1963–64 FIBA European Champions Cup | |
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League | FIBA European Champions Cup |
Sport | Basketball |
Finals | |
Champions | Real Madrid |
Runners-up | Spartak ZJŠ Brno |
The 1963–64 FIBA European Champions Cup was the seventh season of the European top-tier level professional basketball club competition 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.
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.
23 teams. European national domestic league champions, plus the then current FIBA European Champions Cup title holders only, playing in a tournament system. The Finals were a two-game home-and-away aggregate.
*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).
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)