1994–95 FIBA European League

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League FIBA European League Champions Real Madrid		Sport Basketball Runners-up Olympiacos
Top scorer Predrag Danilović (Buckler Bologna) Final Four MVP Arvydas Sabonis (Real Madrid)

The 1994–95 FIBA European League was the 38th installment of the top club competition for European basketball clubs (now called EuroLeague) It began on September 8, 1994, and ended on April 13, 1995. The Final Four was held at Zaragoza.

Competition system

40 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 was 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.

First round

^*Levski Sofia withdrew before the first leg and Pezoporikos Larnaca received a forfeit (20-0) in both games.

Second round

Automatically qualified to the group stage

Olympiacos

Real Madrid

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