The 2018 FIBA Europe Cup Finals will be the concluding games of the

2017–18 FIBA Europe Cup The 2017–18 FIBA Europe Cup was the third season of the FIBA Europe Cup, a European professional sports, professional basketball competition for sports club, clubs that was launched by FIBA. The competition began on 20 September 2017, with the qu ...

season. The Finals will be played in a two-legged format, with the first leg being played on April 25 and the second one on 2 May 2018. For the second consecutive time, two teams from the same country will meet in the final.

Venue

The

Palasport Giacomo Del Mauro Palasport Giacomo Del Mauro is an indoor sporting arena that is located in Avellino, Italy. The seating capacity of the arena for basketball games is 5,300 people. The arena is primarily used to host home basketball games of the Air Avellino p ...

was the first venue. The Palasport originally had a 3,600 seating capacity. It was expanded to a 5,300 seating capacity in 2008, specifically in order to meet the minimum capacity requirements for EuroLeague games, which require an arena of at least 5,000 seats. In 2008, the arena's usage rights were also entrusted to Air Avellino, for a period of ten years. The Palasport Giuseppe Taliercio in

Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The isla ...

, the venue for the second leg, opened in 1978.Palasport Taliercio.
/ref> It was used as one of the host arenas of the

1979 EuroBasket The 1979 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 1979, was the 21st FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship, held by FIBA Europe. Twelve national teams affiliated with the International Basketball Federation ente ...

. It has most notably been used as the home arena of the Italian basketball club,

Reyer Venezia Mestre S.S.P. Reyer Venezia Mestre, commonly known as Reyer Venezia or simply Reyer, is an Italian professional basketball club that is based in Venice, Veneto. The club currently plays in the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA), the highest tier of basketball in ...

, of the

Lega Basket Serie A The Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) is a professional men's club basketball league that has been organised in Italy since 1920. Serie A is organised by Lega Basket, which is regulated by the Italian Basketball Federation (FIP). It is the highest-tie ...

. The Italian club

Basket Mestre 1958 {{Infobox Basketball club , color1 = white , color2 = #C11B17 , name = Basket Mestre 1958 , nickname = , logo = , imagesize = 150px , leagues = , founded = 1958, 2009 , history = ...

also used the arena at one time.

Road to the Finals

''Note: In the table, the score of the finalist is given first (H = home; A = away).''

Venue

Road to the Finals

First leg

Second leg

References

See also