2019–20 FIBA Europe Cup

The 2019–20 FIBA Europe Cup was the fifth season of the FIBA Europe Cup, a European professional basketball competition for clubs, that was launched by FIBA.

FIBA Europe Cup
Season	2019–20
Dates	2–9 October 2019 (qualifying round) 22 October 2019 – 29 April 2020 (competition proper)
Teams	32 (regular season) 42 (overall)
Finals
Champions	Null and void
Statistical leaders
Points Trae Golden 19.9 Rebounds Mangok Mathiang 11.2 Assists Trae Golden 8.5 Index Rating Jeff Withey 23.7
Records
Biggest home win	Ventspils 105–57 APOEL (20 November 2019)
Biggest away win	Sigal Prishtina 72-122 Ventspils (27 November 2019)
Highest scoring	Kataja 112–105 Legia (13 November 2019)

On 12 March 2020, FIBA suspended all its competitions due to the coronavirus pandemic^[1][2] and terminated the FIBA Europe Cup. However, Pınar Karşıyaka requested to finish the competition with a Final Four format as in the 2019–20 Basketball Champions League.^[3]

On 16 June 2020, FIBA Europe announced the season was declared void and would not be finished due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[4]

Team allocation

Teams from around Europe can sign up to play in the FIBA Europe Cup. Spots are granted based on results in domestic championships.^[5]

Teams registered were officially published on 23 July 2019.^[6]

Regular season
Spirou (3rd)	Ironi Nes Ziona (6th)	Ventspils (CL QR2)	Tsmoki Minsk (CL QR1)
Phoenix Brussels (4th)	Landstede Hammers (1st)	Legia (CL QR2)	Balkan (CL QR1)
Egis Körmend (2nd)	Sibiu (2nd)	Benfica (CL QR2)	Bakken Bears (CL QR1)
Pécs Veolia (3rd)	Enisey (9th)	Södertälje Kings (CL QR2)	Sigal Prishtina (CL QR1)
Levski Lukoil (2nd)	Bahçeşehir Koleji (9th)	Fribourg Olympic (CL QR2)	Donar (CL QR1)
APOEL (3rd)	Keravnos (CL QR2)	Kyiv Basket (CL QR2)	Oradea (CL QR1)
medi Bayreuth (12th)	Karhu (CL QR2)	Kapfenberg Bulls (CL QR1)	Inter Bratislava (CL QR1)
Qualification round
Borisfen (2nd)	Kataja (6th)	U-BT Cluj-Napoca (3rd)	Dnipro (4th)
Beroe (3rd)	Rahoveci (2nd)	Borås (2nd)
Tartu Ülikool (5th)	ZZ Leiden (3rd)	Pınar Karşıyaka (11th)

Applicants

The following 4 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:^[7]

• Karhu
• Lietkabelis
• Polski Cukier Toruń
• San Pablo Burgos

Round and draw dates

The schedule of the competition is as follows.

Phase	Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
Qualifying rounds	Qualifying round	24 July 2019	1–2 October 2019	9 October 2019
Regular season	Matchday 1		22–23 October 2019
	Matchday 2		29–30 October 2019
	Matchday 3		5–6 November 2019
	Matchday 4		12–13 November 2019
	Matchday 5		19–20 November 2019
	Matchday 6		27 November 2019
Second round	Matchday 1		11 December 2019
	Matchday 2		18 December 2019
	Matchday 3		7–8 January 2020
	Matchday 4		20–22 January 2020
	Matchday 5		29 January 2020
	Matchday 6		4–5 February 2020
Play-offs	Quarter-finals		4 March 2020	11 March 2020
	Semi-finals		25 March 2020	1 April 2020
	Finals		22 April 2020	29 April 2020

Qualifying round

The draw for the qualifying round will be held on 24 July 2019 at the FIBA headquarters in Munich, Germany.

Teams are divided into seeded and unseeded teams based on their club coefficients, and then drawn into two-legged home-and-away ties, being the second leg played at the home of the seeded team.^[6]

Seeds

Seeded teams Dnipro Kataja U-BT Cluj-Napoca Pınar Karşıyaka ZZ Leiden

Non-seeded teams Beroe Borisfen Borås Rahoveci Tartu Ülikool

Qualifying round

A total of 10 teams played in the first qualifying round. The first legs were played on 2 October, and the second legs were played on 9 October 2019.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Tartu Ülikool	165–171	Kataja	78–72	87–99
Beroe	172–179	ZZ Leiden	86–71	86–108
Borisfen	147–182	Dnipro	76–101	71–81
Borås	128–155	Pınar Karşıyaka	70–77	58–78
Rahoveci	120–189	U-BT Cluj-Napoca	73–98	47–91

Regular season

Benfica

Leiden

Pécs

Inter

Benfica

Nes Ziona

Hammers

Keravnos

Bulls

Ventspils

Bayreuth

Prishtina

APOEL

Oradea

Bahçeşehir

Fribourg

Sibiu

Spirou

Karsiyaka

Brussels

Donar

Tsmoki

Kyiv-Basket

Levski

Dnipro

Enisey

Cluj-Napoca

Södertälje

Balkan

Körmend

Bears

Legia

Kataja

Location of teams of the 2019–20 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 24 July 2019 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 4 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:

• Karhu
• Lietkabelis
• Polski Cukier Toruń
• San Pablo Burgos

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 12 teams directly qualified, the 5 winners of the qualifying round, the 15 of 16 losers of the 2019–20 Champions League qualifying rounds.

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 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 22–23 October, 29–30 October, 5–6 November, 12–13 November, 19–20 November and 27 November 2019.

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		BEN	LEI	INT	PEC
1	Benfica	6	5	1	517	489	+28	11	Advance to second round		—	103–99	77–68	85–66
2	ZZ Leiden	6	4	2	533	503	+30	10			84–68	—	80–67	105–100
3	Inter Bratislava	6	2	4	486	520	−34	8			91–95	78–88	—	88–87
4	Pécs Veolia	6	1	5	514	538	−24	7			81–89	87–77	93–94	—

Source: FIBA Europe Cup

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		INZ	LAN	KER	KAP
1	Ironi Nes Ziona	6	6	0	460	405	+55	12	Advance to second round		—	96–90	87–78	20–0
2	Landstede Hammers	6	3	3	530	477	+53	9			88–94	—	78–72	89–64
3	Keravnos	6	2	4	464	491	−27	8			74–85	88–85	—	76–70
4	Kapfenberg Bulls	6	1	5	362	443	−81	7			75–82	67–100	86–76	—

Source: FIBA Europe Cup

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		VEN	BAY	PRI	APO
1	Ventspils	6	6	0	602	439	+163	12	Advance to second round		—	95–77	104–84	105–57
2	medi Bayreuth	6	4	2	542	472	+70	10			80–84	—	97–89	112–68
3	Sigal Prishtina	6	2	4	513	570	−57	8			72–122	68–93	—	93–74
4	APOEL	6	0	6	416	592	−176	6			69–92	68–83	80–107	—

Source: FIBA Europe Cup

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		BAH	ORA	FRI	SIB
1	Bahçeşehir Koleji	6	5	1	472	430	+42	11	Advance to second round		—	66–71	79–70	80–71
2	Oradea	6	4	2	461	456	+5	10			77–88	—	67–87	92–86
3	Fribourg Olympic	6	2	4	428	466	−38	8			60–76	60–79	—	69–91
4	Sibiu	6	1	5	472	481	−9	7			81–83	69–75	74–82	—

Source: FIBA Europe Cup

Group E

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		KSK	SPI	DON	BRU
1	Pınar Karşıyaka	6	5	1	496	410	+86	11	Advance to second round		—	92–54	77–57	93–90
2	Spirou	6	3	3	473	467	+6	9			81–76	—	87–56	72–75
3	Donar	6	2	4	386	454	−68	8			62–79	64–78	—	75–63
4	Phoenix Brussels	6	2	4	468	492	−24	8			66–79	104–101	70–72	—

Source: FIBA Europe Cup

Group F

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		KYI	TSM	LEV	DNI
1	Kyiv Basket	6	4	2	506	492	+14	10	Advance to second round		—	74–99	86–66	95–88
2	Tsmoki Minsk	6	3	3	511	500	+11	9			84–92	—	81–68	108–101
3	Levski Lukoil	6	3	3	453	453	0	9			76–83	75–64	—	85–78
4	Dnipro	6	2	4	497	522	−25	8			79–76	90–75	61–83	—

Source: FIBA Europe Cup

Group G

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		CLU	ENI	BAL	SOD
1	U-BT Cluj-Napoca	6	5	1	533	490	+43	11	Advance to second round		—	97–83	92–80	85–74
2	Enisey	6	4	2	535	478	+57	10			97–87	—	84–69	99–78
3	Balkan	6	2	4	480	524	−44	8			76–86	82–80	—	90–89
4	Södertälje Kings	6	1	5	479	535	−56	7			80–86	65–92	93–83	—

Source: FIBA Europe Cup

Group H

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		BAK	KOR	KAT	LEG
1	Bakken Bears	6	5	1	502	476	+26	11	Advance to second round		—	81–87	89–70	77–74
2	Egis Körmend	6	4	2	491	465	+26	10			80–86	—	81–75	74–60
3	Kataja	6	2	4	489	537	−48	8			82–85	95–91	—	112–105
4	Legia	6	1	5	476	480	−4	7			83–84	68–78	86–55	—

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 quarterfinals, 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 11 December, 18 December 2019, 7–8 January, 20–22 January, 29 January and 4–5 February 2020.

Group I

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		BAY	BAK	BEN	SPI
1	medi Bayreuth	6	5	1	581	526	+55	11	Advance to quarterfinals		—	105–82	96–78	100–89
2	Bakken Bears	6	4	2	542	527	+15	10			110–92	—	88–75	101–87
3	Benfica	6	3	3	494	494	0	9			77–91	90–79	—	89–62
4	Spirou	6	0	6	484	554	−70	6			90–97	78–82	78–85	—

Source: FIBA Europe Cup

Group J

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		TSM	CLU	INZ	ORA
1	Tsmoki Minsk	6	4	2	481	446	+35	10	Advance to quarterfinals		—	78–76	97–75	68–62
2	U-BT Cluj-Napoca	6	4	2	474	460	+14	10			76–74	—	82–71	81–76
3	Ironi Nes Ziona	6	2	4	476	501	−25	8			84–75	81–84	—	85–77
4	Oradea	6	2	4	454	478	−24	8			73–89	80–75	86–80	—

Source: FIBA Europe Cup

Group K

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		VEN	KYI	KOR	LAN
1	Ventspils	6	5	1	558	479	+79	11	Advance to quarterfinals		—	78–81	96–81	111–74
2	Kyiv Basket	6	4	2	481	484	−3	10			80–88	—	80–78	89–76
3	Egis Körmend	6	3	3	512	516	−4	9			76–96	96–74	—	87–80
4	Landstede Hammers	6	0	6	475	547	−72	6			87–89	68–77	90–94	—

Source: FIBA Europe Cup

Group L

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification		KSK	BAH	ENI	LEI
1	Pınar Karşıyaka	6	6	0	594	421	+173	12	Advance to quarterfinals		—	96–65	85–74	112–76
2	Bahçeşehir Koleji	6	3	3	508	554	−46	9			68–100	—	103–95	93–71
3	Enisey	6	2	4	526	547	−21	8			73–96	105–90	—	96–84
4	ZZ Leiden	6	1	5	472	578	−106	7			65–105	87–89	89–83	—

Source: FIBA Europe Cup

Play-offs

Main article: 2019–20 FIBA Europe Cup Play-offs

	Quarter-finals						Semi-finals (Cancelled)						Final (Cancelled)
	Bahçeşehir Koleji	78	112	190
							Cancelled
	Ventspils	77	90	167
							Bahçeşehir Koleji
							Bakken Bears
	Bakken Bears	79	93	172
													Cancelled
	Tsmoki Minsk	66	87	153
													–
													–
	U-BT Cluj-Napoca	83	87	170
							Cancelled
	medi Bayreuth	82	100	182
							medi Bayreuth
							Pınar Karşıyaka
	Kyiv Basket	71	67	138
	Pınar Karşıyaka	89	88	177

Quarterfinals

The first legs were played on 4 March, and the second legs on 11 March 2020.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
U-BT Cluj-Napoca	170–182	medi Bayreuth	83–82	87–100
Bakken Bears	172–153	Tsmoki Minsk	79–66	93–87
Bahçeşehir Koleji	190–167	Ventspils	78–77	112–90
Kyiv Basket	138–177	Pınar Karşıyaka	71–89	67–88

Semifinals

The first legs were to be played on 25 March, and the second legs on 1 April 2020.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Medi Bayreuth	Cancelled	Pınar Karşıyaka	Cancelled	Cancelled
Bahçeşehir Koleji	Cancelled	Bakken Bears	Cancelled	Cancelled

Finals

The first leg were to be played on 22 April, and the second leg on 29 April 2020.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
N/A	Cancelled	N/A	Cancelled	Cancelled

See also

• 2019–20 EuroLeague
• 2019–20 EuroCup Basketball
• 2019–20 Basketball Champions League