1968–69 FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup

1968-69 FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup
League	FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup
Sport	Basketball
Finals
Champions	Slavia Prague
Runners-up	Dinamo Tbilisi

The 1968–69 FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup was the third edition of FIBA's competition for European basketball national cup champions, running from December 1968 to 17 April 1969. 22 teams took part in the competition.^[1]

The final, held in Vienna, confronted for the first time two clubs from the Eastern Bloc. Slavia Prague, which had lost the previous edition's final to AEK Athens, defeated Dinamo Tbilisi to become the competition's first Czechoslovak champion.^[2]

First round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Nitia Bettembourg	121–186	Bayern Munich	64–84	57–102
Altınordu	123–149	AŠK Olimpija	57–70	66–79
Solna	141–177	Picadero	70–80	71–97
Boroughmuir	127–212	Royal IV	52–103	75–109
Steaua București	186–153	Hapoel Tel Aviv	89–58	97–95
Handelministerium	119–171	Panathinaikos	84–76	35–95
MAFC	155–171	Levski-Spartak	89–92	66–79

Second round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bayern Munich	127–195	AŠK Olimpija	81–101	46–94
Picadero	151–161	TSC Berlin	82–79	69–82
Helsingin Kisa-Toverit	160–170	Slavia Prague	74–76	86–94
Legia Warsaw	167–155	Royal IV	97–69	70–86
Steaua București	160–169	Fides Napoli	95–77	65–92
Benfica	144–221	Panathinaikos	74–110	70–111
Levski-Spartak	148–128	Stade Auto Lyon	85–53	63–75

Automatically qualified to the quarter finals

Dinamo Tbilisi

Quarter finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
AŠK Olimpija	191–164	TSC Berlin	101–73	90–91
Slavia Prague	204–162	Legia Warsaw	113–82	91–80
Fides Napoli	0–2*	Panathinaikos	0-2
Levski-Spartak	137–146	Dinamo Tbilisi	83–88	54–58

*Originally, Fides Napoli won the first leg by 37 points (98-61), but in the return game in Athens the Italian club withdrew during halftime (Panathinaikos winning then 51-16) as a protest for what they considered a biased refereeing and many irregularities in the scoring procedure (in particular, Fides claimed that the real halftime score should have been 39-28 for Panathinaikos, and also that the first half lasted more than the regulated 20 minutes). However the French FIBA Commissar Edmond Pigeu nor the Secretary General William Jones (who was also present in the outdoor Panathinian Stadium, with more than 25,000 fans crowding the stands) saw anything irregular in this game. Later, FIBA expelled Fides Napoli from the competition and declared Panathinaikos winner by forfeit (2-0).

Semi finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
AŠK Olimpija	137–165	Slavia Prague	76–83	61–82
Panathinaikos	152–170	Dinamo Tbilisi	81–67	71–103

Final

April 17, Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Slavia Prague	80–74	Dinamo Tbilisi

1968–69 FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup Champions
Slavia Prague 1st title

References

↑ Results in todor66.com
↑ Autoskoda wins the Cup Winners' Cup. El Mundo Deportivo, 18 April 1969

Saporta Cup seasons

1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02