The EuroLeague is a European men's professional basketball club competition, widely recognized as the top and most prestigious men's basketball league in Europe. It has 20 teams, 16 of them holding long-term licences and wild cards, which makes it a semi-closed league. It was first organized by FIBA in 1958 as the FIBA European Champions Cup, renamed the FIBA EuroLeague in 1996, and then run by ULEB from 2000 and by Euroleague Basketball from the 2000-01 season. The FIBA European Champions Cup and the EuroLeague are regarded as the same competition, the change of name being a re-branding. Twenty-two clubs have won the title, 15 of them more than once, and Real Madrid lead with 11 titles ahead of CSKA Moscow with 8 and Panathinaikos with 7. Virtus Bologna won the first title of the Euroleague Basketball era in 2000-01.
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Competitors Include
Source Alzhan Zharmukhamedov (Wikipedia)
Source Bobby Brown (basketball) (Wikipedia)
Source Branislav Prelević (Wikipedia)
Source Elias Harris (Wikipedia)
Source Heiko Schaffartzik (Wikipedia)
Source Jaycee Carroll (Wikipedia)
Source K. C. Rivers (Wikipedia)
Source Léo Westermann (Wikipedia)
Source Wikipedia: Panathinaikos BC
Source Wikipedia: PBC CSKA Moscow
Source Wikipedia: Real Madrid Baloncesto
Source Zoran Planinić (Wikipedia)
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The competition was introduced in 1958 as the FIBA European Champions Cup (renamed the FIBA EuroLeague in 1996), which operated under FIBA's umbrella until Euroleague Basketball was created for the 2000-01 season.
Competition format
Each team plays a maximum 45 games per season: 38 in the regular season, a maximum of 5 during the playoffs, and 2 in the Final Four.
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The EuroLeague is a European men's professional basketball club competition.
View the SourceAlzhan Zharmukhamedov (Wikipedia)
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FIBA European Champions Cup (EuroLeague) Champion: 1971
Wikipedia: Real Madrid Baloncesto
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They play domestically in the Liga ACB, and internationally in the EuroLeague.
Wikipedia: PBC CSKA Moscow
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The club is a member of the VTB United League, and was a member of the EuroLeague.
Wikipedia: Panathinaikos BC
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The team has won seven EuroLeague Championships, forty Greek Basket League Championships, twenty-two Greek Cups, one Intercontinental Cup, one Greek Super Cup, and two Triple Crowns.
Branislav Prelević (Wikipedia)
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Prelević participated in the EuroLeague for the first time
Jaycee Carroll (Wikipedia)
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Over 36 EuroLeague games, Carroll averaged 9.4 points per game.
Heiko Schaffartzik (Wikipedia)
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he played his first season in the Euroleague
Bobby Brown (basketball) (Wikipedia)
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Brown won the EuroLeague's Alphonso Ford EuroLeague Top Scorer Trophy in 2013.
Elias Harris (Wikipedia)
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Elias Harris (born 6 July 1989) is a German professional basketball player who last played for Bayern Munich of the Bundesliga (BBL) and the EuroLeague.
Zoran Planinić (Wikipedia)
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In his first season with the team, he averaged 8.4 points and 3.7 assists, over 23 EuroLeague games.
K. C. Rivers (Wikipedia)
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Rivers helped his team to secure its third straight EuroLeague Finals appearance
Léo Westermann (Wikipedia)
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he averaged 9.6 points, 2.6 rebounds, and 4.1 assists per game in the EuroLeague.
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