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The Euroleague is an international basketball club competition for elite clubs throughout Europe. The 2007–2008 season featured 24 competing teams. The Euroleague Regular Season drew was held on 30 June 2007 in the Jesolo, Italy, during the inaugural Euroleague summer league. The official inauguration was held on October 22 at Hala Olivia in Gdańsk, Poland before the season's opening game between Prokom Trefl Sopot and CSKA Moscow. The 2008 Final Four was held on May 2-4, 2008 at the Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid in Madrid, Spain. Russian power CSKA Moscow became the champion for the sixth time, placing them second in all-time European championships to Real Madrid.
[edit] Teams of the 2007-2008 Euroleague
[edit] Teams details
| Team |
Location |
Arena (seating capacity) |
Classification |
| Aris Thessaloniki |
Thessaloniki,  Greece |
Alexandrio Melathron (5,010) |
A1 Ethniki third placed team |
| AXA FC Barcelona |
Barcelona,  Spain |
Palau Blaugrana (8,250) |
ACB |
| Brose Baskets |
Bamberg,  Germany |
Jako Arena (6,900) |
Basketball Bundesliga two-year classification |
| Cibona Zagreb |
Zagreb,  Croatia |
Dražen Petrović Basketball Hall (5,400) |
A1 Liga three-year period classified |
| CSKA Moscow |
Moscow,  Russia |
CSKA Universal Sports Hall (5,500)
Khodynka Arena (13,000) — Game 13 only |
Russian Super League three-year period classified |
| Efes Pilsen |
Istanbul,  Turkey |
Abdi İpekçi Arena (11,500) |
Turkish League three-year period classified |
| Fenerbahçe |
Istanbul, Turkey |
Abdi İpekçi Arena (11,500) |
Turkish League three-year period classified |
| Le Mans |
Le Mans,  France |
Antarès (6,003) |
La Ligue three-year period classified |
| Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius |
Vilnius,  Lithuania |
Siemens Arena (11,000) |
ULEB Cup vice Champion |
| Lottomatica Roma |
Rome,  Italy |
PalaLottomatica (11,200) |
Serie A |
| Maccabi Tel Aviv |
Tel Aviv,  Israel |
Nokia Arena (Yad Eliyahu) (11,700) |
Israeli League three-year period classified |
| Montepaschi Siena |
Siena, Italy |
Palasport Mens Sana (6,200) |
Serie A regular season leader |
| Olimpia Milano |
Milan, Italy |
Datch Forum di Assago (12,000) |
Serie A |
| Olimpija Ljubljana |
Ljubljana,  Slovenia |
Dvorana Tivoli (5,500) |
Liga UPC Telemach three-year period classified |
| Olympiacos |
Athens, Greece |
Peace and Friendship Stadium (SEF) (12,171) |
A1 Ethniki three-year period classified |
| Panathinaikos |
Athens, Greece |
Olympic Indoor Hall (18,800) |
A1 Ethniki three-year period classified |
| Partizan Belgrade |
Belgrade,  Serbia |
Pionir Hall (7,000) |
Naša Sinalko Liga Champion |
| Prokom Trefl Sopot |
Sopot,  Poland |
Hala Olivia (5,500), Gdańsk (Game 1-8)
Hala Stulecia Sopotu (2,000), Sopot (Game 9 onward)[1] |
Dominet Bank Ekstraliga Champion |
| Real Madrid |
Madrid, Spain |
Palacio Vistalegre (15,000) |
ULEB Cup Champion/ACB |
| Roanne |
Roanne, France |
Clermont-Ferrand Sports Hall (7,000) |
La Ligue champion |
| TAU Cerámica |
Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain |
Fernando Buesa Arena (9,717) |
ACB three-year period classified |
| Unicaja Málaga |
Málaga, Spain |
Jose Maria Martin Carpena Arena (10,500) |
ACB three-year period classified |
| VidiVici Bologna |
Bologna, Italy |
PalaMalaguti (8,278) |
Serie A |
| Žalgiris Kaunas |
Kaunas, Lithuania |
Kaunas Sports Hall (5,000) |
LKL three-year period classified |
[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
The regular season began on October 22, 2007.
If one or more clubs are level on won-lost record, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:[2]
- 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
Key to colors
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Qualified to Top 16 |
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Eliminated |
[edit] Group A
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[edit] Group B
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[edit] Group C
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[edit] Top 16
A draw to set up the Top 16 groups was held on Monday, February 4, 2008 (the week after the end of the Regular Season), in Madrid.[2]
The teams were placed into four pools, as follows:
- Level 1: The three group winners, plus the top-ranked second-place team
- CSKA, Panathinaikos, Lietuvos Rytas, Real Madrid
- Level 2: The remaining second-place teams, plus the top two third-place teams
- Maccabi, Montepaschi, Unicaja, TAU Cerámica
- Level 3: The remaining third-place team, plus the three fourth-place teams
- Barcelona, Efes, Žalgiris, Fenerbahçe
- Level 4: The fifth-place teams, plus the top ranked sixth-place team
- Olympiacos, Aris, Partizan, Lottomatica
Each Top 16 group included one team from each pool. The draw was conducted under the following restrictions:
- No more than two teams from the same Regular Season group can be placed in the same Top 16 group.
- No more than two teams from the same country can be placed in the same Top 16 group.
- 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 Fenerbahçe), they were scheduled so that only one of the two teams would be at home in a given week.
Key to colors
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Top two places in each group advance to quarterfinals |
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Eliminated from contention |
[edit] Group D
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[edit] Group E
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[edit] Group F
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[edit] Group G
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[edit] Quarterfinals
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Each quarterfinal was a best-of-three (if third serie necessary) 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. All opening games were played on April 1, 2008, and all second games were played on April 3. The deciding third games were played on April 9 and April 10.
[edit] Bracket
* if necessary
[edit] Final Four
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The Final Four is the last phase of each Euroleague season, and is held over a weekend. The semifinal games are played on Friday evening. Sunday starts with the third-place game, followed by the championship final.
[edit] Bracket
[edit] Awards
[edit] Euroleague 2007-08 MVP
[edit] Euroleague 2007-08 Final Four MVP
[edit] All Euroleague First Team 2007-2008
[edit] All Euroleague Second Team 2007-2008
[edit] Rising Star
[edit] Best Defender
[edit] Top Scorer (Alphonso Ford Award)
[edit] Coach of the Year (Alexander Gomelsky Award)
[edit] Club Executive of the Year
[edit] Individual Statistics
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[edit] See also
[edit] Notes and references
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