Sports season
The 1972–73 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup was the seventh edition of FIBA 's 2nd-tier level European-wide professional club basketball competition, contested between national domestic cup champions, running from 18 October 1972, to 21 March 1973. It was contested by 26 teams, five more than in the previous edition .[1]
1971 runner-up Spartak Leningrad , defeated Jugoplastika in the final, to become the first Soviet League team to win the competition, ending a 3-year period of Italian League dominance.[2] It was the second straight final lost by a Yugoslav League team.
Participants [ ]
First round [ ]
Second round [ ]
Automatically qualified to the eighth finals
Spartak Leningrad
Top 12 [ ]
Quarterfinals [ ]
The quarter finals were played with a round-robin system, in which every Two Game series (TGS) constituted as one game for the record.
Key to colors
Top two places in each group advance to semifinals
Group A [ ]
1st leg
2nd leg
Agg
Mobilquattro Milano – Spartak ZJŠ Brno
109 -83
75-79
184 -162
Spartak Leningrad – Mobilquattro Milano
72 -57
54-59
126 -116
Spartak ZJŠ Brno – Spartak Leningrad
74-82
77-82
151-164
Team
Pld
Pts
W
L
PF
PA
PD
1.
Spartak Leningrad
2
4
2
0
290
267
+23
2.
Mobilquattro Milano
2
3
1
1
300
288
+12
3.
Spartak ZJŠ Brno
2
2
0
2
313
348
-35
Group B [ ]
1st leg
2nd leg
Agg
Jugoplastika – Juventud Schweppes
90 -71
62-76
152 -147
Steaua București – Jugoplastika
87 -80
61-82
148-162
Juventud Schweppes – Steaua București
77-81
72 -65
149 -146
Team
Pld
Pts
W
L
PF
PA
PD
1.
Jugoplastika
2
4
2
0
314
295
+19
2.
Juventud Schweppes
2
3
1
1
296
298
-2
3.
Steaua București
2
2
0
2
294
311
-17
Semifinals [ ]
Team 1
Agg.
Team 2
1st leg
2nd leg
Spartak Leningrad
152–118
Juventud Schweppes
95–64
57–54
Jugoplastika
178–161
Mobilquattro Milano
96–81
82–70
Final [ ]
March 20, Alexandreio Melathron , Thessaloniki
Team 1
Score
Team 2
Spartak Leningrad
77–62
Jugoplastika
1972–73 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup Champions
Spartak Leningrad 1st title
References [ ]
External links [ ]
FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup FIBA European Cup FIBA EuroCup FIBA Saporta Cup