The 2015 Euroleague Final Four was the concluding
EuroLeague Final Four
The EuroLeague Final Four is the final four format championship of the European-wide top-tier level EuroLeague professional club basketball competition. The Euroleague Basketball Company used the final four format for the first time in 2002, fo ...
tournament of the
2014–15 Euroleague
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season. The Final Four was held on 15 and 17 May 2015. All of the games were played at the
Barclaycard Center, in
Madrid
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, Spain. It was the third time the city of Madrid hosted the Final Four, and the 6th time the
Final of the EuroLeague was played there.
Real Madrid
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won its 9th
EuroLeague
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title, after they beat
Olympiacos
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, by a score of 78–59.
CSKA Moscow
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took the third place, while
Fenerbahçe Ülker finished in fourth.
Road to the Final Four
Bracket
Semifinals
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CSKA Moscow vs. Olympiacos
CSKA Moscow came into the semifinals, widely considered to be the favourite. It was a rematch of the
2012
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Final and
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Semifinal. Both of those previous games were won by Olympiacos.
Olympiacos rallied late in the fourth quarter, after it had been down by 9 with four minutes to go.
Vassilis Spanoulis
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came up clutch, as he scored 11 points in the fourth quarter, to pull Olympiacos away from CSKA.
Aaron Jackson set a Final Four record during the game, with 7 steals.
Real Madrid vs. Fenerbahçe Ülker
The hosts, Real Madrid, were considered the favourites to win the game against Fenerbahçe, which made its Final Four debut.
Real Madrid dominated in the first half, and they led 55–35 at halftime.
A fourth quarter rally by Fenerbahçe came up too little, too late.
Gustavo Ayón
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was top scorer for Real, with 18 points.
Andrew Goudelock
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scored 26 for Fenerbahçe.
Third place game
Championship game
The game was a re-match of the
2013 Euroleague Final and the
1995 FIBA European League Final.
See also
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2015 Eurocup Finals
The 2015 Eurocup finals were the concluding two games of the 2014–15 Eurocup Basketball season. BC Khimki and Herbalife Gran Canaria faced off in a two-legged series.
It was the third time that Khimki played in a Eurocup Finals, after their leag ...
*
2015 EuroChallenge Final Four
The 2015 EuroChallenge Final Four was the concluding tournament of the 2014–15 EuroChallenge season. The tournament was held in the Hayri Gür Arena in Trabzon, home of Trabzonspor Medical Park, one of the semifinalists. JSF Nanterre took the ...
References
External links
EuroLeague website
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Final Four
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2014 Euroleague Final Four
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2014 Euroleague Final Four
The 2014 Euroleague Final Four was the concluding EuroLeague Final Four tournament of the 2013–14 Euroleague basketball season. It was held from 16 to 18 May 2014. All of the games were played at the Mediolanum Forum, in Milan. Maccabi Tel Avi ...
Euroleague Final Four
The EuroLeague Final Four is the final four format championship of the European-wide top-tier level EuroLeague professional club basketball competition. The Euroleague Basketball Company used the final four format for the first time in 2002, fo ...