Sports season
1972–73 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup |
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League | FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup |
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Sport | Basketball |
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Finals |
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Champions | Spartak Leningrad |
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Runners-up | Jugoplastika |
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FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup seasons |
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The 1972–73 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup was the seventh edition of FIBA's 2nd-tier level European-wide professional club basketball competition, contested between national domestic cup champions, running from 18 October 1972, to 21 March 1973. It was contested by 26 teams, five more than in the previous edition.[1]
1971 runner-up Spartak Leningrad, defeated Jugoplastika in the final, to become the first Soviet League team to win the competition, ending a 3-year period of Italian League dominance.[2] It was the second straight final lost by a Yugoslav League team.
Participants
First round
Second round
- Automatically qualified to the eighth finals
Top 12
Quarterfinals
The quarter finals were played with a round-robin system, in which every Two Game series (TGS) constituted as one game for the record.
Key to colors | Top two places in each group advance to semifinals |
Semifinals
Final
March 20, Alexandreio Melathron, Thessaloniki
References
- ^ Results in todor66.com
- ^ Basketball – Spartak Leningrad wins the Cup Winners' Cup. El Mundo Deportivo, 22 March 1973
External links
- FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup 1972–73 linguasport.com
- FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup 1972–73
Spartak Leningrad 1972–73 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup champions
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FIBA Saporta Cup seasons |
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- Saporta Cup Finals
- Saporta Cup Finals MVP
- Saporta Cup Finals Top Scorer
- Saporta Cup Top Scorer
- FIBA Europe All-Star Game
- FIBA EuroStars
- Saporta Cup Records
- Raimundo Saporta
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FIBA European Cup | |
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FIBA EuroCup | |
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