Sport Basketball Runners-up Spartak ZJŠ Brno | Champions Real Madrid | |
League FIBA European Champions Cup | ||
The 1963–64 FIBA European Champions Cup was the seventh season of the FIBA European Champions Cup (now called EuroLeague). It was won by Real Madrid, marking the first of the club's 9 EuroLeague championships in its history.
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Real defeated Spartak ZJŠ Brno in the two-legged EuroLeague Final, after losing the first game in Brno, 110–99, and winning the second game at Madrid, 84–64.
Competition system
23 teams. European national domestic league champions, plus the then current FIBA European Champions Cup title holders only. The Finals were a two-game home-and-away aggregate.
Second round
*Since the aggregate score after the two legs was tied, a tie-break was played in Bucureşti on 19 January 1964: Steaua Bucureşti - Galatasaray 57-56.
**Benfica withdrew before the first leg and Legia Warsaw received a forfeit (2-0) in both games.
***PUC couldn't travel to Belgrade to play the first leg after all fights to the Yugoslavian capital were cancelled due to adverse weather. Later, FIBA decided that this tie should be played as a single game in Paris (16 January 1964).
Quarterfinals
Finals
First leg Brno Ice rink, Brno;Attendance 12,000 or 14,000 (29 April 1964)
Second leg Frontón Vista Alegre, Madrid;Attendance 2,500 (10 May 1964)