EuroLeague season
The 2007–08 Euroleague was the 8th season of the professional basketball competition for elite clubs throughout Europe, organised by Euroleague Basketball Company, and it was the 51st season of the premier competition for European men's clubs overall. The 2007–08 season featured 24 competing teams. The Euroleague Regular Season draw was held on 30 June 2007, in Jesolo, Italy, during the inaugural Euroleague summer league. The official inauguration was held on October 22, at Hala Olivia in Gdańsk, Poland, before the season's opening game between Prokom Trefl Sopot and CSKA Moscow. The 2008 Final Four was held on May 2–4, 2008, at the Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid in Madrid, Spain. Russian power CSKA Moscow became the champion for the sixth time, placing them second in all-time European championships to Real Madrid.
Teams of the 2007–08 Euroleague
Key to colors | Champion |
| Runner-up |
| Third place |
| Fourth place |
| Eliminated in Quarterfinals |
| Eliminated in Last 16 |
| Eliminated in the regular season |
Teams details
Team | Location | Arena (seating capacity) | Classification |
Aris | Thessaloniki | Alexandrio Melathron (5,500) | A1 Ethniki third placed team |
Brose Bamberg | Bamberg | Jako Arena (6,900) | Basketball Bundesliga two-year classification |
Cibona | Zagreb | Dražen Petrović Basketball Hall (5,400) | A1 Liga three-year period classified |
CSKA Moscow | Moscow | CSKA Universal Sports Hall (5,500), Khodynka Arena (14,500) — Game 13 only | Russian Super League three-year period classified |
Efes Pilsen | Istanbul | Abdi İpekçi Arena (12,500) | Turkish League three-year period classified |
FC Barcelona | Barcelona | Palau Blaugrana (8,250) | ACB |
Fenerbahçe Ülker | Istanbul | Abdi İpekçi Arena (12,500) | Turkish League three-year period classified |
Le Mans | Le Mans | Antarès (6,003) | La Ligue three-year period classified |
Lietuvos Rytas | Vilnius | Siemens Arena (11,000) | ULEB Cup vice Champion |
Lottomatica Roma | Rome | PalaLottomatica (11,200) | Serie A |
Maccabi Elite | Tel Aviv | Nokia Arena (Yad Eliyahu) (11,700) | Israeli League three-year period classified |
Montepaschi Siena | Siena | Palasport Mens Sana (7,025) | Serie A regular season leader |
Armani Jeans Milano | Milan | Datch Forum di Assago (13,000) | Serie A |
Union Olimpija | Ljubljana | Dvorana Tivoli (6,000) | Liga UPC Telemach three-year period classified |
Olympiacos | Piraeus | Peace and Friendship Stadium (14,905) | A1 Ethniki three-year period classified |
Panathinaikos | Athens | Olympic Indoor Hall (19,250) | A1 Ethniki three-year period classified |
Partizan | Belgrade | Pionir Hall (8,150) | Naša Sinalko Liga Champion |
Prokom Trefl Sopot | Sopot | Hala Olivia (5,500), Gdańsk (Game 1-8) Hala Stulecia Sopotu (2,000), Sopot (Game 9 onward)[1] | Dominet Bank Ekstraliga Champion |
Real Madrid | Madrid | Palacio Vistalegre (15,000) | ULEB Cup Champion/ACB |
Roanne | Roanne | Clermont-Ferrand Sports Hall (5,000) | La Ligue champion |
Tau Cerámica | Vitoria-Gasteiz | Fernando Buesa Arena (15,504) | ACB three-year period classified |
Unicaja Málaga | Málaga | Jose Maria Martin Carpena Arena (13,000) | ACB three-year period classified |
VidiVici Bologna | Bologna | PalaMalaguti (11,000) | Serie A |
Žalgiris | Kaunas | Kaunas Sports Hall (5,000) | LKL three-year period classified |
Regular season
The regular season began on October 22, 2007.
The first phase was a regular season, in which the competing teams were drawn into three groups, each containing eight teams. Each team played every other team in its group at home and away, resulting in 14 games for each team in the first stage. The top 5 teams in each group and the best sixth-placed team advanced to the next round. The complete list of tiebreakers was provided in the lead-in to the Regular Season results.
If one or more clubs were level on won-lost record, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:
- Head-to-head record in matches between the tied clubs
- Overall point difference in games between the tied clubs
- Overall point difference in all group matches (first tiebreaker if tied clubs were not in the same group)
- Points scored in all group matches
- Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each group match
Key to colors | Top five places in each group, plus highest-ranked sixth-place team, advanced to Top 16 |
Group C
Top 16
The surviving teams were divided into four groups of four teams each, and again a round robin system was adopted, resulting in 6 games each, with the two top teams advancing to the quarterfinals. Tiebreakers were identical to those used in the Regular Season.
The draw to set up the Top 16 groups was held on Monday, February 4, 2008 (the week after the end of the Regular Season), in Madrid.[2]
The teams were placed into four pools, as follows:
Level 1: The three group winners, plus the top-ranked second-place team
Level 2: The remaining second-place teams, plus the top two third-place teams
Level 3: The remaining third-place team, plus the three fourth-place teams
Level 4: The fifth-place teams, plus the top ranked sixth-place team
Each Top 16 group included one team from each pool. The draw was conducted under the following restrictions:
- No more than two teams from the same Regular Season group could be placed in the same Top 16 group.
- No more than two teams from the same country could be placed in the same Top 16 group.
- If there is a conflict between these two restrictions, (1) would receive priority.
Another draw was held to determine the order of fixtures. In the cases of two teams from the same city in the Top 16 (Panathinaikos and Olympiacos, Efes Pilsen and Fenerbahçe), they were scheduled so that only one of the two teams would be at home in a given week.
Key to colors | Top two places in each group advanced to quarterfinals |
Quarterfinals
Each quarterfinal was a best-of-three (if third serie necessary) series between a first-place team in the Top 16 and a second-place team from a different group, with the first-place team receiving home advantage. All opening games were played on April 1, 2008, and all second games were played on April 3. The deciding third games were played on April 9 and April 10.
Final four
The Final Four is the last phase of each Euroleague season, and is held over a weekend. The semifinal games are played on Friday evening. Sunday starts with the third-place game, followed by the championship final.
Semifinals
May 2, Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid
Third-place game
May 4, Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid
Final
May 4, Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid
CSKA Moscow 2007–08 Euroleague champions
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Final standings
Final Four 2008 MVP
Trajan Langdon (CSKA Moscow)
Individual statistics
Rating
Points
Rebounds
Assists
Other Stats
Game highs
Awards
Euroleague 2007–08 MVP
Euroleague 2007–08 Final Four MVP
Euroleague 2007–08 Finals Top Scorer
All-Euroleague Team 2007–08
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Rising Star
Best Defender
Club Executive of the Year
Regular season
Top 16
Playoffs
MVP of the Month
See also
References and notes
- ^ Hala Olivia was closed indefinitely due to structural problems. Prokom's remaining home Euroleague games were moved to the arena that they use for domestic matches. "Due to force majeure, Prokom changes arenas". Euroleague.net. 2007-12-18. Archived from the original on 20 December 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-19.
- ^ "Euroleague Basketball Top 16 Draw procedures". Euroleague. 2008-01-29. Archived from the original on 1 February 2008. Retrieved 2008-01-29.
- ^ "Cologne 2021 - Welcome to EUROLEAGUE BASKETBALL". 3 October 2024.
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