| Prevseason: | 1996–97 |
| Nextseason: | 1998–99 |
| 1997–98 FIBA EuroLeague | |
| Pixels: | 300 |
| Season: | 1997–98 |
| Champions: |  Kinder Bologna (1st title) |
| Runners Up: | AEK |
| Third Place: | Benetton Treviso |
| Fourth Place: | Partizan Zepter |
| Teams: | 24 |
| Dates: | September 18, 1997 – April 23, 1998 |
| Mvp Link: | Euroleague MVP |
| Final Four Mvp Link: | Euroleague Final Four MVP |
| Final Four Mvp N: | FRY |
| Ppg: | 20.9 |
| Ppg N: | FRY |
| Rpg: | 9.6 |
| Rpg N: | FRY |
| Apg: | 4.4 |
| Apg N: | USA |
The 1997–98 FIBA EuroLeague was the 41st installment of the European top-tier level professional club competition for basketball clubs (now called simply EuroLeague). It began on September 18, 1997, and ended on April 23, 1998. The competition's Final Four was held at Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona, with Kinder Bologna defeating AEK in the EuroLeague Final, in front of 11,900 spectators.[1]
Benetton Treviso finished in the third position, while Partizan finished fourth.
For the 1997–1998 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 1994–95 to 1996–97.[2]
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The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
| Regular season | ||||
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 FC Barcelona Banca Catalana (1st) | Benetton Treviso (1st) |  Efes Pilsen (1st) |  Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv (1st) | |
| Real Madrid Teka (2nd) | Teamsystem Bologna (2nd) | Türk Telekom PTT (2nd) | Hapoel Jerusalem (WC) | |
| Estudiantes (3rd) | Kinder Bologna (3rd) | Ülker (WC) | Alba Berlin (1st) | |
| Olympiacos (1st) |  PSG Racing (1st) | Cibona (1st) | Union Olimpija (1st) | |
| AEK (2nd) | Pau-Orthez (3rd) | Split (2nd) | Partizan Zepter (1st) | |
| PAOK (3rd) | Limoges CSP (4th) |  CSKA Moscow (1st) | FC Porto (1st) | |
(The individual scores and standings of the first round are accumulated in the second round)
If one or more clubs are level on won-lost record, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:
Teams in bold advanced to the next round. The numbers to the left of each team indicate the team's seeding, the numbers to the right indicate the result of games including result in bold of the team that won in that game, and the numbers furthest to the right indicate the number of games the team won in that round.
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See main article: 1998 FIBA EuroLeague Final Four.
April 21, Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona|}
April 23, Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona|}
April 23, Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona|}
| width=25 | width=220 | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kinder Bologna | |||
| AEK | |||
| Benetton Treviso | |||
| Partizan Zepter |
All official awards of the 1997–98 FIBA EuroLeague.
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| First Team<[3] | ||
|---|---|---|
| Antoine Rigaudeau | Kinder Bologna | |
| Sasha Danilović | Kinder Bologna | |
 Henry Williams | Benetton Treviso | |
| Dejan Tomašević | Partizan Zepter | |
| Zoran Savić (MVP) | Kinder Bologna | |
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| Rank | width=200 | Name | width=210 | Team | Games | width=85 | Points | width=50 | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Peja Stojaković | PAOK | 16 | 335 | 20.9 | ||||
| 2. | Harun Erdenay | 16 | 321 | 20.1 | |||||
| 3. | Oded Kattash | 19 | 372 | 19.6 |
| Rank | width=200 | Name | width=210 | Team | Games | width=85 | Rebounds | width=50 | RPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Dejan Tomašević | Partizan Zepter | 23 | 221 | 9.6 | ||||
| 2. | Efes Pilsen | 21 | 194 | 9.2 | |||||
| 3. | PAOK | 19 | 167 | 8.8 |
| Rank | width=200 | Name | width=210 | Team | Games | width=85 | Assists | width=50 | APG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Willie Anderson | AEK | 12 | 53 | 4.4 | ||||
| 2. |  Petar Naumoski | 17 | 71 | 4.2 | |||||
| 3. | Aleksandar Đorđević | 18 | 74 | 4.1 |
| Category | width=190 | Player | width=230 | Team | width=55 | Games | width=80 | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steals | 21 | 2.9 | ||||||
| Turnovers | 16 | 3.1 | ||||||
| Minutes | Petar Naumoski | 17 | 39.9 | |||||
| FT % | 22 | 87.8% | ||||||
| 2-Point % | 16 | 63.6% | ||||||
| 3-Point % | 19 | 52.1% |
| width=85 | Category | width=190 | Player | width=230 | Team | width=50 | Statistic | Opponent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | 39 | Partizan Zepter (Nov 12, 1997) | ||||||
| Rebounds | 19 | AEK (Jan 14, 1998) | ||||||
| Assists | 12 | Teamsystem Bologna (Nov 6, 1997) | ||||||
| Ülker (Dec 11, 1997) | ||||||||
| Steals | 11 | PAOK (Jan 8, 1998) |
| Category | width=230 | Team | width=70 | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | 79.1 | |||
| Rebounds | 30.8 | |||
| Assists | 14.3 | |||
| Steals | 11.7 | |||
| Turnovers | 15.8 | |||
| FT % | 75.1% | |||
| 2-Point % | 57.9% | |||
| 3-Point % | 40.7% |