FIBA Europe Cup

FIBA Europe Cup
Founded 30 June 2015 (2015-06-30)
First season 2015–16
Region Europe
Confederation FIBA Europe
Number of teams 32 (regular season)
48 (total)
Level on pyramid 4
Promotion to Basketball Champions League
Current champions Italy Umana Reyer Venezia (1st title)
Most championships 3 teams (1 title)
Website www.fiba.com/europecup
2018–19 FIBA Europe Cup

The FIBA Europe Cup, officially abbreviated as FEC[1] is an annual professional club basketball competition organised by FIBA for eligible European basketball clubs. Its is the European-wide fourth tier level. Clubs mainly qualify for the competition based on their performance in their national leagues and cup competitions, although this is not the sole deciding factor, as sometimes clubs that did not win their league can still qualify.

History

Scene of the first leg of the 2017 FIBA Europe Cup Final

On June 30, 2015, FIBA announced it would start a new league to compete with Euroleague Basketball's EuroCup.[2] The new competition, which replaced EuroChallenge, was supposed to be open for up to 100 teams to enter.[2]

The first FIBA Europe Cup game was played on October 21, 2015, when Donar Groningen beat Egis Körmend 78–71. In the 2016–17 season, FIBA started the Basketball Champions League and since then teams from the Champions League can be transferred to the Europe Cup through their position.

Format

Tournament

The tournament proper begins with a regular season of 32 teams, divided into two conferences of four groups each. Seeding is used whilst making the draw for this stage, whilst teams from the same country may not be drawn into groups together. Each team meets the others in its group in home and away games, in a round-robin format. The winning team and runner-up from each group then progress to the second round with 16 teams divided into four groups. Each team meets the others in its group in home and away games, in a round-robin format.[3]

For the play-offs, the winning team and runner-up from each group joins with the fifth-placed teams and sixth-placed teams dropped from the Basketball Champions League regular season and plays in a two-legged format. The regular season is played from October to December and the second round is played from December to January, whilst the play-offs start in February.[3]

Finals

The Finals were played in either a Final Four tournament format or with a two-legged series.

Year Final Third and fourth place
Champion Score Second place
2015–16
Details		 Germany
Fraport Skyliners		 66–62 Italy
Openjobmetis Varese		 France
Élan Chalon		 Russia
Enisey
2016–17
Details		 France
Nanterre 92		 140–137
(58–58, 82–79)		 France
Élan Chalon		 Germany Telekom Baskets Bonn and Belgium Telenet Oostende
2017–18
Details		 Italy
Umana Reyer Venezia		 158–148
(69–77, 81–79)		 Italy
Sidigas Avellino		 Denmark Bakken Bears and Netherlands Donar

Performance by club

Map of countries, teams from which have reached the regular season of the FIBA Europe Cup.
  FIBA member country that has been represented in the regular season
  FIBA member country that has been represented in the qualifying rounds
  Not represented

A total number of 83 clubs from 35 FIBA member countries have participated in the competition. The competition has been won by 2 clubs from 2 countries.

Club		 Winners Runners-up Years won Years runner-up
Italy Reyer Venezia 1 0 2018 –
France Nanterre 92 1 0 2017 –
Germany Skyliners Frankfurt 1 0 2016 –
Italy Varese 0 1 – 2016
France Élan Chalon 0 1 – 2017
Italy Felice Scandone 0 1 – 2018

Statistics

All-time records

Category
Efficiency United States Chase Fieler46
Points United States John Roberson39
United States Spencer Butterfield
Rebounds United States Maurice Sutton
Canada Ross Bekkering
Hungary Krisztofer Durázi		19
Assists Finland Teemu Rannikko
18
Steals United States Kim Adams9
Blocks Serbia Dejan Kravić6
Estonia Janar Talts
Three-pointers United States Spencer Butterfield11

Source: FIBA Europe Cup As of 2 May 2017.

Awards

After each round, the FIBA Europe Cup awards the "Top Performer" honour to the best player of the given round. In its inaugural season, the competition had a Final Four MVP award for the best player of a given Final Four. However, since 2015–16 the award has not been handed out.

Winning rosters

See also

References

  1. ↑ Competition Regulations Page 4 of 49.
  2. 1 2 "FIBA Europe Board pushes ahead with attractive club competitions model". FIBA Europe. June 30, 2015.
  3. 1 2 "2017–18 FIBA Europe Cup regulations" (PDF). FIBA.com. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
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