2020–21_EuroLeague

2020–21 EuroLeague

EuroLeague season

The 2020–21 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague was the 21st season of the modern era of the EuroLeague and the 11th under the title sponsorship of Turkish Airlines. Including the competition's previous incarnation as the FIBA Europe Champions Cup, this was the 64th season of the premier basketball competition for European men's clubs. The season started 1 October 2020.

Quick Facts Turkish Airlines EuroLeague1, Season ...

Turkish Airlines EuroLeague¹

Season

2020–21

Duration

1 October 2020 – 9 April 2021
(Regular season)
20 April 2021 – 4 May 2021 (Playoffs)
28 May 2021 – 30 May 2021 (Final Four)

Number of teams

Regular season

Top seed

Barcelona

Season MVP

Vasilije Micić

Finals

Champions

Anadolu Efes

Runners-up

Barcelona

Third place

AX Armani Exchange Milan

Fourth place

CSKA Moscow

Final Four MVP

Vasilije Micić

Statistical leaders

Points	Alexey Shved	19.8
Rebounds	Nikola Milutinov	8.6
Assists	Alexey Shved	7.7
Index Rating	Mike James	19.7

Records

Biggest home win

Barcelona 97–55 Fenerbahçe
(12 November 2020)

Biggest away win

ALBA Berlin 67–103 Barcelona
(5 November 2020)

Highest scoring

Zenit Saint Petersburg 112–83 Panathinaikos
(12 April 2021)

Winning streak

12 games
CSKA Moscow

Losing streak

14 games
Khimki

← 2019–20

2021–22 →

All statistics correct as of 31 May 2021.

¹ Sponsored league name, referring to Turkish Airlines.

As the season was the first to be played after the previous season was abandoned due to travel restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the EuroLeague board ruled that the 18 teams from the previous season would stay in the league.^[1] Anadolu Efes won the championship after defeating Barcelona in the championship game.

Team allocation

A total of 18 teams from 10 countries participated in the 2020–21 EuroLeague.

Distribution

The following is the access list for this season.

More information Teams entering in this round, Teams advancing from previous round ...

Access list for 2020–21 EuroLeague
	Teams entering in this round	Teams advancing from previous round
Regular season (18 teams)	11 licensed clubs with a long-term licence 7 associated clubs with an annual licence
Playoffs (8 teams)		8 highest-placed teams from the regular season
Final Four (4 teams)		4 series winners from the playoffs

Qualified teams

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:^[1]

EL: Played in curtailed 2019–20 EuroLeague^[1]

Qualified teams for 2020–21 EuroLeague
Licensed clubs
Barcelona	Olympiacos	Anadolu Efes	Žalgiris
Baskonia	Panathinaikos	Fenerbahçe	CSKA Moscow^TH
Real Madrid	Maccabi Tel Aviv	Olimpia Milano

Associated clubs
ALBA Berlin (EL)	Khimki Moscow (EL)	Valencia Basket (EL)	Crvena Zvezda (EL)
Bayern Munich (EL)	Zenit Saint Petersburg (EL)	ASVEL (EL)

Teams

Venues and locations

Location of teams in 2020-21 EuroLeague

More information Team, Home city ...

Team	Home city	Arena	Capacity
ALBA Berlin	Berlin	Mercedes-Benz Arena	14,500^[2]
Anadolu Efes	Istanbul	Sinan Erdem Dome	16,000^[3]
AX Armani Exchange Milan	Milan	Mediolanum Forum	12,700^[4]
Barcelona	Barcelona	Palau Blaugrana	7,585^[5]
Bayern Munich	Munich	Audi Dome	6,500^[6]
Crvena zvezda mts	Belgrade	Aleksandar Nikolić Hall	8,000^[7]
CSKA Moscow	Moscow	Megasport Arena	13,344^[8]
Fenerbahçe Beko	Istanbul	Ülker Sports and Event Hall	13,059^[9]
Khimki	Khimki	Mytishchi Arena	7,280
LDLC ASVEL	Villeurbanne	Astroballe	5,556^[10]
Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv	Tel Aviv	Menora Mivtachim Arena	10,383^[11]
Olympiacos	Piraeus	Peace and Friendship Stadium	11,640^[12]
Panathinaikos OPAP	Athens	O.A.K.A.	18,989^[13]
Real Madrid	Madrid	WiZink Center	13,109^[14]
TD Systems Baskonia	Vitoria-Gasteiz	Buesa Arena	15,504^[15]
Valencia Basket	Valencia	La Fonteta	8,500^[16]
Žalgiris	Kaunas	Žalgirio Arena	15,415^[17]
Zenit Saint Petersburg	Saint Petersburg	Sibur Arena	7,120^[18]

Personnel and sponsorship

More information Team, Head coach ...

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
ALBA Berlin	Aíto García Reneses	Niels Giffey	Adidas	ALBA SE
Anadolu Efes	Ergin Ataman	Doğuş Balbay	Bilcee	Anadolu Efes
A\|X Armani Exchange Milan	Ettore Messina	Andrea Cinciarini	Armani	Armani Exchange
Barcelona	Šarūnas Jasikevičius	Pierre Oriola	Nike	Assistència Sanitària
Bayern Munich	Andrea Trinchieri	Nihad Đedović	Adidas	BayWa
Crvena zvezda mts	Dejan Radonjić	Branko Lazić	Adidas	mts
CSKA Moscow	Dimitrios Itoudis	Nikita Kurbanov	Nike	Rostelecom
Fenerbahçe Beko	Igor Kokoškov	Melih Mahmutoğlu	Nike	Beko
Khimki	Andrey Maltsev	Sergei Monia	Adidas	Khimki Group
LDLC ASVEL	T. J. Parker	Charles Lombahe-Kahudi	Adidas	LDLC
Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv	Ioannis Sfairopoulos	John DiBartolomeo	Nike	Playtika
Olympiacos	Georgios Bartzokas	Vassilis Spanoulis	GSA Sport	bwin
Panathinaikos OPAP	Oded Kattash	Ioannis Papapetrou	Adidas	Pame Stoixima
Real Madrid	Pablo Laso	Felipe Reyes	Adidas	Palladium Hotel Group
TD Systems Baskonia	Duško Ivanović	Luca Vildoza	Kelme	Teduinsa
Valencia Basket	Jaume Ponsarnau	Bojan Dubljević	Luanvi	Cultura del Esfuerzo¹
Žalgiris	Martin Schiller	Paulius Jankūnas	ŽalgirisShop
Zenit Saint Petersburg	Xavi Pascual	Mateusz Ponitka	Nike	Nipigas

Notes: 1. ^ Cultura del Esfuerzo (transl. "Culture of Effort") is the motto of the club.

Managerial changes

More information Team, Outgoing manager ...

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced with	Date of appointment
Panathinaikos OPAP	Rick Pitino	Mutual consent	20 March 2020^[19]	Pre-season	Georgios Vovoras	17 June 2020^[20]
ASVEL	Zvezdan Mitrović	Sacked	21 May 2020^[21]		T. J. Parker	17 June 2020^[22]
Crvena zvezda mts	Dragan Šakota	Mutual consent	8 June 2020^[23]		Saša Obradović	10 June 2020^[24]
Fenerbahçe Beko	Željko Obradović	Mutual consent	23 June 2020^[25]		Igor Kokoškov	4 July 2020^[26]
Barcelona	Svetislav Pešić	Mutual consent	1 July 2020^[27]		Šarūnas Jasikevičius	2 July 2020^[28]
Žalgiris	Šarūnas Jasikevičius	Mutual consent	2 July 2020^[28]		Martin Schiller	14 July 2020^[29]
Bayern Munich	Oliver Kostić	Mutual consent	15 July 2020		Andrea Trinchieri	15 July 2020^[30]
Crvena zvezda mts	Saša Obradović	Mutual consent	24 December 2020^[31]	17th (5–11)	Dejan Radonjić	25 December 2020^[32]
Panathinaikos OPAP	Georgios Vovoras	Mutual consent	4 January 2021^[33]	16th (5-11)	Kostas Charalampidis (interim)	4 January 2021^[33]
Panathinaikos OPAP	Kostas Charalampidis	End of caretaker spell	14 January 2021^[34]	15th (6-12)	Oded Kattash	14 January 2021^[34]
Khimki	Rimas Kurtinaitis	Sacked	15 January 2021^[35]	18th (2-18)	Andrey Maltsev (interim)	15 January 2021^[35]

Referees

A total of 70 Euroleague Basketball officials set to work on the 2020–21 season in EuroLeague and EuroCup:^[36]^[37]

Gentian Cici
Nick Van den Broeck
Denis Hadžić
Josip Radojković
Luka Kardum
Sreten Radović
Tomislav Hordov
Robert Vyklický
Aare Halliko
Rain Peerandi
Petri Mäntylä
Hugues Thépénier
Joseph Bissang
Mehdi Difallah
Anne Panther
Benjamin Barth
Robert Lottermoser
Eduard Udyanskyy
Christos Christodoulou
Elias Koromilas
Ioannis Foufis
Spiros Gkontas
Vasiliki Tsaroucha
Amit Balak
Seffi Shemmesh
Carmelo Paternicò
Luigi Lamonica
Michele Rossi
Ingus Baumanis
Kristaps Konstantinovs
Oļegs Latiševs
Artūras Šukys
Gytis Vilius
Jurgis Laurinavičius
Igor Dragojević
Miloš Koljenšić
Jakub Zamojski
Marcin Kowalski
Piotr Pastusiak
Tomasz Trawicki
Fernando Rocha
Sérgio Silva
Artem Lavrukhin
Stanislav Valeev
Ilija Belošević
Marko Juras
Milivoje Jovčić
Uroš Nikolić
Uroš Obrknežević
Damir Javor
Mario Majkić
Matej Boltauzer
Milan Nedović
Saša Pukl
Sašo Petek
Benjamín Jiménez
Carlos Cortés Rey
Carlos Peruga
Daniel Hierrezuelo
Emilio Pérez Pizarro
Jordi Aliaga
Juan Carlos García González
Miguel Ángel Pérez Pérez
Saulius Račys
Sébastien Clivaz
Emin Moğulkoç
Hüseyin Çelik
Sinan Isguder
Borys Ryzhyk
Mykola Ambrosov

Regular season

Main article: 2020–21 EuroLeague Regular Season

League table

More information Pos, Pld ...

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification
1	Barcelona	34	24	10	2706	2469	+237	Qualification to playoffs
2	CSKA Moscow	34	24	10	2817	2662	+155
3	Anadolu Efes	34	22	12	2838	2604	+234
4	A\|X Armani Exchange Milan	34	21	13	2720	2599	+121
5	Bayern Munich	34	21	13	2633	2599	+34
6	Real Madrid	34	20	14	2667	2593	+74
7	Fenerbahçe Beko	34	20	14	2661	2679	−18
8	Zenit Saint Petersburg	34	20	14	2670	2547	+123
9	Valencia Basket	34	19	15	2762	2743	+19
10	TD Systems Baskonia	34	18	16	2742	2619	+123
11	Žalgiris	34	17	17	2630	2645	−15
12	Olympiacos	34	16	18	2628	2674	−46
13	Maccabi Tel Aviv	34	14	20	2608	2642	−34
14	LDLC ASVEL	34	13	21	2590	2714	−124
15	ALBA Berlin	34	12	22	2652	2790	−138
16	Panathinaikos OPAP	34	11	23	2656	2782	−126
17	Crvena zvezda mts	34	10	24	2499	2684	−185
18	Khimki	34	4	30	2616	3050	−434

Source: EuroLeague
Rules for classification: All points scored in extra period(s) will not be counted in the standings, nor for any tie-break situation.

Results

More information Home \ Away, BER ...

Home \ Away	BER	EFS	AXM	FCB	BAY	CZV	CSK	FNB	KHI	ASV	MTA	OLY	PAO	RMB	BAS	VBC	ZAL	ZEN
ALBA Berlin	—	72–93	70–84	67–103	72–90	81–58	68–71	89–63	100–80	76–75	73–85	80–84	74–65	63–72	95–91	86–90	71–74	66–73
Anadolu Efes	84–76	—	69–72	86–79	71–74	86–72	100–70	71–80	99–60	72–68	91–89	76–53	85–65	65–73	59–77	99–83	89–62	69–73
A\|X Armani Exchange Milan	75–55	98–75	—	56–72	75–51	79–87	87–91	92–100	84–74	87–73	87–68	90–79	77–80	78–70	79–84	95–80	98–92	82–76
Barcelona	80–67	86–88	87–71	—	72–82	76–65	76–66	97–55	87–74	69–76	67–68	88–96	97–89	79–72	71–57	89–72	86–62	85–81
Bayern Munich	101–95	80–79	79–81	90–77	—	74–59	81–89	68–77	80–77	76–62	72–70	74–68	76–71	76–81	77–66	90–79	71–70	82–80
Crvena zvezda mts	84–90	64–75	72–93	60–72	76–78	—	86–84	71–73	92–81	78–81	76–64	79–81	74–71	67–73	90–73	76–73	69–75	75–76
CSKA Moscow	88–93	100–65	76–84	75–88	66–69	87–72	—	83–89	97–72	88–70	76–72	80–61	93–86	74–73	89–86	84–75	83–73	83–65
Fenerbahçe Beko	89–84	74–106	71–79	73–82	71–75	77–63	77–78	—	83–71	81–59	82–75	84–77	100–74	67–93	96–76	86–90	84–61	92–84
Khimki	81–100	77–105	93–102	75–87	93–95	83–77	87–96	76–107	—	87–85	87–89	88–105	76–78	78–77	67–89	68–77	70–84	70–91
LDLC ASVEL	89–95	80–102	78–69	80–68	87–79	68–89	78–87	86–90	90–84	—	84–81	93–101	97–73	71–74	83–77	90–77	74–83	53–66
Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv	80–73	66–90	85–86	99–94	82–85	81–76	80–84	65–75	92–62	67–74	—	87–89	89–81	86–84	91–82	84–72	85–57	72–78
Olympiacos	75–71	79–84	86–75	74–76	84–82	94–79	74–75	71–76	82–75	63–69	85–82	—	77–88	82–86	76–90	85–96	67–68	75–61
Panathinaikos OPAP	92–69	77–80	86–83	77–85	83–76	82–86	83–89	82–68	94–78	88–71	81–63	71–78	—	93–97	82–97	91–72	69–81	77–89
Real Madrid	91–62	83–108	76–80	76–81	100–82	77–79	89–96	94–74	94–85	91–84	79–63	72–63	76–66	—	64–84	77–93	70–58	79–72
TD Systems Baskonia	77–84	101–111	86–69	71–72	78–71	87–67	95–93	86–68	77–60	86–88	63–67	91–66	93–72	76–63	—	71–70	81–68	70–77¹
Valencia Basket	92–100	76–74	86–81	66–71	83–76	91–71	105–103	66–52	88–82	65–63	82–80	79–88	95–83	89–78	86–81	—	78–79	72–85²
Žalgiris	96–86	89–73	64–69	62–73	74–73	75–62	78–87	99–62	102–75	85–75	81–88	81–79	93–78	90–93	92–73	82–94	—	75–83
Zenit Saint Petersburg	87–71	85–78	79–70	74–70	79–75	98–69	74–86	65–73	83–88	87–53	86–69	66–75	112–83	71–75	75–79	62–91	77–65	—

Source: EuroLeague
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.
Matches with lighter background shading were decided after overtime.

¹ The match, originally scheduled for 13 October,^[38] was postponed to 8 December^[39] after positive COVID-19 tests on Zenit ^[40] following decision on 19 October by Euroleague on rescheduling games affected by positive tests.^[41]
² The match, originally scheduled for 15 October,^[38] was postponed to 23 November^[42] after positive COVID-19 tests on Zenit^[40] following decision on 19 October by Euroleague on rescheduling games affected by positive tests.^[41]

Playoffs

Main article: 2021 EuroLeague Playoffs

Playoffs series are best-of-five. The first team to win three games wins the series. A 2–2–1 format is used – teams with home-court advantage play games 1, 2, and 5 at home, while their opponents host games 3 and 4. Games 4 and 5 are only played if necessary. The four winning teams advance to the Final Four.

Series

More information Team 1, Series ...

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5
Barcelona	3–2	Zenit Saint Petersburg	74–76	81–78 (OT)	78–70	61–74	79–53
CSKA Moscow	3–0	Fenerbahçe Beko	92–76	78–67	85–68	—	—
Anadolu Efes	3–2	Real Madrid	90–63	91–68	76–80	76–82	88–83
A\|X Armani Exchange Milan	3–2	Bayern Munich	[[#A\|X Armani Exchange Milan vs. Bayern Munich\|79–78]]	[[#A\|X Armani Exchange Milan vs. Bayern Munich\|80–69]]	79–85	82–85	[[#A\|X Armani Exchange Milan vs. Bayern Munich\|92–89]]

Final Four

Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany

Main article: 2021 EuroLeague Final Four

The Final Four, held over a single weekend, is the last phase of the season. The four remaining teams play a single knockout round on Friday evening, with the two winners advancing to the championship game. Sunday starts with the third-place game, followed by the championship game. The Final Four was played at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany, on 28–30 May 2021.^[43]

Semifinals		Championship game

28 May

Barcelona	84
		30 May
A\|X Armani Exchange Milan	82
		Barcelona	81
28 May
		Anadolu Efes	86
CSKA Moscow	86

Anadolu Efes	89
		Third place game

		30 May

		A\|X Armani Exchange Milan	83

		CSKA Moscow	73

Attendances

To start the season only seven teams played with spectators. Between 100 and 7,500 socially-distanced fans, depending on the venue and country, were allowed into the arenas of CSKA, Zenit, Fenerbahçe, Khimki, Maccabi, Žalgiris, Valencia, Milan, Baskonia, ASVEL, ALBA and Crvena zvezda.^[44]

More information Pos, Team ...

Average home attendances
Pos	Team	Games	Presence	Total	Average
1	Žalgiris	17	3	10,381	3,460
2	CSKA Moscow	19	19	64,970	3,419
3	Zenit Saint Petersburg	19	17	47,168	2,775
4	Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv	17	6	10,600	1,767
5	LDLC ASVEL	17	1	970	970
6	A\|X Armani Exchange Milan	20	2	1,617	809
7	Khimki	17	10	7,849	785
8	ALBA Berlin	17	1	599	599
9	TD Systems Baskonia	17	2	1,000	500
10	Valencia Basket	17	3	1,179	393
11	Fenerbahçe Beko	18	12	3,210	268
12	Crvena zvezda mts	17	1	183	183
13	Olympiacos	17	0	0	n/a
13	Panathinaikos OPAP	17	0	0	n/a
15	Bayern Munich	19	0	0	n/a
15	Real Madrid	19	0	0	n/a
17	Anadolu Efes	20	0	0	n/a
17	Barcelona	20	0	0	n/a

Source: EuroLeague

Top 10

More information Pos., Round ...

Pos.	Round	Game	Home team	Visitor	Attendance
1	Playoffs	3	Zenit Saint Petersburg	Barcelona	5,187
2	Regular Season	5	Žalgiris	Valencia Basket	5,131
3	Playoffs	2	CSKA Moscow	Fenerbahçe Beko	5,128
4	Regular Season	4	Žalgiris	Anadolu Efes	5,011
5	Playoffs	4	Zenit Saint Petersburg	Barcelona	4,626
6	Regular Season	23	CSKA Moscow	Bayern Munich	4,516
7	Regular Season	31	CSKA Moscow	Crvena zvezda mts	4,402
8	Regular Season	29	CSKA Moscow	A\|X Armani Exchange Milan	4,297
9	Regular Season	21	CSKA Moscow	Fenerbahçe Beko	4,277
10	Regular Season	32	Zenit Saint Petersburg	CSKA Moscow	4,152

Awards

All official awards of the 2020–21 EuroLeague.

EuroLeague MVP

Vasilije Micić ( Anadolu Efes) ^[45]

EuroLeague Final Four MVP

Vasilije Micić ( Anadolu Efes) ^[46]

All-EuroLeague Teams

More information First Team, Second Team ...

First Team		Second Team
Kevin Pangos	Zenit Saint Petersburg	Shane Larkin	Anadolu Efes
Vasilije Micić	Anadolu Efes	Nando De Colo	Fenerbahçe
Vladimir Lučić	Bayern Munich	Will Clyburn	CSKA Moscow
Nikola Mirotić	Barcelona	Shavon Shields	A\|X Armani Exchange Milan
Edy Tavares	Real Madrid	Brandon Davies	Barcelona

Alphonso Ford Top Scorer Trophy

Alexey Shved ( Khimki) ^[47]

Best Defender

Edy Tavares ( Real Madrid) ^[48]

Rising Star

Usman Garuba ( Real Madrid) ^[49]

Coach of the Year

Ergin Ataman ( Anadolu Efes)^[50]

MVP of the Round

Main article: EuroLeague MVP of the Round

Regular season

More information Round, Player ...

Round	Player	Team	PIR	Ref.
1	Pierriá Henry	TD Systems Baskonia	32	^[51]
2	Jordan Loyd	Crvena zvezda mts	34	^[52]
3–4	Vladimir Lučić	Bayern Munich	29	^[53]
5	Nemanja Nedović	Panathinaikos OPAP	28	^[54]
6	Nikola Mirotić	Barcelona	27	^[55]
6	Marius Grigonis	Žalgiris	27	^[55]
7	Rodrigue Beaubois	Anadolu Efes	36	^[56]
8	Vladimir Lučić (2)	Bayern Munich	35	^[57]
9–10	Mike James	CSKA Moscow	32	^[58]
11	Luke Sikma	ALBA Berlin	32	^[59]
12	Edy Tavares	Real Madrid	29	^[60]
13	Mike James (2)	CSKA Moscow	51	^[61]
14–15	Edy Tavares (2)	Real Madrid	36	^[62]
16	Shane Larkin	Anadolu Efes	37	^[63]
17	Wade Baldwin	Bayern Munich	41	^[64]
18	Joffrey Lauvergne	Žalgiris	38	^[65]
19–20	Nemanja Nedović (2)	Panathinaikos OPAP	33	^[66]
21	Dinos Mitoglou	Panathinaikos OPAP	42	^[67]
22–23	Nick Weiler-Babb	Bayern Munich	38	^[68]
24	Vasilije Micić	Anadolu Efes	30	^[69]
24	Jalen Reynolds	Bayern Munich	30	^[69]
25	Shane Larkin (2)	Anadolu Efes	32	^[70]
26	Vasilije Micić (2)	Anadolu Efes	44	^[71]
27–28	Marcus Eriksson	ALBA Berlin	41	^[72]
29	Kevin Punter	A\|X Armani Exchange Milan	28	^[73]
29	Peyton Siva	ALBA Berlin	28	^[73]
30	Sasha Vezenkov	Olympiacos	41	^[74]
31	Vasilije Micić (3)	Anadolu Efes	30	^[75]
32–33	Jordan Mickey	Khimki	36	^[76]
32–33	Achille Polonara	TD Systems Baskonia	36	^[76]
34	Sasha Vezenkov (2)	Olympiacos	31	^[77]

Playoffs

More information Round, Player ...

Round	Player	Team	PIR	Ref.
1–2	Kevin Pangos	Zenit Saint Petersburg	33	^[78]
1–2	Brandon Davies	Barcelona	33	^[78]
3–4	Will Clyburn	CSKA Moscow	38	^[79]
5	Shavon Shields	A\|X Armani Exchange Milan	41	^[80]

MVP of the Month

Main article: EuroLeague MVP of the Month

More information Month, Round ...

Month	Round	Player	Team	Ref.
2020
October	1–6	Marius Grigonis	Žalgiris	^[81]
November	7–11	Mike James	CSKA Moscow	^[82]
December	12–17	Nikola Milutinov	CSKA Moscow	^[83]
2021
January	18–23	Jan Veselý	Fenerbahçe Beko	^[84]
February	24–26	Nikola Kalinić	Valencia Basket	^[85]
March	27–33	Nikola Mirotić	Barcelona	^[86]
April	34–PO5	Will Clyburn	CSKA Moscow	^[87]