The 1960–61 FIBA European Champions Cup was the fourth season of the European top-tier level professional basketball club competition FIBA European Champions Cup (now called EuroLeague). It was won by CSKA Moscow, after they defeated Rīgas ASK, the reigning three-time defending champions, and the first major dynasty of European professional club basketball . CSKA lost the first game 66–61, but won the second 87–62, and thus became the fourth straight European champions from the Soviet Union League.

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1960–61 FIBA European Champions Cup
League	FIBA European Champions Cup
Sport	Basketball
Finals
Champions	CSKA Moscow
Runners-up	Rīgas ASK
FIBA European Champions Cup seasons
← 1959–60 1961–62 →

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24 teams. European national domestic league champions, plus the then current FIBA European Champions Cup title holders only, playing in a tournament system. The Finals were a two-game home and away aggregate.

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Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Galatasaray	79–93	Hapoel Tel Aviv	40–39	39–54
Étoile Charleville-Mézières	63–163	CSKA Moscow	28-68	35-95
Levski-Spartak	114–138	Legia Warsaw	67-62	47-76
Engelmann Wien	100–159	Real Madrid	53-85	47-74
Antwerpse	68–47	OKK Beograd	66-47	2-0*
Torpan Pojat	103–133	Spartak Praha Sokolovo	56-65	47-68
Idrolitina Bologna	124–126	CCA București	70–56	54–70

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*The second leg was cancelled after the Yugoslavian police refused to guarantee the safety of the Belgian team, whose members received serious threats upon arrival to Belgrade, as a result of the mysterious death of Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of Congo, on February 11, 1961. The Soviet government, an ally to Lumumba, blamed the Belgian secret service as the instigator of his murder in the former Belgian colony, and this translated into several riots in the communist countries against the Belgian interests. Since the second leg could not be played, Antwerpse received a 2–0 w.o. in this game and qualified for the next round.^[1]

Automatically qualified to the quarter-finals

• Rīgas ASK (title holder)

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Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
CSKA Moscow	148–128	Rīgas ASK	87-62	61-66

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1st leg:Daugava Stadion, Rīga, 14 July 1961; Attendance:8,000^[1]

2nd leg:Lenin Stadion, Moscow, 22 July 1961; Attendance:15,000^[1]