2019–20 EuroLeague

The 2019–20 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague was the 20th season of the modern era of the EuroLeague and the 10th under the title sponsorship of the Turkish Airlines. Including the competition's previous incarnation as the FIBA Europe Champions Cup, this was the 63rd season of the premier basketball competition for European men's clubs. The season started on 3 October 2019 and played its last games on 6 March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Turkish Airlines EuroLeague1
The Lanxess Arena in Cologne would have hosted the Final Four
Season	2019–20
Duration	3 October 2019 – 11 March 2020
Games played	252
Teams	18
Records
Biggest home win	Bayern Munich 104–63 ASVEL (17 October 2019)
Biggest away win	Panathinaikos 66–97 CSKA Moscow (05 March 2020)
Highest scoring	Anadolu Efes 106–105 ALBA Berlin (11 October 2019) Panathinaikos 105–106 ALBA Berlin (14 November 2019)
Winning streak	13 games Real Madrid
Losing streak	9 games Žalgiris
Highest attendance	17,396 Panathinaikos 99–93 Olympiacos (6 December 2019)
Lowest attendance	2,917 Khimki 75–84 Valencia Basket (14 January 2020)
Attendance	2,138,522 (8,520 per match)
← 2018–19 2020–21 → 1 Sponsored league name, referring to Turkish Airlines.

On 12 March 2020, Euroleague Basketball temporarily suspended its competitions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[1] On 25 May, Euroleague Basketball cancelled its competitions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[2]

The Final Four would have been played in 22–24 May 2020 at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany.^[3] CSKA Moscow was the defending champion and as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, Euroleague Basketball decided not to recognize any team as the champion for the season. The Lanxess Arena was compensated by hosting the next Final Four.

Format changes

On 5 July 2018, Euroleague Basketball agreed expand the competition to 18 teams, with the allocation of two-year wild cards to German Bayern Munich and French LDLC ASVEL.^[4]

Team allocation

A total of 18 teams from 10 countries participated in the 2019–20 EuroLeague.^[4][5][6]

Distribution

The following was the access list for this season.^[5]

Access list for 2019–20 EuroLeague

	Teams entering in this round	Teams advancing from previous round
Regular season (18 teams)	11 licensed clubs with a long-term licence 5 associated clubs with an annual licence 4 league spots for Adriatic, Germany, VTB United League and Spain EuroCup champion 2 two-year wild cards
Playoffs (8 teams)		8 highest-placed teams from the regular season
Final Four (4 teams)		4 series winners from the playoffs

Qualified teams

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:^[4][5][6]

• 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.: League position after Playoffs
• EC: EuroCup champion
• WC: Wild card

Qualified teams for 2019–20 EuroLeague
Licensed clubs

Barcelona	Olympiacos	Anadolu Efes	Žalgiris
Kirolbet Baskonia	Panathinaikos OPAP	Fenerbahçe Beko	CSKA MoscowTH
Real Madrid	Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv	AX Armani Exchange Milan

Associated clubs

ALBA Berlin (2nd)	Khimki (2nd)[Note VTB]	Valencia Basket (EC)	Crvena zvezda mts (1st)[Note ABA]
Bayern Munich (WC)	Zenit Saint Petersburg (WC)[Note WC]	LDLC ASVEL (WC)

Notes

1. ^
   ABA League (ABA): Crvena zvezda mts qualified through the ABA League.
2. ^
   VTB United League (VTB): Khimki qualified through the VTB United League.
3. ^
   Wild card (WC): As Valencia Basket won the EuroCup, the spot reserved for the best team in the 2018–19 ACB season was converted in a wild card.

Teams

Venues and locations

Anadolu Efes

Berlin

Milan

Barcelona

Fenerbahçe

Bayern

Crvena zvezda

CSKA

Khimki

Baskonia

ASVEL

Maccabi

Olympiacos

Panathinaikos

Madrid

Valencia

Žalgiris

Zenit

Location of teams in 2019–20 EuroLeague

Team	Home city	Arena	Capacity
ALBA Berlin	Berlin	Mercedes-Benz Arena	14,500[7]
Anadolu Efes	Istanbul	Sinan Erdem Dome	16,000[8]
AX Armani Exchange Milan	Milan	Mediolanum Forum	12,700[9]
		Allianz Cloud	5,420
Barcelona	Barcelona	Palau Blaugrana	7,585[10]
Bayern Munich	Munich	Audi Dome	6,500[11]
Crvena zvezda mts	Belgrade	Štark Arena	18,386[12]
		Aleksandar Nikolić Hall	8,000[13]
CSKA Moscow	Moscow	Megasport Arena	13,344[14]
Fenerbahçe Beko	Istanbul	Ülker Sports and Event Hall	13,059[15]
Khimki	Khimki	Mytishchi Arena	7,280
Kirolbet Baskonia	Vitoria-Gasteiz	Buesa Arena	15,504[16]
LDLC ASVEL	Villeurbanne	Astroballe	5,556[17]
Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv	Tel Aviv	Menora Mivtachim Arena	10,383[18]
Olympiacos	Piraeus	Peace and Friendship Stadium	11,640[19]
Panathinaikos OPAP	Marousi	O.A.K.A.	18,989[20]
Real Madrid	Madrid	WiZink Center	13,109[21]
Valencia Basket	Valencia	La Fonteta	8,500[22]
Žalgiris	Kaunas	Žalgirio Arena	15,415[23]
Zenit Saint Petersburg	Saint Petersburg	Sibur Arena	7,120[24]

Personnel and sponsorship

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
ALBA Berlin	Aíto García Reneses	Niels Giffey	Adidas	ALBA SE
Anadolu Efes	Ergin Ataman	Doğuş Balbay	S by Sportive	Anadolu Efes
A|X Armani Exchange Milan	Ettore Messina	Andrea Cinciarini	Armani	Armani Exchange
Barcelona	Svetislav Pešić	Ante Tomić	Nike	Assistència Sanitària
Bayern Munich	Oliver Kostić	Danilo Barthel	Adidas	BayWa
Crvena zvezda mts	Dragan Šakota	Branko Lazić	Nike	mts
CSKA Moscow	Dimitrios Itoudis	Kyle Hines	Nike	Rostelecom
Fenerbahçe Beko	Željko Obradović	Melih Mahmutoğlu	Nike	Beko
Khimki	Rimas Kurtinaitis	Sergei Monia	Adidas	Khimki Group
Kirolbet Baskonia	Duško Ivanović	Tornike Shengelia	Kelme	Kirolbet
LDLC ASVEL	Zvezdan Mitrović	Charles Lombahe-Kahudi	Peak	LDLC
Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv	Ioannis Sfairopoulos	John DiBartolomeo	Nike	FOX
Olympiacos	Georgios Bartzokas	Vassilis Spanoulis	Nike	bwin
Panathinaikos OPAP	Rick Pitino	Nick Calathes	Adidas	Pame Stoixima
Real Madrid	Pablo Laso	Felipe Reyes	Adidas	Palladium Hotel Group
Valencia Basket	Jaume Ponsarnau	Bojan Dubljević	Luanvi	Cultura del Esfuerzo1
Žalgiris	Šarūnas Jasikevičius	Paulius Jankūnas	ŽalgirisShop
Zenit Saint Petersburg	Xavi Pascual	Evgeny Voronov	Nike	Nipigas

Notes

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

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced with	Date of appointment
AX Armani Exchange Milan	Simone Pianigiani	Sacked	11 June 2019[25]	Pre-season	Ettore Messina	11 June 2019[26]
Panathinaikos OPAP	Rick Pitino	Resigned	21 June 2019[27]		Argyris Pedoulakis	21 June 2019[28]
Olympiacos	David Blatt	Mutual consent	6 October 2019[29]	16th (0–1)	Kęstutis Kemzūra	20 October 2019[30]
Crvena zvezda mts	Milan Tomić	Resigned	22 October 2019[31]	9th (1–2)	Andrija Gavrilović (interim)	22 October 2019[31]
Panathinaikos OPAP	Argyris Pedoulakis	Sacked	15 November 2019[32]	9th (4–4)	Georgios Vovoras (interim)	15 November 2019[32]
Crvena zvezda mts	Andrija Gavrilović	End of caretaker spell	23 November 2019[33]	15th (3–7)	Dragan Šakota	23 November 2019[33]
Panathinaikos OPAP	Georgios Vovoras		26 November 2019[34]	7th (6–4)	Rick Pitino	26 November 2019[34]
Kirolbet Baskonia	Velimir Perasović	Mutual consent	20 December 2019[35]	13th (6–9)	Duško Ivanović
Bayern Munich	Dejan Radonjić	Sacked	7 January 2020[36]	15th (6–11)	Oliver Kostić	7 January 2020
Olympiacos	Kęstutis Kemzūra		12 January 2020[37]	13th (7–11)	Georgios Bartzokas	12 January 2020[37]
Zenit Saint Petersburg	Joan Plaza		12 February 2020[38]	17th (7–17)	Xavi Pascual	15 February 2020[39]

Regular season

Main article: 2019–20 EuroLeague Regular Season

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD
1	Anadolu Efes	28	24	4	2432	2166	+266
2	Real Madrid	28	22	6	2371	2165	+206
3	Barcelona	28	22	6	2357	2193	+164
4	CSKA Moscow	28	19	9	2305	2125	+180
5	Maccabi Tel Aviv	28	19	9	2291	2164	+127
6	Panathinaikos OPAP	28	14	14	2392	2394	−2
7	Khimki	28	13	15	2393	2380	+13
8	Fenerbahçe Beko	28	13	15	2153	2188	−35
9	Žalgiris	28	12	16	2213	2142	+71
10	Valencia Basket	28	12	16	2252	2273	−21
11	Olympiacos	28	12	16	2243	2282	−39
12	A|X Armani Exchange Milan	28	12	16	2163	2236	−73
13	Kirolbet Baskonia	28	12	16	2059	2155	−96
14	Crvena zvezda mts	28	11	17	2079	2108	−29
15	LDLC ASVEL	28	10	18	2073	2284	−211
16	ALBA Berlin	28	9	19	2304	2423	−119
17	Bayern Munich	28	8	20	2064	2281	−217
18	Zenit Saint Petersburg	28	8	20	2055	2240	−185

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

Results

Home \ Away	BER	EFS	AXM	FCB	BAY	CZV	CSK	FNB	KHI	KBA	ASV	MTA	OLY	PAO	RMB	VBC	ZAL	ZEN
ALBA Berlin	—	86–99	78–81	80–84	76–77	93–80	66–82	70–74		81–57		89–95	80–99		97–103		69–62	85–65
Anadolu Efes	106–105	—	88–68	64–74	104–75	85–70	80–81		101–82		101–74	99–79	91–79		76–60		96–91	90–88
AX Armani Exchange Milan	96–102	76–81	—	83–70	79–78	67–77		87–74	69–78	81–74		92–88		96–87	73–78	78–71	85–81	73–72
Barcelona	103–84	82–86	84–80	—	83–80	86–82	67–96	89–63			80–67	96–73	90–80	98–86		83–77		90–72
Bayern Munich		63–88	78–64	67–77	—		77–84		74–87	71–80	104–63	80–68	85–82	75–87	95–86	59–66	73–98	77–69
Crvena zvezda mts	85–94	78–85		65–73	93–63	—	81–86	68–56	90–78	64–72	72–74	92–78	88–81	78–73	60–75	76–73	70–76
CSKA Moscow		80–82	78–75	80–82	79–68	100–74	—	88–70	99–86	94–90			79–84	102–106	60–55	81–70	85–82	86–78
Fenerbahçe Beko	107–102	73–81	73–64	74–80	90–82	66–63		—	89–76	87–80	86–64	77–78			65–94	98–100	76–79	81–84
Khimki	104–87		87–79	94–102		78–72	69–78	82–68	—	79–76	108–79	89–83		103–86	102–94	75–84	83–74	81–83
Kirolbet Baskonia	73–72	77–102		76–74	93–60	71–56	80–70	65–79	83–79	—	79–65	83–113	82–66		55–77		60–74	70–60
LDLC ASVEL	93–81	84–90	89–82		75–65	80–83	67–66	72–88	92–88	66–63	—		82–63	79–78	77–87	72–65	74–79
Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv	104–78	77–75	69–63	92–85	77–55	84–69	90–80	67–55	80–77		93–62	—	71–70	88–79	77–81	76–63
Olympiacos	86–93	67–86	91–70		89–72		72–59	87–96	109–98	80–70	77–68	65–90	—	81–78		89–63	83–74	68–77
Panathinaikos OPAP	105–106	86–70	78–79	81–92	98–83	87–82	66–97	81–78		100–68	100–88		99–93	—	75–87	91–80	96–94	96–81
Real Madrid	85–71	75–80	76–67	86–76			97–81	81–77	104–76	70–69	87–78	86–85	93–77	96–78	—	111–99	88–82
Valencia Basket	91–77	78–83	81–83	76–77	82–56		71–96	86–93	89–84	105–77	81–72	82–85	91–93	94–87		—		94–90
Žalgiris	104–80	68–74	105–97	86–93		59–61			96–85	58–70	70–56	73–68	94–69	85–86	86–73	82–86	—	70–82
Zenit Saint Petersburg	81–83			63–87	68–77	58–65	70–87	68–73	73–87	72–66	75–70	71–82	91–87	79–89	71–86	81–86	76–75	—

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

Attendances

Average home attendances

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Žalgiris	199,088	15,342	9,405	14,221	−4.0%†
2	Anadolu Efes	170,472	15,173	6,478	13,113	+59.0%†
3	Crvena zvezda mts	176,163	16,879	5,432	11,744	+134.4%1,5
4	Kirolbet Baskonia	149,252	13,628	8,725	10,661	−4.3%†
5	Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv	140,528	10,722	3,330	10,038	−4.6%†
6	ALBA Berlin	129,092	13,212	8,076	9,930	+23.4%1
7	Fenerbahçe Beko	138,079	12,705	7,315	9,863	−8.1%†
8	Panathinaikos OPAP	138,016	17,396	6,713	9,858	−21.3%4
9	Real Madrid	135,081	12,729	7,019	9,649	−1.5%†
10	AX Armani Exchange Milan	110,388	12,064	6,599	8,491	0.0%4
11	Valencia Basket	96,627	7,840	6,954	7,433	+9.5%1,4
12	Olympiacos	102,015	10,877	5,516	7,287	−11.2%†
13	CSKA Moscow	98,693	11,355	4,852	7,050	−2.1%2
14	Barcelona	77,701	7,173	3,585	5,977	+3.2%†
15	LDLC ASVEL	74,562	5,548	4,491	5,326	+0.8%1
16	Khimki	72,650	6,781	2,917	5,189	−5.7%†
17	Bayern Munich	65,627	5,989	3,524	4,688	+7.8%†
18	Zenit Saint Petersburg	64,488	6,585	3,020	4,299	+37.9%1,3
	League total	2,138,522	17,396	2,917	8,520	+2.9%†

Source: EuroLeague
Notes:
1: 2018–19 season average applied to EuroCup games.
2: CSKA Moscow played one match at Universal Sports Hall CSKA and two at Yantarny Sports Palace, instead of Megasport Arena.
3: Zenit Saint Petersburg played two matches at Yubileyny Sports Palace and one at Basket-Hall Kazan, instead of Sibur Arena.
4: Panathinaikos OPAP, Valencia Basket and AX Armani Exchange Milan played one match behind closed doors, not included in the averages.
5: Crvena zvezda mts played three matches at Aleksandar Nikolić Hall, instead of Štark Arena.

Top 10

Pos.	Round	Game	Home team	Visitor	Attendance
1	Regular Season	12	Panathinaikos	Olympiacos	17,396
2	Regular Season	2	Crvena zvezda mts	Fenerbahçe Beko	16,879
3	Regular Season	17	Crvena zvezda mts	Bayern Munich	16,824
4	Regular Season	6	Crvena zvezda mts	Real Madrid	16,457
5	Regular Season	19	Crvena zvezda mts	Žalgiris	15,874
6	Regular Season	7	Žalgiris	Barcelona	15,342
7	Regular Season	15	Anadolu Efes	CSKA Moscow	15,173
8	Regular Season	4	Anadolu Efes	Real Madrid	15,167
9	Regular Season	1	Žalgiris	Kirolbet Baskonia	15,151
10	Regular Season	3	Žalgiris	Real Madrid	15,109

Awards

All official awards of the 2019–20 EuroLeague.^[40]

MVP of the Round

Main article: EuroLeague MVP of the Round

Regular season

Round	Player	Team	PIR	Ref.
1	Mike James	CSKA Moscow	28	[41]
2	Vasilije Micić	Anadolu Efes	32	[42]
3	Nando de Colo	Fenerbahçe	44	[43]
4	Tornike Shengelia	Kirolbet Baskonia	25	[44]
5	Vasilije Micić (2)	Anadolu Efes	29	[45]
6	Tornike Shengelia (2)	Kirolbet Baskonia	28	[46]
7	Cory Higgins	Barcelona	33	[47]
8	Mike James (2)	CSKA Moscow	38	[48]
9	Nick Calathes	Panathinaikos OPAP	32	[49]
	Luke Sikma	ALBA Berlin
10	Nikola Mirotić	Barcelona	35	[50]
11	Shane Larkin	Anadolu Efes	53	[51]
12	Kostas Sloukas	Fenerbahçe	39	[52]
13	Devin Booker	Khimki	36	[53]
14	Mike James (3)	CSKA Moscow	32	[54]
15	Mike James (4)	CSKA Moscow	36	[55]
16	Bojan Dubljević	Valencia Basket	42	[56]
17	Nick Calathes (2)	Panathinaikos OPAP	40	[57]
18	Shane Larkin (2)	Anadolu Efes	35	[58]
19	Shane Larkin (3)	Anadolu Efes	30	[59]
20	Shane Larkin (4)	Anadolu Efes	45	[60]
21	Shane Larkin (5)	Anadolu Efes	36	[61]
22	Bojan Dubljević (2)	Valencia Basket	26	[62]
23	Nikola Mirotić (2)	Barcelona	32	[63]
24	Malcolm Delaney	Barcelona	37	[64]
25	Martin Hermannsson	ALBA Berlin	27	[65]
26	Alexey Shved	Khimki	37	[66]
27	Edy Tavares	Real Madrid	29	[67]
28	Shane Larkin (6)	Anadolu Efes	44	[68]

MVP of the Month

Main article: EuroLeague MVP of the Month

Month	Round	Player	Team	Ref.
2019
October	1–6	Sergio Rodríguez	AX Armani Exchange Milan	[69]
November	7–11	Shane Larkin	Anadolu Efes	[70]
December	12–16	Nikola Mirotić	Barcelona	[71]
2020
January	17–22	Shane Larkin (2)	Anadolu Efes	[72]
February	23–26	Nikola Mirotić (2)	Barcelona	[73]

Statistics

Individual statistics

Rating

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rating	PIR
1.	Shane Larkin	Anadolu Efes	25	644	25.76
2.	Nikola Mirotić	Barcelona	28	629	22.46
3.	Mike James	CSKA Moscow	28	584	20.86

Source: EuroLeague

Points

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Points	PPG
1.	Shane Larkin	Anadolu Efes	25	555	22.20
2.	Alexey Shved	Khimki	26	557	21.42
3.	Mike James	CSKA Moscow	28	590	21.07

Source: EuroLeague

Rebounds

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rebounds	RPG
1.	Nikola Milutinov	Olympiacos	24	197	8.21
2.	Tonye Jekiri	LDLC ASVEL	27	202	7.48
3.	Edy Tavares	Real Madrid	28	199	7.11

Source: EuroLeague

Assists

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Assists	APG
1.	Nick Calathes	Panathinaikos OPAP	28	255	9.11
2.	Facundo Campazzo	Real Madrid	28	199	7.11
3.	Alexey Shved	Khimki	26	162	6.23

Source: EuroLeague

Other statistics

Category	Player	Team	Games	Average
Steals	Pierriá Henry	Kirolbet Baskonia	25	1.60
Blocks	Edy Tavares	Real Madrid	28	2.18
Turnovers	Alexey Shved	Khimki	26	3.92
Fouls drawn	Mike James	CSKA Moscow	28	5.93
Minutes	Nick Calathes	Panathinaikos OPAP	28	32:11
FT %	Tyler Cavanaugh	ALBA Berlin	19	96.97%
2-Point %	Artūras Milaknis	Žalgiris	28	70.59%
3-Point %	Stefan Jović	Khimki	23	53.19%

Individual game highs

Category	Player	Team	Statistic	Opponent
Rating	Shane Larkin	Anadolu Efes	53	Bayern Munich (Nov 29, 2019)
Points	Shane Larkin	Anadolu Efes	49	Bayern Munich (Nov 29, 2019)
Rebounds	Tonye Jekiri	LDLC ASVEL	19	Crvena zvezda mts (Nov 15, 2019)
Assists	Facundo Campazzo	Real Madrid	19	ALBA Berlin (Feb 6, 2020)
Steals	Pierriá Henry	Kirolbet Baskonia	7	Fenerbahçe Beko (Jan 9, 2020)
Blocks	Youssoupha Fall	Kirolbet Baskonia	5	Žalgiris (Oct 4, 2019)
	Edy Tavares	Real Madrid		Crvena zvezda mts (Nov 7, 2019)
	Quincy Acy	Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv		Panathinaikos OPAP (Dec 19, 2019)
	Georgios Papagiannis	Panathinaikos OPAP		LDLC ASVEL (Jan 24, 2020)
	Edy Tavares	Real Madrid		Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv (Jan 30, 2020)

Team statistics

Category	Team	Average
Rating	Anadolu Efes	103.82
Points	Anadolu Efes	87.25
Points Allowed	Crvena zvezda mts	76.75
Rebounds	CSKA Moscow	37.79
Assists	Real Madrid	19.82
Steals	Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv	7.75
Blocks	Real Madrid	4.04
Turnovers	Bayern Munich	15.00
FT %	Anadolu Efes	86.04%
2-Point %	Anadolu Efes	57.10%
3-Point %	Anadolu Efes	42.10%

See also

• 2019–20 EuroCup Basketball
• 2019–20 Basketball Champions League
• 2019–20 FIBA Europe Cup