Euroleague 2005-06

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The Euroleague is an international basketball club competition for elite clubs throughout Europe. The 2005-2006 season featured 24 competing teams from 13 different countries. The final of the competition was held in Sazka Arena, Prague, Czech Republic, with CSKA Moscow defeating defending champions Maccabi Tel Aviv 73-69.

Contents 1 Format 1.1 Regular season 1.2 Top 16 1.3 Quarterfinals 1.4 Final Four 2 Regular Season 2.1 Group A 2.2 Group B 2.3 Group C 3 Top 16 3.1 Group D 3.2 Group E 3.3 Group F 3.4 Group G 4 Quarterfinals 4.1 Quarterfinal 1 4.2 Quarterfinal 2 4.3 Quarterfinal 3 4.4 Quarterfinal 4 5 Final Four 5.1 Semifinals 5.1.1 Semifinal 1 5.1.2 Semifinal 2 5.2 Third Place 5.3 Final 6 Champions Roster 7 Awards 7.1 All Euroleague MVP 7.2 Final Four MVP 7.3 All Euroleague First Team 2005-2006 7.4 All Euroleague Second Team 2005-2006 7.5 Best Defender 7.6 Rising Star 7.7 Alphonso Ford Top Scorer 7.8 Alexander Gomelsky Coach of the Year 7.9 Club Executive of the Year 8 Notes and references 9 External links

[edit] Format

[edit] Regular season

The first phase is a regular season, in which the competing teams are drawn into three groups, each containing eight teams. Each team plays every other team in its group at home and away, resulting in 14 games for each team in the first stage. The top 5 teams in each group and the best sixth-placed team advance to the next round. The complete list of tiebreakers is provided in the lead-in to the Regular Season results.

[edit] Top 16

The surviving teams are divided into four groups of four teams each, and again a round robin system is adopted resulting in 6 games each, with the top 2 teams advancing to the quarterfinals. Tiebreakers are identical to those used in the Regular Season.

[edit] Quarterfinals

In the quarterfinals, the top placed teams from each Top 16 group play second placed teams from a different group in a best-of-three playoff series, with the winners of those series advancing to the Final Four.

[edit] Final Four

The culminating stage of the Euroleague in which the four remaining teams play a semifinal match and the winners of those advance to the final. The losers play in a third-place playoff. The team which is victorious in the Final will be Euroleague champion.

[edit] Regular Season

Key to colors

	Top five places in each group, plus highest-ranked sixth-place team, advance to Top 16
	Eliminated

Tiebreakers:

• Head-to-head record in matches between the tied clubs
• Overall point difference in games between the tied clubs
• Overall point difference in all group matches (first tiebreaker if tied clubs are not in the same group)
• Points scored in all group matches
• Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each group match

[edit] Group A

Main article: Euroleague 2005-06 Regular Season Group A

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	TAU Cerámica	14	11	3	1130	976	154
2.	Climamio Bologna	14	10	4	1114	989	125
3.	Žalgiris Kaunas	14	9	5	1065	1037	28
4.	Benetton Treviso	14	8	6	1042	1134	8
5.	Bamberg	14	7	7	975	1023	-48
6.	Olimpija Ljubljana	14	5	9	1059	1080	-21
7.	SIG Strasbourg	14	3	11	972	1058	-86
8.	AEK Athens	14	3	11	940	1100	-160

[edit] Group B

Main article: Euroleague 2005-06 Regular Season Group B

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Maccabi Tel Aviv	14	9	5	1220	1135	85
2.	Efes Pilsen	14	9	5	1025	995	30
3.	Lietuvos Rytas	14	8	6	1068	1012	56
4.	Winterthur FCB	14	7	7	1079	1021	58
5.	Olympiacos	14	7	7	1085	1059	26
6.	Cibona Zagreb	14	6	8	917	1054	-137
7.	Prokom Trefl	14	5	9	997	1066	-69
8.	Olimpia Milano	14	5	9	1036	1085	-49

[edit] Group C

Main article: Euroleague 2005-06 Regular Season Group C

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Unicaja Málaga	14	12	2	1100	1015	85
2.	Panathinaikos	14	12	2	1219	1063	156
3.	CSKA Moscow	14	10	4	1116	950	166
4.	Real Madrid	14	7	7	1012	1004	8
5.	Ülkerspor	14	5	9	1000	1055	-55
6.	Montepaschi Siena	14	4	10	1001	1055	54
7.	Pau-Orthez	14	4	10	971	1103	-132
8.	Partizan Belgrade	14	2	12	978	1152	-174

[edit] Top 16

The draw was held in accordance with Euroleague rules.

The teams were placed into four pools, as follows:

• Level 1: The three group winners, plus the top-ranked second-place team
  • Unicaja, TAU, Maccabi, Panathinaikos
• Level 2: The remaining second-place teams, plus the top two third-place teams
  • Climamio, Efes Pilsen, CSKA, Žalgiris
• Level 3: The remaining third-place team, plus the three fourth-place teams
  • Lietuvos Rytas, Benetton, Winterthur FCB, Real Madrid
• Level 4: The fifth-place teams, plus the top ranked sixth-place team
  • Olympiacos, Bamberg, Ülker, Cibona

Each Top 16 group included one team from each pool. The draw was conducted under the following restrictions:

1. No more than two teams from the same Regular Season group can be placed in the same Top 16 group.
2. No more than two teams from the same country can be placed in the same Top 16 group.
3. If there is a conflict between these two restrictions, (1) will receive priority.

Another draw was held to determine the order of fixtures. In cases of two teams from the same city in the Top 16 (Panathinaikos and Olympiacos, Efes Pilsen and Ülker) they were scheduled so that every week only one team would be at home.

Key to colors

	Top two places in each group advance to quarterfinals
	Eliminated from contention

Teams in bold type advanced to the quarterfinals.

[edit] Group D

Main article: Euroleague 2005-06 Top 16 Group D

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Winterthur FCB	6	5	1	448	434	+14
2.	Olympiacos	6	4	2	490	450	+40
3.	Unicaja Málaga	6	3	3	447	435	+12
4.	Žalgiris Kaunas	6	0	6	425	491	−66

[edit] Group E

Main article: Euroleague 2005-06 Top 16 Group E

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
2.	Maccabi Tel Aviv	6	5	1	491	448	+43
2.	Real Madrid	6	4	2	446	412	+34
3.	Climamio Bologna	6	2	4	469	477	−8
4.	Ülker Istanbul	6	1	5	415	484	−69

[edit] Group F

Main article: Euroleague 2005-06 Top 16 Group F

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	CSKA Moscow	6	5	1	441	391	+50
2.	TAU Cerámica	6	4	2	453	422	+31
3.	Lietuvos Rytas	6	3	3	422	427	−5
4.	Bamberg	6	0	6	374	450	−76

[edit] Group G

Main article: Euroleague 2005-06 Top 16 Group G

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Panathinaikos	6	3	3	447	419	+28
2.	Efes Pilsen	6	3	3	446	447	−1
3.	Benetton Treviso	6	3	3	476	488	−12
4.	Cibona Zagreb	6	3	3	458	473	−15

[edit] Quarterfinals

Main article: Euroleague 2005-06 quarterfinals

Each quarterfinal was a best-of-three series between a first-place team in the Top 16 and a second-place team from a different group, with the first-place team receiving home advantage.

[edit] Quarterfinal 1

	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Date
Game 1	Winterthur FCB	72 - 58	Real Madrid	Barcelona
Game 2	Real Madrid	84 - 78	Winterthur FCB	Madrid
Game 3	Winterthur FCB	76 - 70	Real Madrid	Barcelona

[edit] Quarterfinal 2

	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Date
Game 1	Maccabi Tel Aviv	87 - 78	Olympiacos	Tel Aviv
Game 2	Olympiacos	76 - 70	Maccabi Tel Aviv	Athens
Game 3	Maccabi Tel Aviv	77 - 73	Olympiacos	Tel Aviv

[edit] Quarterfinal 3

	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Date
Game 1	CSKA Moscow	66 - 57	Efes Pilsen	Moscow
Game 2	Efes Pilsen	71 - 75	CSKA Moscow	Istanbul

[edit] Quarterfinal 4

	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Date
Game 1	Panathinaikos	72 - 58	TAU Cerámica	Athens
Game 2	TAU Cerámica	85 - 79	Panathinaikos	Vitoria-Gasteiz
Game 3	Panathinaikos	71 - 74	TAU Cerámica	Athens

[edit] Final Four

[edit] Semifinals

[edit] Semifinal 1

	Maccabi Tel Aviv	85 – 70	TAU Cerámica	Sazka Arena, Prague

[edit] Semifinal 2

	Winterthur FCB	75 – 84	CSKA Moscow	Sazka Arena, Prague

[edit] Third Place

	Winterthur FCB	82 – 87	TAU Cerámica	Sazka Arena, Prague

[edit] Final

	CSKA Moscow	73 – 69	Maccabi Tel Aviv	Sazka Arena, Prague

Euroleague 2006 Champions
CSKA Moscow Fifth title

[edit] Champions Roster

v • d • e PBC CSKA Moscow 2005-06 Euroleague Champions 4 Papaloukas (Final4 MVP) | 5 Kurbanov | 6 Panov | 7 Zavoruev | 8 Smodiš | 9 Vanterpool | 10 Holden | 11 Pashutin | 12 Dyachok | 13 Andersen | 14 Savrasenko | 15 Kashirov | 21 Langdon | 22 Van Den Spiegel | Coach Messina

[edit] Awards

[edit] All Euroleague MVP

• Anthony Parker ( Maccabi Tel Aviv )

[edit] Final Four MVP

• Theodoros Papaloukas ( CSKA Moscow )

[edit] All Euroleague First Team 2005-2006

• Theodoros Papaloukas ( CSKA Moscow )
• Juan Carlos Navarro ( Winterthur FC Barcelona )
• Anthony Parker ( Maccabi Tel Aviv )
• Luis Scola ( TAU Cerámica )
• Nikola Vujčić ( Maccabi Tel Aviv )

[edit] All Euroleague Second Team 2005-2006

• Pablo Prigioni ( TAU Ceramica )
• Vassilis Spanoulis ( Panathinaikos )
• Trajan Langdon ( CSKA Moscow )
• Jorge Garbajosa ( Unicaja Malaga )
• Darjuš Lavrinovič ( Zalgiris Kaunas )

[edit] Best Defender

• Dimitris Diamantidis ( Panathinaikos )

[edit] Rising Star

• Andrea Bargnani ( Benetton Treviso )

[edit] Alphonso Ford Top Scorer

• Drew Nicholas ( Benetton Treviso )

[edit] Alexander Gomelsky Coach of the Year

• Ettore Messina ( CSKA Moscow )

[edit] Club Executive of the Year

• Sergey Kushchenko ( CSKA Moscow )

[edit] Notes and references

Euroleague Competition Format

[edit] External links

• Euroleague.net - Official Euroleague homepage.
• Eurobasket.com - Popular basketball news site.
• TalkBasket.net - Basketball forum.

Euroleague 2005-06 v • d • e
Champion CSKA Moscow Runner-up Maccabi Tel Aviv Third place TAU Cerámica | Fourth place Winterthur FCB Eliminated in quarterfinals Efes Pilsen | Olympiacos | Panathinaikos | Real Madrid Eliminated after Top 16 Benetton Treviso | Cibona Zagreb | Climamio Bologna | GHP Bamberg | Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius | Unicaja Málaga | Ülkerspor | Žalgiris Kaunas Eliminated after Regular Season AEK Athens | Armani Jeans Milano | ÉB Pau-Orthez | Montepaschi Siena  | Union Olimpija | Strasbourg IG | Partizan PMB | Prokom Trefl Sopot
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