2019–20 FIBA Europe Cup
The 2019–20 FIBA Europe Cup was the fifth season of the FIBA Europe Cup, a European professional basketball competition for clubs, that was launched by FIBA.
FIBA Europe Cup | |
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Season | 2019–20 |
Teams | 32 (regular season) 42 (overall) |
Dates | 2 October – 9 October 2019 (Qualifying round) 22 October 2019 – 29 April 2020 (Competition proper) |
Final positions | |
Champions | Null and void |
Records | |
Biggest home win | Ventspils 105–57 APOEL (20 November 2019) |
Biggest away win | Sigal Prishtina 72-122 Ventspils (27 November 2019) |
Highest scoring | Kataja 112–105 Legia (13 November 2019) |
On 12 March 2020, FIBA suspended all its competitions due to the coronavirus pandemic[1][2] and terminated the FIBA Europe Cup. However, Pınar Karşıyaka requested to finish the competition with a Final Four format as in the 2019–20 Basketball Champions League.[3]
On 16 June 2020, FIBA Europe announced the season was declared void and would not be finished due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[4]
Team allocation
Teams from around Europe can sign up to play in the FIBA Europe Cup. Spots are granted based on results in domestic championships.[5]
Teams registered were officially published on 23 July 2019.[6]
Regular season | |||
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Spirou (3rd) | Ironi Nes Ziona (6th) | Ventspils (CL QR2) | Tsmoki Minsk (CL QR1) |
Phoenix Brussels (4th) | Landstede Hammers (1st) | Legia (CL QR2) | Balkan (CL QR1) |
Egis Körmend (2nd) | Sibiu (2nd) | Benfica (CL QR2) | Bakken Bears (CL QR1) |
Pécs Veolia (3rd) | Enisey (9th) | Södertälje Kings (CL QR2) | Sigal Prishtina (CL QR1) |
Levski Lukoil (2nd) | Bahçeşehir Koleji (9th) | Fribourg Olympic (CL QR2) | Donar (CL QR1) |
APOEL (3rd) | Keravnos (CL QR2) | Kyiv Basket (CL QR2) | Oradea (CL QR1) |
medi Bayreuth (12th) | |
Kapfenberg Bulls (CL QR1) | Inter Bratislava (CL QR1) |
Qualification round | |||
Borisfen (2nd) | Kataja (6th) | U-BT Cluj-Napoca (3rd) | Dnipro (4th) |
Beroe (3rd) | Rahoveci (2nd) | Borås (2nd) | |
Tartu Ülikool (5th) | ZZ Leiden (3rd) | Pınar Karşıyaka (11th) |
Applicants
The following 4 teams chose the option of ending their continental adventure if they were eliminated from the Champions League qualifying rounds and therefore refuse to participate in the FIBA Europe Cup:[7]
Round and draw dates
The schedule of the competition is as follows.
Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
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Qualifying rounds | Qualifying round | 24 July 2019 | 1–2 October 2019 | 9 October 2019 |
Regular season | Matchday 1 | 22–23 October 2019 | ||
Matchday 2 | 29–30 October 2019 | |||
Matchday 3 | 5–6 November 2019 | |||
Matchday 4 | 12–13 November 2019 | |||
Matchday 5 | 19–20 November 2019 | |||
Matchday 6 | 27 November 2019 | |||
Second round | Matchday 1 | 11 December 2019 | ||
Matchday 2 | 18 December 2019 | |||
Matchday 3 | 7–8 January 2020 | |||
Matchday 4 | 20–22 January 2020 | |||
Matchday 5 | 29 January 2020 | |||
Matchday 6 | 4–5 February 2020 | |||
Play-offs | Quarter-finals | 4 March 2020 | 11 March 2020 | |
Semi-finals | 25 March 2020 | 1 April 2020 | ||
Finals | 22 April 2020 | 29 April 2020 |
Qualifying round
The draw for the qualifying round will be held on 24 July 2019 at the FIBA headquarters in Munich, Germany.
Teams are divided into seeded and unseeded teams based on their club coefficients, and then drawn into two-legged home-and-away ties, being the second leg played at the home of the seeded team.[6]
Seeds
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Qualifying round
A total of 10 teams played in the first qualifying round. The first legs were played on 2 October, and the second legs were played on 9 October 2019.
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Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Tartu Ülikool | 165–171 | Kataja | 78–72 | 87–99 |
Beroe | 172–179 | ZZ Leiden | 86–71 | 86–108 |
Borisfen | 147–182 | Dnipro | 76–101 | 71–81 |
Borås | 128–155 | Pınar Karşıyaka | 70–77 | 58–78 |
Rahoveci | 120–189 | U-BT Cluj-Napoca | 73–98 | 47–91 |
Regular season
The draw for the regular season was held on 24 July 2019 at the FIBA headquarters in Munich, Germany.
The 32 teams are drawn into eight groups of four, a maximum of two clubs from the same country can be in the same group. In each group, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advance to the second round, while the third-placed teams and fourth-placed teams are eliminated.
The following 4 teams chose the option of ending their continental adventure if they were eliminated from the Champions League qualifying rounds and therefore refuse to participate in the FIBA Europe Cup:
Notes:
- Strikethrough teams were eliminated from the Basketball Champions League qualifying rounds and refused to participate in the FIBA Europe Cup.
- Teams marked in italics advanced to the Basketball Champions League regular season.
A total of 32 teams play in the regular season: the 12 teams directly qualified, the 5 winners of the qualifying round, the 15 of 16 losers of the 2019–20 Champions League qualifying rounds.
Depending on the number of teams mentioned above that were eliminated from the Basketball Champions League qualifying rounds and with the aim to complete the 32 places in the regular season, the number of the defeated teams in the qualifying round of the FIBA Europe Cup that advanced to the regular season were determined by the point difference recorded at the end of their pairings. In their draw, the first qualifying round was used for tie-breaking. In the draw persists, the next criteria was the performance of clubs in the last three seasons at the European competitions.
The match-days are on 22–23 October, 29–30 October, 5–6 November, 12–13 November, 19–20 November and 27 November 2019.
Group A
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | BEN | LEI | INT | PEC | |
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1 | Benfica | 6 | 5 | 1 | 517 | 489 | +28 | 11 | Advance to second round | — | 103–99 | 77–68 | 85–66 | |
2 | ZZ Leiden | 6 | 4 | 2 | 533 | 503 | +30 | 10 | 84–68 | — | 80–67 | 105–100 | ||
3 | Inter Bratislava | 6 | 2 | 4 | 486 | 520 | −34 | 8 | 91–95 | 78–88 | — | 88–87 | ||
4 | Pécs Veolia | 6 | 1 | 5 | 514 | 538 | −24 | 7 | 81–89 | 87–77 | 93–94 | — |
Group B
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | IRO | LAN | KER | KAP | |
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1 | Ironi Nes Ziona | 6 | 6 | 0 | 460 | 405 | +55 | 12 | Advance to second round | — | 96–90 | 87–78 | 20–0 | |
2 | Landstede Hammers | 6 | 3 | 3 | 530 | 477 | +53 | 9 | 88–94 | — | 78–72 | 89–64 | ||
3 | Keravnos | 6 | 2 | 4 | 464 | 491 | −27 | 8 | 74–85 | 88–85 | — | 76–70 | ||
4 | Kapfenberg Bulls | 6 | 1 | 5 | 362 | 443 | −81 | 7 | 75–82 | 67–100 | 86–76 | — |
Group C
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | VEN | BAY | PRI | APO | |
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1 | Ventspils | 6 | 6 | 0 | 602 | 439 | +163 | 12 | Advance to second round | — | 95–77 | 104–84 | 105–57 | |
2 | medi Bayreuth | 6 | 4 | 2 | 542 | 472 | +70 | 10 | 80–84 | — | 97–89 | 112–68 | ||
3 | Sigal Prishtina | 6 | 2 | 4 | 513 | 570 | −57 | 8 | 72–122 | 68–93 | — | 93–74 | ||
4 | APOEL | 6 | 0 | 6 | 416 | 592 | −176 | 6 | 69–92 | 68–83 | 80–107 | — |
Group D
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | BAH | ORA | FRI | SIB | |
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1 | Bahçeşehir Koleji | 6 | 5 | 1 | 472 | 430 | +42 | 11 | Advance to second round | — | 66–71 | 79–70 | 80–71 | |
2 | Oradea | 6 | 4 | 2 | 461 | 456 | +5 | 10 | 77–88 | — | 67–87 | 92–86 | ||
3 | Fribourg Olympic | 6 | 2 | 4 | 428 | 466 | −38 | 8 | 60–76 | 60–79 | — | 69–91 | ||
4 | Sibiu | 6 | 1 | 5 | 472 | 481 | −9 | 7 | 81–83 | 69–75 | 74–82 | — |
Group E
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | KSK | SPI | DON | BRU | |
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1 | Pınar Karşıyaka | 6 | 5 | 1 | 496 | 410 | +86 | 11 | Advance to second round | — | 92–54 | 77–57 | 93–90 | |
2 | Spirou | 6 | 3 | 3 | 473 | 467 | +6 | 9 | 81–76 | — | 87–56 | 72–75 | ||
3 | Donar | 6 | 2 | 4 | 386 | 454 | −68 | 8 | 62–79 | 64–78 | — | 75–63 | ||
4 | Phoenix Brussels | 6 | 2 | 4 | 468 | 492 | −24 | 8 | 66–79 | 104–101 | 70–72 | — |
Group F
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | KYI | TSM | LEV | DNI | |
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1 | Kyiv Basket | 6 | 4 | 2 | 506 | 492 | +14 | 10 | Advance to second round | — | 74–99 | 86–66 | 95–88 | |
2 | Tsmoki Minsk | 6 | 3 | 3 | 511 | 500 | +11 | 9 | 84–92 | — | 81–68 | 108–101 | ||
3 | Levski Lukoil | 6 | 3 | 3 | 453 | 453 | 0 | 9 | 76–83 | 75–64 | — | 85–78 | ||
4 | Dnipro | 6 | 2 | 4 | 497 | 522 | −25 | 8 | 79–76 | 90–75 | 61–83 | — |
Group G
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | CLU | ENI | BAL | SOD | |
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1 | U-BT Cluj-Napoca | 6 | 5 | 1 | 533 | 490 | +43 | 11 | Advance to second round | — | 97–83 | 92–80 | 85–74 | |
2 | Enisey | 6 | 4 | 2 | 535 | 478 | +57 | 10 | 97–87 | — | 84–69 | 99–78 | ||
3 | Balkan | 6 | 2 | 4 | 480 | 524 | −44 | 8 | 76–86 | 82–80 | — | 90–89 | ||
4 | Södertälje Kings | 6 | 1 | 5 | 479 | 535 | −56 | 7 | 80–86 | 65–92 | 93–83 | — |
Group H
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | BAK | KOR | KAT | LEG | |
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1 | Bakken Bears | 6 | 5 | 1 | 502 | 476 | +26 | 11 | Advance to second round | — | 81–87 | 89–70 | 77–74 | |
2 | Egis Körmend | 6 | 4 | 2 | 491 | 465 | +26 | 10 | 80–86 | — | 81–75 | 74–60 | ||
3 | Kataja | 6 | 2 | 4 | 489 | 537 | −48 | 8 | 82–85 | 95–91 | — | 112–105 | ||
4 | Legia | 6 | 1 | 5 | 476 | 480 | −4 | 7 | 83–84 | 68–78 | 86–55 | — |
Second round
In each group, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advance to the quarterfinals, while the third-placed teams and fourth-placed teams are eliminated.
A total of 16 teams play in the second round: the eight group winners and the eight runners-up of the regular season. The match-days will be on 11 December, 18 December 2019, 7–8 January, 20–22 January, 29 January and 4–5 February 2020.
Group I
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | BAY | BAK | BEN | SPI | |
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1 | medi Bayreuth | 6 | 5 | 1 | 581 | 526 | +55 | 11 | Advance to quarterfinals | — | 105–82 | 96–78 | 100–89 | |
2 | Bakken Bears | 6 | 4 | 2 | 542 | 527 | +15 | 10 | 110–92 | — | 88–75 | 101–87 | ||
3 | Benfica | 6 | 3 | 3 | 494 | 494 | 0 | 9 | 77–91 | 90–79 | — | 89–62 | ||
4 | Spirou | 6 | 0 | 6 | 484 | 554 | −70 | 6 | 90–97 | 78–82 | 78–85 | — |
Group J
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | TSM | CLU | IRO | ORA | |
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1 | Tsmoki Minsk | 6 | 4 | 2 | 481 | 446 | +35 | 10 | Advance to quarterfinals | — | 78–76 | 97–75 | 68–62 | |
2 | U-BT Cluj-Napoca | 6 | 4 | 2 | 474 | 460 | +14 | 10 | 76–74 | — | 82–71 | 81–76 | ||
3 | Ironi Nes Ziona | 6 | 2 | 4 | 476 | 501 | −25 | 8 | 84–75 | 81–84 | — | 85–77 | ||
4 | Oradea | 6 | 2 | 4 | 454 | 478 | −24 | 8 | 73–89 | 80–75 | 86–80 | — |
Group K
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | VEN | KYI | KOR | LAN | |
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1 | Ventspils | 6 | 5 | 1 | 558 | 479 | +79 | 11 | Advance to quarterfinals | — | 78–81 | 96–81 | 111–74 | |
2 | Kyiv Basket | 6 | 4 | 2 | 481 | 484 | −3 | 10 | 80–88 | — | 80–78 | 89–76 | ||
3 | Egis Körmend | 6 | 3 | 3 | 512 | 516 | −4 | 9 | 76–96 | 96–74 | — | 87–80 | ||
4 | Landstede Hammers | 6 | 0 | 6 | 475 | 547 | −72 | 6 | 87–89 | 68–77 | 90–94 | — |
Group L
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification | KSK | BAH | ENI | LEI | |
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1 | Pınar Karşıyaka | 6 | 6 | 0 | 594 | 421 | +173 | 12 | Advance to quarterfinals | — | 96–65 | 85–74 | 112–76 | |
2 | Bahçeşehir Koleji | 6 | 3 | 3 | 508 | 554 | −46 | 9 | 68–100 | — | 103–95 | 93–71 | ||
3 | Enisey | 6 | 2 | 4 | 526 | 547 | −21 | 8 | 73–96 | 105–90 | — | 96–84 | ||
4 | ZZ Leiden | 6 | 1 | 5 | 472 | 578 | −106 | 7 | 65–105 | 87–89 | 89–83 | — |
Play-offs
Semi-finals (Cancelled) | Final (Cancelled) | |||||||||||||||
Bahçeşehir Koleji | 78 | 112 | 190 | |||||||||||||
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Ventspils | 77 | 90 | 167 | |||||||||||||
Bahçeşehir Koleji | ||||||||||||||||
Bakken Bears | ||||||||||||||||
Bakken Bears | 79 | 93 | 172 | |||||||||||||
Cancelled | ||||||||||||||||
Tsmoki Minsk | 66 | 87 | 153 | |||||||||||||
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U-BT Cluj-Napoca | 83 | 87 | 170 | |||||||||||||
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medi Bayreuth | 82 | 100 | 182 | |||||||||||||
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Pınar Karşıyaka | ||||||||||||||||
Kyiv Basket | 71 | 67 | 138 | |||||||||||||
Pınar Karşıyaka | 89 | 88 | 177 | |||||||||||||
Quarterfinals
The first legs were played on 4 March, and the second legs on 11 March 2020.
Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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U-BT Cluj-Napoca | 170–182 | medi Bayreuth | 83–82 | 87–100 |
Bakken Bears | 172–153 | Tsmoki Minsk | 79–66 | 93–87 |
Bahçeşehir Koleji | 190–167 | Ventspils | 78–77 | 112–90 |
Kyiv Basket | 138–177 | Pınar Karşıyaka | 71–89 | 67–88 |
Semifinals
The first legs were to be played on 25 March, and the second legs on 1 April 2020.
Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Medi Bayreuth | Cancelled | Pınar Karşıyaka | Cancelled | Cancelled |
Bahçeşehir Koleji | Cancelled | Bakken Bears | Cancelled | Cancelled |
Finals
The first leg were to be played on 22 April, and the second leg on 29 April 2020.
Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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N/A | Cancelled | N/A | Cancelled | Cancelled |
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