1963–64 FIBA European Champions Cup explained

1963–64 FIBA European Champions Cup
League:	FIBA European Champions Cup
Sport:	Basketball
Season Champs:	ббаС
Finals:	Finals
Finals Link:	1964 FIBA European Champions Cup Finals
Finals Champ:	Real Madrid
Finals Runner-Up:	Spartak ZJŠ Brno
Seasonslistnames:	FIBA European Champions Cup
Prevseason Link:	1962–63 FIBA European Champions Cup
Prevseason Year:	1962–63
Nextseason Year:	1964–65
Nextseason Link:	1964–65 FIBA European Champions Cup

The 1963–64 FIBA European Champions Cup was the seventh season of the European top-tier level professional basketball club competition FIBA European Champions Cup (now called EuroLeague). It was won by Real Madrid, marking the first of the club's 10 EuroLeague championships in its history.

Real defeated Spartak ZJŠ Brno in the two-legged EuroLeague Final, after losing the first game in Brno, 110–99, and winning the second game at Madrid, 84–64.

Competition system

23 teams. European national domestic league champions, plus the then current FIBA European Champions Cup title holders only, playing in a tournament system. The Finals were a two-game home-and-away aggregate.

First round

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Second round

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• Since the aggregate score after the two legs was tied, a tie-break was played in București on 19 January 1964: Steaua București – Galatasaray 57–56.

• • Benfica withdrew before the first leg and Legia Warsaw received a forfeit (2–0) in both games.

• • • PUC could not travel to Belgrade to play the first leg after all fights to the Yugoslavian capital were cancelled due to adverse weather. Later, FIBA decided that this tie should be played as a single game in Paris (16 January 1964).

Automatically qualified to the quarterfinals:

• CSKA Moscow (title holder) withdrew before the competition. The "official" explanation given by the Soviet Basketball Federation was to prepare the Olympic Games.

Quarterfinals

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Automatically qualified to the semifinals:

• OKK Beograd

Semifinals

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Finals

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First leg Brno Ice rink, Brno;Attendance 11,207,^[1] also mentioned as 12,000^[2] or 14,000^[3] (27 April 1964)^[4]
Second leg Frontón Vista Alegre, Madrid;Attendance 2,500 (10 May 1964)

Awards

FIBA European Champions Cup Finals Top Scorer

• Emiliano Rodríguez ( Real Madrid)

External links

• 1963–64 FIBA European Champions Cup
• 1963–64 FIBA European Champions Cup
• 1963–64 FIBA European Champions Cup
• Champions Cup 1963–64 Line-ups and Stats

Notes and References

1. News: Novotná . Jana . 1964-04-28 . Bude jedenáct bodů stačit? . cs . 1 . Československý sport.
2. http://www.linguasport.com/baloncesto/internacional/clubes/c1/C1_64.htm Champions Cup 1963–64
3. http://www.realmadrid.com/StaticFiles/RealMadrid/guiaMediosBaloncesto/01ElClub_ING.pdf MEDIA GUIDE 2008/09-Club-History
4. Web site: 8 EUROLIGAS BALONCESTO (6 SUBCAMPEÓN) (EUROPEAN BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS CUP) . 28 September 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170128171457/http://www.galeon.com/realmadridbasket/euroleague.htm . 28 January 2017 . dead .