ULEB Cup

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ULEB Cup
Image:Cup_uleb.gif
Sport Basketball
Founded 2002
No. of teams 54 (group stage)
Country(ies) FIBA Europe members
Continent Europe
Most recent
champion(s)
DKV Joventut
TV partner(s) Eurosport (official broadcast partner)
Official website UlebCup.com

The ULEB Cup is the second-tier transnational professional basketball competition in Europe. It is comprised of teams from European domestic national leagues that are joined in and are a part of the ULEB (Basketball European Leagues Union), and that also do not have a contract to be in the Euroleague. ULEB Cup was created in 2002 and can be considered as a fusion between the old FIBA Korać Cup and Saporta Cup competitions.

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[edit] Euroleague Promotion

The winners of the competition are invited to participate in the next season's Euroleague. If the winning ULEB Cup team is from the French League, Italian League, or Spanish League, then the ULEB Cup runners-up will also qualify for the following season's Euroleague. However, if the winning ULEB Cup team is not from one of those three leagues then the ULEB Cup runners-up will not qualify for the next season's Euroleague.

[edit] Previous finals

Year Champion Result Runner-Up
2003 Flag of Spain Pamesa Valencia 90 - 78 / 78 - 76 Flag of Slovenia KK Krka Novo Mesto
2004 Flag of Israel Hapoel Jerusalem 83 - 72 Flag of Spain Real Madrid
2005 Flag of Lithuania Lietuvos Rytas 78 - 74 Flag of Greece Makedonikos BC
2006 Flag of Russia Dynamo Moscow 73 - 60 Flag of Greece Aris BSA
2007 Flag of Spain Real Madrid 87 - 75 Flag of Lithuania Lietuvos Rytas
2008 Flag of Spain DKV Joventut 79 - 54 Flag of Spain Akasvayu Girona
2009

[edit] Winning Rosters

2002-03 Pamesa Valencia (Spain)

Dejan Tomasevic, Fabricio Oberto, Bernard Hopkins, Alejandro Montecchia, Federico Kammerichs, Jose Antonio Paraiso, Víctor Luengo, Nacho Rodilla, Alessandro Abbio, Pedro Robles, Asier García, Oliver Arteaga, Brian Cardinal (Coach: Paco Olmos)


2003-04 Hapoel Migdal Jerusalem (Israel)

Willie Solomon, Kelly McCarty, Tunji Awojobi, Doron Sheffer, Erez Katz, Moshé Mizrahi, Amir Muchtari, Ido Kozikaro, Yoni Shahar, Raviv Limonad, Elad Eliyahu, Bill Edwards, Eric Washington, Yuval Naimy, Georgi Osadahi (Coach: Sharon Drucker)


2004-05 Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius (Lithuania)

Robertas Javtokas, Roberts Stelmahers, Haris Mujezinovic, Gintaras Einikis, Tyrone Nesby, Fred House, Simas Jasaitis, Tomas Delininkatis, Andrius Slezas, Saulius Kuzminskas, Rolandas Jarutis, Povilas Čukinas, Mindaugas Lukauskis, Kestutis Sestokas (Coach: Tomo Mahoric)


2005-06 Dynamo Moscow (Russia)

Mire Chatman, Lazaros Papadopoulos, Ruben Douglas, Antonis Fotsis, Hanno Mottola, Fedor Likholitov, Bojan Popović, Dmitri Domani, Valentin Kubrakov, Sergei Bykov, Yuri Vasiliev, Sergei Romanov, George Tsintsadze, Ivan Shiryaev (Coach: Dusan Ivkovic)


2006-07 Real Madrid (Spain)

Charles Smith, Louis Bullock, Raul Lopez, Axel Hervelle, Kerem Tunceri, Marko Tomas, Felipe Reyes, Alex Mumbru, Eduardo Hernandez-Sonseca, Blagota Sekulic, Ratko Varda, Venson Hamilton, Nedzad Sinanovic, Richard Nguema, Marko Milic, Jan Martin, Pablo Aguilar (Coach: Joan Plaza)


2007-08 DKV Joventut Badalona (Spain)

Rudy Fernandez, Lubos Barton, Jerome Moiso, Demond Mallet, Ricky Rubio, Jan-Hendrik Jagla, Eduardo Hernandez-Sonseca, Ferran Laviña, Pau Ribas, Petar Popović, Pere Tomàs, Josep Franch, Lonny Baxter, Dimitry Flis (Coach: Aito Garcia Reneses)


Final MVP:

2002-03: Flag of Serbia and Montenegro Dejan Tomasevic

2003-04: Flag of the United States Kelly McCarty

2004-05: Flag of Lithuania Robertas Javtokas

2005-06: Flag of the United States Ruben Douglas

2006-07: Flag of the United States Charles Smith

2007-08: Flag of Spain Rudy Fernandez

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