Euroleague 2005-06

The Euroleague is an international basketball club competition for elite clubs throughout Europe. The 2005-2006 season featured 24 competing teams from 13 different countries. The final of the competition was held in Sazka Arena, Prague, Czech Republic, with CSKA Moscow defeating defending champions Maccabi Tel Aviv 73-69.

Format

Regular season

The first phase is a regular season, in which the competing teams are drawn into three groups, each containing eight teams. Each team plays every other team in its group at home and away, resulting in 14 games for each team in the first stage. The top 5 teams in each group and the best sixth-placed team advance to the next round. The complete list of tiebreakers is provided in the lead-in to the Regular Season results.

Top 16

The surviving teams are divided into four groups of four teams each, and again a round robin system is adopted resulting in 6 games each, with the top 2 teams advancing to the quarterfinals. Tiebreakers are identical to those used in the Regular Season.

Quarterfinals

In the quarterfinals, the top placed teams from each Top 16 group play second placed teams from a different group in a best-of-three playoff series, with the winners of those series advancing to the Final Four.

Final Four

The culminating stage of the Euroleague in which the four remaining teams play a semifinal match and the winners of those advance to the final. The losers play in a third-place playoff. The team which is victorious in the Final will be Euroleague champion.

Regular Season

Group C

Group E

Quarterfinals

Each quarterfinal was a best-of-three series between a first-place team in the Top 16 and a second-place team from a different group, with the first-place team receiving home advantage.

Quarterfinal 1

Quarterfinal 4

Third Place

Champions Roster

Awards

All Euroleague MVP

*flagicon|USA Anthony Parker ( flagicon|ISR Maccabi Tel Aviv )

Final Four MVP

*flagicon|GRE Theodoros Papaloukas ( flagicon|RUS CSKA Moscow )

All Euroleague First Team 2005-2006

*flagicon|GRE Theodoros Papaloukas ( flagicon|RUS CSKA Moscow )
*flagicon|ESP Juan Carlos Navarro ( flagicon|ESP Winterthur FC Barcelona )
*flagicon|USA Anthony Parker ( flagicon|ISR Maccabi Tel Aviv )
*flagicon|ARG Luis Scola ( flagicon|ESP TAU Cerámica )
*flagicon|CRO Nikola Vujčić ( flagicon|ISR Maccabi Tel Aviv )

All Euroleague Second Team 2005-2006

*flagicon|Argentina Pablo Prigioni ( flagicon|Spain TAU Ceramica )
*flagicon|Greece Vassilis Spanoulis ( flagicon|Greece Panathinaikos )
*flagicon|USA Trajan Langdon ( flagicon|Russia CSKA Moscow )
*flagicon|Spain Jorge Garbajosa ( flagicon|Spain Unicaja Malaga )
*flagicon|Lithuania Darjuš Lavrinovič ( flagicon|Lithuania Zalgiris Kaunas )

Best Defender

*flagicon|GRE Dimitris Diamantidis ( flagicon|GRE Panathinaikos )

Rising Star

*flagicon|ITA Andrea Bargnani ( flagicon|ITA Benetton Treviso )

Alphonso Ford Top Scorer

*flagicon|USA Drew Nicholas ( flagicon|ITA Benetton Treviso )

Alexander Gomelsky Coach of the Year

*flagicon|Italy Ettore Messina ( flagicon|Russia CSKA Moscow )

Club Executive of the Year

*flagicon|Russia Sergey Kushchenko ( flagicon|Russia CSKA Moscow )

Notes and references

[http://www.euroleague.net/competition/format Euroleague Competition Format]

External links

* [http://www.euroleague.net/ Euroleague.net] - Official Euroleague homepage.
* [http://www.eurobasket.com/ Eurobasket.com] - Popular basketball news site.
* [http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/ TalkBasket.net] - Basketball forum.