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1958 FIBA European Champions Cup Season 1958 Number of teams 23 Champions
Rīgas ASK (1st title) Runners-up
Academic
The 1958 FIBA European Champions Cup was the inaugural season of the
European top-tier level professional
basketball club competition
FIBA European Champions Cup (now called
EuroLeague ). It was won by
Rīgas ASK , after they won both
EuroLeague Finals games against
Academic . Previously, they had not played the semifinals, as
Real Madrid was not allowed to travel to
Soviet
Riga by the
Francoist authorities. The first game was held on February 22, 1958, in
Brussels ,
Belgium , where
Belgian League champion
Royal IV , defeated the
Luxembourger League champions,
Etzella Ettelbruck , by a score of 82–43.
[1] The most notable contributors to Riga's first title included
center
Jānis Krūmiņš and
head coach
Alexander Gomelsky .
Competition system
23 teams. European national domestic league champions only, playing in a
tournament system . The Finals were a two-game home and away aggregate.
Preliminary round
Group A (Northeast Europe)
Group B (Central Europe)
First round
* Series decided over one game played in Switzerland.
Second round
The winners of the three pairs in Group B played against each other, in a tournament held in Milan, in order to determine the two clubs that would progress to the Quarterfinals
Group C (Southeast Europe)
First round
*Union Beirut withdrew
Second round
Third round
Group D (Southwest Europe)
First round
Second round
Knockout stage
Quarterfinals
* The result of the game between the two clubs in the tournament of the 1st Round's Group B was used as a result for the 1st leg.
Semifinals
* Real Madrid withdrew as they were not allowed to travel to the
Soviet Union .
[3]
Finals
1958 FIBA European Champions Cup Champions
Rīgas ASK 1st Title
Awards
References
External links
FIBA European Champions Cup era, 1958–2001
Seasons Finals
Euroleague Basketball era, 2000–present
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