arena in the Centras Eldership, New Town district of Kaunas. Žalgiris is the most decorated Basketball in Lithuania, basketball club in the country, having won 24 Lithuanian Basketball League championships, five USSR Premier Basketball League, Soviet Union National League championships (the second most behind PBC CSKA Moscow, CSKA Moscow), and one EuroLeague championship. Many Basketball in Lithuania, Lithuanian basketball legends have played for Žalgiris throughout the club's history, including Arvydas Sabonis, Modestas Paulauskas, and Šarūnas Jasikevičius. Eight of the fifteen Lithuanian basketball p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virtus Pallacanestro Bologna
Virtus Pallacanestro Bologna, known for sponsorship reasons as Virtus Segafredo Bologna, is an Italian professional basketball club based in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna. The club was founded in 1929, which makes it the oldest club in Italy and one of the oldest in Europe. Virtus is the second most titled basketball club in Italy after Olimpia Milano, having won 16 Italian Lega Basket Serie A, national championships, 8 Italian Basketball Cup, Italian National Cups and 4 Italian Basketball Supercup, Italian Supercups. Moreover, it is one of the most successful teams in European competitions, having won two EuroLeagues, one EuroCup Basketball, EuroCup, one FIBA Saporta Cup, one FIBA EuroChallenge, EuroChallenge and one Basketball Champions League. It currently plays in the Italian first division Lega Basket Serie A, LBA as well as in the EuroLeague. The club is owned by the coffee entrepreneur Massimo Zanetti. Some of the club's star players over the years have included: Gianni Bertolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olympiacos B
Olympiacos Football Club B, or simply Olympiacos B (), is the reserve team of Greek club Olympiacos that will be competing in the Super League Greece 2. It was founded in 2021. Stadium The stadium that hosted Olympiacos B' is the Rentis Training Centre with a capacity of 3,000. Coach and staff Ariel Ibagaza was appointed the coach in July 2021, with former Nottingham Forest youth coach Guilherme Ramos appointed his assistant in August 2021. Dissolution and reconstitution In the season 2023–24 of Super League 2, Olympiacos B finished 10th hence was relegated to Gamma Ethniki, the third highest football league in Greece.However, clubs in Gamma Ethniki can only consist of amateur players since it's an amateur division, hence no professional players can play in the reserve team of Olympiakos which was the case in the past for players like Youssef El Arabi,Kostas Fortounis e.t.c. and young players like Apostolopoulos. However, according to statements by Olympiacos F.C. vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Club Joventut Badalona
Club Joventut Badalona, S.A.D. () is a Spanish professional basketball club based in Badalona, Catalonia, Spain, playing in the Liga ACB and the EuroCup. Known to their fans as ''La Penya'' (in English, ''The Club''), it is one of only two teams that have never been relegated from the top division of the Spanish League. The only other is Real Madrid. In 1994, Joventut Badalona became champion of the FIBA European League (today known as the EuroLeague), the first Catalan basketball club to accomplish such a grandiose achievement and the first Spanish team to do so in the modern era Final Four format. Well-known players have included the Margall brothers (with Josep Maria Margall), Zoran Slavnić, Jordi Villacampa, Rafael Jofresa, Corny Thompson, Mike Smith, Reggie Johnson, Harold Pressley, Tanoka Beard, Andre Turner, Raül López, Rudy Fernández, Ricky Rubio, Pau Ribas, Demond Mallet, Nicolás Laprovittola, Joel Parra, Andrés Feliz and Ante Tomic. History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
