Euroleague_2006-07

Euroleague 2006-07

The Euroleague is an international basketball club competition for elite clubs throughout Europe. The 2006-2007 season featured 24 competing teams from 13 different countries. The draw for the groups was held on September 14, 2006 in Athens. The competition began on October 24, 2006 at the Olympic Pavilion in Badalona, Spain with Panathinaikos winning 82-79 against DKV Joventut. The final of the competition was held on May 6, 2007 in the Olympic Indoor Hall in Athens, Greece, the home court of Panathinaikos, with Panathinaikos defeating defending champions CSKA Moscow 93-91.

Format

Regular season

The first phase is a regular season, in which the competing teams are drawn into three groups, each containing eight teams. Each team plays 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 advance to the next round. The complete list of tiebreakers is provided in the lead-in to the Regular Season results.

Top 16

The surviving teams are divided into four groups of four teams each, and again a round robin system is adopted resulting in 6 games each, with the top 2 teams advancing to the quarterfinals. Tiebreakers are identical to those used in the Regular Season.

Quarterfinals

In the quarterfinals, the top placed teams from each Top 16 group play second placed teams from a different group in a best-of-three playoff series, with the winners of those series advancing to the Final Four.

Final Four

The culminating stage of the Euroleague in which the four remaining teams play a semifinal match and the winners of those advance to the final. The losers play in a third-place playoff. The team which is victorious in the Final will be Euroleague champion.

Teams of the 2006-2007 Euroleague

As announced on the official Euroleague site.


Team	Location	Arena
Aris TT Bank	Thessaloniki, Greece	Alexandreio Melathron
Benetton Treviso	Treviso, Italy	Palaverde
Cibona	Zagreb, Croatia	Dražen Petrović Basketball Hall
Climamio Bologna	Bologna, Italy	Land Rover Arena
CSKA Moscow	Moscow, Russia	CSKA Universal Sports Hall
DKV Joventut	Badalona, Spain	Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona
Dynamo Moscow	Moscow, Russia	Krylatskoe Sport Palace
Efes Pilsen	Istanbul, Turkey	Abdi İpekçi Arena
Eldo Napoli	Naples, Italy	PalaBarbuto
Fenerbahçe	Istanbul, Turkey	Abdi İpekçi Arena
Le Mans	Le Mans, France	Antarès
Lottomatica Virtus Roma	Rome, Italy	PalaLottomatica
Maccabi Tel Aviv	Tel Aviv, Israel	Nokia (Yad Eliyahu) Arena
Olympiacos Piraeus	Pireaus, Greece	Peace and Friendship Stadium (SEF)
Panathinaikos	Athens, Greece	Olympic Indoor Hall
Partizan PMB	Belgrade, Serbia	Pionir Hall
Pau-Orthez	Pau, France	Palais des Sports de Pau
Prokom Trefl Sopot	Sopot, Poland	Olivia Sports Hall, Gdańsk
RheinEnergie Köln	Köln, Germany	Philips Halle
TAU Cerámica	Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain	Fernando Buesa Arena
Unicaja Málaga	Málaga, Spain	José María Martín Carpena Arena
Union Olimpija	Ljubljana, Slovenia	Dvorana Tivoli
FC Barcelona	Barcelona, Spain	Palau Blaugrana
Žalgiris	Kaunas, Lithuania	Kaunas Sports Hall

Regular Season

Key to colors
	Top five places in each group, plus highest-ranked sixth-place team, advance to Top 16
	Eliminated

Tiebreakers:

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 are not in the same group)
Points scored in all group matches
Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each group match

Group A

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	TAU Cerámica	14	12	2	1165	1025	140
2.	Dynamo Moscow	14	10	4	1100	1032	68
3.	Olympiacos	14	10	4	1165	1112	53
4.	Efes Pilsen	14	8	6	1081	1031	50
5.	Prokom Trefl	14	5	9	1021	1063	-42
6.	Climamio Bologna	14	5	9	1115	1176	-61
7.	Le Mans	14	4	10	985	1041	-56
8.	RheinEnergie	14	2	12	1032	1184	-152

Group B

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Panathinaikos	14	11	3	1128	1036	92
2.	Maccabi Tel Aviv	14	8	6	1230	1177	53
3.	DKV Joventut	14	7	7	1112	1049	63
4.	Unicaja Málaga	14	7	7	1001	1085	-84
5.	Lottomatica Roma	14	6	8	1027	1044	-17
6.	Partizan Belgrade	14	6	8	1100	1093	7
7.	Cibona Zagreb	14	6	8	1113	1141	-28
8.	Olimpija Ljubljana	14	5	9	1038	1124	-86

Group C

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	CSKA Moscow	14	13	1	1079	912	167
2.	Winterthur FC Barcelona	14	9	5	1093	1032	61
3.	Benetton Treviso	14	8	6	1021	989	32
4.	Pau-Orthez	14	7	7	1059	1070	-11
5.	Aris TT Bank	14	6	8	971	1013	-42
6.	Eldo Napoli	14	6	8	1032	1093	-61
7.	Fenerbahçe	14	5	9	1044	1088	-44
8.	Žalgiris Kaunas	14	2	12	1062	1164	-102

Top 16

The draw was held February 5 at 13:00 CET (1200 UTC) in Barcelona, in accordance with Euroleague rules.

The teams were placed into four pools, as follows:

Level 1: The three group winners, plus the top-ranked second-place team

CSKA, TAU, Panathinaikos, Dynamo

Level 2: The remaining second-place teams, plus the top two third-place teams

Winterthur FCB, Maccabi, Olympiacos, Benetton

Level 3: The remaining third-place team, plus the three fourth-place teams

Joventut, Efes, Pau-Orthez, Unicaja

Level 4: The fifth-place teams, plus the top ranked sixth-place team

Lottomatica, Aris, Prokom, Partizan

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 can be placed in the same Top 16 group.
No more than two teams from the same country can be placed in the same Top 16 group.
If there is a conflict between these two restrictions, (1) will receive priority.

Another draw was held to determine the order of fixtures. In cases of two teams from the same city in the Top 16 (CSKA and Dynamo, Panathinaikos and Olympiacos, Winterthur FCB and Joventut) they were scheduled so that every week only one team would be at home.

Key to colors
	Top two places in each group advance to quarterfinals
	Eliminated from contention

Teams in bold type advanced to the quarterfinals.

Group D

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	TAU Cerámica	6	6	0	541	433	+108
2.	Maccabi Tel Aviv	6	4	2	463	478	−15
3.	Lottomatica Roma	6	1	5	416	468	−52
4.	Pau-Orthez	6	1	5	470	511	−41

Group E

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	CSKA Moscow	6	6	0	475	376	+99
2.	Olympiacos	6	3	3	451	450	+1
3.	Partizan Belgrade	6	2	4	432	474	−42
4.	DKV Joventut	6	1	5	407	465	−58

Group F

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Panathinaikos	6	5	1	501	428	+73
2.	Winterthur FC Barcelona	6	4	2	498	455	+43
3.	Efes Pilsen	6	2	4	416	458	−42
4.	Prokom Trefl	6	1	5	404	478	−74

Group G

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Unicaja	6	4	2	448	442	+6
2.	Dynamo Moscow	6	4	2	428	435	−7
3.	Benetton Treviso	6	3	3	439	428	+11
4.	Aris TT Bank	6	1	5	451	461	−10

Unicaja won the group over Dynamo. The teams split their regular-season matches, but Unicaja scored 5 more points head-to-head.

Quarterfinals

Each quarterfinal was a best-of-three 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. Quarterfinals were played on April 3 and 5, 2007, with third games to be played April 12 if necessary.

Quarterfinal 1

	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Date
Game 1	TAU Cerámica	84 - 59	Olympiacos	Vitoria-Gasteiz	April 3, 2007
Game 2	Olympiacos	89 - 95	TAU Cerámica	Pireaus	April 5, 2007

Quarterfinal 2

	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Date
Game 1	CSKA Moscow	80 - 58	Maccabi Tel Aviv	Moscow	April 3, 2007
Game 2	Maccabi Tel Aviv	68 - 56	CSKA Moscow	Tel Aviv	April 5, 2007
Game 3	CSKA Moscow	92 - 71	Maccabi Tel Aviv	Moscow	April 12, 2007

Quarterfinal 3

	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Date
Game 1	Panathinaikos	80 - 58	Dynamo Moscow	Athens	April 3, 2007
Game 2	Dynamo Moscow	65 - 73	Panathinaikos	Moscow	April 5, 2007

Quarterfinal 4

	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Venue	Date
Game 1	Unicaja Málaga	91 - 75	Winterthur FCB	Málaga	April 3, 2007
Game 2	Winterthur FCB	80 - 58	Unicaja Málaga	Barcelona	April 5, 2007
Game 3	Unicaja Málaga	67 - 64	Winterthur FCB	Málaga	April 12, 2007

Final Four

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Semifinal 2

Third Place

Final

Euroleague 2007 Champions
Panathinaikos Fourth title

Champions Roster

4 Alvertis 5 Delk 6 Papanikolaou 7 Bečirovič 8 Batiste 9 Šiškauskas 10 Hatzivrettas 11 Dikoudis 12 Tsartsaris 13 Diamantidis (Final4 MVP) 14 Xanthopoulos 15 Tomašević 16 Sakota 18 Vujanić 19 Javtokas Coach Obradović

Awards

Euroleague 2007 MVP

Theodoros Papaloukas, ( CSKA Moscow )

Euroleague 2007 Final Four MVP

Dimitris Diamantidis, ( Panathinaikos )

All Euroleague First Team 2006-2007

*A tie resulted in the voting for the best point guard of the season between Dimitris Diamantidis and Theodoros Papaloukas. Consequently the 2006-07 All-Euroleague First Team included six players.