2017–18 EuroLeague
The 2017–18 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague was the 18th season of the modern era of Euroleague Basketball and the eighth under the title sponsorship of the Turkish Airlines. Including the competition's previous incarnation as the FIBA Europe Champions Cup, this was the 61st season of the premier competition for European men's professional basketball clubs.
The 2018 EuroLeague Final Four was played at the Štark Arena, in Belgrade, Serbia. Real Madrid won its record tenth EuroLeague title, after defeating defending champions Fenerbahçe Doğuş in the championship game.
Team allocation
A total of sixteen teams participate. The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round. Eleven teams were placed as Licensed Clubs, long-term licenses, while five spots were given to Associated Clubs, based on merit.- LC: Qualified as a licensed club with a long-term licence
- 1st, 2nd, etc.: League position after Playoffs
- EC: EuroCup champion
- WC: Wild card
Teams
A total of 16 teams from 9 countries took part in the league, including 11 sides with a long-term licence from the 2016–17 season, 1 team qualified from the EuroCup and the 4 highest-placed teams from the ABA League, the German Bundesliga, the VTB United League and Spain's ACB.Brose Bamberg and Crvena zvezda qualified, after winning the Bundesliga and ABA League titles respectively. Galatasaray Odeabank and Darüşşafaka did not appear this season, as Galatasaray did not have any opportunity in the previous season to qualify and Darüşşafaka finished their two-year wild card. UNICS lost its place in the EuroLeague, as Khimki qualified as runner-up of the VTB United League. Unicaja qualified as the EuroCup champions, after beating Valencia Basket in the Finals. However, Valencia also qualified as the Spanish champions.
Venues and locations
| Team | Home city | Arena | Capacity |
 Anadolu Efes | Istanbul | Sinan Erdem Dome | |
 AX Armani Exchange Olimpia | Milan | Mediolanum Forum | |
 Brose Bamberg | Bamberg | Brose Arena | |
 Crvena zvezda mts | Belgrade | Štark Arena | |
| Crvena zvezda mts | Belgrade | Aleksandar Nikolić | |
 CSKA Moscow | Moscow | Megasport Arena | |
 FC Barcelona Lassa | Barcelona | Palau Blaugrana | |
| Fenerbahçe Doğuş | Istanbul | Ülker Sports Arena | |
| Khimki | Khimki | Mytishchi Arena | |
| Kirolbet Baskonia | Vitoria-Gasteiz | Fernando Buesa Arena | |
 Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv | Tel Aviv | Menora Mivtachim Arena | |
 Olympiacos | Piraeus, Athens | Peace and Friendship Stadium | |
| Panathinaikos Superfoods | Marousi, Athens | Olympic Sports Center Athens | |
| Real Madrid | Madrid | WiZink Center | |
| Unicaja | Málaga | Martín Carpena | |
| Valencia Basket | Valencia | Fuente de San Luis | |
 Žalgiris | Kaunas | Žalgirio Arena |
;Notes
Personnel and sponsorship
;NotesManagerial changes
| Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Replaced with | Date of appointment |
| FC Barcelona Lassa | Georgios Bartzokas | Sacked | 7 June 2017 | Pre-season | Sito Alonso | 16 June 2017 |
| Kirolbet Baskonia | Sito Alonso | Mutual consent | 16 June 2017 | Pre-season |  Pablo Prigioni | 16 June 2017 |
| Valencia Basket | Pedro Martínez | End of contract | 20 June 2017 | Pre-season | Txus Vidorreta | 20 June 2017 |
| Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv |  Ainars Bagatskis | Sacked | 16 May 2017 | Pre-season |  Neven Spahija | 26 June 2017 |
| AX Armani Exchange Olimpia | Jasmin Repeša | Mutual consent | 3 June 2017 | Pre-season | Simone Pianigiani | 26 June 2017 |
| Khimki |  Duško Ivanović | Sacked | 29 June 2017 | Pre-season | Georgios Bartzokas | 30 June 2017 |
| Crvena zvezda mts | Dejan Radonjić | End of contract | 15 July 2017 | Pre-season | Dušan Alimpijević | 21 July 2017 |
| Baskonia | Pablo Prigioni | Resigned | 25 October 2017 | 16th | Pedro Martínez | 27 October 2017 |
| Anadolu Efes | Velimir Perasović | Sacked | 16 December 2017 | 15th | Ergin Ataman | 18 December 2017 |
| FC Barcelona Lassa | Sito Alonso | Sacked | 4 February 2018 | 13th | Svetislav Pešić | 9 February 2018 |
| Brose Bamberg | Andrea Trinchieri | Sacked | 19 February 2018 | 13th | Luca Banchi | 4 March 2018 |
Regular season
In the regular season, teams play against each other home and away in a round-robin format. The top eight teams advance to the playoffs and the bottom eight teams are eliminated. The regular season runs from 12 October 2017 to 6 April 2018.League table
Results
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 victorious teams advance to the Final Four.Series
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 Štark Arena in Belgrade, Serbia in May 2018.Attendances
Attendances include playoff games:Awards
[EuroLeague MVP]
- Luka Dončić
[EuroLeague Final Four MVP]
- Luka Dončić
[All-EuroLeague Team]s
Alphonso Ford Top Scorer Trophy">Alphonso Ford Trophy">Alphonso Ford Top Scorer Trophy
- Alexey Shved
Best Defender">Euroleague Best Defender">Best Defender
- Kyle Hines
Rising Star">EuroLeague Rising Star">Rising Star
- Luka Dončić
Magic Moment">EuroLeague Magic Moment">Magic Moment
- Jan Veselý
MVP of the Round
| Round | Player | Team | Performance Index Rating| | |
| 1 |  Pierre Jackson | Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv | 41 | |
| 2 | Erick Green | Valencia Basket | 33 | |
| 3 |  Luka Dončić | Real Madrid | 41 | |
| 4 | Luka Dončić | Real Madrid | 35 | |
| 5 |  Nando de Colo | CSKA Moscow | 37 | |
| 6 | Vladimir Štimac | Anadolu Efes | 29 | |
| 7 | Errick McCollum | Anadolu Efes | 33 | |
| 8 | Nick Calathes | Panathinaikos Superfoods | 42 | |
| 9 | Edgaras Ulanovas | Žalgiris | 32 | |
| 10 | Nando de Colo | CSKA Moscow | 30 | |
| 10 | James Gist | Panathinaikos Superfoods | 30 | |
| 11 | Alexey Shved | Khimki | 35 | |
| 12 | Vincent Poirier | Kirolbet Baskonia | 35 | |
| 13 | Jamel McLean | Olympiacos | 30 | |
| 13 | Alexey Shved | Khimki | 30 | |
| 14 | Cory Higgins | CSKA Moscow | 31 | |
| 14 |  Tornike Shengelia | Kirolbet Baskonia | 31 | |
| 15 | Luka Dončić | Real Madrid | 37 | |
| 16 | Malcolm Thomas | Khimki | 28 | |
| 17 | Zoran Dragić | Anadolu Efes | 34 | |
| 18 | Alexey Shved | Khimki | 33 | |
| 19 | Brad Wanamaker | Fenerbahçe Doğuş | 31 | |
| 20 | Brad Wanamaker | Fenerbahçe Doğuş | 33 | |
| 21 | Augustine Rubit | Brose Bamberg | 34 | |
| 22 |  Jan Veselý | Fenerbahçe Doğuş | 36 | |
| 23 | Vassilis Spanoulis | Olympiacos | 29 | |
| 23 | Dorell Wright | Brose Bamberg | 29 | |
| 24 | Tornike Shengelia | Kirolbet Baskonia | 28 | |
| 25 | Fabien Causeur | Real Madrid | 29 | |
| 26 |  James Feldeine | Crvena zvezda mts | 32 | |
| 27 | Nick Calathes | Panathinaikos Superfoods | 34 | |
| 28 | Ricky Hickman | Brose Bamberg | 29 | |
| 28 | Nikola Milutinov | Olympiacos | 29 | |
| 29 | Luka Dončić | Real Madrid | 35 | |
| 30 | Anthony Randolph | Real Madrid | 38 |
;Playoffs
| Game | Player | Team | Performance Index Rating| | |
| 1 | Nick Calathes | Panathinaikos Superfoods | 29 | |
| 2 | Sergio Rodríguez | CSKA Moscow | 36 | |
| 3 | Anthony Gill | Khimki | 29 | |
| 3 | Alexey Shved | Khimki | 29 | |
| 4 | Edgaras Ulanovas | Žalgiris | 27 |