1999–2000 FIBA EuroLeague

1999–2000 FIBA EuroLeague
League	FIBA EuroLeague
Sport	Basketball
Regular Season
Top scorer	Miljan Goljović (Pivovarna Laško)
Final Four
Champions	Panathinaikos
Runners-up	Maccabi Elite
Final Four MVP	Željko Rebrača (Panathinaikos)

The 1999–2000 FIBA EuroLeague was the 43rd installment of the top club competition for European basketball clubs (now called simply EuroLeague). It began on September 23, 1999, and ended on April 4, 2000. The Final Four was held at PAOK Sports Arena, Thessaloniki, with Panathinaikos defeating Maccabi Tel Aviv in the EuroLeague Final, in front of 8,500 spectators.^[1]

Efes Pilsen finished in the third position, and FC Barcelona finished fourth.

Competition system

24 teams (the national domestic league champions, and a variable number of other clubs from the most important national domestic leagues). The competition culminated in a Final Four.

First round

Group A

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	FC Barcelona	10	9	1	780	685	+95
2.	CSKA Moscow	10	7	3	754	705	+49
3.	Benetton Treviso	10	6	4	700	675	+25
4.	PAOK	10	5	5	730	680	+50
5.	Cholet	10	2	8	640	711	-71
6.	Crvena zvezda	10	1	9	636	784	-148

Group B

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Panathinaikos	10	9	1	802	690	+112
2.	Union Olimpija	10	5	5	776	791	-15
3.	Real Madrid	10	5	5	714	743	-29
4.	Alba Berlin	10	5	5	734	747	-14
5.	Tofaş	10	4	6	715	738	-23
6.	Žalgiris	10	2	8	719	751	-32

Group C

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	ASVEL	10	8	2	711	645	+66
2.	Olympiacos	10	6	4	668	627	+41
3.	Maccabi Elite	10	6	4	773	714	+59
4.	Ülker	10	5	5	756	770	-14
5.	Varese Roosters	10	3	7	715	762	-47
6.	Pivovarna Laško	10	2	8	712	817	-105

Group D

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Efes Pilsen	10	6	4	707	678	+29
2.	Cibona	10	6	4	744	759	-15
3.	Paf Wennington Bologna	10	6	4	729	703	+26
4.	Budućnost	10	5	5	760	746	+14
5.	Caja San Fernando	10	5	5	699	689	+10
6.	Pau-Orthez	10	2	8	686	750	-64

Second round

(The individual scores and standings of the First stage were accumulated in the Second stage)

If one or more clubs were level on won-lost record, tiebreakers were applied in the following order:

Head-to-head record in matches between the tied clubs
Overall point difference in games between the tied clubs
Overall point difference in all group matches (first tiebreaker if tied clubs were not in the same group)
Points scored in all group matches
Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each group match

Key to colors
	Top four places in each group advance to Playoff

Group E

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	FC Barcelona	16	12	4	1183	1091	+192
2.	CSKA Moscow	16	9	7	1216	1182	+34
3.	Benetton Treviso	16	9	7	1156	1139	+17
4.	Alba Berlin	16	9	7	1174	1186	-12
5.	Tofaş	16	8	8	1193	1171	+22
6.	Žalgiris	16	4	12	1148	1200	-52

Group F

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Panathinaikos	16	13	3	1246	1084	+162
2.	Union Olimpija	16	10	6	1201	1175	+26
3.	Real Madrid	16	10	6	1227	1187	+40
4.	PAOK	16	7	9	1140	1114	+26
5.	Cholet	16	3	13	1054	1186	-132
6.	Crvena zvezda	16	2	14	1034	1257	-223

Group G

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Maccabi Elite	16	12	4	1182	1050	+132
2.	ASVEL	16	11	5	1107	1056	+51
3.	Olympiacos	16	10	6	1117	1045	+72
4.	Budućnost	16	7	9	1164	1168	-4
5.	Caja San Fernando	16	6	10	1068	1107	-39
6.	Pau-Orthez	16	4	12	1078	1164	-86

Group H

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Efes Pilsen	16	11	5	1221	1142	+79
2.	Paf Wennington Bologna	16	10	6	1198	1145	+53
3.	Cibona	16	10	6	1201	1207	-6
4.	Ülker	16	8	8	1204	1235	-31
5.	Varese Roosters	16	5	11	1186	1240	-54
6.	Pivovarna Laško	16	2	14	1147	1314	-167

Top 16

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg
Union Olimpija	2–1	Olympiacos	65–61	52–68	85–67
FC Barcelona	2–1	Ülker	78–73	60–63	86–65
Paf Wennington Bologna	2–0	Benetton Treviso	82–73	77–61
Maccabi Elite	2–1	PAOK	77–62	55–67	78–62
CSKA Moscow	1–2	Cibona	72–75	75–55	69–78
Panathinaikos	2–1	Budućnost	65–59	64–77	78–61
ASVEL	2–0	Real Madrid	72–59	85–73
Efes Pilsen	2–0	Alba Berlin	90–81	93–73

Quarterfinals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg
FC Barcelona	2–1	Union Olimpija	70–67	64–71	71–66
Maccabi Elite	2–1	Paf Wennington Bologna	62–65	80–73	79–64
Panathinaikos	2–0	Cibona	73–62	69–63
Efes Pilsen	2–1	ASVEL	93–85	60–77	68–66

Final Four

Main article: 2000 FIBA EuroLeague Final Four

Semifinals

April 18, PAOK Sports Arena, Thessaloniki

Team 1	Score	Team 2
FC Barcelona	51–65	Maccabi Elite
Panathinaikos	81–71	Efes Pilsen

3rd place game

April 20, PAOK Sports Arena, Thessaloniki

Team 1	Score	Team 2
FC Barcelona	69–75	Efes Pilsen

Final

April 20, PAOK Sports Arena, Thessaloniki

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Maccabi Elite	67–73	Panathinaikos

1999–2000 FIBA EuroLeague Champions
Panathinaikos 2nd Title

Final standings

	Team
	Panathinaikos
	Maccabi Elite
	Efes Pilsen
	FC Barcelona

Final Four 2000 MVP

Željko Rebrača (Panathinaikos)

References

↑ Euroleague 1999-2000

Panathinaikos 1999–2000 EuroLeague Champions

4 Alvertis 5 Kalaitzis 6 Koch 7 Rogers 8 Fotsis 9 Gentile 10 Bodiroga 11 Boudouris 12 Rebrača (Final Four MVP) 13 Burke 14 Kattash 15 Karagoutis 16 Maglos 17 Glyniadakis Head coach: Željko Obradović Assistant coach: Dimitrios Itoudis

FIBA European Champions Cup and EuroLeague

FIBA European Champions Cup era, 1958–2001

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Seasons	2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18

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