2017–18 EuroLeague

The 2017–18 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague was the 18th season of the modern era of Euroleague Basketball and the eighth under the title sponsorship of the Turkish Airlines. Including the competition's previous incarnation as the FIBA Europe Champions Cup, this was the 61st season of the premier competition for European men's professional basketball clubs.

Turkish Airlines EuroLeague1
The Štark Arena in Belgrade hosted the Final Four
Season	2017–18
Duration	12 October 2017 – 20 May 2018
Games played	260
Teams	16
Regular season
Season MVP	Luka Dončić
Finals
Champions	Real Madrid (10th title)
Runners-up	Fenerbahçe Doğuş
Third place	Žalgiris
Fourth place	CSKA Moscow
Final Four MVP	Luka Dončić
Statistical leaders
Points Alexey Shved 21.8 Rebounds James Augustine 6.7 Assists Nick Calathes 8.0 Index Rating Luka Dončić 21.5
Records
Biggest home win	Valencia Basket 91–53 Unicaja (27 October 2017)
Biggest away win	AX Milan 62–94 Žalgiris (9 November 2017)
Highest scoring	AX Milan 102–111 Maccabi Tel Aviv (26 January 2018)
Winning streak	7 games Real Madrid
Losing streak	10 games Valencia Basket
Highest attendance	18,243 Panathinaikos 82–89 Real Madrid (19 April 2018)
Lowest attendance	1,920 Anadolu Efes 83–107 Barcelona (29 March 2018)
← 2016–17 2018–19 → 1 Sponsored league name, referring to Turkish Airlines.

The 2018 EuroLeague Final Four was played at the Štark Arena, in Belgrade, Serbia.^[1] Real Madrid won its record tenth EuroLeague title, after defeating defending champions Fenerbahçe Doğuş in the championship game.

Team allocation

A total of sixteen teams participate.^[2] The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round (TH: EuroLeague title holders). Eleven teams were placed as Licensed Clubs, long-term licenses, while five spots were given to Associated Clubs, based on merit.^[2][3]

• LC: Qualified as a licensed club with a long-term licence
• 1st, 2nd, etc.: League position after Playoffs
• EC: EuroCup champion
• WC: Wild card

Licensed Clubs		Associated Clubs
Baskonia (LC)	Anadolu Efes (LC)	Unicaja (EC)	Brose Bamberg (1st)
FC Barcelona Lassa (LC)	Fenerbahçe DoğuşTH (LC)	Valencia Basket (1st)	Crvena zvezda mts (1st)[Note ABA]
Real Madrid (LC)	AX Armani Exchange Milan (LC)	Khimki (2nd)[Note VTB]
Olympiacos (LC)	Žalgiris (LC)
Panathinaikos Superfoods (LC)	CSKA Moscow (LC)
Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv (LC)

Notes

1. ^
   ABA League (ABA): Serbian Crvena zvezda mts qualified through the ABA League.
2. ^
   VTB United League (VTB): Russian Khimki qualified through the VTB United League.

Teams

A total of 16 teams from 9 countries took part in the league, including 11 sides with a long-term licence from the 2016–17 season, 1 team qualified from the EuroCup and the 4 highest-placed teams from the ABA League, the German Bundesliga, the VTB United League and Spain's ACB.

Brose Bamberg and Crvena zvezda qualified, after winning the Bundesliga and ABA League titles respectively. Galatasaray Odeabank and Darüşşafaka did not appear this season, as Galatasaray did not have any opportunity in the previous season to qualify and Darüşşafaka finished their two-year wild card. UNICS lost its place in the EuroLeague, as Khimki qualified as runner-up of the VTB United League. Unicaja qualified as the EuroCup champions, after beating Valencia Basket in the Finals. However, Valencia also qualified as the Spanish champions.

Venues and locations

Anadolu Efes

Baskonia

Brose Bamberg

Crvena zvezda

CSKA Moscow

AX Milan

FCB Lassa

Fenerbahçe

Khimki

Maccabi FOX

Olympiacos

Panathinaikos

Madrid

Unicaja

Valencia

Žalgiris

Location of teams in 2017–18 EuroLeague

Team	Home city	Arena	Capacity
Anadolu Efes	Istanbul	Sinan Erdem Dome	16,000
AX Armani Exchange Olimpia	Milan	Mediolanum Forum	12,700[4]
Brose Bamberg	Bamberg	Brose Arena	6,150[5][6]
Crvena zvezda mts	Belgrade	Štark Arena	18,386[7]
		Aleksandar Nikolić[a]	5,878[8]
CSKA Moscow	Moscow	Megasport Arena	13,344[9]
FC Barcelona Lassa	Barcelona	Palau Blaugrana	7,585[10]
Fenerbahçe Doğuş	Istanbul	Ülker Sports Arena	13,059
Khimki	Khimki	Mytishchi Arena	7,280
Kirolbet Baskonia	Vitoria-Gasteiz	Fernando Buesa Arena	15,504[11]
Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv	Tel Aviv	Menora Mivtachim Arena	10,383[12]
Olympiacos	Piraeus, Athens	Peace and Friendship Stadium	11,640[13]
Panathinaikos Superfoods	Marousi, Athens	Olympic Sports Center Athens	18,989[14]
Real Madrid	Madrid	WiZink Center	15,000[15]
Unicaja	Málaga	Martín Carpena	11,300[16]
Valencia Basket	Valencia	Fuente de San Luis	8,500[17]
Žalgiris	Kaunas	Žalgirio Arena	15,552[18]

Notes

1. The Aleksandar Nikolić was being used as back-up arena by Crvena zvezda, in case the Štark Arena was not available.

Personnel and sponsorship

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Anadolu Efes	Ergin Ataman	Doğuş Balbay	Adidas	Anadolu Efes
AX Armani Exchange Olimpia	Simone Pianigiani	Andrea Cinciarini	Armani	Armani Exchange
Brose Bamberg	Luca Banchi	Elias Harris	Macron	Brose
Crvena zvezda mts	Dušan Alimpijević	Branko Lazić	Nike	Mobile Telephony of Serbia
CSKA Moscow	Dimitrios Itoudis	Victor Khryapa	Nike	Rostelecom
FC Barcelona Lassa	Svetislav Pešić	Juan Carlos Navarro	Nike	Lassa Tyres
Fenerbahçe Doğuş	Željko Obradović	Melih Mahmutoğlu	Nike	Doğuş Group
Khimki	Georgios Bartzokas	Sergei Monia	Adidas	Khimki Group
Kirolbet Baskonia	Pedro Martínez	Tornike Shengelia	Kelme	Kirolbet
Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv	Neven Spahija	John DiBartolomeo	Nike	FOX
Olympiacos	Ioannis Sfairopoulos	Vassilis Spanoulis	Nike	Skrats
Panathinaikos Superfoods	Xavi Pascual	Ian Vougioukas	Adidas	Pame Stoixima
Real Madrid	Pablo Laso	Felipe Reyes	Adidas	European University
Unicaja	Joan Plaza	Carlos Suárez	Spalding	Unicaja, Andalusia
Valencia Basket	Txus Vidorreta	Rafa Martínez	Luanvi	Cultura del Esfuerzo1
Žalgiris	Šarūnas Jasikevičius	Paulius Jankūnas	Adidas	Skycop

Notes

1. ^ Cultura del Esfuerzo (English: "Culture of Effort") is the motto of the club.

Managerial changes

Main article: List of 2017–18 EuroLeague transactions

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced with	Date of appointment
FC Barcelona Lassa	Georgios Bartzokas	Sacked	7 June 2017[19]	Pre-season	Sito Alonso	16 June 2017[20]
Kirolbet Baskonia	Sito Alonso	Mutual consent	16 June 2017[21]		Pablo Prigioni	16 June 2017[22]
Valencia Basket	Pedro Martínez	End of contract	20 June 2017[23]		Txus Vidorreta	20 June 2017[24]
Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv	Ainars Bagatskis	Sacked	16 May 2017[25]		Neven Spahija	26 June 2017[26]
AX Armani Exchange Olimpia	Jasmin Repeša	Mutual consent	3 June 2017[27]		Simone Pianigiani	26 June 2017[28]
Khimki	Duško Ivanović	Sacked	29 June 2017[29]		Georgios Bartzokas	30 June 2017[30]
Crvena zvezda mts	Dejan Radonjić	End of contract	15 July 2017[31]		Dušan Alimpijević	21 July 2017[32]
Baskonia	Pablo Prigioni	Resigned	25 October 2017[33]	16th (0–3)	Pedro Martínez	27 October 2017[34]
Anadolu Efes	Velimir Perasović	Sacked	16 December 2017[35]	15th (3–9)	Ergin Ataman	18 December 2017[36]
FC Barcelona Lassa	Sito Alonso	Sacked	4 February 2018[37]	13th (7–14)	Svetislav Pešić	9 February 2018[38]
Brose Bamberg	Andrea Trinchieri	Sacked	19 February 2018[39]	13th (8–14)	Luca Banchi	4 March 2018[40]

Regular season

Main article: 2017–18 EuroLeague Regular Season

In the regular season, teams play against each other home and away in a round-robin format. The top eight teams advance to the playoffs and the bottom eight teams are eliminated. The regular season runs from 12 October 2017 to 6 April 2018.

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification
1	CSKA Moscow	30	24	6	2675	2377	+298	Advance to Playoffs
2	Fenerbahçe Doğuş	30	21	9	2381	2208	+173
3	Olympiacos	30	19	11	2268	2250	+18
4	Panathinaikos Superfoods	30	19	11	2334	2291	+43
5	Real Madrid	30	19	11	2576	2375	+201
6	Žalgiris	30	18	12	2417	2389	+28
7	Kirolbet Baskonia	30	16	14	2487	2373	+114
8	Khimki	30	16	14	2338	2352	−14
9	Unicaja	30	13	17	2347	2435	−88
10	Maccabi Tel Aviv	30	13	17	2440	2530	−90
11	Valencia Basket	30	12	18	2336	2420	−84
12	Brose Bamberg	30	11	19	2309	2446	−137
13	FC Barcelona Lassa	30	11	19	2456	2404	+52
14	Crvena zvezda mts	30	11	19	2333	2515	−182
15	AX Armani Exchange Olimpia	30	10	20	2407	2530	−123
16	Anadolu Efes	30	7	23	2321	2530	−209

Source: EuroLeague
Rules for classification: All points scored in extra period(s) will not be counted in the standings, nor for any tie-break situation.

Results

Home \ Away	EFS	AXM	BRO	CZV	CSK	FCB	FBD	KHI	BKN	MTA	OLY	PAO	RMB	UNI	VBC	ZAL
Anadolu Efes	—	73–68	69–58	104–95	80–98	83–107	84–89	73–85	81–82	81–94	58–61	81–82	74–88	74–79	82–66	70–86
AX Armani Exchange Olimpia	77–64	—	71–62	88–91	81–107	78–74	86–92	71–77	92–85	102–111	85–86	95–96	77–88	101–87	89–93	62–94
Brose Bamberg	88–79	78–83	—	86–62	76–92	84–81	57–80	70–74	78–72	71–88	67–65	95–74	66–81	93–88	83–82	93–86
Crvena zvezda mts	100–81	100–89	69–75	—	59–85	90–82	63–80	70–79	81–85	87–84	89–78	63–69	79–82	80–76	106–90	77–65
CSKA Moscow	110–79	93–84	81–72	92–81	—	92–78	93–95	79–68	93–86	101–86	89–81	81–63	93–87	101–76	94–67	94–91
FC Barcelona Lassa	85–89	81–83	81–66	88–54	85–72	—	68–83	86–82	73–86	89–67	73–51	98–71	74–101	83–90	89–71	75–81
Fenerbahçe Doğuş	81–70	89–70	77–69	82–56	79–81	86–82	—	71–67	79–74	87–73	83–90	67–62	77–79	91–99	79–66	89–90
Khimki	86–68	77–86	82–73	85–78	73–90	65–79	64–73	—	91–90	69–77	82–54	78–61	78–95	68–66	75–70	85–77
Kirolbet Baskonia	79–81	82–83	103–79	103–84	81–90	85–82	69–83	87–77	—	83–72	86–54	85–84	105–75	88–82	63–80	84–64
Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv	72–92	79–68	90–88	89–75	73–93	94–82	82–73	91–94	74–68	—	68–69	75–76	90–83	78–89	94–91	81–74
Olympiacos	89–82	87–80	87–79	85–59	88–86	63–90	95–70	92–75	75–64	94–64	—	62–70	92–83	80–75	80–70	85–86
Panathinaikos Superfoods	90–79	80–72	93–83	91–71	70–75	84–75	70–68	93–65	80–76	89–76	85–87	—	82–80	82–71	75–56	94–93
Real Madrid	87–68	100–90	106–86	83–87	82–69	87–75	83–86	80–86	75–73	93–81	79–80	92–75	—	89–57	91–72	88–81
Unicaja	81–68	74–71	76–80	79–65	80–89	95–91	68–67	93–84	83–85	83–69	87–85	79–90	80–75	—	83–85	83–85
Valencia Basket	78–71	98–103	86–70	82–86	103–99	81–76	67–80	85–83	71–81	87–84	64–72	67–63	96–88	91–53	—	63–71
Žalgiris	91–83	77–65	88–84	78–76	85–73	90–74	78–85	74–84	77–97	99–84	74–68	80–74	66–87	79–77	86–82	—

Source: EuroLeague
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.
Matches with lighter background shading were decided after overtime.

Playoffs

Main article: 2018 EuroLeague Playoffs

Playoffs series are best-of-five. The first team to win three games wins the series. A 2–2–1 format is used – teams with home-court advantage play games 1, 2, and 5 at home, while their opponents host games 3 and 4. Games 4 and 5 are only played if necessary. The four victorious teams advance to the Final Four.

Series

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5
CSKA Moscow	3–1	Khimki	98–95	89–84	73–79	89–88	0
Panathinaikos Superfoods	1–3	Real Madrid	95–67	82–89	74–81	82–89	0
Fenerbahçe Doğuş	3–1	Kirolbet Baskonia	82–73	95–89	83–88	92–83	0
Olympiacos	1–3	Žalgiris	78–87	79–68	60–80	91–101	0

Final Four

Main article: 2018 EuroLeague Final Four

The Final Four, held over a single weekend, is the last phase of the season. The four remaining teams play a single knockout round on Friday evening, with the two winners advancing to the championship game. Sunday starts with the third-place game, followed by the championship game. The Final Four was played at the Štark Arena in Belgrade, Serbia in May 2018.

	Semifinals				Championship game
	18 May
	CSKA Moscow	83
					20 May
	Real Madrid	92
					Real Madrid	85
	18 May
					Fenerbahçe Doğuş	80
	Fenerbahçe Doğuş	76
	Žalgiris	67
					Third place game
					20 May
					CSKA Moscow	77
					Žalgiris	79

Attendances

Attendances include playoff games:

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
	2018 Final Four games	63,714	16,967	14,548	15,929	+7.5%†
1	Žalgiris	230,518	15,525	10,195	13,560	+17.8%†
2	Panathinaikos Superfoods	221,085	18,243	7,812	13,005	+13.0%†
3	Fenerbahçe Doğuş	196,620	12,987	9,812	11,566	+3.1%†
4	Baskonia	192,959	14,923	9,196	11,351	−2.4%†
5	Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv	160,968	11,060	9,388	10,731	−1.4%†
6	Real Madrid	170,516	12,557	8,067	10,030	−2.7%†
7	Olympiacos	151,516	11,690	4,621	8,913	−4.8%2
8	CSKA Moscow	139,579	12,322	4,490	8,211	−1.0%3
9	AX Armani Exchange Olimpia	112,084	10,250	5,528	7,472	−21.2%5
10	Unicaja	109,080	10,292	5,751	7,272	+12.7%1
11	Valencia Basket	101,298	7,375	5,736	6,753	+15.6%1
12	Crvena zvezda mts	94,151	13,467	4,472	6,277	−36.1%†
13	Brose Bamberg	92,817	8,000	5,396	6,188	−3.5%4
14	Khimki	102,367	7,028	5,113	6,022	+205.8%1
15	FC Barcelona Lassa	85,185	6,829	4,002	5,679	+15.2%†
16	Anadolu Efes	58,495	6,788	1,920	3,900	−26.7%†
	League total	2,282,897	18,243	1,920	8,780	+3.6%†

Source: EuroLeague
Notes:
1: 2016–17 season average applied to EuroCup games.
2: Olympiacos played one match at Heraklion Arena, in Heraklion, instead of their regular arena.
3: CSKA Moscow played three matches at Universal Sports Hall CSKA, instead of Megasport Arena.
4: Brose Bamberg played one match at Arena Nürnberger Versicherung, instead of Brose Arena.
5: AX Armani Exchange Olimpia played one match at PalaBancoDesio, instead of Mediolanum Forum.

Awards

EuroLeague MVP

• Luka Dončić ( Real Madrid)^[41]

EuroLeague Final Four MVP

• Luka Dončić ( Real Madrid)^[42]

All-EuroLeague Teams

Pos.	First Team		Second Team
PG	Nick Calathes	Panathinaikos	Vassilis Spanoulis	Olympiacos
SG	Nando de Colo	CSKA Moscow	Kevin Pangos	Žalgiris
SF	Luka Dončić	Real Madrid	Sergio Rodríguez	CSKA Moscow
PF	Tornike Shengelia	Kirolbet Baskonia	Alexey Shved	Khimki
C	Jan Veselý	Fenerbahçe	Paulius Jankūnas	Žalgiris

Sources:^[43][44]

Alphonso Ford Top Scorer Trophy

• Alexey Shved ( Khimki)^[45]

Best Defender

• Kyle Hines ( CSKA Moscow)^[46]

Rising Star

• Luka Dončić ( Real Madrid)^[47]

Coach of the Year

• Pablo Laso ( Real Madrid)^[48]

Magic Moment

• Jan Veselý ( Fenerbahçe)^[49]

MVP of the Round

Main article: EuroLeague MVP of the Round

Regular season

Round	Player	Team	PIR	Ref.
1	Pierre Jackson	Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv	41	[50]
2	Erick Green	Valencia Basket	33	[51]
3	Luka Dončić	Real Madrid	41	[52]
4	Luka Dončić (2)	Real Madrid	35	[53]
5	Nando de Colo	CSKA Moscow	37	[54]
6	Vladimir Štimac	Anadolu Efes	29	[55]
7	Errick McCollum	Anadolu Efes	33	[56]
8	Nick Calathes	Panathinaikos Superfoods	42	[57]
9	Edgaras Ulanovas	Žalgiris	32	[58]
10	Nando de Colo (2)	CSKA Moscow	30	[59]
	James Gist	Panathinaikos Superfoods
11	Alexey Shved	Khimki	35	[60]
12	Vincent Poirier	Kirolbet Baskonia	35	[61]
13	Jamel McLean	Olympiacos	30	[62]
	Alexey Shved (2)	Khimki
14	Cory Higgins	CSKA Moscow	31	[63]
	Tornike Shengelia	Kirolbet Baskonia
15	Luka Dončić (3)	Real Madrid	37	[64]
16	Malcolm Thomas	Khimki	28	[65]
17	Zoran Dragić	Anadolu Efes	34	[66]
18	Alexey Shved (3)	Khimki	33	[67]
19	Brad Wanamaker	Fenerbahçe Doğuş	31	[68]
20	Brad Wanamaker (2)	Fenerbahçe Doğuş	33	[69]
21	Augustine Rubit	Brose Bamberg	34	[70]
22	Jan Veselý	Fenerbahçe Doğuş	36	[71]
23	Vassilis Spanoulis	Olympiacos	29	[72]
	Dorell Wright	Brose Bamberg
24	Tornike Shengelia (2)	Kirolbet Baskonia	28	[73]
25	Fabien Causeur	Real Madrid	29	[74]
26	James Feldeine	Crvena zvezda mts	32	[75]
27	Nick Calathes (2)	Panathinaikos Superfoods	34	[76]
28	Ricky Hickman	Brose Bamberg	29	[77]
	Nikola Milutinov	Olympiacos
29	Luka Dončić (4)	Real Madrid	35	[78]
30	Anthony Randolph	Real Madrid	38	[79]

Playoffs

Game	Player	Team	PIR	Ref.
1	Nick Calathes (3)	Panathinaikos Superfoods	29	[80]
2	Sergio Rodríguez	CSKA Moscow	36	[81]
3	Anthony Gill	Khimki	29	[82]
	Alexey Shved (4)
4	Edgaras Ulanovas (2)	Žalgiris	27	[83]

MVP of the Month

Main article: EuroLeague MVP of the Month

Month	Week	Player	Team	Ref.
2017
October	1–4	Luka Dončić	Real Madrid	[84]
November	5–10	Nick Calathes	Panathinaikos Superfoods	[85]
December	10–15	Paulius Jankūnas	Žalgiris	[86]
2018
January	16–20	Nando de Colo	CSKA Moscow	[87]
February	21–23	Alexey Shved	Khimki	[88]
March	24–29	Tornike Shengelia	Kirolbet Baskonia	[89]
April	30–PO4	Brandon Davies	Žalgiris	[90]

Individual statistics

Rating

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rating	PIR
1.	Luka Dončić	Real Madrid	33	711	21.55
2.	Alexey Shved	Khimki	34	693	20.38
3.	Nando de Colo	CSKA Moscow	32	606	18.94

Points

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Points	PPG
1.	Alexey Shved	Khimki	34	740	21.76
2.	Nando de Colo	CSKA Moscow	32	533	16.66
3.	Luka Dončić	Real Madrid	33	529	16

Rebounds

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rebounds	RPG
1.	James Augustine	Unicaja	29	194	6.69
2.	Artūras Gudaitis	AX Armani Exchange Olimpia	29	183	6.31
3.	Tornike Shengelia	Kirolbet Baskonia	33	200	6.06

Assists

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Assists	APG
1.	Nick Calathes	Panathinaikos Superfoods	31	249	8.03
2.	Thomas Heurtel	FC Barcelona Lassa	30	193	6.43
3.	Kevin Pangos	Žalgiris	36	212	5.89

Other statistics

Category	Player	Team	Games	Average
Steals	Nick Calathes	Panathinaikos Superfoods	31	1.74
Blocks	Bryant Dunston	Anadolu Efes	30	1.73
Turnovers	Vassilis Spanoulis	Olympiacos	24	3.46
Fouls drawn	Alexey Shved	Khimki	34	6.03
Minutes	Alexey Shved	Khimki	34	32:12
2P%	Ahmet Düverioğlu	Fenerbahçe Doğuş	27	70.9%
3P%	Johannes Voigtmann	Kirolbet Baskonia	34	57.7%
FT%	Brock Motum	Anadolu Efes	29	96.7%

See also

• 2017–18 EuroCup Basketball
• 2017–18 Basketball Champions League
• 2017–18 FIBA Europe Cup