1959–60 FIBA European Champions Cup

1959–60 FIBA European Champions Cup
1959–60 FIBA European Champions Cup
League	FIBA European Champions Cup
Sport	Basketball
Finals
Champions	Rīgas ASK
Runners-up	Dinamo Tbilisi
FIBA European Champions Cup seasons
	← 1958–59 1960–61 →

The 1959–60 FIBA European Champions Cup was third 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 third straight time, an accomplishment only achieved again by Jugoplastika in the late 1980s, in 1989–1991. In the EuroLeague Finals, Riga defeated the Soviet Union League club, Dinamo Tbilisi, in both final games (51–61 & 62–69). Riga defeated Slovan Orbis Prague in the semifinals, and AŠK Olimpija in the quarterfinals.

Competition system[edit]

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[edit]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
US Marocaine	95–92	Coimbra	54–48	41–44
PAOK	121–159	CCA București	61–80	60–79
Wissenschaft	125–188	Pantterit	88–84	66–78
	0–4*	Union Babenberg	0-2	0-2
USC Heidelberg	90–113	Urania Genève Sport	46-55	44-58
Sparta Bertrange	92–137	Chorale Mulsant	47-60	45-77
Fenerbahçe	4–0**	Maccabi Tel Aviv	2-0	2-0

*Originally, the Champion of the Italian League was drawn to play against the Austrian champion, but the former was Simmenthal Milano, who was banned in European competition. Since the Italian Federation refused to name another entrant in Champions Cup, Union Babenberg received a forfeit (2-0) in both games.

**Maccabi Tel Aviv withdrew before the competition due to internal problems and Fenerbahçe received a forfeit (2-0) in both games.

Second round[edit]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Union Babenberg	134–184	AŠK Olimpija	83–84	51–100
Fenerbahçe	116–139	Academic	61-69	55-70
Marocaine	126–180	CF Barcelona	65–82	61–98
Pantterit	162–184	Polonia Warszawa	84–88	78–96
Urania Genève Sport	128–148	Slovan Orbis Praha	54–62	74–80
Chorale Mulsant	115–109	Antwerpse	54-53	61-56
CCA București	155–173	Dinamo Tbilisi	87–83	68–90

Automatically qualified to the quarter finals

Rīgas ASK (title holder)

Quarterfinals[edit]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Dinamo Tbilisi	145–136	Academic	76–64	69–72
CF Barcelona	105–114	Polonia Warszawa	64–65	41–49
AŠK Olimpija	142–174	Rīgas ASK	79–95	63–79
Chorale Mulsant	120–124	Slovan Orbis Praha	68-59	52-65