Saporta Cup
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Saporta Cup was the name of a European basketball competition where the National Cup winners from all over Europe played against each other. It was named after Raimundo Saporta, a Real Madrid director.
The competition was created in 1967 as European Cup Winners' Cup, but it had several denominations until its eventual folding in 2002:
- 1967 to 1991 - European Cup Winners' Cup
- 1992 to 1996 - European Cup
- 1997 to 1998 - EuroCup
- 1999 to 2002 - Saporta Cup
The very last Saporta Cup season was held during 2001-2002. After that it was fused with Korac Cup into the newly formed ULEB Cup competition.
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CUP WINNERS' CUP
1966-67 Ignis Varese (Italy)
Stan McKenzie, Ottorino Flaborea, Paolo Vittori, Dino Meneghin, Enrico Bovone, Pierangelo Gergati, Massimo Villetti, Sauro Bufalini, Giambattista Cescutti, R.Gergati (coach: Vittorio Tracuzzi)
1967-68 AEK Athens (Greece)
Georgios Amerikanos, Georgios Trontzos, Christos Zoupas, Stelios Vasiliadis, Eas Larentzakis, Antonis Christeas, Lakis Tsavas, Petros Petrakis, Nikos Nesiadis, Andreas Dimitriadis, Georgios Tronazos (coach: Nikos Milas)
1968-69 Slavia Prague (Czechoslovakia)
Jiri Zidek Sr., Jiri Ruzicka, Robert Mifka, Jiri Ammer, Bohumil Tomasek, Karel Baroch, Jaroslav Krivy, Jiri Konopasek (coach: Jaroslav Sip)
1969-70 Fides Partenope Napoli (Italy)
Miles Aiken, Jim Williams, Remo Maggetti, Sauro Bufalini, Giovanni Gavagnin, Carlos d'Aquila, Francesco Ovi, Antonio Errico, Vincenzo Errico, Manfredo Fucile, Renato Abbate, Leonardo Coen (coach: Antonio Zorzi)
1970-71 Olimpia Simmenthal Milano (Italy)
Art Kenney, Massimo Masini, Renzo Bariviera, Giulio Iellini, Giorgio Giomo, Giuseppe Brumatti, Paolo Bianchi, Giorgio Papetti, Mauro Cerioni, Roberto Paleari, Gaggiotti (coach: Cesare Rubini)
1971-72 Olimpia Simmenthal Milano (Italy)
Art Kenney, Renzo Bariviera, Massimo Masini, Giuseppe Brumatti, Giulio Iellini, Mauro Cerioni, Paolo Bianchi, Giorgio Giomo, Doriano Iacuzzo, Sergio Borlenghi, Ferrari (coach: Cesare Rubini)
1972-73 Spartak Leningrad (USSR)
Aleksander Belov, Yuri Pavlov, Aleksander Bolshakov, Valeri Fjodorov, Yuri Shtukin, Leonid Ivanov, Vladimir Yakovlev, Sergei Kuznetsov, Andrei Makeev, Dvornij, Volkov, Rozhin (coach: Vladimir Kondrashin)
1973-74 Crvena zvezda Belgrade (Yugoslavia)
Zoran Slavnić, Dragan Kapičić, Ljubodrag Simonović, Dragiša Vučinić, Radivoje Živković, Ivan Sarjanović, Zoran Lazarević, Dragoje Jovašević, Goran Rakočević, Ljubomir Žugić (coach: Nemanja Đurić)
1974-75 Spartak Leningrad (USSR)
Aleksander Belov, Yuri Pavlov, Aleksander Bolshakov, Vladimir Arzamaskov, Mikhail Silantev, Leonid Ivanov, Sergei Kuznetsov, Andrei Makeev, Valeri Fjodorov, Yuri Shtukin, Vladimir Yakovlev (coach: Vladimir Kondrashin)
1975-76 Olimpia Cinzano Milano (Italy)
Mike Sylvester, Austin "Red" Robbins, Giuseppe Brumatti, Paolo Bianchi, Antonio Francescatto, Sergio Borlenghi, Vittorio Ferracini, Franco Boselli, Maurizio Borghese, Maurizio Benatti, Dino Boselli, Paolo Friz (coach: Filippo Faina)
1976-77 Forst Cantu (Italy)
Bob Lienhard, Pierluigi Marzorati, Hart Wingo, Carlo Recalcati, Fabrizio Della Fiori, Renzo Tombolato, Franco Meneghel, Giorgio Cattini, Roberto Natalini, Umberto Cappelletti, Non Prezzati, Bruno Carapacchi, Giampiero Cortinovis (coach: Arnaldo Taurisano)
1977-78 Gabetti Cantu (Italy)
Bob Lienhard, Hart Wingo, Pierluigi Marzorati, Fabrizio Della Fiori, Carlo Recalcati, Renzo Tombolato, Franco Meneghel, Giuseppe Gergati, Denis Innocentin, Umberto Cappelletti, Fausto Bargna, Davide Bertazzini, Fabio Brambilla (coach: Arnaldo Taurisano)
1978-79 Gabetti Cantu (Italy)
Pierluigi Marzorati, John Neumann, Dave Batton, Carlo Recalcati, Renzo Bariviera, Renzo Tombolato, Fabrizio Della Fiori, Denis Innocentin, Umberto Cappelletti, Antonello Riva, Non Porro, Giorgio Panzini (coach: Arnaldo Taurisano)
1979-80 Emerson Varese (Italy)
Bob Morse, Dino Meneghin, Bruce Seals, Aldo Ossola, Alberto Mottini, Maurizio Gualco, Enzo Carraria, Fabio Colombo, Mauro Salvaneschi, Antonio Campiglio, Riccardo Caneva, Marco Bergonzoni (coach: Edoardo Rusconi)
1980-81 Squibb Cantu (Italy)
Pierluigi Marzorati, Antonello Riva, Bruce Flowers, Tom Boswell, Renzo Bariviera, Renzo Tombolato, Denis Innocentin, Giorgio Cattini, Terry Stotts, Umberto Cappelletti, Eugenio Masolo, Antonio Sala (coach: Valerio Bianchini)
1981-82 Cibona Zagreb (Yugoslavia)
Krešimir Ćosić, Aleksandar Petrović, Andro Knego, Zoran Čutura, Mihovil Nakić, Sven Ušić, Damir Pavličević, Adnan Bečić, Rajko Gospodnetić, Mlađan Cetinja, Toni Bevanda, Srđan Savović (coach: Mirko Novosel)
1982-83 Scavolini Pesaro (Italy)
Dragan Kićanović, Željko Jerkov, Walter Magnifico, Mike Sylvester, Domenico Zampolini, Giuseppe Ponzoni, Amos Benevelli, Alessandro Boni, Massimo Bini, Gianluca Del Monte, Fabio Mancini, Antonio Sassanelli (coach: Petar Skansi)
1983-84 Real Madrid (Spain)
Juan Antonio Corbalan, Brian Jackson, Fernando Martin, Wayne Robinson, Juan Manuel Lopez Iturriaga, Rafael Rullan, Fernando Romay, Antonio Martin, Francisco Jose Velasco, Juan Antonio Orenga, Wilson Simon (coach: Lolo Sainz)
1984-85 FC Barcelona (Spain)
Juan Antonio San Epifanio, Chicho Sibilio, Ignacio Solozabal, Mike Davis, Otis Howard, Pedro Ansa, Juan Domingo De la Cruz, Arturo Seara, Julian Ortiz, Xavi Crespo, Angel Heredero (coach: Antoni Serra/Manuel Flores)
1985-86 FC Barcelona (Spain)
Juan Antonio San Epifanio, Chicho Sibilio, Greg Wiltjer, Ignacio Solozabal, Mark Smith, Juan Domingo De la Cruz, Arturo Seara, Julian Ortiz, Xavi Crespo, Steve Trumbo, Ferran Martinez, Angel Heredero, Jordi Soler (coach: Aito Garcia Reneses)
1986-87 Cibona Zagreb (Yugoslavia)
Dražen Petrović, Aleksandar Petrović, Danko Cvjetičanin, Andro Knego, Zoran Čutura, Mihovil Nakić, Franjo Arapović, Sven Ušić, Branko Vukićević, Adnan Bečić, Nebojša Razić (coach: Janez Drvarič/Mirko Novosel)
1987-88 CSP Limoges (France)
Richard Dacoury, Clarence Kea, Stephane Ostrowski, Greg Beugnot, Don Collins, Jacques Monclar, Hugues Occansey, Georges Vestris, Alain Forestier, Frederic Guinot, Jean-Luc Hribersek, Laurent Vinsou, Franck Maquaire (coach: Michel Gomez)
1988-89 Real Madrid (Spain)
Dražen Petrović, Johnny Rogers, Fernando Martin, Jose Biriukov, Antonio Martin, Pep Cargol, Fernando Romay, Jose Luis Llorente, Enrique Villalobos, Javi Perez, Miguel Angel Cabral, Carlos Garcia (coach: Lolo Sainz)
1989-90 Virtus Knorr Bologna (Italy)
Micheal Ray Richardson, Roberto Brunamonti, Clemon Johnson, Mike Sylvester, Augusto Binelli, Lauro Bon, Claudio Coldebella, Vittorio Gallinari, Massimiliano Romboli, Clivo Massimo Righi, Tommaso Tasso, Davide Bonora, Andrea Cempini (coach: Ettore Messina)
1990-91 PAOK Thessaloniki (Greece)
Branislav Prelević, Ken Barlow, John Korfas, Panagiotis Fassoulas, Nikos Boudouris, Nikos Stavropoulos, Georgios Makaras, Panagiotis Papachronis, Memos Ioannou, Achilleas Mamatsiolas, Lazaros Tsakiris, Georgios Valavanidis (coach: Dragan Šakota)
EUROPEAN CUP
1991-92 Real Madrid (Spain)
Ricky Brown, Mark Simpson, Jose Biriukov, Antonio Martin, Fernando Romay, Jose Miguel Antunez, Pep Cargol, Jose Luis Llorente, Enrique Villalobos, Jonatan Angel Ojeda, Jose Maria Silva, Tomas Gonzalez (coach: Clifford Luyk)
1992-93 Aris Thessaloniki (Greece)
Roy Tarpley, Panagiotis Giannakis, Mitchell Anderson, Michail Misounof, Dinos Angelidis, Vangelis Vourtzoumis, Georgios Gasparis, Vasilis Lipiridis, Memos Ioannou, Igor Moraitov, Theodosios Paralikas (coach: Zvi Sherf)
1993-94 Smelt Olimpija Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Dušan Hauptman, Roman Horvat, Boris Gorenc, Žarko Đurišić, Marko Tušek, Nebojša Razić, Marijan Kraljević, Jaka Daneu, Vitali Nosov, Klemen Zaletel (coach: Zmago Sagadin)
1994-95 Benetton Treviso (Italy)
Petar Naumoski, Orlando Woolridge, Ken Barlow, Stefano Rusconi, Riccardo Pittis, Massimo Iacopini, Andrea Gracis, Denis Marconato, Alberto Vianini, Riccardo Esposito, Maurizio Ragazzi, Federico Peruzzo, Paolo Casonato (coach: Mike D'Antoni)
1995-96 Taugres Vitoria (Spain)
Velimir Perasović, Kenny Green, Ramon Rivas, Marcelo Nicola, Jordi Millera, Miguel Angel Reyes, Ferran Lopez, Jorge Garbajosa, Juan Pedro Cazorla, Carlos Cazorla, Carlos Dicenta, Pedro Rodriguez, Juan Ignacio Gomez (coach: Manel Comas)
EUROCUP
1996-97 Real Madrid (Spain)
Dejan Bodiroga, Joe Arlauckas, Alberto Herreros, Juan Antonio Orenga, Juan Antonio Morales, Mike Smith, Alberto Angulo, Jose Miguel Antunez, Ismael Santos, Roberto Nunez, Pablo Laso, Lorenzo Sanz (coach: Željko Obradović)
1997-98 Žalgiris Kaunas (Lithuania)
Saulius Stombergas, Ennis Whatley, Franjo Arapovic, Dainius Adomaitis, Tomas Masiulis, Virginijus Praskevicius, Darius Maskoliunas, Kestutis Sestokas, Mindaugas Zukauskas, Eurelijus Zukauskas, Darius Sirtautas, Tauras Stumbrys, Danya Abrams (coach: Jonas Kazlauskas)
SAPORTA CUP
1998-99 Benetton Treviso (Italy)
Henry Williams, Željko Rebrača, Marcelo Nicola, Glenn Sekunda, William Di Spalatro, Tomas Jofresa, Denis Marconato, Casey Schmidt, Davide Bonora, Riccardo Pittis, Oliver Narr, Stjepan Stazić, Matteo Maestrello (Coach: Željko Obradović)
1999-00 AEK Athens (Greece)
Anthony Bowie, Martin Muursepp, Michalis Kakiouzis, Angelos Koronios, Nikos Chatzis, Dimos Dikoudis, Iakovos Tsakalidis, Dan O'Sullivan, Steve Hansell, Vasilis Kikilias, Nikos Papanikolopoulos, Miltos Moschou (coach: Dusan Ivković)
2000-01 Maroussi Athens (Greece)
Ashraf Amaya, Jimmy Oliver, Vasco Evtimov, Georgios Maslarinos, Alexis Falekas, Sotirios Nikolaidis, Vangelis Vourtzoumis, Dimitris Marmarinos, Dimitris Karaplis, Vangelis Logothetis, Sotirios Manolopoulos, Charalampos Charalampidis, Kostas Anagnostou (coach: Vangelis Alexandris)
2001-02 Montepaschi Siena (Italy)
Petar Naumoski, Vrbica Stefanov, Brian Tolbert, Boris Gorenc, Milenko Topić, Roberto Chiacig, Mindaugas Zukauskas, Nikola Bulatović, Alpay Oztas, Marco Rossetti, German Scarone, Andrea Pilotti (coach: Ergin Ataman)
Top scoring performances in Final games:
- Dražen Petrović (Real Madrid) 62 points vs. Snaidero Caserta (in 1988-89 final)
- Oscar Schmidt (Snaidero Caserta) 44 points vs. Real Madrid (in 1988-89 final)
- Rimas Kurtinaitis (Zalgiris Kaunas) 36 points vs. FC Barcelona (in 1984-85 final)
- Saulius Štombergas (Zalgiris Kaunas) 35 points vs. Stefanel Milano (in 1997-98 final)
- Ferdinando Gentile (Snaidero Caserta) 34 points vs. Real Madrid (in 1988-89 final)
- Andro Knego (Cibona Zagreb) 34 points vs. Real Madrid (in 1981-82 final)
- Branislav Prelevic (PAOK Thessaloniki) 34 points vs. Taugres Vitoria (in 1995-96 final)
- Roman Horvat (Olimpija Ljubljana) 33 points vs. Taugres Vitoria (in 1993-94 final)
- Ken Bannister (Taugres Vitoria) 32 points vs. Olimpija Ljubljana (in 1993-94 final)
- Zam Fredrick (Scavolini Pesaro) 32 points vs. FC Barcelona (in 1985-86 final)
