In European
professional
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club
basketball
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, the Triple Crown refers to a club winning their country's top-tier level national domestic league, their county's primary national domestic cup, and the
top-tier level European-wide continental competition, which is the
EuroLeague
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, all in the same season. It is the highest accomplishment that a European professional basketball
club can achieve during a season. To date, only a total of 12 different European basketball clubs have managed to achieve winning the European Basketball Triple Crown, in a total of 22 occasions.
All the European Basketball Triple Crowns achieved
*In the 2000–01 season, there were two first-tier level European-wide champions:
Maccabi Tel Aviv, that won
FIBA
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's
SuproLeague and
Kinder Bologna, that won
EuroLeague Basketball Company's
EuroLeague
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.
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Šarūnas Jasikevičius is the only player in the history of European basketball to have won the European Triple Crown with his teams 4 times. The teams that won the Triple Crown in which Jasikevičius played are:
FC Barcelona
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in 2002–03,
Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv in 2003–04, and 2004–05, and
Panathinaikos in 2008–09.
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Željko Obradović
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is the only
head coach
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to have won the European Triple Crown three times: in 1991–92 with
Partizan, and in 2006–07 and 2008–09 with
Panathinaikos.
Achievements by club
Achievements by national league
"Small European Basketball Triple Crown"
Second-tiers
In addition, five European professional basketball clubs have won their top-tier level national domestic league, their top-tier level national domestic cup, and one of the
2nd-tier level European-wide competitions (
FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup / FIBA European Cup /
EuroCup /
FIBA Champions League) in the same season – the so-called, "Small European Triple Crown".
Third and fourth-tiers
Seven pro European basketball clubs, on eight different occasions, have won their top-tier level national domestic league, their top-tier level national domestic cup, and one of the
3rd-tier level European-wide competitions (
FIBA Korać Cup
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/
FIBA EuroChallenge
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), or one of the 4th-tier level European-wide competitions (
Original FIBA Europe Cup /
Second FIBA Europe Cup), in the same season.
References
{{Euroleague seasons
Basketball statistics
EuroLeague awards and honors