2009–10 Euroleague

2009-10 Euroleague
League	Euroleague
Sport	Basketball
Duration	September 29 — October 9, 2009 (Qualifying); October 15, 2009 – May 9, 2010
Season
Season MVP	Miloš Teodosić (Olympiacos)
Top scorer	Linas Kleiza (Olympiacos)
Final Four
Champions	FC Barcelona
Runners-up	Olympiacos
Final Four MVP	Juan Carlos Navarro (FC Barcelona)
Euroleague Basketball seasons
	← 2008–09 2010–11 →

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The 2009–10 Euroleague was the tenth season of the modern era of Euroleague Basketball competition. The season featured 24 teams from 13 different countries. This season marked the first time in the modern era a qualifying round was used to determine the last two teams for the regular season. The qualifying started on September 29, 2009 with the opening game of the proper Euroleague played on October 15, 2010 with a match between Maccabi Electra and Union Olimpija. The season ended at the 2009–10 Euroleague Final Four hosted by the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris, France,^[1] with the semifinals on May 7, and the final on May 9, 2010.

Format

For the first time in Euroleague era a preliminary stage has been used to determine the last two teams in the regular season. 8 teams competed in qualification rounds, of which the 2 winners have advanced to the regular season stage. those teams joined 22 teams who qualified directly to the regular season stage.^[2]^[3]

Allocation

A maximum of three teams could qualify from any one country through their league position. However, 14 clubs held Euroleague Basketball "A Licenses", giving them automatic spots in the Euroleague Regular Season through 2011–12, regardless of their domestic league finish. These licenses were granted via a formula that considers each team's performance in its domestic league and the Euroleague; the television revenues Euroleague Basketball collects from its home country; and the team's home attendance. The clubs that held A Licenses were:

Spain: Caja Laboral, Real Madrid, Regal FC Barcelona, Unicaja Málaga
Italy: Montepaschi Siena, Lottomatica Roma
Greece: Olympiacos, Panathinaikos
Russia: CSKA Moscow
Turkey: Efes Pilsen, Fenerbahçe Ülker
Lithuania: Žalgiris
Israel: Maccabi Electra
France: ASVEL (Qualifying round)

Teams

Key to colors
	Champion
	Runner-up
	Third place
	Fourth place
	Eliminated in Quarterfinals
	Eliminated in Last 16
	Eliminated in the regular season

Country (League)	Teams	Team (rankings in '08/'09 national leagues)	Arena (Capacity)
Spain (Liga ACB)	4
		FC Barcelona (1)	Palau Blaugrana (8,250)
		Caja Laboral (2)	Fernando Buesa Arena (15,504)
		Unicaja Málaga (3)	Jose Maria Martin Carpena Arena (13,000)
		Real Madrid (4)^[a]	Palacio Vistalegre (15,000)
Greece (ESAKE A1)	3
		Panathinaikos (1)	Olympic Indoor Hall (19,250)
		Olympiacos (2)	Peace and Friendship Stadium (14,905)
		Maroussi (3) ^[Q]	Olympic Indoor Hall (19,250)
Italy (Lega A)	3
		Montepaschi Siena (1)	Palasport Mens Sana (7,025)
		Armani Jeans Milano (2)	Mediolanum Forum (13,000)
		Lottomatica Roma (5)^[b]	PalaLottomatica (11,200)
France (LNB Pro A)	2
		ASVEL (1)	L'Astroballe (5,800)
		Orléans (2)^[Q]	Zénith d'Orléans (6,900)
Russia (Superleague A)	2
		CSKA Moscow (1)	CSKA Universal Sports Hall (5,500)
		Khimki (2)^[c]	Basketball Center of Moscow Region (6,000)
Turkey (TBL)	2
		Efes Pilsen (1)	Abdi İpekçi Arena (12,500)
		Fenerbahçe Ülker (2)	Abdi İpekçi Arena (12,500)
Lithuania (LKL)	2
		Lietuvos Rytas (1)^[c]	Siemens Arena (11,000)
		Žalgiris (2)	Kaunas Sports Hall (5,000)
Germany (BBL)	1
Germany (BBL)	1	Oldenburg (1)	Weser-Ems-Halle (5,118)
Serbia (KLS)	1
Serbia (KLS)	1	Partizan (1)	Pionir Hall (8,150)
Croatia (A1 Liga)	1
Croatia (A1 Liga)	1	Cibona (1)	Dražen Petrović Basketball Hall (5,400)
Israel (BSL)	1
Israel (BSL)	1	Maccabi Electra (1)	Nokia Arena (11,700)
Slovenia (SKL)	1
Slovenia (SKL)	1	Union Olimpija (1)	Dvorana Tivoli (6,000)
Poland (PLK)	1
Poland (PLK)	1	Asseco Prokom (1)	Gdynia Sports Arena (5,000)

^Q The team has competed in the qualifying rounds
^a Liga ACB is entitled to three Euroleague places by the standard formula. However, because four ACB clubs hold A Licences, the league has a minimum of four berths. (The top four places in the 2008–09 ACB season were all occupied by A Licence holders.)
^b Lega A is also entitled to three places by the standard formula. However, the 2008–09 season saw only one of the country's two A Licence holders finish in the top three, namely champions Montepaschi Siena. As a result, Lottomatica Roma earned an extra place for Lega A by virtue of its A Licence.
^c Lietuvos Rytas was the ULEB Eurocup 2008-09 champion, which carries with it a one-year "C Licence" into the Euroleague Regular Season. However, the club also earned a one-season "B Licence" for the Euroleague by winning its domestic championship, and the league's ranking was sufficiently high to give Rytas direct entry into the Regular Season. As a result, the Eurocup champion's C Licence went to Khimki Moscow Region of the Russian Basketball Super League as the ULEB Eurocup 2008–09 finalist.

Qualifying rounds

First preliminary round

Games were played on September 29 and October 2. Winners advanced to the second preliminary round, while losers parachuted into the Eurocup.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Spirou Charleroi	111–134	Orléans	55–53	56–81
Ventspils	154–161	Benetton Treviso	78–73	76–88
Le Mans	123–137	Alba Berlin	61–60	62–77
Aris	129–156	Maroussi	69–67	60–89

Second preliminary round

Game 1 of each match was played on October 6. Game 2 of the Benetton Treviso-Orléans match was played on October 9, and Game 2 of Maroussi-Alba Berlin was played on October 11. The winners of each match advanced to the Regular Season, with the losers parachuting into the Eurocup.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Benetton Treviso	155–162	Orléans	73–82	82–80
Maroussi	149–145	Alba Berlin	79–70	70–75

Regular Season

The Regular Season began on October 15, 2009 and concluded on January 14, 2010.

If teams are level on record at the end of the Regular Season, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:^[4]

Head-to-head record.
Head-to-head point differential.
Point differential during the Regular Season.
Points scored during the regular season.
Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each Regular Season match.

Key to colors
	Top four places in each group advance to Top 16

Group A

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	FC Barcelona	10	10	0	833	625	+208
2.	Montepaschi Siena	10	8	2	830	689	+141
3.	Žalgiris	10	3	7	673	739	−66
4.	Cibona	10	3	7	637	742	−105
5.	ASVEL	10	3	7	680	749	−69
6.	Fenerbahçe Ülker	10	3	7	690	799	−109

Group B

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Olympiacos	10	8	2	884	787	+97
2.	Unicaja Málaga	10	7	3	784	775	+9
3.	Partizan	10	5	5	745	757	−12
4.	Efes Pilsen	10	4	6	808	793	+15
5.	Lietuvos Rytas	10	4	6	741	784	−43
6.	Orléans	10	2	8	722	788	−66

Group C

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	CSKA Moscow	10	8	2	730	700	+30
2.	Caja Laboral	10	7	3	779	735	+46
3.	Maccabi Electra	10	6	4	794	737	+57
4.	Maroussi	10	4	6	744	764	−20
5.	Lottomatica Roma	10	4	6	713	737	−24
6.	Union Olimpija	10	1	9	677	764	−87

Group D

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Real Madrid	10	8	2	811	690	+121
2.	Panathinaikos	10	8	2	792	697	+95
3.	Khimki	10	6	4	740	733	+7
4.	Asseco Prokom	10	4	6	747	810	−63
5.	Armani Jeans Milano	10	3	7	724	741	−17
6.	Oldenburg	10	1	9	657	800	−143

Top 16

The survivors from the Regular Season advanced to the Top 16, where they were drawn into four groups of four teams each, playing home-and-home from January 27 through March 11. The draw was held at Euroleague headquarters in Barcelona, starting at 13:00 CET on January 18, and was streamed live on the official Euroleague site.^[4]

Key to colors
	Top two places in each group advance to quarterfinals

Group E

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	FC Barcelona	6	5	1	465	396	+69
2.	Partizan	6	3	3	389	422	−33
3.	Panathinaikos	6	2	4	439	442	−3
4.	Maroussi	6	2	4	419	452	−33

Group F

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Maccabi Electra	6	4	2	444	423	+21
2.	Real Madrid	6	3	3	447	444	+3
3.	Montepaschi Siena	6	3	3	481	497	−16
4.	Efes Pilsen	6	2	4	437	445	−8

Group G

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	CSKA Moscow	6	5	1	494	448	+46
2.	Asseco Prokom	6	3	3	471	455	+16
3.	Unicaja Málaga	6	2	4	450	452	−2
4.	Žalgiris	6	2	4	454	514	−60

Group H

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Olympiacos	6	5	1	536	504	+32
2.	Caja Laboral	6	3	3	515	521	−6
3.	Khimki	6	3	3	476	487	−11
4.	Cibona	6	1	5	486	501	−15

Quarterfinals

Team 1 hosted Games 1 and 2, plus Game 5 if necessary. Team 2 hosted Game 3, and Game 4 if necessary.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg	4th leg
FC Barcelona	3–1	Real Madrid	68–61	63–70	84–73	84–78
Maccabi Electra	1–3	Partizan	77–85	98–78	73–81	67–76
CSKA Moscow	3–1	Caja Laboral	86–63	83–63	53–66	74–70
Olympiacos	3–1	Asseco Prokom	83–79	90–73	78–81	86–70

Final Four

The Final Four is the last phase of each Euroleague season, and is held over a weekend. The semifinal games are played on Friday evening. Sunday starts with the third-place game, followed by the championship final.

Semifinals

May 7, Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, Paris

Team 1	Score	Team 2
FC Barcelona	64–54	CSKA Moscow
Partizan	80–83	Olympiacos

3rd place game

May 9, Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, Paris

Team 1	Score	Team 2
CSKA Moscow	90–88	Partizan

Final

May 9, Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, Paris

Team 1	Score	Team 2
FC Barcelona	86–68	Olympiacos

2009-10 Euroleague Champions
FC Barcelona 2nd Title

Final standings

	Team
	FC Barcelona
	Olympiacos
	CSKA Moscow
	Partizan

Final Four 2010 MVP

Juan Carlos Navarro (FC Barcelona)

Individual statistics

Rating

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rating	PIR
1.	Aleks Marić	Partizan	18	380	21.11
2.	Linas Kleiza	Olympiacos	22	393	17.86
3.	Ramūnas Šiškauskas	CSKA Moscow	21	356	16.95

Points

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rating	PPG
1.	Linas Kleiza	Olympiacos	20	345	17.25
2.	Qyntel Woods	Asseco Prokom Gdynia	20	337	16.85
3.	Marko Tomas	Cibona	16	263	16.44

Rebounds

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rating	RPG
1.	Aleks Marić	Partizan	16	137	8.56
2.	Lawrence Roberts	Partizan	19	140	7.37
3.	Linas Kleiza	Olympiacos	20	128	6.40

Assists

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rating	APG
1.	Omar Cook	Unicaja Málaga	16	95	5.94
2.	Miloš Teodosić	Olympiacos	20	104	5.20
3.	Theodoros Papaloukas	Olympiacos	17	88	5.18

Other Stats

Category	Name	Team	Games	Stat
Steals per game	Bo McCalebb	Partizan	23	1.95
Steals per game	Viktor Khryapa	CSKA Moscow	23	1.95
Blocks per game	D'or Fischer	Maccabi Electra	20	1.80
Turnovers per game	Qyntel Woods	Asseco Prokom	20	3.45
Fouls drawn per game	Aleks Marić	Partizan	18	7.00
Minutes per game	David Logan	Asseco Prokom	20	36:21
2FG%	Terence Morris	FC Barcelona	21	0.825
3FG%	Ramūnas Šiškauskas	CSKA Moscow	21	0.550
FT%	Henry Domercant	Montepaschi Siena	16	0.937

Game highs

Category	Name	Team	Stat
Rating	Aleks Marić	Partizan	49
Rating	Darjuš Lavrinovič	Real Madrid	49
Points	Aleks Marić	Partizan	39
Rebounds	Travis Watson	Žalgiris	17
Assists	Theodoros Papaloukas	Olympiacos	14
Steals	Terrell McIntyre	Montepaschi Siena	7
Blocks	3 occasions		5
Turnovers	8 occasions		7
Fouls Drawn	Marko Tomas	Cibona	12

Awards

Position	All-Euroleague First Team	Club Team	All-Euroleague Second Team	Club Team
PG	Miloš Teodosić	Olympiacos	Bo McCalebb	Partizan
SG/SF	Juan Carlos Navarro	FC Barcelona	Josh Childress	Olympiacos
SG/SF	Linas Kleiza	Olympiacos	Ramūnas Šiškauskas	CSKA Moscow
PF/C	Victor Khryapa	CSKA Moscow	Erazem Lorbek	FC Barcelona
PF/C	Aleks Marić	Partizan	Tiago Splitter	Caja Laboral

Rising Star

Ricky Rubio ( FC Barcelona)

Best Defender

Victor Khryapa ( CSKA Moscow)

Top Scorer (Alphonso Ford Trophy)

Linas Kleiza ( Olympiacos)

Coach of the Year (Alexander Gomelsky Award)

Xavier Pascual ( FC Barcelona)

Club Executive of the Year

Przemyslaw Seczkowski ( Asseco Prokom Gdynia)

MVP Weekly

Regular Season

Game	Player	Team	Rating
1	Darjuš Lavrinovič	Real Madrid	49
2	Tiago Splitter	Caja Laboral	36
2	Matt Walsh	Union Olimpija	36
3	Romain Sato	Montepaschi Siena	37
4	Ioannis Bourousis	Olympiacos	32
5	Keith Langford	Khimki	38
5	Aleks Marić	Partizan	38
6	Dainius Šalenga	Žalgiris	28
7	Aleks Marić (2)	Partizan	49
8	Aleks Marić (3)	Partizan	29
9	Miloš Teodosić	Olympiacos	34
9	Chuck Eidson	Maccabi Electra	34
10	Ricky Rubio	FC Barcelona	33
10	Ramūnas Šiškauskas	CSKA Moscow	33

Top 16

Game	Player	Team	PIR
1	Ramūnas Šiškauskas (2)	CSKA Moscow	29
	Robertas Javtokas	Khimki	29
	Fernando San Emeterio	Caja Laboral	29
2	Alan Anderson	Maccabi Electra	40
3	Terrell McIntyre	Montepaschi Siena	43
4	Jamont Gordon	Cibona	40
5	Bojan Bogdanović	Cibona	28
6	Romain Sato (2)	Montepaschi Siena	27

Quarter-finals

Game	Player	Team	PIR
1	Dušan Kecman	Partizan	30
2	Linas Kleiza	Olympiacos	35
3	Juan Carlos Navarro	FC Barcelona	29
4	Fernando San Emeterio (2)	Caja Laboral	30

MVP of Month

Month	Player	Team
October 2009	Bojan Popović	Lietuvos Rytas
November 2009	Pete Mickeal	FC Barcelona
December 2009	Aleks Marić	Partizan
January 2010	Miloš Teodosić	Olympiacos
February 2010	Alan Anderson	Maccabi Electra
March 2010	Victor Khryapa	CSKA Moscow
April 2010	Juan Carlos Navarro	FC Barcelona

Attendance figures

Rank	Club	# Of Home Games	Total Attendance	Arena Capacity
1.	Maccabi Tel Aviv	8	90,500	11,700
2.	Panathinaikos Athens	7	67,722	19,250
3.	Caja Laboral Baskonia	7	64,830	9,900
4.	Unicaja Málaga	8	62,531	10,500
5.	Real Madrid	7	60,100	15,000
6.	Olympiacos Piraeus	8	55,129	14,905
7.	Efes Pilsen Istanbul	8	55,013	12,500
8.	Partizan Belgrade	8	54,893	8,150
9.	Lietuvos Rytas	5	40,000	11,000
10.	Žalgiris Kaunas	8	37,433	5,000
11.	FC Barcelona	7	35,816	8,250
12.	ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne	5	33,930	5,800
13.	Cibona Zagreb	8	32,365	5,400
14.	Entente Orleanaise*	7	31,805	6,900
15.	Montepaschi Siena	7	31,338	7,025
16.	Prokom Gdynia	7	29,785	5,000
17.	Maroussi*	10	28,100	19,250
18.	CSKA Moscow	7	25,340	5,500
19.	Khimki Moscow Region	7	25,129	6,000
20.	Union Olimpija Ljubljana	5	24,000	6,000
21.	ALBA Berlin*	2	23,506	16,000
22.	Lottomatica Roma	5	21,147	11,200
23.	EWE Baskets Oldenburg	5	16,080	5,118
24.	Olimpia Milano	5	12,940	12,000
25.	Fenerbahçe Ülker Istanbul	5	7,200	12,500
26.	Spirou Charleroi*	1	6,000	7,560
27.	Aris Thessaloniki*	1	5,000	5,500
28.	Benetton Treviso*	2	4,867	5,134
29.	Le Mans*	1	4,600	6,003
30.	Ventspils*	1	3,500	12,500
TOTALS*			TOTAL LEAGUE ATTENDANCE 990,599	AVERAGE ARENA CAPACITY 9,552

References and notes

↑ Euroleague.net 2010 Final Four host is Paris!
↑ Euroleague.net Euroleague restructuring outlined in the 2009–12 strategic plan.
↑ Euroleague.net 2009–12 New Competition System Podcast.
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↑ http://www.euroleague.net/final-four/paris-2010/main-page/i/71489/4218/ All-Euroleague team 2009-10

External links

[1] Euroleague.net 2010 Final Four host is Paris!

[2] Euroleague.net Euroleague restructuring outlined in the 2009–12 strategic plan.

[3] Euroleague.net 2009–12 New Competition System Podcast.

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[5] ttp://www.euroleague.net/final-four/paris-2010/main-page/i/71489/4218/ All-Euroleague team 2009-10

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v t e 2009–10 Euroleague
Champions	Regal FC Barcelona
Runners-up	Olympiacos Piraeus
Third place	CSKA Moscow
Fourth place	Partizan Belgrade
Eliminated in quarter-finals	Real Madrid Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv Caja Laboral Baskonia Asseco Prokom Gdynia
Eliminated in Top 16	Group E Group F Group G Group H: Panathinaikos Athens Maroussi Athens Montepaschi Siena Efes Pilsen Istanbul Unicaja Málaga Žalgiris Kaunas Khimki Moscow Region Cibona Zagreb
Eliminated in Regular Season	Group A Group B Group C Group D: ASVEL Villeurbanne Fenerbahçe Ülker Istanbul Entente Orléans Loiret Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius Lottomatica Roma Union Olimpija Ljubljana Armani Jeans Milano EWE Baskets Oldenburg
Eliminated in Second Preliminary Round	ALBA Berlin Benetton Treviso
Eliminated in First Preliminary Round	Aris Salonica BK Ventspils Le Mans Sarthe Basket Spirou Charleroi

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2009–10 Euroleague

Contents

Format

Allocation

Teams

Qualifying rounds

First preliminary round

Second preliminary round

Regular Season

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Top 16

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

Quarterfinals

Final Four

Semifinals

3rd place game

Final

Final standings

Final Four 2010 MVP

Individual statistics

Rating

Points

Rebounds

Assists

Other Stats

Game highs

Awards

Euroleague 2009-10 MVP

Euroleague 2009-10 Final Four MVP

All-Euroleague Team 2009-10

Rising Star

Best Defender

Top Scorer (Alphonso Ford Trophy)

Coach of the Year (Alexander Gomelsky Award)

Club Executive of the Year

MVP Weekly

Regular Season

Top 16

Quarter-finals

MVP of Month

Attendance figures

References and notes

External links

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