1999–2000 FIBA EuroLeague

FIBA EuroLeague
FIBA EuroLeague
	The Final Four was hosted at the PAOK Sports Arena
Season	1999–2000
Duration	23 September 1999 – 20 April 2000
Number of teams	24
Finals
Champions	Panathinaikos; (2nd title)
Runners-up	Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv
Third place	Efes Pilsen
Fourth place	FC Barcelona
Final Four MVP	Željko Rebrača
Statistical leaders
Points
Points	Miljan Goljović
Rebounds	Hüseyin Beşok
Assists	David Rivers
	← 1998–99 2000–01; 2000–01 SuproLeague →

The 1999–2000 FIBA EuroLeague was the 43rd installment of the European top-tier level professional club competition for basketball clubs (now called simply EuroLeague). It began on September 23, 1999, and ended on April 20, 2000. The competition's Final Four was held at PAOK Sports Arena, Thessaloniki, with Panathinaikos defeating Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv in the EuroLeague Final, in front of 8,500 spectators.[1]

Efes Pilsen finished in the third position, and FC Barcelona finished fourth.

Competition system

24 teams (the national domestic league champions from the best leagues, and a variable number of other clubs from the most important national domestic leagues). The competition culminated in a Final Four.

Team allocation

Country ranking

For the 1999–2000 EuroLeague, the countries are allocated places according to their place on the FIBA country rankings, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1996–97 to 1998–99.[2]

Country ranking for 1999–2000 FIBA EuroLeague

Rank	Country	Points	Teams	Notes
1	Italy	237.667	3
2	Greece	179.167
3	Spain	150.167
4	Turkey	70.500
5	France	68.833	2	+1, Cholet got wild card
6	Lithuania	55.556		-1, Lietuvos rytas withdrew
7	FR Yugoslavia	54.500
8	Russia	35.695		Lost one berth^{[Note FIBA]}
9	Slovenia	30.622	1	+1, Pivovarna got wild card
10	Germany	27.833
11	Croatia	25.542
12	Israel	22.108
13	Poland	20.714	0
14	Belgium	13.817
15	Portugal	13.762
16	Ukraine	6.143
17	Austria	4.559
18	Hungary	4.429
19	Macedonia	4.375

Rank	Country	Points	Teams
20	Cyprus	3.528	0
21	Czech Republic	3.187
22	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3.008
23	Finland	2.917
24	Slovakia	2.583
25	Latvia	2.302
26	Bulgaria	1.917
27	Netherlands	1.722
28	Sweden	1.667
29	Estonia	0.667
30	Romania	0.611
31	Luxembourg	0.472
32	Switzerland	0.389
33	Georgia	0.333
34	England	0.278
35	Belarus	0.111
36	Albania	0.055
37	Denmark	0.000
38	Ireland	0.000

Note

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FIBA: In Euroleague, teams finishing 6th in the Second Stage of 1998–99 FIBA EuroLeague (groups E-H) lose a berth for their country in next season. These berths are gained by those countries whose teams reach the Semi-Final Round in the 1998–99 FIBA Saporta Cup. As a general rule, a federation cannot have more than 3 teams in Euroleague. Should a semi-finalist in Saporta Cup provide one more berth for its country, in case it already has 3 berths assigned in Euroleague, this berth will be transferred to the next federation in FIBA Ranking which has 2 teams (as long as one of its teams reached the 1/4 Final Round in Saporta Cup during the same season)..

Teams

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:

1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.: League position after Playoffs
WC: Wild card

Varese Roosters (1st)	FC Barcelona (1st)	Pau-Orthez (1st)	Union Olimpija (1st)
Benetton Treviso (2nd)	Caja San Fernando (2nd)	ASVEL (2nd)	Pivovarna Laško (WC)
Paf Wennington Bologna (3rd)	Real Madrid Teka (3rd)	Cholet (WC)	CSKA Moscow (1st)
Panathinaikos (1st)	Tofaş (1st)	Budućnost (1st)	Alba Berlin (1st)
Olympiacos (2nd)	Efes Pilsen (2nd)	Crvena zvezda (2nd)	Cibona VIP (1st)
PAOK (3rd)	Ülker (3rd)	Žalgiris (1st)	Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv (1st)

First round

Group A

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	FC Barcelona	10	9	1	780	685	+95
2.	CSKA Moscow	10	7	3	754	705	+49
3.	Benetton Treviso	10	6	4	700	675	+25
4.	PAOK	10	5	5	730	680	+50
5.	Cholet	10	2	8	640	711	–71
6.	Crvena zvezda	10	1	9	636	784	–148

Group B

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Panathinaikos	10	9	1	802	690	+112
2.	Union Olimpija	10	5	5	776	791	–15
3.	Real Madrid Teka	10	5	5	714	743	–29
4.	Alba Berlin	10	5	5	734	747	–14
5.	Tofaş	10	4	6	715	738	–23
6.	Žalgiris	10	2	8	719	751	–32

Group C

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	ASVEL	10	8	2	711	645	+66
2.	Olympiacos	10	6	4	668	627	+41
3.	Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv	10	6	4	773	714	+59
4.	Ülker	10	5	5	756	770	–14
5.	Varese Roosters	10	3	7	715	762	–47
6.	Pivovarna Laško	10	2	8	712	817	–105

Group D

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Efes Pilsen	10	6	4	707	678	+29
2.	Cibona VIP	10	6	4	744	759	–15
3.	Paf Wennington Bologna	10	6	4	729	703	+26
4.	Budućnost	10	5	5	760	746	+14
5.	Caja San Fernando	10	5	5	699	689	+10
6.	Pau-Orthez	10	2	8	686	750	–64

Second round

(The individual scores and standings of the First stage were accumulated in the Second stage)

If one or more clubs were level on won-lost record, tiebreakers were applied in the following order:

Head-to-head record in matches between the tied clubs
Overall point difference in games between the tied clubs
Overall point difference in all group matches (first tiebreaker if tied clubs were not in the same group)
Points scored in all group matches
Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each group match

Key to colors
	Top four places in each group advance to Playoff

Group E

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	FC Barcelona	16	12	4	1183	1091	+92
2.	CSKA Moscow	16	9	7	1216	1182	+34
3.	Benetton Treviso	16	9	7	1156	1139	+17
4.	Alba Berlin	16	9	7	1174	1186	–12
5.	Tofaş	16	8	8	1193	1171	+22
6.	Žalgiris	16	4	12	1148	1200	–52

Group F

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Panathinaikos	16	13	3	1246	1084	+162
2.	Union Olimpija	16	10	6	1201	1175	+26
3.	Real Madrid Teka	16	10	6	1227	1187	+40
4.	PAOK	16	7	9	1140	1114	+26
5.	Cholet	16	3	13	1054	1186	–132
6.	Crvena zvezda	16	2	14	1034	1257	–223

Group G

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv	16	12	4	1182	1050	+132
2.	ASVEL	16	11	5	1107	1056	+51
3.	Olympiacos	16	10	6	1117	1045	+72
4.	Budućnost	16	7	9	1164	1168	–4
5.	Caja San Fernando	16	6	10	1068	1107	–39
6.	Pau-Orthez	16	4	12	1078	1164	–86

Group H

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Efes Pilsen	16	11	5	1221	1142	+79
2.	Paf Wennington Bologna	16	10	6	1198	1145	+53
3.	Cibona VIP	16	10	6	1201	1207	–6
4.	Ülker	16	8	8	1204	1235	–31
5.	Varese Roosters	16	5	11	1186	1240	–54
6.	Pivovarna Laško	16	2	14	1147	1314	–167

Top 16

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg
Union Olimpija	2–1	Olympiacos	65–61	52–68	85–67
FC Barcelona	2–1	Ülker	78–73	60–63	86–65
Paf Wennington Bologna	2–0	Benetton Treviso	82–73	77–61
Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv	2–1	PAOK	77–62	55–67	78–62
CSKA Moscow	1–2	Cibona VIP	72–75	75–55	69–78
Panathinaikos	2–1	Budućnost	65–59	64–77	78–61
ASVEL	2–0	Real Madrid Teka	72–59	85–73
Efes Pilsen	2–0	Alba Berlin	90–81	93–73

Quarterfinals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg
FC Barcelona	2–1	Union Olimpija	70–67	64–71	71–66
Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv	2–1	Paf Wennington Bologna	62–65	80–73	79–64
Panathinaikos	2–0	Cibona VIP	73–62	69–63
Efes Pilsen	2–1	ASVEL	93–85	60–77	68–66

Final Four

Semifinals

April 18, PAOK Sports Arena, Thessaloniki

Team 1	Score	Team 2
FC Barcelona	51–65	Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv
Panathinaikos	81–71	Efes Pilsen

Third place game

April 20, PAOK Sports Arena, Thessaloniki

Team 1	Score	Team 2
FC Barcelona	69–75	Efes Pilsen

Final