Alphonso Ford EuroLeague Top Scorer Trophy

The Alphonso Ford EuroLeague Top Scorer Trophy, also known as the EuroLeague Best Scorer, is an annual basketball award of Europe's premier level league, the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague. It is given to the Top Scorer throughout the EuroLeague season, up until the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Final Four stage of the season. The award, under its current name, began in the 2004–05 season, and is named after the late Alphonso Ford, who was one of the greatest scorers in EuroLeague history.

Since the Alphonso Ford award has been given out (2004–05 season onward), a player could average the most points during the EuroLeague full season competition, and not win the award, since it is only counted for games up to the EuroLeague Final Four. Prior to the 2004–05 season, the EuroLeague's Top Scorer was recorded statistically, but it was called the EuroLeague Top Scorer award.

EuroLeague Top Scorers (1992–2004)[]

• Player nationalities by national team.

Season	Position	Top Scorer	Team	PPG
FIBA EuroLeague Top Scorer (1991–92 to 1999–00)
1991–92	SG	Nikos Galis	Aris	32.3
1992–93	SG	Zdravko Radulović	Cibona	23.9
1993–94	SG	Nikos Galis (2)	Panathinaikos	23.8
1994–95	SG	Predrag Danilović	Buckler Bologna	22.1
1995–96	PF	Joe Arlauckas	Real Madrid	26.4
1996–97	SG	Carlton Myers	Teamsystem Bologna	22.9
1997–98	SF	Peja Stojaković	PAOK	20.9
1998–99	SG	İbrahim Kutluay	Fenerbahçe	21.4
1999–00	SF	Miljan Goljović	Zlatorog Laško	20.2
EuroLeague Top Scorer (2000–01 to 2003–04)
2000–01	SG	Alphonso Ford	Peristeri	26.0
2001–02	SG	Alphonso Ford (2)	Olympiacos	24.8
2002–03	PG/SG	Miloš Vujanić	Partizan	25.8
2003–04	PG/SG	Lynn Greer	Śląsk Wrocław	25.1

Multiple EuroLeague Top Scorers (1992–2004)[]

Number	Player
2	Alphonso Ford
	Nikos Galis
1	10 Players

Alphonso Ford Trophy winners and Top Scorers (2005–present)[]

Igor Rakočević won the Alphonso Ford Trophy on 3 occasions (2007, 2009, 2011).

Keith Langford won the Alphonso Ford Trophy on 2 occasions (2014, 2017).

Beginning with the 2004–05 season, the EuroLeague awards the Alphonso Ford Trophy, in memorial of the late Alphonso Ford, to the player with the highest scoring average before the EuroLeague Final Four takes place. Because of this, it is still possible for a player to lead the league in scoring, but not win the Alphonso Ford Trophy. This happened during the 2006–07 season, when Igor Rakočević won the Alphonso Ford Trophy, but Juan Carlos Navarro was the league's top scorer.

Navarro had the highest full season scoring average in the EuroLeague, at 16.8 points per game, but did not win the Alphonso Ford Trophy, because he did not have the highest scoring average prior to the start of the EuroLeague Final Four. So instead, Rakočević was given the trophy, despite actually finishing second in the full season scoring statistical category, with an average of 16.2 points per game.

• Player nationalities by national team.

Season	Position	Alphonso Ford Trophy (Top Scorer)	Team	PPG	Ref.
Alphonso Ford EuroLeague Top Scorer Trophy (2004–05 to present)
2004–05	SG	Charles Smith	Scavolini Pesaro	20.7
2005–06	SG	Drew Nicholas	Benetton Treviso	18.5
2006–07	SG	Igor Rakočević*	Tau Cerámica	16.2
2007–08	PF	Marc Salyers	Roanne	21.8
2008–09	SG	Igor Rakočević (2)	Tau Cerámica	18.0
2009–10	PF	Linas Kleiza	Olympiacos	17.1
2010–11	SG	Igor Rakočević (3)	Efes Pilsen	17.2	[1]
2011–12	PG	Bo McCalebb	Montepaschi Siena	16.9	[2]
2012–13	PG	Bobby Brown	Montepaschi Siena	18.8	[3]
2013–14	SG	Keith Langford	EA7 Milano	17.6	[4]
2014–15	PG	Taylor Rochestie	Nizhny Novgorod	18.9
2015–16	SG	Nando de Colo	CSKA Moscow	18.9	[5]
2016–17	SG	Keith Langford (2)	UNICS	21.8	[6]
2017–18	SG	Alexey Shved	Khimki	21.8	[7][8]
2018–19	PG	Mike James	AX Armani Exchange Olimpia Milan	20.2	[9]
2020–21	SG	Alexey Shved (2)	Khimki	19.8	[10]

* Juan Carlos Navarro was the Top Scorer^[11] of the 2006–07 season, while Igor Rakočević was the Alphonso Ford Trophy winner.^[12]

Honors since the 2004–05 season[]

Players[] Number Player 3 Igor Rakočević 2 Keith Langford Alexey Shved 1 Bobby Brown Nando de Colo Linas Kleiza Bo McCalebb Drew Nicholas Taylor Rochestie Marc Salyers Charles Smith Mike James

Player nationality[] Number Country 7 United States 3 Serbia 2 Russia 1 France Lithuania Macedonia Montenegro

Teams[] Number Team 2 Mens Sana Baskonia Olimpia Milano Khimki 1 Treviso Chorale Roanne CSKA Moscow Efes Pilsen Nizhny Novgorod Olympiacos UNICS Victoria Libertas Pesaro

References[]

External links[]

• Official website