| Prevseason: | 1997–98 |
| Nextseason: | 1999–2000 |
| FIBA EuroLeague | |
| T Bg: |
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| T Color: | white |
| Pixels: | 300 |
| Season: | 1998–99 |
| Champions: |  Žalgiris(1st title) |
| Runners Up: |  Kinder Bologna |
| Fourth Place: | Teamsystem Bologna |
| Teams: | 24 |
| Duration: | 23 September 1998 – 22 April 1999 |
| Final Four Mvp N: | USA |
| Final Four Mvp Link: | EuroLeague Final Four MVP |
| Top Scorer: | İbrahim Kutluay |
| Ppg: | 21.4 |
| Ppg N: | TUR |
| Rebounds Leader: | Žan Tabak |
| Rpg: | 10.0 |
| Rpg N: | CRO |
| Assists Leader: | Tyus Edney |
| Apg: | 6.1 |
| Apg N: | USA |
The 1998–99 FIBA EuroLeague was the 42nd installment of the European top-tier level professional club competition for basketball clubs (now called simply EuroLeague). It began on September 23, 1998, and ended on April 22, 1999. The competition's Final Four was held at Olympiahalle, Munich, with Žalgiris defeating Kinder Bologna in the EuroLeague Final, in front of 9,000 spectators.[1]
For the 1998–1999 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 1995–96 to 1997–98.[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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| Panathinaikos (1st) |  TDK Manresa (1st) |  CSKA Moscow (1st) | Cibona (1st) | |
| PAOK (2nd) | Tau Cerámica (2nd) | Avtodor Saratov (2nd) | Zadar (WC) | |
| Olympiacos (3rd) | Real Madrid Teka (3rd) | Samara (WC) | Alba Berlin (1st) | |
| Kinder Bologna (1st) |  Ülker (1st) |  Pau-Orthez (1st) | Žalgiris (1st) | |
| Teamsystem Bologna (2nd) | Efes Pilsen (2nd) | ASVEL (3rd) | Union Olimpija (1st) | |
| Varese Roosters (3rd) | Fenerbahçe (3rd) | Crvena zvezda (1st) |  Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv (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: 1999 FIBA EuroLeague Final Four.
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| Žalgiris | |||
| Kinder Bologna | |||
| Olympiacos | |||
| Teamsystem Bologna |
All official awards of the 1998–99 FIBA EuroLeague.
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| First Team[3] | ||
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 Tyus Edney (MVP) | Žalgiris | |
| Anthony Bowie | Žalgiris | |
| Saulius Štombergas | Žalgiris | |
| Rašho Nesterović | Kinder Bologna | |
| Eurelijus Žukauskas | Žalgiris | |
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| Rank | width=200 | Name | width=210 | Team | Games | width=85 | Points | width=50 | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | İbrahim Kutluay | Fenerbahçe | 17 | 364 | 21.4 | ||||
| 2. | Dejan Bodiroga | 17 | 344 | 20.2 | |||||
| 3. | Harun Erdenay | 18 | 362 | 20.1 |
| Rank | width=200 | Name | width=210 | Team | Games | width=85 | Rebounds | width=50 | RPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Žan Tabak | Fenerbahçe | 18 | 180 | 10.0 | ||||
| 2. | Efes Pilsen | 20 | 192 | 9.6 | |||||
| 3. | Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv | 18 | 161 | 8.9 |
| Rank | width=200 | Name | width=210 | Team | Games | width=85 | Assists | width=50 | APG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Tyus Edney | Žalgiris | 22 | 135 | 6.1 | ||||
| 2. | Delaney Rudd | 21 | 124 | 5.9 | |||||
| 3. |  Petar Naumoski | 19 | 110 | 5.8 |
| Category | width=190 | Player | width=230 | Team | width=55 | Games | width=80 | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steals | 15 | 2.5 | ||||||
| Turnovers | 15 | 3.5 | ||||||
| Minutes | Petar Naumoski | 19 | 39.1 | |||||
| FT % | 20 | 89.6% | ||||||
| 2-Point % | 16 | 64.1% | ||||||
| 3-Point % | 18 | 57.9% |
| width=85 | Category | width=190 | Player | width=230 | Team | width=50 | Statistic | Opponent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | 41 | Cibona (Feb 10, 1999) | ||||||
| Rebounds | 21 | Varese Roosters (Jan 7, 1999) | ||||||
| Pau-Orthez (Jan 7, 1999) | ||||||||
| Assists | 17 | Žalgiris (Dec 10, 1998) | ||||||
| Steals | 9 | Cibona (Feb 18, 1999) |
| Category | width=230 | Team | width=70 | Average |
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| Points | 79.5 | |||
| Rebounds | 32.3 | |||
| Assists | 17.1 | |||
| Steals | 12.4 | |||
| Turnovers | 17.6 | |||
| FT % | 76.1% | |||
| 2-Point % | 57.4% | |||
| 3-Point % | 43.4% |