1975–76 FIBA European Champions Cup

Sports season

1975–76 FIBA European Champions Cup

League| FIBA European Champions Cup
Sport| Basketball
Final
Champions|  Mobilgirgi Varese
Runners-up|  Real Madrid
FIBA European Champions Cup seasons

← 1974–75

1976–77 →

The 1975–76 FIBA European Champions Cup was the 19th edition of the European top-tier level professional basketball club competition FIBA European Champions Cup (now called EuroLeague). The Final was held at the Patinoire des Vernets, in Geneva, Switzerland, on April 1, 1976. In a third consecutive final for these two teams, Mobilgirgi Varese defeated Real Madrid, by a result of 81–74.

## Competition system[edit]

23 teams. European national domestic league champions, plus the then current FIBA European Champions Cup title holders only, playing in a tournament system. The Final was a single game, played on a neutral court.

## First round[edit]

Team 1  | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2  | 1st leg  | 2nd leg

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Beşiktaş | 151–173  |  Federale | 90–70  | 61–103
Al-Zamalek | 133–167  |  Academic | 69–74  | 64–93
Resovia Rzeszów | 185–137  |  Jalaa | 109–67  | 76–70
Alvik | 134–135  |  Turun NMKY | 76–67  | 58–68

## Second round[edit]

Team 1  | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2  | 1st leg  | 2nd leg

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ÍR | 0–4*  |  Real Madrid | 0–2  | 0–2
T71 Dudelange | 123–207  |  Birra Forst Cantù | 76–97  | 47–110
Federale | 162–158  |  Dukla Olomouc | 91–73  | 71–85
Gießen 46ers | 158–159  |  Academic | 89–75  | 69–84
Resovia Rzeszów | 156–164  |  Sefra Wien | 83–88  | 73–76
Embassy All-Stars | 153–207  |  Transol RZ | 87–90  | 66–117
Panathinaikos | 151–156  |  Turun NMKY | 96–78  | 55–78

*While they were eligible as the national champions to do so, ÍR never intended to participate in the tournament due to high costs involved and thus didn't register for it nor pay the participation fees. A letter by the Icelandic Basketball Association which informed FIBA on which Icelandic teams where eligible to participate in official FIBA tournaments was mistakenly taken as a confirmation of their participation.[1][2] Due to the mistake, Real Madrid went through with a walkover.

Automatically qualified to the group stage

* Mobilgirgi Varese (title holder)
* Zadar
* ASVEL
* Maes Pils
* Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv

## Quarterfinals group stage[edit]

The quarterfinals were played with a round-robin system, in which every Two Game series (TGS) constituted as one game for the record.

Key to colors  | Top two places in each group advance to Semifinals

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### Group A[edit]

|  | Team | Pld | Pts | W | L | PF | PA | PD

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1. |  Mobilgirgi Varese | 5 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 886 | 729 | +157
2. |  ASVEL | 5 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 783 | 764 | +19
3. |  Maes Pils | 5 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 847 | 780 | +67
4. |  Academic | 5 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 813 | 871 | -58
5. |  Turun NMKY | 5 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 784 | 913 | -129
6. |  Zadar | 5 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 817 | 873 | -56

### Group B[edit]

|  | Team | Pld | Pts | W | L | PF | PA | PD

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1. |  Real Madrid | 5 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 1070 | 869 | +201
2. |  Birra Forst Cantù | 5 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 960 | 849 | +111
3. |  Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv | 5 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 894 | 905 | -11
4. |  Sefra Wien | 5 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 833 | 839 | -6
5. |  Transol RZ | 5 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 855 | 1025 | -170
6. |  Federale | 5 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 859 | 984 | -125

## Semifinals[edit]

Team 1  | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2  | 1st leg  | 2nd leg

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Mobilgirgi Varese | 173–155  |  Birra Forst Cantù | 95–85  | 78–70
Real Madrid | 212–178  |  ASVEL | 113–77  | 99–101

## Final[edit]

April 1, Patinoire des Vernets, Geneva

Team 1  |  Score | Team 2

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Mobilgirgi Varese | 81–74  |  Real Madrid

1975–76 FIBA European Champions Cup
Champions

Mobilgirgi Varese
5th Title

## Awards[edit]

### FIBA European Champions Cup Finals Top Scorer[edit]

* Bob Morse ( Ignis Varese)

## References[edit]

1. ^ "ÍR tilkynnti aldrei þáttöku". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). 18 September 1975. p. 34. Retrieved 10 July 2022 - via Tímarit.is.
2. ^ "Þruma úr heiðskíru lofti". Tíminn (in Icelandic). 20 September 1979. p. 11. Retrieved 10 July 2022 - via Tímarit.is.

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