Sport Basketball Runners-up Jugoplastika | Champions Spartak Leningrad | |
League FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup | ||
The 1972–73 FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup was the seventh edition of FIBA's competition for European basketball national cup champions, running from 18 October 1972 to 21 March 1973. It was contested by 26 teams, five more than in the previous edition.
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1971 runner-up Spartak Leningrad defeated Jugoplastika in the final to become the first Soviet team to win the competition, ending a 3-year period of Italian dominance. It was the second straight final lost by a Yugoslav team.
First round
Quarter finals
The quarter finals were played with a round-robin system, in which every Two Game series (TGS) constituted as one game for the record.
Final
March 20, Alexandreio Melathron, Thessaloniki
References
1972–73 FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA