2007–08 FIBA EuroCup


The FIBA EuroCup is the former name of an international professional basketball club competition for clubs throughout Europe that was renamed the FIBA EuroChallenge in July 2008. The 2007–08 season, the last for the competition under the EuroCup banner, featured 38 competing teams, from 23 different countries. The draw for the groups was held on August 5, 2007, at the Kempinski Hotel in Munich.
The 2007–08 FIBA EuroCup, organized by FIBA Europe, was the fifth season of the competition regarded as the third-strongest pan-European club basketball competition, behind the Euroleague and ULEB Cup, the latter of which was renamed the Eurocup for 2008–09.

Format

In all, 38 teams were involved. Teams from the lowest ranked countries or teams who took lower place in their national championship play in Elimination Round 1. The winners of Elimination Round 1 meet teams who took higher place in their national championship in Elimination Round 2. The winners from Elimination Round 2, advance to the group stage. After group stage, teams play Quarter Final Round and then Final Four.

Elimination Round 1

In all in Elimination Round 1 12 teams. Each team plays two games. Winners from Elimination Round 1 advance to Elimination Round 2.

Elimination Round 2

The winners from Elimination Round 1 advance to Elimination Round 2. There also two games. The winners Elimination Round 2 advance to the group stage.

Qualifying Round

The winners of Elimination Round 2 advance to the Qualifying Round. In all in the group 16 teams. It: Group A, Group B, Group C, Group D. The matches plays round-robin competition. Top two places advance to Quarter Final.

Quarter Final

Top two places of the groups advance to Quarter Final. The Quarter Finals games will be played two game. The winners of the Quarter Final Round advance to the Final Four.

Final Four

Winners of the Quarter Final Round advance to the Final Four. It Semi-Finals and Final. It was held on April 18 and April 20, in Cyprus, Spyros Kyprianou Arena.

Teams

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round :
PAOK Lokomotiv Rostov Zagreb Cholet
Olympia Larissa Spartak Saint Petersburg Cedevita Zagreb BCM Gravelines
Maroussi CSK VSS-Samara Elba Timişoara Dexia Mons-Hainaut
AEK Athens Ural Great U Mobitelco Cluj Igokea
Olympiada Patras Cherkaski Mavpy Spartak Pleven Prostějov
Proteas EKA AEL Khimik Bakken Bears Tartu Rock
APOEL Dnipro Lappeenranta Energy Invest Rustavi
Keravnos Odessa KR Ironi Nahariya
Strumica 2005 Barons/LMT Banvit Plannja
MyGuide Amsterdam Zlatorog Laško

Preliminary rounds

First elimination round

Second elimination round

Qualifying round

A total number of sixteen teams participated in the qualifying round. They were divided over four groups of in each four teams. The top two teams in each group advance to quarter-final playoffs. The matches were played in a round-robin competition.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Quarter-finals

Final Four

The Final Four was held from 18 until 20 April 2008 in Limassol, Spyros Kyprianou Arena.