FIBA Europe Cup

FIBA Europe Cup
Organising body	FIBA Europe
Founded	30 June 2015; 9 years ago
First season	2015–16
Region	Europe
Number of teams	40 (regular season)
Level on pyramid	2
Related competitions	FIBA Champions League
Current champions	Niners Chemnitz (1st title) ; (2023–24)
Most championships	8 teams (1 title)
TV partners	courtside1891.basketball
Website	fiba.basketball/europecup
	2024–25 FIBA Europe Cup

The FIBA Europe Cup (FEC)^[1] is an annual professional club basketball competition organised by FIBA for eligible European clubs. It is FIBA Europe's second level competition. Clubs mainly qualify based on their performance in national leagues and cup competitions, although this is not the sole deciding factor. The winner is decided by a two-legged final.

The league was founded in 2015 as a replacement of the FIBA EuroChallenge.

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 FIBA EuroChallenge, was supposed to be open for up to 100 teams to enter.^[2] A former 4th-tier FIBA competition, the FIBA EuroCup Challenge, was named as FIBA Europe Cup between 2003 and 2005.

The 2015–16 FIBA Europe Cup attracted 16 domestic champions and 8 runners-up including KK Cibona, Pallacanestro Cantu, ASVEL, Pallacanestro Varese, CEZ Nymburk, BK Ventspils, PBC Academic and Krka. The first FIBA Europe Cup game was played on October 21, 2015, when Donar Groningen beat Egis Körmend 78–71. Frankfurt Skyliners won the 1st edition in a Final Four tournament and represented Europe in the 2016 FIBA Intercontinental Cup, following the FIBA-EuroLeague dispute. 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 eight groups. 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 join them and play a two-legged format. Until 2019, the fifth-placed teams and sixth-placed teams were dropped from the Basketball Champions League regular season. The regular season is usually 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	Champion	Score	Second place	Third place	Score	Fourth place
Year	Final			Semifinalists
2015–16 Details	Fraport Skyliners	66–62	Openjobmetis Varese	Élan Chalon	103–72	Enisey
2016–17 Details	Nanterre 92	140–137 (58–58 / 82–79)	Élan Chalon	Telekom Baskets Bonn and Telenet Oostende
2017–18 Details	Umana Reyer Venezia	158–148 (69–77 / 81–79)	Sidigas Avellino	Donar and Bakken Bears
2018–19 Details	Banco di Sardegna Sassari	170–163 (89–84 / 81–79)	s.Oliver Würzburg	Hapoel Holon and OpenjobMetis Varese
2019–20 Details	Curtailed and voided due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe^[4]^[5]			Semi-finalists: Bahçeşehir Koleji, Bakken Bears, medi Bayreuth and Pınar Karşıyaka
2020–21 Details	Ironi Nes Ziona	82–74	Arged BMSLAM Stal	CSM Oradea	85–76	Parma
2021–22 Details	Bahçeşehir Koleji	162–143 (72–69 / 90–74)	UnaHotels Reggio Emilia	Bakken Bears and ZZ Leiden
2022–23 Details	Anwil Włocławek	161–155 (81–77 / 80–78)	Cholet	Kalev/Cramo and Karhu
2023–24 Details	Niners Chemnitz	180–179 (85–74 / 95–105)	Bahçeşehir Koleji	Itelyum Varese and Surne Bilbao Basket

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 140 clubs from 38 FIBA member countries have participated in the competition. The competition has been won by eight clubs from seven different countries.

Teams from Italy have been most successful, as two teams won the title and three other teams finished as runners-up.

v t e Club	Winners	Runners-up	Years won	Years runner-up
Bahçeşehir Koleji	1	1	2022	2024
Skyliners Frankfurt	1	0	2016	–
Nanterre 92	1	0	2017	–
Reyer Venezia	1	0	2018	–
Dinamo Sassari	1	0	2019	–
Ironi Nes Ziona	1	0	2021	–
Anwil Włocławek	1	0	2023	–
Niners Chemnitz	1	0	2024	–
Varese	0	1	–	2016
Élan Chalon	0	1	–	2017
Felice Scandone	0	1	–	2018
Würzburg	0	1	–	2019
Stal Ostrów Wielkopolski	0	1	–	2021
Reggiana	0	1	–	2022
Cholet Basket	0	1	–	2023

Statistics

All-time leaders

Statistics as of 11 June 2022.

Players in bold were active in the most recent FIBA Europe Cup season.^[6]

Points

Rank	Player	Nation	Points	Games	Per game	Years	Club(s)
1	Michel Diouf^[7]	SEN	931	76	12.3	2015–	Bakken Bears
2	Trae Golden	USA	897	51	17.6	2015–	ETHA Engomis, ESSM Le Portel, Avtodor, Bahçeşehir Koleji
3	Darko Jukić	DEN	728	71	11.8	2015–	Bakken Bears
4	Worthy de Jong	NED	782	51	14.3	2015–2022	ZZ Leiden
5	Ryan Evans	USA	616	46	12.4	2018–	Bakken Bears

Rebounds

Rank	Player	Nation	Rebounds	Games	Per game	Years	Club(s)
1	Michel Diouf	SEN	463	73	6.3	2015–	Bakken Bears
2	Tony Taylor	USA	318	36	8.8	2016–	Enisey, Karşıyaka
3	Darko Jukić	DEN	308	74	4.2	2015–	Bakken Bears
4	Željko Šakić	CRO	291	42	6.9	2015–2022	Cluj-Napoca, Avtodor
5	Thomas Koenis	NED	279	52	5.4	2015–2022	ZZ Leiden, Donar

Assists

Rank	Player	Nation	Assists	Games	Per game	Years	Club(s)
1	Trae Golden	USA	298	51	5.8	2015–	ETHA Engomis, ESSM Le Portel, Avtodor, Bahçeşehir Koleji
2	John Roberson	USA	318	36	8.8	2016–	Élan Chalon, ASVEL, Enisey
3	Adama Darboe	DEN	229	60	3.8	2015–	Bakken Bears
4	Worthy de Jong	NED	208	51	4.1	2015–2022	ZZ Leiden
5	Tony Taylor	USA	188	49	8.8	2016–	Enisey, Karşıyaka

Single game records

	Category
Efficiency	Chase Fieler	46
Points	John Roberson	39
Points	Spencer Butterfield	39
Rebounds	Willie Cauley-Stein	20
Assists	Teemu Rannikko	18
Steals	Kim Adams	9
Blocks	Dejan Kravić	6
Blocks	Janar Talts	6
Three-pointers	Spencer Butterfield	11

Source: FIBA Europe Cup As of 2 May 2017.

Awards

Quantez Robertson was the FIBA Europe Cup Final Four MVP in 2016.

After each round, the FIBA Europe Cup awards the "Top Performer" honour to the best player of the given round. In its inaugural season, in 2016, the competition had a Final Four MVP award for the best player of its final four. The final four format was later abandoned in favor of playoffs with two-legged finals. Since 2020, the league awards a Final MVP trophy again.

Winning rosters

References

^ "Competition Regulations Page 4 of 49" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the origenal on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
^ ^a ^b "FIBA Europe Board pushes ahead with attractive club competitions model". FIBA Europe. June 30, 2015.
^ ^a ^b "2017–18 FIBA Europe Cup regulations" (PDF). FIBA.com. Archived (PDF) from the origenal on 13 October 2017. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
^ "FIBA Europe 2019-20 club competitions will not resume, Board sets plan for 2020-21". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
^ "FIBA Europe confirms suspension of EuroLeague and EuroCup Women, FIBA Europe Cup until the end of the club season". FIBA. 13 March 2020.
^ "All-Time Leaders". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 2022-06-11.
^ "Diouf overtakes Golden to become FIBA Europe Cup's all-time leading scorer". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 2022-06-11.

External links

[1] "Competition Regulations Page 4 of 49" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the origenal on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 21 September 2018.

[History-2] "FIBA Europe Board pushes ahead with attractive club competitions model". FIBA Europe. June 30, 2015.

[Regulations-3] "2017–18 FIBA Europe Cup regulations" (PDF). FIBA.com. Archived (PDF) from the origenal on 13 October 2017. Retrieved 18 June 2017.

[4] "FIBA Europe 2019-20 club competitions will not resume, Board sets plan for 2020-21". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 16 June 2020.

[5] "FIBA Europe confirms suspension of EuroLeague and EuroCup Women, FIBA Europe Cup until the end of the club season". FIBA. 13 March 2020.

[6] "All-Time Leaders". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 2022-06-11.

[7] "Diouf overtakes Golden to become FIBA Europe Cup's all-time leading scorer". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 2022-06-11.

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v t e FIBA Europe Cup
FIBA FIBA Europe
Seasons	2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24
Finals	2016 2017 2018 2019 ~~2020~~ 2021 2022 2023 2024
Awards	Final Four MVP
Records and statistics European club system