The 1999–2000 FIBA EuroLeague was the 43rd installment of the European top-tier level professional club competition for basketball clubs (now called simply EuroLeague). It began on September 23, 1999, and ended on April 20, 2000. The competition's Final Four was held at PAOK Sports Arena, Thessaloniki, with Panathinaikos defeating Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv in the EuroLeague Final, in front of 8,500 spectators.
Efes Pilsen finished in the third position, and FC Barcelona finished fourth.
Competition system 24 teams (the national domestic league champions from the best leagues, and a variable number of other clubs from the most important national domestic leagues). The competition culminated in a Final Four.
Country ranking
For the 1999–2000 EuroLeague, the countries are allocated places according to their place on the FIBA country rankings, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1996–97 to 1998–99. +Country ranking for 1999–2000 FIBA EuroLeagueRankCountryPointsTeamsNotes1237.66732179.1673150.167470.500568.8332+1, Cholet got wild card 655.556-1, Lietuvos rytas withdrew754.500835.695Lost one berth9 30.6221+1, Pivovarna got wild card1027.8331125.5421222.1081320.71401413.8171513.762166.143174.559184.429194.375RankCountryPointsTeamsNotes203.5280213.187223.008232.917242.583252.302261.917271.722281.667290.667300.611310.472320.389330.333340.278350.111360.055370.000380.000 Note
Team allocation The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.: League position after Playoffs WC: Wild card
Regular season Varese Roosters (1st) FC Barcelona (1st) Pau-Orthez (1st) Union Olimpija (1st) Benetton Treviso (2nd) Caja San Fernando (2nd) ASVEL (2nd) Pivovarna Laško (WC) Paf Wennington Bologna (3rd) Real Madrid Teka (3rd) Cholet (WC) CSKA Moscow (1st) Panathinaikos (1st) Tofaş (1st) Budućnost (1st) Alba Berlin (1st) Olympiacos (2nd) Efes Pilsen (2nd) Crvena zvezda (2nd) Cibona VIP (1st) PAOK (3rd) Ülker (3rd) Žalgiris (1st) Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv (1st)
Preliminary round
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Group C <onlyinclude> Group D <onlyinclude>
Qualification round (The individual scores and standings of the First stage were accumulated in the Second stage)
If one or more clubs were level on won-lost record, tiebreakers were 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 were not in the same group) Points scored in all group matches Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each group match
Group E <onlyinclude> Group F <onlyinclude>
Group G <onlyinclude> Group H <onlyinclude>
Play Offs Bracket Teams in bold advanced to the next round. The numbers to the left of each team indicate the team's seeding, the numbers to the right indicate the result of games including result in bold of the team that won in that game, and the numbers furthest to the right indicate the number of games the team won in that round.
Eight-Finals
Quarter-Finals
Final Four
Semifinals April 18, PAOK Sports Arena, Thessaloniki
Third place game April 20, PAOK Sports Arena, Thessaloniki
Final April 20, PAOK Sports Arena, Thessaloniki
1999–2000 FIBA EuroLeague Champions Panathinaikos 2nd Title
Awards All official awards of the 1999–2000 FIBA EuroLeague.
FIBA EuroLeague Final Four MVP Željko Rebrača ( Panathinaikos)
FIBA EuroLeague All-Final Four Team First Team Oded Kattash Panathinaikos Hedo Türkoğlu Efes Pilsen Dejan Bodiroga Panathinaikos Nate Huffman Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv Željko Rebrača (MVP) Panathinaikos
FIBA EuroLeague Top Scorer Miljan Goljović ( Pivovarna Laško)
FIBA EuroLeague Finals Top Scorer Nate Huffman ( Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv)
Statistics Individual statistics Points RankNameTeamGamesPointsPPG1. Miljan Goljović Pivovarna Laško1632320.22. David Rivers Tofaş 1631619.83. Wendell Alexis Alba Berlin 1833418.6 Source: FIBAEurope
Rebounds RankNameTeamGamesReboundsRPG1. Hüseyin Beşok Efes Pilsen2323110.02. Nate Huffman Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv242259.43. Rashard Griffith Tofaş161469.1 Source: FIBAEurope
Assists RankNameTeamGamesAssistsAPG1. David Rivers Tofaş16794.92. Šarūnas Jasikevičius Union Olimpija 221084.93. Damir Mulaomerović Efes Pilsen 231084.7 Source: FIBAEurope
Blocks RankNameTeamGamesBlocksBPG1. Efthimios Rentzias FC Barcelona1280.72. Željko Rebrača Panathinaikos 23150.73. Andrei Kirilenko CSKA Moscow 19100.5 Source: FIBAEurope
Other statistics CategoryPlayerTeamGamesAverage Steals Andrea Meneghin Varese Roosters 16 2.9 Turnovers Richard Scott Caja San Fernando 14 3.4 Minutes David Rivers Tofaş 16 38.7 FT % Carlton Myers Paf Wennington Bologna 17 91.9% 2-Point % Andrei Kirilenko CSKA Moscow 19 64.2% 3-Point % Valeriy Dayneko CSKA Moscow 17 55.7%
Individual game highs CategoryPlayerTeamStatistic Opponent Points David Rivers Tofaş 38 CSKA Moscow (Feb 3, 2000) Rebounds Dragan Tarlać Olympiacos 19 Pivovarna Laško (Dec 8, 1999) Assists Riccardo Pittis Benetton Treviso 12 Cholet (Sep 23, 1999)Blocks Efthimios Rentzias FC Barcelona 5 Ülker (Feb 29, 2000) Željko Rebrača Panathinaikos Cibona VIP (Mar 21, 2000)Steals Andrei Kirilenko CSKA Moscow 8 Cholet (Oct 21, 1999) Alberto Angulo Real Madrid Teka Alba Berlin (Nov 18, 1999)
Team statistics CategoryTeamAverage Points Efes Pilsen 77.0 Rebounds FC Barcelona 32.5 Assists Žalgiris 16.6 Blocks Panathinaikos 1.2 Steals Varese Roosters 11.8 Turnovers Žalgiris 15.2 FT % Paf Wennington Bologna 80.5% 2-Point % Budućnost 59.5% 3-Point % Panathinaikos 41.4%
See also 1999–2000 FIBA Saporta Cup 1999–2000 FIBA Korać Cup
References
Sources 1999-00 scoresheets
External links 1999–2000 FIBA EuroLeague
Eurobasket.com 1999–2000 FIBA EuroLeague