2021-22_EuroLeague

2021–22 EuroLeague

Sports season

The 2021–22 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague was the 22nd season of the modern era of the EuroLeague, and the 12th under the title sponsorship of the Turkish Airlines. Including the competition's previous incarnation as the FIBA Europe Champions Cup, this was the 65th season of the premier basketball competition for European men's clubs. The season started on 30 September 2021. The three Russian teams were suspended because of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. As the Russian invasion of Ukraine did not cease, the records of all regular season matches against Russian teams were annulled, and team win-loss records adjusted accordingly, dramatically affecting league standings.^[1]^[2]

Quick Facts Turkish Airlines EuroLeague1, Season ...

Turkish Airlines EuroLeague¹

Season

2021–22

Duration

30 September 2021 – 8 April 2022
(Regular Season)
19 April 2022 – 4 May 2022 (Playoffs)
19 May 2022 – 21 May 2022 (Final Four)

Number of games

283

Number of teams

18 (15 after the suspension of the Russian teams due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine)

Top seed

Season MVP

Champions

Anadolu Efes (2nd title)

Runners-up

Third place

Fourth place

Statistical leaders

Points	Vasilije Micić	18.2
Rebounds	Georgios Papagiannis	8.2
Assists	Nick Calathes	6.4
Index Rating	Nikola Mirotić	20.1

Records

Biggest home win

Fenerbahçe 80–41 UNICS
(14 October 2021)

Biggest away win

Baskonia 60–88 Real Madrid
(25 November 2021)

Highest scoring

Barcelona 111–109 UNICS
(22 December 2021)

Winning streak

9 games
Barcelona
Real Madrid

Losing streak

9 games
Žalgiris

Highest attendance

15,092
Anadolu Efes 93–90 Real Madrid
(22 March 2022)

Lowest attendance

0
officially five matches

← 2020–21

2022–23 →

All statistics correct as of 21 May 2022.

¹ Sponsored league name, referring to Turkish Airlines.

Anadolu Efes successfully defended last year's title after defeating Real Madrid in the championship game.

Team allocation

ALBA Berlin was awarded with a two-year wild card Turkish Airlines EuroLeague license.^[3] Bayern Munich and LDLC ASVEL have received long-term licenses.^[4]

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 2021–22 EuroLeague
	Teams entering in this round	Teams advancing from previous round
Regular season (18 teams)	13 licensed clubs with a long-term licence 5 associated clubs with an annual licence 1 two-year wild card 2 one-year wild cards 2 EuroCup Finalists
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:^[4]

Qualified teams for 2021–22 EuroLeague
Licensed clubs
Barcelona	Olympiacos	Anadolu Efes	Žalgiris
Baskonia	Panathinaikos	Fenerbahçe	CSKA Moscow
Real Madrid	Maccabi Tel Aviv	Olimpia Milano	Bayern Munich
ASVEL

Associated clubs
ALBA Berlin (WC)	AS Monaco (EC)^{[Note FRA]}	UNICS (EC)	Crvena zvezda (WC)^[5]
Zenit Saint Petersburg (WC)^[6]

Notes

^
France (FRA): AS Monaco is a club based in Monaco (which does not qualify for European competitions), but participate in European competitions through one of the berths for France (any coefficient points it earns count toward France).

Teams

Venues and locations

Location of teams in 2021-22 EuroLeague

More information Team, Home city ...

Team	Home city	Arena	Capacity
ALBA Berlin	Berlin	Mercedes-Benz Arena	14,500^[7]
Anadolu Efes	Istanbul	Sinan Erdem Dome	16,000^[8]
A\|X Armani Exchange Milan	Milan	Mediolanum Forum	12,700^[9]
Barcelona	Barcelona	Palau Blaugrana	7,585^[10]
Bitci Baskonia	Vitoria-Gasteiz	Buesa Arena	15,504^[11]
Bayern Munich	Munich	Audi Dome	6,500^[12]
Crvena zvezda mts	Belgrade	Štark Arena	18,386^[13]
Crvena zvezda mts	Belgrade	Aleksandar Nikolić Hall	8,000^[14]
~~CSKA Moscow~~	~~Moscow~~	~~Megasport Arena~~	~~13,344~~^[15]
Fenerbahçe Beko	Istanbul	Ülker Sports and Event Hall	13,059^[16]
LDLC ASVEL	Villeurbanne	Astroballe	5,556^[17]
Maccabi Tel Aviv	Tel Aviv	Menora Mivtachim Arena	10,383^[18]
AS Monaco	Monaco	Salle Gaston Médecin	4,090
Olympiacos	Piraeus	Peace and Friendship Stadium	11,847^[19]
Panathinaikos OPAP	Athens	OAKA Altion	18,989^[20]
Real Madrid	Madrid	WiZink Center	13,109^[21]
~~UNICS~~	~~Kazan~~	~~Basket-Hall Kazan~~	~~7,482~~
Žalgiris	Kaunas	Žalgirio arena	15,415^[22]
~~Zenit Saint Petersburg~~	~~Saint Petersburg~~	~~Sibur Arena~~	~~7,120~~^[23]
~~Zenit Saint Petersburg~~	~~Saint Petersburg~~	~~Yubileyny Sports Palace~~	~~7,044~~

Managerial changes

Main article: List of 2021–22 EuroLeague transactions

More information Team, Outgoing manager ...

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced with	Date of appointment
Panathinaikos	Oded Kattash	Mutual consent	26 June 2021^[24]	Pre-season	Dimitrios Priftis	26 June 2021^[24]
UNICS	Dimitrios Priftis	Signed by Panathinaikos	26 June 2021^[24]		Velimir Perasović	29 June 2021^[25]
Fenerbahçe	Igor Kokoškov	Parted ways	27 July 2021^[26]		Aleksandar Đorđević	31 July 2021^[27]
ALBA Berlin	Aíto García Reneses	Sabbatical	17 August 2021^[28]		Israel González	17 August 2021^[28]
Žalgiris	Martin Schiller	Sacked	8 October 2021^[29]	18th (0–2)	Jure Zdovc	8 October 2021^[29]
Baskonia	Duško Ivanović	Sacked	15 November 2021^[30]	16th (3–6)	Neven Spahija	15 November 2021^[31]
AS Monaco	Zvezdan Mitrović	Mutual consent	13 December 2021^[32]	14th (5–9)	Saša Obradović	13 December 2021^[33]
Maccabi Tel Aviv	Ioannis Sfairopoulos	Sacked	15 February 2022^[34]	12th (11–12)	Avi Even (interim)	15 February 2022^[34]

Referees

A total of 72 Euroleague Basketball officials set to work on the 2021–22 season in EuroLeague and EuroCup:^[35]^[36]

Gentian Cici
Leandro Lezcano
Nick van den Broeck
Denis Hadžić
Josip Radojković
Luka Kardum
Sreten Radović
Tomislav Hordov
Robert Vyklický
Aare Halliko
Rain Peerandi
Hugues Thépénier
Joseph Bissang
Maxime Boubert
Mehdi Difallah
Anne Panther
Benjamin Barth
Robert Lottermoser
Steve Bittner
Eduard Udyanskyy
Elias Koromilas
Ioannis Foufis
Vasileios Pitsilkas
Vasiliki Tsaroucha
Adar Peer
Amit Balak
Seffi Shemmesh
Carmelo Paternicò
Guido Giovannetti
Luigi Lamonica
Michele Rossi
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
Carlos Peruga
Daniel Hierrezuelo
Emilio Pérez
Jordi Aliaga
Juan Carlos García
Miguel Ángel Pérez
Saulius Račys
Sébastien Clivaz
Emin Moğulkoç
Hüseyin Çelik
Sinan Isguder
Borys Ryzhyk
Mykola Ambrosov

Regular season

Main article: 2021–22 EuroLeague Regular Season

League table

More information Pos, Pld ...

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification
1	Barcelona	28	21	7	2275	2101	+174	Qualification to playoffs
2	Olympiacos	28	19	9	2222	2045	+177
3	A\|X Armani Exchange Milan	28	19	9	2069	1992	+77
4	Real Madrid	28	18	10	2181	2079	+102
5	Maccabi Tel Aviv	28	17	11	2272	2209	+63
6	Anadolu Efes	28	16	12	2322	2221	+101
7	AS Monaco	28	15	13	2311	2225	+86
8	Bayern Munich	28	14	14	2123	2105	+18
9	Bitci Baskonia	28	12	16	2116	2186	−70
10	ALBA Berlin	28	12	16	2121	2239	−118
11	Crvena zvezda mts	28	12	16	2041	2089	−48
12	Fenerbahçe Beko	28	10	18	2051	2099	−48
13	Panathinaikos OPAP	28	9	19	2089	2235	−146
14	LDLC ASVEL	28	8	20	2036	2239	−203
15	Žalgiris	28	8	20	2084	2249	−165
16	Zenit Saint Petersburg	0	0	0	0	0	0	Excluded
17	CSKA Moscow	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	UNICS	0	0	0	0	0	0

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

Regulations

When more than two teams are tied, the ranking was established taking into account the victories obtained in the games played only among them. Should the tie persist among some, but not all, of the teams, the ranking of the teams still tied was determined by again taking into account the victories in the games played only among them, and repeating this same procedure until the tie is entirely resolved. If a tie persists, the ranking was determined by the goal difference in favour and against in the games played only among the teams still tied.^[37]

Results

More information Home \ Away, BER ...

Home \ Away	BER	EFS	ASM	AXM	FCB	BKN	BAY	CZV	CSK	FNB	ASV	MTA	OLY	PAO	RMB	UNK	ZAL	ZEN
ALBA Berlin	—	63–90	92–84	81–76	79–95	76–80	69–82	74–70	90–93	84–70	67–71	91–86	90–75	87–78	74–89	81–53	82–74	76–67
Anadolu Efes	87–77	—	98–77	77–83	93–95	87–72	81–76	84–83	96–100	84–79	78–72	109–77	88–69	82–81	93–90	71–68	94–60	79–90
AS Monaco	91–74	102–80	—	65–71	81–85	78–68	94–71	70–62	97–80	92–78	84–85	82–76	92–72	75–63	84–90	79–76	82–83	74–85
A\|X Armani Exchange Milan	84–76	75–71	63–72	—	75–70	89–78	84–77	79–62	84–74	60–71	73–72	83–72	72–93	75–54	73–75	–¹	65–58	–¹
Barcelona	96–64	82–77	88–83	73–75	—	93–67	71–66	82–70	81–73	88–67	84–71	80–104	79–78	86–60	93–80	111–109	96–73	84–58
Bitci Baskonia	85–68	87–74	78–66	64–78	94–75	—	77–84	93–74	74–80	77–62	91–66	69–87	62–72	81–79	60–88	–¹	96–79	82–90
Bayern Munich	62–56	83–71	78–83	83–77	72–80	76–81	—	82–57	–¹	71–63	73–65	70–52	88–98	81–78	76–80	–¹	74–65	–¹
Crvena zvezda mts	63–78	93–85	80–91	57–63	69–76	86–83	81–78	—	–¹	74–69	73–67	84–77	81–76	81–48	65–62	78–98	73–61	76–80
CSKA Moscow	91–72	97–99	–¹	57–67	–¹	–¹	77–74	78–76	—	82–91	90–83	74–73	88–82	97–77	–¹	67–88	–¹	77–67
Fenerbahçe Beko	57–66	84–89	96–86	43–68	74–76	75–53	81–76	61–57	–¹	—	85–76	90–79	94–80	59–62	66–51	80–41	73–67	–¹
LDLC ASVEL	80–82	75–73	75–100	80–81	60–80	69–72	68–77	69–67	70–68	84–82	—	85–93	80–94	63–76	74–87	85–82	88–76	61–71
Maccabi Tel Aviv	87–78	78–92	95–84	75–58	85–68	94–93	69–68	63–75	84–75	85–76	94–73	—	84–69	77–73	75–74	74–85	76–62	–¹
Olympiacos	87–83	87–85	86–65	67–58	73–66	75–50	83–60	72–76	–¹	67–65	89–54	90–73	—	101–73	74–68	–¹	83–68	–¹
Panathinaikos OPAP	82–67	95–69	83–91	75–76	82–85	75–63	80–67	79–73	74–98	91–87	70–84	83–95	65–84	—	87–86	72–74	83–96	70–64
Real Madrid	87–64	82–69	94–86	92–88	68–86	89–74	88–97	79–67	71–65	70–69	70–58	72–70	75–67	88–65	—	85–68	95–82	85–64
UNICS	85–71	75–67	80–88	97–71	70–64	83–69	73–70	77–84	75–86	–¹	–¹	–¹	84–87	–¹	65–58	—	66–53	69–70
Žalgiris	71–79	71–85	98–107	70–74	91–84	72–68	73–75	103–98	51–73	86–75	68–72	78–94	73–84	76–69	68–47	67–76	—	64–70
Zenit Saint Petersburg	75–66	76–67	77–86	74–70	–¹	83–54	79–71	58–69	–¹	80–86	–¹	73–71	84–78	–¹	68–75	–¹	–¹	—

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

¹Participation of Russian teams is suspended due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, in accordance with the decision of the Euroleague Commercial Assets (ECA) Shareholders Executive Board of 28 February.^[38]

Playoffs

Main article: 2022 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	Bayern Munich	77–67	75–90	75–66	52–59	81–72
Real Madrid	3–0	Maccabi Tel Aviv	84–74	95–66	87–76	–	–
A\|X Armani Exchange Milan	1–3	Anadolu Efes	48–64	73–66	65–77	70–75	–
Olympiacos	3–2	AS Monaco	71–54	72–96	87–83	77–78	94–88

Final Four

Štark Arena in Belgrade, Serbia

Main article: 2022 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 Thursday evening, with the two winners advancing to the championship game. Saturday starts with the third-place game, followed by the championship game. The 2022 EuroLeague Final Four was played at the Štark Arena in Belgrade, Serbia, on 19–21 May 2022.^[39]

Semifinals		Championship game

19 May

Barcelona	83
		21 May
Real Madrid	86
		Real Madrid	57
19 May
		Anadolu Efes	58
Olympiacos	74

Anadolu Efes	77
		Third place game

		21 May

		Barcelona	84

		Olympiacos	74

Awards

All official awards of the 2021–22 EuroLeague.

EuroLeague MVP

Nikola Mirotić ( Barcelona)^[40]

EuroLeague Final Four MVP

Vasilije Micić ( Anadolu Efes)^[41]

All-EuroLeague Teams

More information First Team, Second Team ...

First Team ^[42]		Second Team ^[43]
Mike James	AS Monaco	Kostas Sloukas	Olympiacos
Shane Larkin	Anadolu Efes	Vasilije Micić	Anadolu Efes
Sasha Vezenkov	Olympiacos	Vladimir Lučić	Bayern Munich
Nikola Mirotić	Barcelona	Shavon Shields	A\|X Armani Exchange Milan
Edy Tavares	Real Madrid	Georgios Papagiannis	Panathinaikos OPAP

Alphonso Ford Top Scorer Trophy

Vasilije Micić ( Anadolu Efes)^[44]

Best Defender

Kyle Hines ( A|X Armani Exchange Milan)^[45]

Rising Star

Rokas Jokubaitis ( Barcelona)^[46]

Coach of the Year

Georgios Bartzokas ( Olympiacos)^[47]

MVP of the Round

Main article: EuroLeague MVP of the Round

Regular season

More information Round, Player ...

Round	Player	Team	PIR	Ref.
1	Scottie Wilbekin	Maccabi Tel Aviv	32	^[48]
2	Tornike Shengelia	CSKA Moscow	29	^[49]
3	Tornike Shengelia (2)	CSKA Moscow	37	^[50]
4	Brandon Davies	Barcelona	38	^[51]
5	Will Clyburn	CSKA Moscow	32	^[52]
6	Daryl Macon	Panathinaikos	38	^[53]
7	Élie Okobo	LDLC ASVEL	37	^[54]
8	Chris Jones	LDLC ASVEL	27	^[55]
9	Nikola Mirotić	Barcelona	37	^[56]
10	Scottie Wilbekin (2)	Maccabi Tel Aviv	37	^[57]
11	Lorenzo Brown	UNICS	31	^[58]
12	William Howard	LDLC ASVEL	33	^[59]
13	Sasha Vezenkov	Olympiacos	36	^[60]
14	Nikola Mirotić (2)	Barcelona	39	^[61]
15	Mike James	AS Monaco	31	^[62]
15	Vasilije Micić	Anadolu Efes	31	^[62]
16	Shane Larkin	Anadolu Efes	37	^[63]
17	Wade Baldwin	Bitci Baskonia	33	^[64]
18	Billy Baron	Zenit Saint Petersburg	30	^[65]
19	Shane Larkin (2)	Anadolu Efes	30	^[66]
20	Daniel Hackett	CSKA Moscow	26	^[67]
21	Daniel Hackett (2)	CSKA Moscow	38	^[68]
22	Ante Žižić	Maccabi Tel Aviv	33	^[69]
23	Nikola Milutinov	CSKA Moscow	28	^[70]
24	James Nunnally	Maccabi Tel Aviv	38	^[71]
25	Nikola Milutinov (2)	CSKA Moscow	36	^[72]
26	Nicolás Laprovíttola	Barcelona	27	^[73]
27	Vasilije Micić (2)	Anadolu Efes	30	^[74]
28	Dante Exum	Barcelona	31	^[75]
29	Maodo Lô	Alba Berlin	34	^[76]
30	Wade Baldwin (2)	Bitci Baskonia	29	^[77]
31	Vasilije Micić (3)	Anadolu Efes	29	^[78]
31	Howard Sant-Roos	Panathinaikos	29	^[78]
32	Sasha Vezenkov (2)	Olympiacos	26	^[79]
33	Shane Larkin (3)	Anadolu Efes	36	^[80]
34	Georgios Papagiannis	Panathinaikos	31	^[81]

Playoffs

More information Round, Player ...

Round	Player	Team	PIR	Ref.
1	Brandon Davies (2)	Barcelona	24	^[82]
2	Vincent Poirier	Real Madrid	31	^[83]
3	Nikola Mirotić (3)	Barcelona	31	^[84]
4	Tibor Pleiß	Anadolu Efes	37	^[85]
5	Nicolás Laprovíttola	Barcelona	30	^[86]

MVP of the Month

Main article: EuroLeague MVP of the Month

More information Month, Round ...

Month	Round	Player	Team	Ref.
2021
October	1–7	Nikola Mirotić	Barcelona	^[87]
November	8–12	Edy Tavares	Real Madrid	^[88]
December	13–18	Nikola Mirotić (2)	Barcelona	^[89]
2022
January	19–23	Guerschon Yabusele	Real Madrid	^[90]
February	24–27	Sasha Vezenkov	Olympiacos	^[91]
March	28–33	Mike James	AS Monaco	^[92]
April	34–PO5	Shane Larkin	Anadolu Efes	^[93]