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1961–62 FIBA European Champions Cup

1961–62 FIBA European Champions Cup
League FIBA European Champions Cup
Sport Basketball
Finals
Champions Soviet Union Dinamo Tbilisi
  Runners-up Spain Real Madrid
FIBA European Champions Cup seasons

The 1961–62 FIBA European Champions Cup season was the fifth season of FIBA European Champions Cup (now called EuroLeague). It was won by Dinamo Tbilisi, after they beat Real Madrid, in the first ever single game EuroLeague Final, by a result of 90–83, in Geneva, Switzerland. For the first time, only one finals game was played, on a neutral court, due to the unstable political situation at the time.

European national domestic league champions, plus the then current FIBA European Champions Cup title holders only. The Final was a single game, played on a neutral court.

Patinoire des Vernets, Geneva, Switzerland. Attendance:4,000
29 June 1962



Dynamo after the Final

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