1958 FIBA European Champions Cup |
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Season | 1958 |
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Number of teams | 23 |
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Finals |
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Champions | Rīgas ASK (1st title) |
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Runners-up | Academic |
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The 1958 FIBA European Champions Cup was the inaugural season of the European top-tier level professional basketball club competition FIBA European Champions Cup (now called EuroLeague). It was won by Rīgas ASK, after they won both EuroLeague Finals games against Academic. Previously, they had not played the semifinals, as Real Madrid was not allowed to travel to Soviet Riga by the Francoist authorities. The first game was held on February 22, 1958, in Brussels, Belgium, where Belgian League champion Royal IV, defeated the Luxembourger League champions, Etzella Ettelbruck, by a score of 82–43.[1] The most notable contributors to Riga's first title included center Jānis Krūmiņš and head coach Alexander Gomelsky.
Competition system
23 teams. European national domestic league champions only, playing in a tournament system. The Finals were a two-game home and away aggregate.
Preliminary round
Group A (Northeast Europe)
Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
Rīgas ASK | 176–112 | Wissenschaft Berlin | 85–56 | 91–56 |
Pantterit | 131–133 | Legia Warsaw | 64–62 | 67–71 |
Group B (Central Europe)
First round
*Series decided over one game played in Switzerland.
Second round
The winners of the three pairs in Group B played against each other, in a tournament held in Milan, in order to determine the two clubs that would progress to the Quarterfinals
Group C (Southeast Europe)
First round
*Union Beirut withdrew
Second round
Third round
Group D (Southwest Europe)
First round
Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
Royal IV | 145–79 | Etzella | 82–43 | 63–36 |
Second round
Knockout stage
Quarterfinals
*The result of the game between the two clubs in the tournament of the 1st Round's Group B was used as a result for the 1st leg.
Semifinals
*Real Madrid withdrew as they were not allowed to travel to the Soviet Union.[3]
Finals
Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
Rīgas ASK | 170–152 | Academic | 86–81 | 84–71 |
1958 FIBA European Champions Cup Champions |
Rīgas ASK 1st Title |
Awards
References
- ^ February 22, 1958: The day it all started
- ^ ORBIS Postupuje
- ^ Champions Cup 1958
External links
- 1958 FIBA European Champions Cup
- 1958 FIBA European Champions Cup Archived 2017-03-21 at the Wayback Machine
- 1958 FIBA European Champions Cup
- Champions Cup 1958 Line-ups and Stats
- 1958 EuroLeague Retrospective and Stats Archived 2022-08-26 at the Wayback Machine
Rīgas ASK 1958 FIBA European Champions Cup champions
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