2018–19 FIBA Europe Cup

The 2018–19 FIBA Europe Cup was the fourth season of the FIBA Europe Cup, a European professional basketball competition for clubs, that was launched by FIBA. The competition began on 20 September 2018, with the qualifying rounds, and concluded on 1 May 2019.

FIBA Europe Cup
Season	2018–19
Dates	20 September – 10 October 2018 (qualifying rounds) 17 October 2018 – 1 May 2019 (competition proper)
Number of games	200
Number of teams	32 (regular season)
Finals
Champions	Dinamo Sassari (1st title)
Runners-up	s.Oliver Würzburg
Semifinalists	Hapoel Holon Varese
Statistical leaders
Points Darius Thompson 22.4 Rebounds Assem Marei 9.9 Assists Maurice Watson Jr. 6.5 Index Rating Darius Thompson 22.8
Records
Biggest home win	s.Oliver Würzburg 118–71 Szolnoki Olaj (9 January 2019)
Biggest away win	Istanbul BBSK 47–85 Donar Groningen (7 November 2018)
Highest scoring	Bakken Bears 124–125 Avtodor Saratov (6 February 2019)

Dinamo Sassari won its first European title after beating s.Oliver Würzburg in the 2019 FIBA Europe Cup Finals.

Team allocation

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 eventual Playoffs
• CL: Transferred from Champions League
  • RS: Fifth-placed and sixth-placed teams from regular season
  • QR: Losers from qualifying rounds

Play-offs
Sidigas Scandone (CL RS)	Hapoel Holon (CL RS)	Lietkabelis (CL RS)	SIG Strasbourg (CL RS)
Ventspils (CL RS)	Telekom Baskets Bonn (CL RS)	JDA Dijon (CL RS)	Filou Oostende (CL RS)
Regular season
Belfius Mons-Hainaut (5th)	Karhu (CL QR3)	Movistar Estudiantes (CL QR2)	Šiauliai (CL QR1)
s.Oliver Würzburg (9th)	Polski Cukier Toruń (CL QR3)	Tsmoki-Minsk (CL QR1)	Porto (CL QR1)
Falco Vulcano (2nd)	Sakarya Büyükşehir (CL QR3)	Petrolina AEK Larnaca (CL QR1)	Oradea (CL QR1)
Varese (6th)	Lukoil Levski (CL QR2)	Dinamo Tbilisi (CL QR1)	Avtodor (CL QR1)
Steaua CSM EximBank (2nd)	Bakken Bears (CL QR2)	Leicester Riders (CL QR1)	Norrköping Dolphins (CL QR1)
Pınar Karşıyaka (10th)	Aris (CL QR2)	Szolnoki Olaj (CL QR1)
Spirou (CL QR3)	Cantù (CL QR2)	Hapoel Tel Aviv (CL QR1)
JIP Pardubice (CL QR3)	Donar (CL QR2)	Z-Mobile Prishtina (CL QR1)
Second qualifying round
Balkan (2nd)	New Heroes Den Bosch (5th)	Alba Fehérvár (3rd)	U-BT Cluj-Napoca (3rd)
Rilski Sportist (3rd)	ece Bulls Kapfenberg (1st)	Dinamo Sassari (10th)	Luleå (2nd)
ZZ Leiden (2nd)	Keravnos (2nd)	Benfica (3rd)
First qualifying round
Cherkaski Mavpy (1st)	Kataja (6th)	Kongsberg Miners (1st)	İstanbul BB (11th)
Dnipro (2nd)	Lavrio Megabolt (6th	Rosa Radom (5th)
Dekstone Tuři Svitavy (4th)	Ironi Nes Ziona (8th)	Södertälje Kings (3rd)

Round and draw dates

The draw will take place on the 31 July 2018 in the FIBA headquarters in Munich, Germany. The schedule of the competition is as follows (all draws are held at the FIBA headquarters in Munich, Germany, unless stated otherwise):

Phase	Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
Qualifying rounds	First qualifying round	31 July 2018	20–21 September 2018	26 September 2018
	Second qualifying round		3 October 2018	9–10 October 2018
Regular season	Matchday 1		17 October 2018
	Matchday 2		23–24 October 2018
	Matchday 3		30–31 October 2018
	Matchday 4		6–7 November 2018
	Matchday 5		13–14 November 2018
	Matchday 6		20–21 November 2018
Second round	Matchday 1		12 December 2018
	Matchday 2		19 December 2018
	Matchday 3		9 January 2019
	Matchday 4		22–23 January 2019
	Matchday 5		29–30 January 2019
	Matchday 6		5–6 February 2019
Play-offs	Round of 16	7 February 2019	5–6 March 2019	12–13 March 2019
	Quarter-finals		20 March 2019	27 March 2019
	Semi-finals		10 April 2019	17 April 2019
	Finals		24 April 2019	1 May 2019

Qualifying rounds

The draw for the qualifying rounds was held on 31 July 2018 at the FIBA headquarters in Munich, Germany.

In the qualifying rounds, teams are divided into seeded and unseeded teams based on their club coefficients, and then drawn into two-legged home-and-away ties. Teams from the same country cannot be drawn against each other.

First qualifying round

A total of 10 teams played in the first qualifying round. The first legs were played on 20 and 21 September, and the second legs were played on 26 September 2018.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Lavrio Megabolt	140–149	Dnipro	82–73	58–76
Kongsberg Miners	153–184	Cherkaski Mavpy	63–83	90–101
Ironi Nes Ziona	172–143	Södertälje Kings	72–67	100–76
Kataja	161–134	Rosa Radom	86–65	75–69
Dekstone Tuři Svitavy	152–197	İstanbul BB	74–99	78–98

Second qualifying round

A total of 16 teams will play in the second qualifying round: 11 teams which enter in this round, and the 5 winners of the first qualifying round. The first legs were played on 3 October, and the second legs will be played on 10 October 2018.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Cherkaski Mavpy	136–128	Keravnos	75–64	61–64
Dnipro	161–168	Alba Fehérvár	94–78	67–90
ece Bulls Kapfenberg	119–147	ZZ Leiden	62–79	57–68
Kataja	167–163	Rilski Sportist	106–84	61–79
New Heroes Den Bosch	144–152	Balkan	76–86	68–66
Ironi Nes Ziona	179–167	U-BT Cluj-Napoca	91–78	88–89
İstanbul BB	160–128	Luleå	87–50	73–78
Dinamo Sassari	211–158	Benfica	100–66	111–92

Notes

Lucky losers table

Three teams would advance as lucky losers of the qualifying rounds, for replacing teams that qualified for the Basketball Champions League regular season and previously confirmed their intention to join the FIBA Europe Cup if they were eliminated in the qualifying rounds. Teams with the smallest point difference in the second qualifying round advanced to the regular season. A draw to determine the groups for the clubs qualified as the best-ranked losing sides will be held in the FIBA Europe office in Munich on 11 October 2018.

Ranked third among the lucky losers, Den Bosch clipped the fourth-ranked Keravnos due to a higher number of points scored, with the teams tied in point differential.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification
1	Rilski Sportist	2	1	1	163	167	−4	Advance to regular season
2	Dnipro	2	1	1	161	168	−7
3	New Heroes Den Bosch	2	1	1	144	152	−8
4	Keravnos	2	1	1	128	136	−8
5	U-BT Cluj-Napoca	2	1	1	167	179	−12
6	ece Bulls Kapfenberg	2	0	2	119	147	−28
7	Luleå	2	1	1	128	160	−32
8	Benfica	2	0	2	158	211	−53

Source: FIBA Europe Cup
Rules for classification: 1) Least point difference; 2) Points for.

Regular season

Würzburg

Leiden

Sakarya

Oradea

Mons

Balkan

Tsmoki-Minsk

AEK Larnaca

Karsiyaka

Donar

İstanbul BB

Spirou

New Heroes

Avtodor

Nes Ziona

Pardubice

Steaua

Bears

Prishtina

Cherkaski Mavpy

Varese

Alba

Rilski

Porto

Kataja

Aris

Dnipro

Levski

Falco

Szolnoki

Leicester

Dinamo

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Location of teams of the 2018–19 FIBA Europe Cup regular season.
Red: Group A; Yellow: Group B; Green: Group C; Dark Green: Group D; Purple: Group E. Pink: Group F; Blue: Group G; Orange: Group H.

The draw for the regular season was held on 31 July 2018 at the FIBA headquarters in Munich, Germany.

The 32 teams are drawn into eight groups of four, a maximum of two clubs from the same country can be in the same group. In each group, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advance to the second round, while the third-placed teams and fourth-placed teams are eliminated.

The following 10 teams chose the option of ending their continental adventure if they were eliminated from the Champions League qualifying rounds and therefore refuse to participate in the FIBA Europe Cup:

Opt-out clause teams

• Karhu
• Nanterre 92
• Dinamo Tbilisi
• Hapoel Tel Aviv
• Red October Cantù
• Šiauliai
• Polski Cukier Toruń
• Movistar Estudiantes
• UCAM Murcia
• Norrköping Dolphins

Notes:

• Strikethrough teams were eliminated from the Basketball Champions League qualifying rounds and refused to participate in the FIBA Europe Cup.
• Teams marked in italics advanced to the Basketball Champions League regular season.

A total of 32 teams play in the regular season: the six teams directly qualified, the eight winners of the second qualifying round, the 15 of 23 losers of the 2018–19 Champions League qualifying rounds and three lucky losers of the second qualifying round.

Depending on the number of teams mentioned above that were eliminated from the Basketball Champions League qualifying rounds and with the aim to complete the 32 places in the regular season, the number of the defeated teams in the second qualifying round of the FIBA Europe Cup that advanced to the regular season were determined by the point difference recorded at the end of their pairings. In their draw, the first qualifying round was used for tie-breaking. In the draw persists, the next criterion was the performance of clubs in the last three seasons at the European competitions.

The match-days are on 17 October, 24 October, 31 October, 7 November, 14 November and 21 November 2018.

Turkish side Sakarya Büyükşehir and British side Leicester Riders played in their first European campaigns ever.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		WÜR	LEI	SAK	ORA
1	s.Oliver Würzburg	6	4	2	464	436	+28	10	Advance to second round		—	87–61	69–79	91–82
2	ZZ Leiden	6	4	2	460	463	−3	10			65–75	—	99–97	90–76
3	Sakarya Büyükşehir	6	3	3	480	451	+29	9			80–60	56–69	—	84–68
4	Oradea	6	1	5	453	507	−54	7			69–82	72–76	86–84	—

Source: FIBA Europe Cup

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		BAL	LAR	TSM	BEL
1	Balkan	6	4	2	480	452	+28	10	Advance to second round		—	77–78	95–81	78–66
2	Petrolina AEK Larnaca	6	4	2	449	460	−11	10			68–79	—	82–77	63–62
3	Tsmoki-Minsk	6	3	3	497	493	+4	9			84–73	87–75	—	89–82
4	Belfius Mons-Hainaut	6	1	5	449	470	−21	7			75–78	78–83	86–79	—

Source: FIBA Europe Cup

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		DON	KAR	SPI	IBB
1	Donar	6	5	1	473	440	+33	11	Advance to second round		—	89–83	76–73	90–81
2	Pınar Karşıyaka	6	4	2	490	437	+53	10			64–69	—	90–72	86–75
3	Spirou	6	3	3	486	423	+63	9			92–64	77–86	—	92–45
4	İstanbul BB	6	0	6	365	514	−149	6			47–85	55–81	62–80	—

Source: FIBA Europe Cup

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		AVT	INZ	BOS	PAR
1	Avtodor	6	5	1	578	521	+57	11	Advance to second round		—	75–64	89–79	129–91
2	Ironi Nes Ziona	6	4	2	561	509	+52	10			104–86	—	91–85	111–77
3	New Heroes Den Bosch	6	3	3	518	486	+32	9			93–97	102–87	—	91–58
4	JIP Pardubice	6	0	6	464	605	−141	6			90–102	84–104	64–68	—

Source: FIBA Europe Cup

Group E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		BAK	PRI	CHE	STE
1	Bakken Bears	6	6	0	633	454	+179	12	Advance to second round		—	108–84	121–89	100–64
2	Z-Mobile Prishtina	6	4	2	506	513	−7	10			77–100	—	92–82	74–69
3	Cherkaski Mavpy	6	1	5	481	562	−81	7			77–106	73–92	—	90–64
4	Steaua CSM EximBank	6	1	5	428	519	−91	7			63–98	81–87	87–70	—

Source: FIBA Europe Cup

Group F

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		VAR	ALB	RIL	POR
1	Varese	6	5	1	522	432	+90	11	Advance to second round		—	91–66	86–59	84–75
2	Alba Fehérvár	6	5	1	507	493	+14	11			85–77	—	84–80	72–70
3	Rilski Sportist	6	1	5	470	536	−66	7			76–95	83–104	—	81–88
4	Porto	6	1	5	475	513	−38	7			71–89	92–96	79–91	—

Source: FIBA Europe Cup

Group G

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		LEV	KAT	ARI	DNI
1	Levski Lukoil	6	5	1	520	465	+55	11	Advance to second round		—	94–86	77–66	83–65
2	Kataja	6	3	3	497	510	−13	9			95–102	—	88–86	84–77
3	Aris	6	3	3	444	432	+12	9			81–76	70–79	—	86–61
4	Dnipro	6	1	5	407	461	−54	7			72–88	81–65	51–55	—

Source: FIBA Europe Cup

Group H

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		SZO	SAS	FAL	LEI
1	Szolnoki Olaj	6	5	1	509	474	+35	11	Advance to second round		—	87–74	79–76	82–79
2	Dinamo Sassari	6	5	1	553	448	+105	11			98–94	—	104–69	95–60
3	Falco Vulcano	6	2	4	446	507	−61	8			66–83	60–92	—	80–65
4	Leicester Riders	6	0	6	447	526	−79	6			81–84	78–90	84–95	—

Source: FIBA Europe Cup

Second round

In each group, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advance to the round of 16, while the third-placed teams and fourth-placed teams are eliminated.

A total of 16 teams play in the second round: the eight group winners and the eight runners-up of the regular season. The match-days will be on 12 December 2018, 19 December, 9 January, 23 January, 30 January and 6 February 2019.

Group I

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		WÜR	KAR	PRI	SZO
1	s.Oliver Würzburg	6	6	0	596	487	+109	12	Advance to round of 16		—	104–91	95–77	118–71
2	Pınar Karşıyaka	6	3	3	539	532	+7	9			87–96	—	107–85	102–95
3	Z-Mobile Prishtina	6	2	4	479	536	−57	8			78–91	82–78	—	81–76
4	Szolnoki Olaj	6	1	5	484	543	−59	7			83–92	70–74	89–76	—

Source: FIBA Europe Cup

Group J

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		INZ	BAL	ALB	LEV
1	Ironi Nes Ziona	6	4	2	563	533	+30	10	Advance to round of 16		—	100–73	70–93	109–96
2	Balkan	6	3	3	496	499	−3	9			102–90	—	88–82	81–57
3	Alba Fehérvár	6	3	3	489	458	+31	9			80–96	65–64	—	89–56
4	Levski Lukoil	6	2	4	487	545	−58	8			89–98	105–88	84–80	—

Source: FIBA Europe Cup

Group K

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		SAS	VAR	DON	LAR
1	Dinamo Sassari	6	5	1	536	481	+55	11	Advance to round of 16		—	87–90	97–74	93–81
2	Varese	6	4	2	492	446	+46	10			69–79	—	77–80	109–74
3	Donar	6	2	4	447	467	−20	8			78–84	67–73	—	70–80
4	Petrolina AEK Larnaca	6	1	5	439	520	−81	7			89–96	59–74	56–78	—

Source: FIBA Europe Cup

Group L

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		AVT	BAK	LEI	KAT
1	Avtodor	6	5	1	576	482	+94	11	Advance to round of 16		—	71–60	105–81	98–57
2	Bakken Bears	6	3	3	586	503	+83	9			124–125	—	111–71	102–58
3	ZZ Leiden	6	2	4	480	562	−82	8			72–97	89–85	—	87–72
4	Kataja	6	2	4	456	551	−95	8			88–80	89–104	92–80	—

Source: FIBA Europe Cup

Play-offs

Main article: 2018–19 FIBA Europe Cup Play-offs

Bracket

	Round of 16						Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	Hapoel Holon	85	82	167
	Balkan	81	83	164
							Hapoel Holon	96	74	170
							Alba Fehérvár	63	101	164
	Telekom Baskets	85	69	154
	Alba Fehérvár	84	81	165
													Hapoel Holon	89	75	164
													Dinamo Sassari	94	105	199
	Ventspils	78	65	143
	Pınar Karşıyaka	76	70	146
							Pınar Karşıyaka	68	83	151
							Dinamo Sassari	87	83	170
	ZZ Leiden	93	68	161
	Dinamo Sassari	97	94	191
																			Dinamo Sassari	89	81	170
																			s.Oliver Würzburg	84	79	163
	Donar	66	80	146
	Filou Oostende	66	88	154
							Filou Oostende	70	57	127
							Varese	73	72	145
	Z-Mobile Prishtina	77	84	161
	Varese	80	100	180
													Varese	66	86	152
													s.Oliver Würzburg	89	89	178
	Bakken Bears	91	81	172
	Ironi Nes Ziona	74	76	150
							Bakken Bears	76	70	146
							s.Oliver Würzburg	75	86	161
	Avtodor	76	90	166
	s.Oliver Würzburg	79	94	173

Round of 16

The first legs were played on 5–6 March, and the second legs on 12–13 March 2019.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Donar	146–154	Filou Oostende	66–66	80–88
Ventspils	143–146	Pınar Karşıyaka	78–76	65–70
Telekom Baskets Bonn	154–165	Alba Fehérvár	85–84	69–81
Bakken Bears	172–150	Ironi Nes Ziona	91–74	81–76
Avtodor	166–173	s.Oliver Würzburg	76–79	90–94
Hapoel Holon	167–164	Balkan	85–81	82–83
ZZ Leiden	161–191	Dinamo Sassari	93–97	68–94
Z-Mobile Prishtina	161–180	Varese	77–80	84–100

Quarter-finals

The first legs were played on 20–21 March, and the second legs on 27–28 March 2019.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Filou Oostende	127–145	Varese	70–73	57–72
Pınar Karşıyaka	151–170	Dinamo Sassari	68–87	83–83
Hapoel Holon	170–164	Alba Fehérvár	96–63	74–101
Bakken Bears	146–161	s.Oliver Würzburg	76–75	70–86

Semi-finals

The first legs were played on 10 April, and the second legs were played on 17 April 2019.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Varese	152–178	s.Oliver Würzburg	66–89	86–89
Hapoel Holon	164–199	Dinamo Sassari	89–94	75–105

Finals

Main article: 2019 FIBA Europe Cup Finals

The first leg will be played on 24 April, and the second leg will be played on 1 May 2019.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Dinamo Sassari	170–163	s.Oliver Würzburg	89–84	81–79

See also

• 2018–19 EuroLeague
• 2018–19 EuroCup Basketball
• 2018–19 Basketball Champions League

External links

• Official website