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1958–59 FIBA European Champions Cup

1958–59 FIBA European Champions Cup

The 1958–59 FIBA European Champions Cup' was the second season of the European top-tier level professional basketball club competition FIBA European Champions Cup (now called EuroLeague). It was won by Rīgas ASK for the second straight time, after they again beat Academic, in both EuroLeague Finals games (79–58 & 69–67). Riga defeated Lech Poznań in the semifinals, and Honvéd in the quarterfinals.

1958–59 FIBA European Champions Cup
LeagueFIBA European Champions Cup
SportBasketball
Finals
ChampionsSoviet UnionRīgas ASK
  Runners-upBulgariaAcademic

Competition system

21 teams. European national domestic league champions, plus the then current FIBA European Champions Cup title holders only, playing in a tournament system. The Finals were a two-game home and away aggregate.

First round

Team 1Agg.Team 21st leg2nd leg
Étoile Charleville-MézièresFrance140–67PortugalBarreirense77–4063–27
EtzellaLuxembourg0–4*PolandLech Poznań0-20-2
Spartak ZJŠ BrnoCzechoslovakia188–125AustriaEngelmann Wien96-5692-69
CCA BucureştiRomania147–124East GermanyWissenschaft Halle81-5966-65
HonvédHungary4–0*SwedenSundbyberg2-02-0
Urania Genève SportSwitzerland104–134SpainReal Madrid58-6346-71

*****Etzella and Sundbyberg withdrew before the competition due to financial problems, so Lech Poznań and Honvéd received a forfeit (2-0) in both games

Second round

Team 1Agg.Team 21st leg2nd leg
AEKGreece129–209Socialist Federal Republic of YugoslaviaOKK Beograd76–8453–125
PantteritFinland124–173BelgiumAntwerpse63–6061–113
Lech PoznańPoland155–148CzechoslovakiaSpartak ZJŠ Brno87-6368-85
Real MadridSpain115–118FranceÉtoile Charleville-Mézières50-3965-79
Simmenthal MilanoItaly–*United Arab RepublicAl-Gezira72-470-2 (f)
AcademicBulgaria147–108IsraelMaccabi Tel Aviv69-5078-58
HonvédHungary166–133RomaniaCCA Bucureşti86-5280-81

*****Simmenthal Milano withdrew after the 1st leg, team rejected playing on an outdoor court.

Automatically qualified to the quarter finals
  • [[INLINE_IMAGE|//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png|//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png 2x|Soviet Union|h12|w23|thumbborder flagicon-img flagicon-img]] Rīgas ASK (title holder)

Quarterfinals

Team 1Agg.Team 21st leg2nd leg
AntwerpseBelgium141–194PolandLech Poznań80–8961–105
Rīgas ASKSoviet Union159–142HungaryHonvéd79–5480–88
Étoile Charleville-MézièresFrance149–160Socialist Federal Republic of YugoslaviaOKK Beograd75–7374–87
Al-GeziraUnited Arab Republic65–71BulgariaAcademic65–690–2*

*****The second leg was not played as Al-Gezira didn't travel to Bulgaria due to financial reasons, and therefore Academic received a forfeit (2-0).

Semifinals

Team 1Agg.Team 21st leg2nd leg
Lech PoznańPoland153–166Soviet UnionRīgas ASK84–7669–90
OKK BeogradSocialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia156–163BulgariaAcademic79–6977–94

Finals

Team 1Agg.Team 21st leg2nd leg
Rīgas ASKSoviet Union148–125BulgariaAcademic79–5869–67
1958–59 FIBA European Champions Cup
Champions
Soviet Union
Rīgas ASK
2nd Title

Awards

FIBA European Champions Cup Finals Top Scorer

  • [[INLINE_IMAGE|//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png|//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png 2x|Soviet Union|h12|w23|thumbborder flagicon-img flagicon-img]] Jānis Krūmiņš ([[INLINE_IMAGE|//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png|//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png 2x|Soviet Union|h12|w23|thumbborder flagicon-img flagicon-img]] Rīgas ASK)

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