1993–94 FIBA European League

1993–94 FIBA European League
1993–94 FIBA European League
League	FIBA European League
Sport	Basketball
Regular Season
Top scorer	Nikos Galis (Panathinaikos)
Final Four
Champions	7up Joventut
Runners-up	Olympiacos
Final Four MVP	Žarko Paspalj (Olympiacos)
FIBA European League seasons
	← 1992–93 1994–95 →

The 1993–94 FIBA European League, also shortened to 1993–94 FIBA EuroLeague, was the 37th installment of the European top-tier level professional club competition for basketball clubs (now called EuroLeague). It began on September 9, 1993, and ended on April 21, 1994. The competition's Final Four was held at Tel Aviv. The competition was won by 7up Joventut against . Olympiacos by two points in the final match. It has been the club's only Euroleague (European League) title.

Limoges CSP, the defending champions, were eliminated in the quarterfinals by Panathinaikos.

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's entrant was unable to participate for the second season in a row due to the UN economic sanctions. After the 1993 dissolution of Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic and Slovakia each had representative clubs in the competition for the first time.

Competition system

41 teams (the cup title holder, national domestic league champions, and a variable number of other clubs from the most important national domestic leagues) played knock-out rounds on a home and away basis. The aggregate score of both games decided the winner.
The sixteen remaining teams after the knock-out rounds entered the Regular Season Group Stage, divided into two groups of eight teams, playing a round-robin. The final standing was based on individual wins and defeats. In the case of a tie between two or more teams after the group stage, the following criteria were used to decide the final classification: 1) number of wins in one-to-one games between the teams; 2) basket average between the teams; 3) general basket average within the group.
The top four teams from each group after the Regular Season Group Stage qualified for a quarterfinal playoff (X-pairings, best of 3 games).
The four winners of the quarterfinal playoff qualified for the final stage (Final Four), which was played at a predetermined venue.

Team allocation

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

TH: Title holder
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc.: League position after eventual Playoffs
CW: Cup winners.

Group stage
Limoges CSP (1st)^TH	Olympiacos (1st)	Buckler Beer Bologna (1st)	Real Madrid Teka (1st)
Second round
Benetton Treviso (2nd)	FCB Banca Catalana (3rd)	Pau-Orthez (2nd)	Hapoel Galil Elyon (1st)
Shampoo Clear Cantù (3rd)	Maes Pils Mechelen (1st)	Bayer 04 Leverkusen (1st)	Efes Pilsen (1st)
7up Joventut (2nd)	Cibona (1st)	Panathinaikos (2nd)
First round
Vllaznia (1st)	Guildford Kings (CW)	Žalgiris (1st)	CSKA Moscow (1st)
UKJ SÜBA Sankt Pölten (1st)	Kalev Tallinn (1st)	Residence (1st)	Davay Pezinok (1st)
RTI Minsk (1st)	KTP (1st)	Rabotnički (1st)	Smelt Olimpija (1st)
Levski Sofia (1st)	Tunsgram-Honvéd (1st)	Canoe Jeans EBBC (1st)	Fidefinanz Bellinzona (1st)
Croatia Osiguranje Split (2nd)	Keflavik (1st)	Śląsk Wroclaw (1st)	Budivelnyk (1st)
Achileas Kaimakli (1st)	Hapoel Tel Aviv (2nd)	Benfica (1st)
USK Praha (1st)	ASK Brocēni (1st)	Universitatea Cluj (1st)

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Universitatea Cluj	145–202	RTI Minsk	74–94	71–108
Rabotnički	152–135	Tunsgram-Honvéd	73–61	79–74
ASK Brocēni	203–190	KTP	110–92	93–98
Pezinok	151–167	Fidefinanz Bellinzona	79–76	72–91
Budivelnyk	143–170	Guildford Kings	58–84	85–86
Résidence	130–180	USK Praha	67–94	63–86
Kalev	0–40^*	Croatia Osiguranje	0–20	0–20
Vllaznia	130–172	SÜBA Sankt Pölten	60–94	70–78
Hapoel Tel Aviv	150–162	Benfica	83–75	67–87
CSKA Moscow	150–154	Smelt Olimpija	88–65	62–89
Canoe Jeans EBBC	172–165	Śląsk Wrocław	87–82	85–83
Keflavik	162–252	Žalgiris	98–128	64–124
Levski Sofia	178–174	Achilleas	109–91	69–83

^*Kalev withdrew before the first leg and Croatia Osiguranje Split received a forfeit (20-0) in both games.

Second round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
RTI Minsk	88–127	FC Barcelona Banca Catalana	88–107	0–20^*
Rabotnički	163–177	Pau-Orthez	74–86	89–91
ASK Brocēni	148–169	7up Joventut	79–81	69–88
Fidefinanz Bellinzona	180–194	Shampoo Clear Cantù	105–104	75–90
Guildford Kings	151–149	Hapoel Galil Elyon	86–78	65–71
USK Praha	148–185	Benetton Treviso	75–88	73–97
Croatia Osiguranje	132–146	Maes Pils	72–63	60–83
SÜBA Sankt Pölten	156–179	Cibona	78–85	78–94
Benfica	163–154	Smelt Olimpija	87–63	76–91
Canoe Jeans EBBC	144–168	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	84–83	60–85
Žalgiris	132–134	Efes Pilsen	60–77	72–57
Levski Sofia	147–165	Panathinaikos	68–84	79–81

^*RTI Minsk refused to play the second leg and FC Barcelona received a forfeit (20-0) in this game.

Group stage

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

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

Key to colors
	Qualified to Playoff
	Eliminated

Group A

	Team	Pld	Pts	W	L	PF	PA	PD
1.	Olympiacos	14	25	11	3	1047	897	+150
2.	Real Madrid Teka	14	23	9	5	1123	978	+145
3.	Limoges CSP	14	23	9	5	1013	979	+34
4.	FC Barcelona Banca Catalana	14	22	8	6	1132	1067	+65
5.	Maes Pils	14	22	8	6	1040	1072	-32
6.	Benetton Treviso	14	21	7	7	1085	1072	+13
7.	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	14	18	4	10	1022	1045	-23
8.	Guildford Kings	14	14	0	14	889	1241	-352

Group B

	Team	Pld	Pts	W	L	PF	PA	PD
1.	Efes Pilsen	14	24	10	4	1005	957	+48
2.	Panathinaikos	14	23	9	5	1076	1024	+52
3.	7up Joventut	14	23	9	5	1116	1026	+90
4.	Buckler Beer Bologna	14	23	9	5	1139	1017	+122
5.	Cibona	14	23	9	5	1126	1069	+57
6.	Benfica	14	19	5	9	1016	1093	-77
7.	Pau-Orthez	14	17	3	11	1044	1155	-111
8.	Shampoo Clear Cantù	14	16	2	12	1011	1192	-181

Quarterfinals

Seeded teams played games 2 and 3 at home.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg
Buckler Beer Bologna	1–2	Olympiacos	77–64	69–89	62–65
7up Joventut	2–0	Real Madrid Teka	88–69	71–67
FC Barcelona Banca Catalana	2–1	Efes Pilsen	54–50	64–73	76–62
Limoges CSP	1–2	Panathinaikos	75–68	48–59	73–87

Final four

Semifinals

April 19, Yad Eliyahu Arena, Tel Aviv

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Olympiacos	77–72	Panathinaikos
FC Barcelona Banca Catalana	65–79	7up Joventut

3rd place game

April 21, Yad Eliyahu Arena, Tel Aviv

Team 1	Score	Team 2
FC Barcelona Banca Catalana	83–100	Panathinaikos

Final