2013–14 Euroleague

Euroleague
Mediolanum Forum in Milan during the Final Four
Season	2013–14
Duration	1 October 2013 – 18 May 2014
Number of games	248
Number of teams	24
Regular season
Season MVP	Sergio Rodríguez
Finals
Champions	Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv 6th title
Runners-up	Real Madrid
Third place	FC Barcelona
Fourth place	CSKA Moscow
Final Four MVP	Tyrese Rice
Awards
Coach of the Year	David Blatt
Rising Star	Bogdan Bogdanović
Best Defender	Bryant Dunston
Statistical leaders
Points Keith Langford 17.6 Rebounds Joffrey Lauvergne 8.6 Assists Dimitris Diamantidis 6.2 Index Rating Keith Langford 17.7
Records
Average attendance	8,130
← 2012–13 2014–15 → All statistics correct as of 7 September 2014.

The 2013–14 Turkish Airlines Euroleague was the 14th season of the modern era of

• The 14 teams with an A-Licence from the 2012–13 Euroleague, based on their Euroleague Club Ranking.^[1]
• The 2012–13 Eurocup winner was given a C-Licence.
• 14 places were allocated from a list of 30 teams given a B-Licence ranked according to their European national basketball league rankings over the last year. 14 teams were given both an A-Licence or C-Licence and a B-Licence. When a country ranking spot had already been assigned to an A-Licence team, the assignation jumped to the next country appearing in the ranking, and their league was not granted an additional place in the competition. The first 8 of the remaining 16 teams were given places in the regular-season, and the next 6 were given places in the qualifying competition.
• If the Eurocup champion was qualified by receiving a B license, or some team with it resigned from the competition, a wild card had to be given by the Euroleague.

The Euroleague had the right to cancel an A license for one of the following reasons:^[2]

• The club had the lowest ranking of all clubs with an A Licence according to the Club Ranking.
• The club had ranked among the clubs placed in the bottom half of the national championship final standings.
• The club had financial problems.
• In
  Eurocup
  in the next season. If that happened three times in five years, the A license of the club would be cancelled.

Euroleague allocation criteria

A licenses

Classification after the 2012–13 season, including also the 2010–11 and the 2011–12 seasons.^[3]

Rank Team Points 1. FC Barcelona 144 2. Olympiacos 138 3. Panathinaikos 136 4. Real Madrid 128 5. Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv 128 6. CSKA Moscow 119 7. Montepaschi Siena 118

Rank Team Points 8. Anadolu Efes 98 9. Laboral Kutxa 94 10. Unicaja 87 11. Fenerbahçe Ülker 87 12. Žalgiris 86 13. EA7 Milano 52 14. Asseco Prokom 35

Notes

• EA7 Milano had a two-year A license, awarded in June 2012.^[4]
• Asseco Prokom
  lost its A license, as it was the last qualified in the A licensed team tanking. The license was converted into a wildcard.

B licenses

B licenses could be given to every team without an A license. If in the allocation appeared a team with an A license, the next team in the criteria would receive the B license, which qualified directly to the Regular Season.^[5]

Team League Pos. 1. Real Madrid ACB 1st 2. CSKA Moscow PBL 1st 3. Montepaschi Siena Serie A 1st 4. Galatasaray TBL 1st 5. Žalgiris LKL 1st 6. Panathinaikos GBL 1st 7. Nanterre LNB Pro A 1st 8. Brose Bamberg BBL 1st 9. Partizan ABA 1st 10. Stelmet Zielona Góra PLK 1st 11. Crvena Zvezda ABA 2nd 12. FC Barcelona ACB 2nd 13. Lokomotiv Kuban PBL 2nd 14. Acea RomaWithdrew[6] Serie A 2nd

Team League Pos. 15. Banvit TBL 2nd 16. Lietuvos Rytas LKL 2nd 17. Olympiacos GBL 2nd 18. Strasbourg WC LNB Pro A 2nd 19. Oldenburg BBL 2nd 20. IgokeaWithdrew ABA 3rd 21. Telenet Oostende BLB 1st 22. ČEZ Nymburk NBL 1st 23. BudivelnykWC UBL 1st 24. Maccabi HaifaWithdrew BSL 1st 25. Lukoil Academic Withdrew NBL 1st 26. ZZ LeidenWithdrew DBL 1st 27. VEF Rīga LBL 1st 28. Turów Zgorzelec PLK 2nd

Notes

• Adriatic: the places were awarded to the top teams in the Regular Season. If the third or fourth qualified won the Final Four, it would be granted with the first spot, moving the champion and the runner-up of the Regular Season to the second and third spots. In February 2012,
  Euroleague Basketball clarified the situation of the Adriatic League spots, saying the three first teams in the Adriatic League Final Four would qualify.^[7]
  Due to the different interpretation of both associations, Euroleague and Liga ABA negotiated a solution to be applied only for the 2012–13 season.

Finally, both organizations agreed that if the team that was in the first position after the Regular Season met all of the B-licence minimum requirements, it would qualify to Euroleague. In that case, Igokea did not meet the required criteria, so Euroleague Basketball applied the 2012–13 Euroleague Bylaws, by which the 2013 ABA Final Four champion and the runner-up, would take the first two Adriatic positions in that order, whilst the next highest regular season team would take the final Adriatic position.^[8][9][10]

• Russia: the places were awarded to the best teams, by a ranking determined by their positions in the
  Russian Professional Basketball League.^[11] VTB points prevail in case of tie.^[12]

• Strasbourg
• Budivelnyk
• Bayern Munich

To the Qualification Rounds

• Khimki
• Cimberio Varèse

Competition format changes

As new, for this Euroleague season, the eliminated teams in the Regular Season, were dropped to the Eurocup.^[13]

Teams

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round (TH: Euroleague title holders):

• A: Qualified through an A–licence
• 1st, 2nd, etc.: League position after Playoffs
• QR: Qualifying rounds
• WC: Wild card
• EC: Champion of the 2012–13 Eurocup Basketball

Regular season
Real Madrid (A)	Galatasaray (1st)	CSKA Moscow (A)	Partizan (1st)
FC Barcelona (A)	Anadolu Efes (A)	Lokomotiv Kuban (EC )	Crvena zvezda (2nd)
Laboral Kutxa (A)	Fenerbahçe (A)	Brose Bamberg (1st )	Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv (A)
Unicaja (A)	Nanterre (1st )	Bayern Munich (WC)	Stelmet Zielona Góra (1st )
Panathinaikos (A)	SIG Strasbourg (WC)	Montepaschi Siena (A)	Budivelnyk (WC)
OlympiacosTH (A)	Žalgiris (A)	EA7 Emporio Armani Milano (A)
Qualifying rounds
Banvit (2nd )	Lietuvos rytas (2nd )	EWE Oldenburg (2nd )	1st )
ČEZ Nymburk (1st)	VEF Rīga (1st)	Khimki (WC)	Cimberio Varese (WC )

Qualifying rounds

The eight teams participated in a single-venue tournament format, from October 1 until October 4, 2013. All games were played in the

	First round					Second round					Third round
	Cimberio Varèse		74
	EWE Baskets Oldenburg		79
						EWE Baskets Oldenburg		87
						Lietuvos rytas		99
	Lietuvos rytas		80
	VEF Rīga		71
											Lietuvos rytas		75
											Telenet Oostende		66
	ČEZ Nymburk		78
	Banvit		87
						Banvit		80
						Telenet Oostende		82
	Khimki		79
	Telenet Oostende		90

Draw

The draws for the 2013–14 Turkish Airlines Euroleague were held on Thursday, 4 July. Teams were seeded into six pots of four teams in accordance with the Club Ranking, based on their performance in European competitions during a three-year period.

Two teams from the same country could not be drawn together in the same Regular Season group.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4	Pot 5	Pot 6
FC Barcelona Olympiacos Panathinaikos Real Madrid	Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv CSKA Moscow Montepaschi Siena Anadolu Efes	Laboral Kutxa Unicaja Fenerbahçe Ülker Žalgiris	Galatasaray Lokomotiv Kuban Budivelnyk Brose Bamberg	EA7 Milano Partizan Crvena Zvezda Stelmet Zielona Góra	Bayern Munich Nanterre Strasbourg Lietuvos Rytas (q)

Regular season

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Location of teams of the 2013–14 Euroleague group stage.
Red: Group A; Green: Group B; Blue: Group C;