FIBA_Euroleague_1998–99

1998–99 FIBA EuroLeague

1998–99 FIBA EuroLeague

Sports season


The 1998–99 FIBA EuroLeague was the 42nd installment of the European top-tier level professional club competition for basketball clubs (now called simply EuroLeague). It began on September 23, 1998, and ended on April 22, 1999. The competition's Final Four was held at Olympiahalle, Munich, with Žalgiris defeating Kinder Bologna in the EuroLeague Final, in front of 9,000 spectators.[1]

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Competition system

  • 24 teams (the national domestic league champions from the best leagues, and a variable number of other clubs from the most important national domestic leagues). The competition culminated in a Final Four.

Country ranking

For the 1998–1999 EuroLeague, the countries are allocated places according to their place on the FIBA country rankings, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1995–96 to 1997–98.[2]

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Team allocation

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

  • 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.: League position after Playoffs
  • WC: Wild card
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Preliminary round

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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Qualification round

(The individual scores and standings of the First round are accumulated in the Second round)

If one or more clubs are level on won-lost record, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:

  1. Head-to-head record in matches between the tied clubs
  2. Overall point difference in games between the tied clubs
  3. Overall point difference in all group matches (first tiebreaker if tied clubs are not in the same group)
  4. Points scored in all group matches
  5. Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each group match

Group E

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Group F

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Group G

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Group H

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Playoffs

Bracket

Teams in bold advanced to the next round. The numbers to the left of each team indicate the team's seeding, the numbers to the right indicate the result of games including result in bold of the team that won in that game, and the numbers furthest to the right indicate the number of games the team won in that round.

Eight-Finals Quarter-Finals Semi-Finals Final
                  
E1 Lithuania Žalgiris 76 93 2
H4 Turkey Ülker 62 82 0
Lithuania Žalgiris 69 84 2
Turkey Efes Pilsen 68 70 0
F2 Turkey Efes Pilsen 73 105 2
G3 Russia CSKA Moscow 58 98 0
Lithuania Žalgiris 87
Greece Olympiacos 71
G1 Greece Olympiacos 78 83 2
F4 Italy Varese Roosters 66 77 0
Greece Olympiacos 70 81 2
France ASVEL 57 77 0
H2 France ASVEL 95 68 74 2
E3 Croatia Cibona 63 79 70 1
Lithuania Žalgiris 82
Italy Kinder Bologna 74
F1 Greece Panathinaikos 58 64 0
G4 Italy Teamsystem Bologna 63 88 2
Italy Teamsystem Bologna 90 76 2
Spain Real Madrid Teka 63 65 0
E2 Turkey Fenerbahçe 81 74 0
H3 Spain Real Madrid Teka 89 85 2
Italy Teamsystem Bologna 57
Italy Kinder Bologna 62
H1 Slovenia Union Olimpija 72 57 57 1 Third Place
E4 France Pau-Orthez 63 74 64 2
France Pau-Orthez 67 75 54 1 Greece Olympiacos 74
Italy Kinder Bologna 59 93 70 2 Italy Teamsystem Bologna 63
G2 Italy Kinder Bologna 78 70 2
F3 Israel Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv 57 55 0


Eight-Finals

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Quarter-Finals

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Final four

Semifinals

April 20, Olympiahalle, Munich

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3rd place game

April 22, Olympiahalle, Munich

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Final

April 22, Olympiahalle, Munich

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1998–99 FIBA EuroLeague Champions

Žalgiris
1st Title

Final standings

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Awards

All official awards of the 1998–99 FIBA EuroLeague.

FIBA EuroLeague Final Four MVP

FIBA EuroLeague All-Final Four Team

FIBA EuroLeague Top Scorer

FIBA EuroLeague Finals Top Scorer

Statistics

Individual statistics

Points

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Rebounds

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Assists

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Other statistics

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Individual game highs

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Team statistics

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See also


References

  1. "Linguasport – FIBA Country Ranking (B)". www.linguasport.com. Retrieved 2020-05-31.

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