The 2013–14
EuroChallenge was the 11th edition of Europe's
third-tier level transnational competition for men's professional basketball clubs. The winner and the runner-up of this competition earned a place at the group stage of the
2014–15 Eurocup season.
The Final Four was held in
PalaDozza
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in
Bologna
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,
Italy
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. The host of the tournament,
Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia won the Final by beating
Triumph Lyubertsy
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79–65. Italian player
Andrea Cinciarini received the Final Four MVP award.
Competition format changes
This year's EuroChallenge saw a number of innovations, including the division of the participating clubs into two main Conferences for the Regular Season - Conference 1 and Conference 2 - based on a broad geographical criteria. This year no qualification round was held.
The 32 teams were divided into eight round-robin groups of four teams each for the regular season. The two best-placed teams qualified to the next phase of the competition.
Teams
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round. (TH: Title holder)
* 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc.: League position after eventual playoffs
Draw
The draws for the 2013–14 FIBA EuroChallenge were held on Friday, July 5 in
Munich
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,
Germany
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.
Teams were seeded into four pots of four teams in accordance with the FIBA Club ranking, based on their performance in European competitions during a three-year period.
The 32 clubs registered for this year's competition were divided into two conferences (1 and 2), based on broad geographical criteria.
;Conference 1
;Conference 2
Regular season
The regular season began on November 5.
If teams are level on record at the end of the Regular Season, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:
# Head-to-head record.
# Head-to-head point differential.
# Point differential during the Regular Season.
# Points scored during the regular season.
# Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each Regular Season match.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Group G
Group H
Last 16
Group I
Group J
Group K
Group L
Quarterfinals
The quarter-finals were played in a best-of-three series. The dates of the matches were 11, 13 and 18 March. Team 1 played the first and the third game at home court.
Final Four
The Final Four was played between the four winners of the quarterfinals at
PalaDozza
PalaDozza is an indoor sporting arena located at Piazza Azzarita Manfredi 8, in Bologna, Italy. It was named after Giuseppe Dozza, the long-time communist mayor of Bologna, who served from 1945 to 1966. In Italy, the arena is frequently nickname ...
in
Bologna
Bologna ( , , ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy. It is the List of cities in Italy, seventh most populous city in Italy, with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nationalities. Its M ...
,
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...
. It was the second time the EuroChallenge Final Four was held in Bologna.
Individual statistics
Points
Rebounds
Assists
Individual highs
Awards
Weekly MVP
Regular season
Last 16
Quarterfinals
Final Four MVP
*
Andrea Cinciarini (
Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia)
See also
*
2013–14 Euroleague
The 2013–14 Turkish Airlines Euroleague was the 14th season of the modern era of Euroleague Basketball and the fourth under the title sponsorship of the Turkish Airlines. Including the competition's previous incarnation as the FIBA Europe Champi ...
*
2013–14 Eurocup
References
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FIBA EuroChallenge seasons
EuroChallenge