1979–80 FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup

1979-80 FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup
League	FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup
Sport	Basketball
Finals
Champions	Emerson Varèse
Runners-up	Gabetti Cantù

The 1979–80 FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup was the fourteenth edition of FIBA's competition for European basketball national cup champions, running from 30 October 1979 to 19 March 1980. It was contested by 22 teams, two more than in the previous edition.^[1]

Emerson Varèse defeated the former champions Gabetti Cantù in a final held in Milan winning the European Cup Winner's Cup for the second time.

First round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Sporting	0–4*	Emerson Varèse	0–2	0–2
KFUM Uppsala	190–177	SAV MoMo	93–67	97–110
KR	158–192	Caen	84–104	74–88
Amicale	174–204	Hapoel Ramat Gan	91–105	83–99
MAFC	178–206	Zadar	104–109	74–97
APOEL	131–235	CSKA Sofia	69–111	62–124
UR Alexandria	143–213	Panathinaikos	68–104	75–109
Steaua București	150–153	Eczacıbaşı	71–67	79–86
Doncaster Panthers	149–173	Sunair Oostende	67–73	82–100

*Sporting withdrew before the first leg alleging that six of their players had been selected to join the Portuguese national team in a US Tour, and Emerson Varèse received a forfeit (2-0) in both games.

Second round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Chatby KTP	159–229	Emerson Varèse	79–105	80–124
KFUM Uppsala	158–168	Caen	73–86	85–82
Hapoel Ramat Gan	170–171	Zadar	80–75	90–96
CSKA Sofia	181–193	Panathinaikos	96–93	85–100
Eczacıbaşı	165–157	Sunair Oostende	88–78	77–79

Automatically qualified to the Quarter finals group stage

Quarter finals

Key to colors
	Top two places in each group advance to semifinals

Group A

	Team	Pld	Pts	W	L	PF	PA	PD
1.	Gabetti Cantù	6	11	5	1	641	568	+73
2.	Parker Leiden	6	10	4	2	577	540	+37
3.	Panathinaikos	6	8	2	4	545	574	-29
4.	Caen	6	7	1	5	514	595	-81

Group B

	Team	Pld	Pts	W	L	PF	PA	PD
1.	Emerson Varèse	6	11	5	1	571	456	+115
2.	FC Barcelona	6	10	4	2	547	509	+38
3.	Zadar	6	8	2	4	518	590	-72
4.	Eczacıbaşı	6	7	1	5	470	551	-81

Semi finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Parker Leiden	174–184	Emerson Varèse	87–89	87–95
FC Barcelona	166–171	Gabetti Cantù	92–93	74–78

Final

March 19, Palasport di San Siro, Milan

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Emerson Varèse	90–88	Gabetti Cantù

1979–80 FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup Champions
Emerson Varèse 2nd title

References

↑ "Saporta Cup (C2)". linguasport.com. Retrieved 2014-07-19.

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