1958 FIBA European Champions Cup

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1958 FIBA European Champions Cup
Season	1958
Teams	23
Finals
Champions	Rīgas ASK (1st title)
Runners-up	Academic
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The 1958 FIBA European Champions Cup was the inaugural season of the European top-tier level professional basketball club competition FIBA European Champions Cup (now called EuroLeague). It was won by Rīgas ASK, after they won both EuroLeague Finals games against Academic. Previously, they had not played the semifinals, as Real Madrid was not allowed to travel to Soviet Riga by the Francoist authorities. The first game was held on February 22, 1958, in Brussels, Belgium, where Belgian League champion Royal IV, defeated the Luxembourger League champions, Etzella Ettelbruck, by a score of 82–43. The most notable contributors to Riga's first title included center Jānis Krūmiņš and head coach Alexander Gomelsky.

Competition system

23 teams. European national domestic league champions only, playing in a tournament system. The Finals were a two-game home and away aggregate.

Preliminary round

Group A (Northeast Europe)

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Rīgas ASK	176–112	Wissenschaft Berlin	85–56	91–56
Pantterit	131–133	Legia Warsaw	64–62	67–71

Group B (Central Europe)

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Jonction	54–84*	Slovan Orbis	54–84
Union Babenberg	98–191	Honvéd	55–83	43-108
Simmenthal Milano	205–89	The Wolves Amsterdam	115–47	90-42

*Series decided over one game played in Switzerland.

Second round

The winners of the three pairs in Group B played against each other, in a tournament held in Milan, in order to determine the two clubs that would progress to the Quarterfinals

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Simmenthal Milano	65 – 47	Slovan Orbis Praha
Slovan Orbis Praha	52–61	Honvéd
Simmenthal Milano	80–72	Honvéd

Key to colors
	Qualified to Quarter-finals
	Eliminated


Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Simmenthal Milano	2	2	0	145	119	+26	4
Honvéd	2	1	1	133	132	+1	3
Slovan Orbis Praha	2	0	2	99	126	−27	2

Group C (Southeast Europe)

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Jeunesse Sportivo Alep	–*	Union Beirut	–	–

*Union Beirut withdrew

Second round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Panellinios	132–138	CCA București	60–63	72–75
Modaspor	112–160	AŠK Olimpija	67–74	45–86
Academic	157–101	Jeunesse Sportivo Alep	84–58	73–43

Third round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Academic	161–144	AŠK Olimpija	81–80	80–64
CCA București	147–126	Maccabi Tel Aviv	84–65	63–61

Group D (Southwest Europe)

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Royal IV	145–79	Etzella	82–43	63–36

Second round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Royal IV	174–127	ASVEL	81–51	93–76
Barreirense	90–154	Real Madrid	51–68	40–86

Knockout stage

Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Final

CCA București	64	78	142

Academic	73	77	150
				Academic	89	76	165

				Honvéd	87	64	151
Simmenthal Milano	80	85	165

Honvéd	72	95	167
								Academic	81	71	152

								Rīgas ASK	86	84	170
Real Madrid	78	43	121

Royal IV	59	57	116
				Real Madrid	0	0	0

				Rīgas ASK	2	2	4
Rīgas ASK	93	61	154

Legia Warsaw	59	63	122

Quarterfinals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
CCA București	142–150	Academic	64–73	78–77
Simmenthal Milano	165–167	Honvéd	80–72*	85–95
Real Madrid	121–116	Royal IV	78–59	43–57
Rīgas ASK	154–122	Legia Warsaw	93–59	61–63

*The result of the game between the two clubs in the tournament of the 1st Round's Group B was used as a result for the 1st leg.

Semifinals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Honvéd	151–165	Academic	87–89	64–76
Rīgas ASK	– *	Real Madrid

*Real Madrid withdrew as they were not allowed to travel to the Soviet Union.

Finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Rīgas ASK	170–152	Academic	86–81	84–71

1958 FIBA European Champions Cup Champions
Rīgas ASK 1st Title

Awards

FIBA European Champions Cup Finals Top Scorer

Jānis Krūmiņš ( Rīgas ASK)

References

External links

1958 FIBA European Champions Cup
1958 FIBA European Champions Cup Archived 2017-03-21 at the Wayback Machine
1958 FIBA European Champions Cup
Champions Cup 1958 Line-ups and Stats
1958 EuroLeague Retrospective and Stats Archived 2022-08-26 at the Wayback Machine

v t e Rīgas ASK 1958 FIBA European Champions Cup champions
Krūmiņš G. Muižnieks Valdmanis V. Muižnieks Kalniņš Dāvids Gulbis Hehts Jankovskis Kalherts Leončiks Vērītis Coach: Gomelsky

FIBA European Champions Cup and EuroLeague Basketball

FIBA European Champions Cup era, 1958–2001
Seasons	1958 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01
Finals	1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001

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Finals	2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 ~~2020~~ 2021 2022 2023 2024

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