The 2013–14 Turkish Airlines Euroleague was the 14th season of the modern era of Euroleague Basketball and the fourth under the title sponsorship of the Turkish Airlines. Including the competition's previous incarnation as the FIBA Europe Champions Cup, this was the 57th season of the premier competition for European men's clubs.

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Euroleague
Scene of the Mediolanum Forum in Milan during the Final Four
Season	2013–14
Duration	1 October 2013 – 18 May 2014
Number of games	248
Number of teams	24
Regular season
Season MVP	Sergio Rodríguez
Finals
Champions	Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv 6th title
Runners-up	Real Madrid
Third place	FC Barcelona
Fourth place	CSKA Moscow
Final Four MVP	Tyrese Rice
Awards
Coach of the Year	David Blatt
Rising Star	Bogdan Bogdanović
Best Defender	Bryant Dunston
Statistical leaders
Points Keith Langford 17.6 Rebounds Joffrey Lauvergne 8.6 Assists Dimitris Diamantidis 6.2 Index Rating Keith Langford 17.7
Records
Average attendance	8,130
← 2012–13 2014–15 → All statistics correct as of 7 September 2014.

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Euroleague Basketball Company, in its annual meeting in Barcelona, determined the site of the season's Euroleague Final Four venue. London was originally supposed to host the Final Four, but it was decided that the 2014 Euroleague Final Four be held at the Mediolanum Forum, in Milan. In the championship final game, Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv defeated the previous season's runners-up, Real Madrid, by a score of 98-86 after overtime, and won its sixth Euroleague title in the club's history.

There were three routes to participation in the Euroleague:

• The 14 teams with an A-Licence from the 2012–13 Euroleague, based on their Euroleague Club Ranking.^[1]
• The 2012–13 Eurocup winner was given a C-Licence.
• 14 places were allocated from a list of 30 teams given a B-Licence ranked according to their European national basketball league rankings over the last year. 14 teams were given both an A-Licence or C-Licence and a B-Licence. When a country ranking spot had already been assigned to an A-Licence team, the assignation jumped to the next country appearing in the ranking, and their league was not granted an additional place in the competition. The first 8 of the remaining 16 teams were given places in the regular-season, and the next 6 were given places in the qualifying competition.
• If the Eurocup champion was qualified by receiving a B license, or some team with it resigned from the competition, a wild card had to be given by the Euroleague.

The Euroleague had the right to cancel an A license for one of the following reasons:^[2]

• The club had the lowest ranking of all clubs with an A Licence according to the Club Ranking.
• The club had ranked among the clubs placed in the bottom half of the national championship final standings.
• The club had financial problems.
• In the ACB (Spain), when the champion and/or the runner-up of the league were teams without an A license. In that case, the A license club with the lowest position would play Eurocup in the next season. If that happened three times in five years, the A license of the club would be cancelled.

Euroleague allocation criteria

A licenses

Classification after the 2012–13 season, including also the 2010–11 and the 2011–12 seasons.^[3]

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Rank Team Points 1. FC Barcelona 144 2. Olympiacos 138 3. Panathinaikos 136 4. Real Madrid 128 5. Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv 128 6. CSKA Moscow 119 7. Montepaschi Siena 118

Rank Team Points 8. Anadolu Efes 98 9. Laboral Kutxa 94 10. Unicaja 87 11. Fenerbahçe Ülker 87 12. Žalgiris 86 13. EA7 Milano 52 14. Asseco Prokom 35

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• EA7 Milano had a two-year A license, awarded in June 2012.^[4]
• Asseco Prokom lost its A license, as it was the last qualified in the A licensed team tanking. The license was converted into a wildcard.

B licenses

B licenses could be given to every team without an A license. If in the allocation appeared a team with an A license, the next team in the criteria would receive the B license, which qualified directly to the Regular Season.^[5]

Key to colors

	A licensed teams
	B licensed teams
	WC teams
	Teams qualified for the Qualifying Round

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Team League Pos. 1. Real Madrid ACB 1st 2. CSKA Moscow VTB and PBL 1st 3. Montepaschi Siena Serie A 1st 4. Galatasaray TBL 1st 5. Žalgiris LKL 1st 6. Panathinaikos GBL 1st 7. Nanterre LNB Pro A 1st 8. Brose Bamberg BBL 1st 9. Partizan ABA 1st 10. Stelmet Zielona Góra PLK 1st 11. Crvena Zvezda ABA 2nd 12. FC Barcelona ACB 2nd 13. Lokomotiv Kuban VTB and PBL 2nd 14. Acea RomaWithdrew[6] Serie A 2nd

Team League Pos. 15. Banvit TBL 2nd 16. Lietuvos Rytas LKL 2nd 17. Olympiacos GBL 2nd 18. StrasbourgWC LNB Pro A 2nd 19. Oldenburg BBL 2nd 20. IgokeaWithdrew ABA 3rd 21. Telenet Oostende BLB 1st 22. ČEZ Nymburk NBL 1st 23. BudivelnykWC UBL 1st 24. Maccabi HaifaWithdrew BSL 1st 25. Lukoil AcademicWithdrew NBL 1st 26. ZZ LeidenWithdrew DBL 1st 27. VEF Rīga LBL 1st 28. Turów Zgorzelec PLK 2nd

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Notes

• Adriatic: the places were awarded to the top teams in the Regular Season. If the third or fourth qualified won the Final Four, it would be granted with the first spot, moving the champion and the runner-up of the Regular Season to the second and third spots. In February 2012, Euroleague Basketball clarified the situation of the Adriatic League spots, saying the three first teams in the Adriatic League Final Four would qualify.^[7] Due to the different interpretation of both associations, Euroleague and Liga ABA negotiated a solution to be applied only for the 2012–13 season.

Finally, both organizations agreed that if the team that was in the first position after the Regular Season met all of the B-licence minimum requirements, it would qualify to Euroleague. In that case, Igokea did not meet the required criteria, so Euroleague Basketball applied the 2012–13 Euroleague Bylaws, by which the 2013 ABA Final Four champion and the runner-up, would take the first two Adriatic positions in that order, whilst the next highest regular season team would take the final Adriatic position.^[8][9][10]

• Russia: the places were awarded to the best teams, by a ranking determined by their positions in the VTB United League, and Russian Professional Basketball League.^[11] VTB points prevail in case of tie.^[12]

C licenses and wild cards

To the Regular Season

Vacant C license of Lokomotiv Kuban (2012–13 Eurocup champion), qualified with a B license, Asseco Prokom's lost A license, and the B license rejected by Acea Roma converted to a wild card:

• Strasbourg
• Budivelnyk
• Bayern Munich

To the Qualification Rounds

• Khimki
• Cimberio Varèse

As new, for this Euroleague season, the eliminated teams in the Regular Season, were dropped to the Eurocup.^[13]

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round (TH: Euroleague title holders):

• A: Qualified through an A–licence
• 1st, 2nd, etc.: League position after Playoffs
• QR: Qualifying rounds
• WC: Wild card
• EC: Champion of the 2012–13 Eurocup Basketball

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Regular season
Real Madrid (A)	Galatasaray (1st)	CSKA Moscow (A)	Partizan (1st)
FC Barcelona (A)	Anadolu Efes (A)	Lokomotiv Kuban (EC)	Crvena zvezda (2nd)
Laboral Kutxa (A)	Fenerbahçe (A)	Brose Bamberg (1st)	Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv (A)
Unicaja (A)	Nanterre (1st)	Bayern Munich (WC)	Stelmet Zielona Góra (1st)
Panathinaikos (A)	SIG Strasbourg (WC)	Montepaschi Siena (A)	Budivelnyk (WC)
OlympiacosTH (A)	Žalgiris (A)	EA7 Emporio Armani Milano (A)
Qualifying rounds
Banvit (2nd)	Lietuvos rytas (2nd)	EWE Oldenburg (2nd)	Telenet Oostende (1st)
ČEZ Nymburk (1st)	VEF Rīga (1st)	Khimki (WC)	Cimberio Varese (WC)

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The eight teams participated in a single-venue tournament format, from October 1 until October 4, 2013. All games were played in the Siemens Arena in Vilnius, Lithuania.

	First round					Second round					Third round
	Cimberio Varèse		74
	EWE Baskets Oldenburg		79
						EWE Baskets Oldenburg		87
						Lietuvos rytas		99
	Lietuvos rytas		80
	VEF Rīga		71
											Lietuvos rytas		75
											Telenet Oostende		66
	ČEZ Nymburk		78
	Banvit		87
						Banvit		80
						Telenet Oostende		82
	Khimki		79
	Telenet Oostende		90

The draws for the 2013–14 Turkish Airlines Euroleague were held on Thursday, 4 July. Teams were seeded into six pots of four teams in accordance with the Club Ranking, based on their performance in European competitions during a three-year period.

Two teams from the same country could not be drawn together in the same Regular Season group.

FC Barcelona

Real Madrid

Laboral Kutxa

Unicaja

Montepaschi Siena

EA7 Milano

Anadolu Efes

Galatasaray

Fenerbahçe Ülker

Olympiacos

Panathinaikos

Žalgiris

CSKA Moscow

Lokomotiv Kuban

Brose Bamberg

Bayern Munich

Maccabi

Partizan

Crvena zvezda

Zielona Góra

Nanterre

Strasbourg

Budivelnyk

Lietuvos Rytas

Location of teams of the 2013–14 Euroleague group stage.
Red: Group A; Green: Group B; Blue: Group C; Yellow: Group D.

The regular season was played between October 17 and December 20.

If teams were level on record at the end of the Regular Season, tiebreakers were applied in the following order:

1. Head-to-head record.
2. Head-to-head point differential.
3. Point differential during the Regular Season.
4. Points scored during the regular season.
5. Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each Regular Season match.

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Group A Main article: 2013–14 Euroleague Regular Season Group A Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Tie 1 Fenerbahçe Ülker 10 8 2 849 749 +100   2 CSKA Moscow 10 7 3 732 676 +56 1–1 (+5) 3 FC Barcelona 10 7 3 786 729 +57 1–1 (–5) 4 Partizan 10 3 7 668 715 −47 1–1 (+29) 5 Nanterre 10 3 7 682 753 −71 1–1 (–29) 6 Budivelnyk 10 2 8 737 832 −95

Group B Main article: 2013–14 Euroleague Regular Season Group B Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Tie 1 Real Madrid 10 10 0 889 652 +237   2 EA7 Milano 10 5 5 742 762 −20 1–1 (+5) 3 Žalgiris 10 5 5 743 768 −25 1–1 (–5) 4 Anadolu Efes 10 4 6 741 767 −26   5 Brose Bamberg 10 3 7 756 829 −73 1–1 (+3) 6 Strasbourg 10 3 7 705 798 −93 1–1 (–3)

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Group C Main article: 2013–14 Euroleague Regular Season Group C Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Tie 1 Olympiacos 10 10 0 812 734 +78   2 Galatasaray 10 6 4 700 725 −25   3 Unicaja 10 5 5 756 712 +44   4 Bayern Munich 10 4 6 818 791 +27   5 Montepaschi Siena 10 3 7 674 706 −32   6 Stelmet Zielona Góra 10 2 8 707 799 −92

Group D Main article: 2013–14 Euroleague Regular Season Group D Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Tie 1 Maccabi Tel Aviv 10 8 2 764 711 +53   2 Laboral Kutxa 10 6 4 767 754 +13 1–1 (+12) 3 Lokomotiv Kuban 10 6 4 740 729 +11 1–1 (–12) 4 Panathinaikos 10 5 5 768 736 +32   5 Crvena Zvezda 10 4 6 804 779 +25   6 Lietuvos Rytas 10 1 9 686 820 −134

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The Top 16 began on January 2 and ended on April 11, 2014.

If teams were level on record at the end of the Top 16, tiebreakers were applied in the following order:

1. Head-to-head record.
2. Head-to-head record between teams still tied.
3. Head-to-head point differential.
4. Point differential during the Top 16.
5. Points scored during the Top 16.
6. Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each Top 16 match.

See the detailed group stage page for tiebreakers if two or more teams were equal on points.

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Group E Main article: 2013–14 Euroleague Top 16 Group E Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD 1 FC Barcelona 14 12 2 1109 1009 +100 2 EA7 Milano 14 10 4 1093 1011 +82 3 Olympiacos 14 8 6 1058 996 +62 4 Panathinaikos 14 7 7 961 958 +3 5 Unicaja 14 6 8 1032 1063 −31 6 Fenerbahçe Ülker 14 6 8 1078 1101 −23 7 Laboral Kutxa 14 5 9 1061 1125 −64 8 Anadolu Efes 14 2 12 967 1096 −129

Group F Main article: 2013–14 Euroleague Top 16 Group F Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD 1 CSKA Moscow 14 12 2 1167 1035 +132 2 Real Madrid 14 11 3 1190 1047 +143 3 Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv 14 8 6 1115 1090 +25 4 Galatasaray 14 7 7 1072 1065 +7 5 Lokomotiv Kuban 14 7 7 1081 1098 −17 6 Bayern Munich 14 5 9 1040 1102 −62 7 Partizan 14 4 10 953 1069 −116 8 Žalgiris 14 2 12 1062 1174 −112

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Team 1 hosted Games 1 and 2, plus Game 5 if necessary. Team 2 hosted Game 3, and Game 4 if necessary.

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Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg	4th leg	5th leg
FC Barcelona	3–0	Galatasaray	88–61	84–63	78–75
Real Madrid	3–2	Olympiacos	88–71	82–77	76–78	62–71	83–69
CSKA Moscow	3–2	Panathinaikos	77–74	77–51	59–65	72–73	74–44
EA7 Milano	1–3	Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv	99–101	91–77	63–75	66–86

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The Final Four was the last phase of the season and was held over a weekend. The semifinal games were played on 16 May, while the third place game and championship game were played on 18 May. The Final Four was held at the Mediolanum Forum in Milan, Italy.

	Semifinals 16 May				Championship game 18 May
	CSKA Moscow	67
	Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv	68
					Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv	98
					Real Madrid	86
	FC Barcelona	62
	Real Madrid	100
					Third place game
					CSKA Moscow	78
					FC Barcelona	93

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