2006–07 Euroleague

Sports season 2005–06 2007–08 2006–07 Euroleague Athens_Olympic_Indoor_Hall_-_exterior.jpg 300 The Olympic Indoor Hall in Athens hosted the Final Four GRE Panathinaikos (4th title) RUS CSKA Moscow ESP Unicaja ESP Tau Cerámica 24 October 24, 2006 – May 6, 2007 Theo Papaloukas GRE EuroLeague MVP Dimitris Diamantidis GRE EuroLeague Final Four MVP ESP Juan Carlos Navarro 16.8 (Top Scorer) SER 2004 Igor Rakočević 16.2(Alphonso Ford Top Scorer Trophy) EuroLeague Top Scorer Tanoka Beard 9.9 USA Theo Papaloukas 5.4 GRE The 2006–07 Euroleague was the 7th season of the professional basketball competition for elite clubs throughout Europe, organised by Euroleague Basketball Company, and it was the 50th season of the premier competition for European men's clubs overall. The season featured 24 competing teams from 13 countries. The competition began on October 24, 2006, at the Olympic Pavilion in Badalona, Spain, with Panathinaikos winning 82-79 against DKV Joventut. The final of the competition was held on May 6, 2007, in the Olympic Indoor Hall in Athens, Greece, the home court of Panathinaikos, with Panathinaikos defeating the defending champions, CSKA Moscow, by a score of 93-91. Team allocation Teams The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round (TH: EuroLeague title holders) Licensed clubs: 3-year licence 1st, 2nd, etc.: League position after Playoffs WC: Wild card Regular seasonLicensed clubsESP Unicaja Málaga (1st)GRE Panathinaikos (1st)SLO Union Olimpija (1st)ESP Tau Cerámica (2nd)GRE Olympiacos (2nd)ESP Winterthur Barcelona (3rd)CRO Cibona VIP (1st)TUR Fenerbahçe Ülker (1st)FRA Le Mans Sarthe (1st)TUR Efes Pilsen (2nd)ISR Maccabi Elite (1st)Associated clubsITA Benetton Treviso (1st)RUS CSKA Moscow (1st)THLIT Žalgiris (2nd)WCITA Climamio Bologna (2nd)RUS Dynamo Moscow (5th)WCPOL Prokom Trefl Sopot (1st)ITA Eldo Napoli (3rd)FRA Pau-Orthez (3rd)WCSRB 2004 Partizan (1st)ITA Lottomatica Roma (4th)GER RheinEnergie Köln (1st)ESP DKV Joventut (4th)GRE Aris TT Bank (3rd) Venues and locations As announced on the official Euroleague site. + Key to colors      Champion      Runner-up      Third place      Fourth place      Eliminated in Quarterfinals      Eliminated in Last 16      Eliminated in the regular season + Team Location Arena Aris TT Bank Thessaloniki, Greece Alexandreio Melathron Benetton Treviso Treviso, Italy Palaverde Cibona VIP Zagreb, Croatia Dražen Petrović Basketball Hall Climamio Bologna Bologna, Italy Land Rover Arena CSKA Moscow Moscow, Russia CSKA Universal Sports Hall DKV Joventut Badalona, Spain Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona Dynamo Moscow Moscow, Russia Krylatskoe Sport Palace Efes Pilsen Istanbul, Turkey Abdi İpekçi Arena Eldo Napoli Naples, Italy PalaBarbuto Fenerbahçe Ülker Istanbul, Turkey Abdi İpekçi Arena Le Mans Sarthe Le Mans, France Antarès Lottomatica Roma Rome, Italy PalaLottomatica Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv Tel Aviv, Israel Nokia (Yad Eliyahu) Arena Olympiacos Piraeus, Greece Peace and Friendship Stadium Panathinaikos Athens, Greece Olympic Indoor Hall Partizan Belgrade, Serbia Pionir Hall Pau-Orthez Pau, France Palais des Sports de Pau Prokom Trefl Sopot Sopot, Poland Olivia Sports Hall, Gdańsk RheinEnergie Köln Köln, Germany Philips Halle Tau Cerámica Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain Fernando Buesa Arena Unicaja Málaga, Spain José María Martín Carpena Arena Union Olimpija Ljubljana, Slovenia Dvorana Tivoli Winterthur FC Barcelona Barcelona, Spain Palau Blaugrana Žalgiris Kaunas, Lithuania Kaunas Sports Hall Regular season The first phase was a regular season, in which the competing teams were drawn into three groups, each containing eight teams. Each team played every other team in its group at home and away, resulting in 14 games for each team in the first stage. The top 5 teams in each group and the best sixth-placed team advanced to the next round. The complete list of tiebreakers was provided in the lead-in to the Regular Season results. 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 + Key to colors     Top five places in each group, plus highest-ranked sixth-place team, advanced to Top 16 Group A Euroleague 2006–07 Regular Season Group A TeamPldWLPFPADiff 1. ESP Tau Cerámica 14 12 2 1165 1025 +140 2. RUS Dynamo Moscow 14 10 4 1100 1032 +68 3. GRE Olympiacos 14 10 4 1165 1112 +53 4. TUR Efes Pilsen 14 8 6 1081 1031 +50 5. POL Prokom Trefl Sopot 14 5 9 1021 1063 -42 6. ITA Climamio Bologna 14 5 9 1115 1176 -61 7. FRA Le Mans Sarthe 14 4 10 985 1041 -56 8. GER RheinEnergie Köln 14 2 12 1032 1184 -152 Group B Euroleague 2006–07 Regular Season Group B TeamPldWLPFPADiff 1. GRE Panathinaikos 14 11 3 1128 1036 +92 2. ISR Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv 14 8 6 1230 1177 +53 3. ESP DKV Joventut 14 7 7 1112 1049 +63 4. ESP Unicaja 14 7 7 1001 1085 -84 5. ITA Lottomatica Roma 14 6 8 1027 1044 -17 6. SRB 2004 Partizan 14 6 8 1100 1093 +7 7. CRO Cibona VIP 14 6 8 1113 1141 -28 8. SLO Union Olimpija 14 5 9 1038 1124 -86 Group C Euroleague 2006–07 Regular Season Group C TeamPldWLPFPADiff 1. RUS CSKA Moscow 14 13 1 1079 912 +167 2. ESP Winterthur FC Barcelona 14 9 5 1093 1032 +61 3. ITA Benetton Treviso 14 8 6 1021 989 +32 4. FRA Pau-Orthez 14 7 7 1059 1070 -11 5. GRE Aris TT Bank 14 6 8 971 1013 -42 6. ITA Eldo Napoli 14 6 8 1032 1093 -61 7. TUR Fenerbahçe Ülker 14 5 9 1044 1088 -44 8. LTU Žalgiris 14 2 12 1062 1164 -102 Top 16 The surviving teams were divided into four groups of four teams each, and again a round robin system was adopted, resulting in 6 games each, with the two top teams advancing to the quarterfinals. Tiebreakers were identical to those used in the Regular Season. The draw was held February 5, at 13:00 CET (1200 UTC) in Barcelona, in accordance with Euroleague rules.http://www.euroleague.net/news/i/7278/180/item Euroleague Basketball Top 16 Draw procedures Euroleague 2007-01-30 30 January 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20070202025752/http://www.euroleague.net/news/i/7278/180/item 2 February 2007 live The teams were placed into four pools, as follows: Level 1: The three group winners, plus the top-ranked second-place team CSKA Moscow, Tau Cerámica, Panathinaikos, Dynamo Moscow Level 2: The remaining second-place teams, plus the top two third-place teams Winterthur FC Barcelona, Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv, Olympiacos, Benetton Treviso Level 3: The remaining third-place team, plus the three fourth-place teams DKV Joventut, Efes Pilsen, Pau-Orthez, Unicaja Level 4: The fifth-place teams, plus the top ranked sixth-place team Lottomatica Roma, Aris TT Bank, Prokom Trefl Sopot, Partizan Each Top 16 group included one team from each pool. The draw was conducted under the following restrictions: No more than two teams from the same Regular Season group could be placed in the same Top 16 group. No more than two teams from the same country could be placed in the same Top 16 group. If there is a conflict between these two restrictions, (1) would receive priority. Another draw was held to determine the order of fixtures. In the case of two teams from the same city in the Top 16 (CSKA Moscow and Dynamo Moscow, Panathinaikos and Olympiacos, FC Barcelona and Joventut Badalona) they were scheduled so that every week only one team would be at home. + Key to colors     Top two places in each group advanced to quarterfinals Group D Euroleague 2006–07 Top 16 Group D TeamPldWLPFPADiff 1. ESP Tau Cerámica 6 6 0 541 433 +108 2. ISR Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv 6 4 2 463 478 −15 3. ITA Lottomatica Roma 6 1 5 416 468 −52 4. FRA Pau-Orthez 6 1 5 470 511 −41 Group E Euroleague 2006–07 Top 16 Group E TeamPldWLPFPADiff 1. RUS CSKA Moscow 6 6 0 475 376 +99 2. GRE Olympiacos 6 3 3 451 450 +1 3. SRB 2004 Partizan 6 2 4 432 474 −42 4. ESP DKV Joventut 6 1 5 407 465 −58 Group F Euroleague 2006–07 Top 16 Group F TeamPldWLPFPADiff 1. GRE Panathinaikos 6 5 1 501 428 +73 2. ESP Winterthur FC Barcelona 6 4 2 498 455 +43 3. TUR Efes Pilsen 6 2 4 416 458 −42 4. POL Prokom Trefl Sopot 6 1 5 404 478 −74 Group G Euroleague 2006–07 Top 16 Group G TeamPldWLPFPADiff 1. ESP Unicaja 6 4 2 448 442 +6 2. RUS Dynamo Moscow 6 4 2 428 435 −7 3. ITA Benetton Treviso 6 3 3 439 428 +11 4. GRE Aris TT Bank 6 1 5 451 461 −10 *Unicaja won the group over Dynamo Moscow. The teams split their regular-season matches, but Unicaja scored 5 more points head-to-head. Quarterfinals Euroleague 2006–07 quarterfinals Each quarterfinal was a best-of-three series between a first-place team in the Top 16 and a second-place team from a different group, with the first-place team receiving home advantage. Quarterfinals were played on April 3 and 5, 2007, with third games to be played April 12 if necessary. 3 Tau Cerámica ESP 2–0 Olympiacos GRE 84–59 95–89 1 CSKA Moscow RUS 2–1 Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv ISR 80–58 56–68 92-71 1 Panathinaikos GRE 2–0 Dynamo Moscow RUS 80–58 73–65 1 Unicaja ESP 2–1 Winterthur FC Barcelona ESP 91–75 58–80 67-64 1 |} Final four 2006–07 Euroleague Final Four Semifinals May 4, Olympic Indoor Hall, Athens Unicaja ESP 50–62 CSKA Moscow RUS 2 Panathinaikos GRE 67–53 Tau Cerámica ESP 1 |} 3rd place game May 6, Olympic Indoor Hall, Athens Unicaja ESP 76–74 Tau Cerámica ESP 1 |} Final May 6, Olympic Indoor Hall, Athens Panathinaikos GRE 93–91 CSKA Moscow RUS 1 |} 2006–07 EuroleagueChampionsGRE 100px Panathinaikos 4th Title Final standings Team 15px GRE Panathinaikos RUS CSKA Moscow ESP Unicaja ESP Tau Cerámica Final Four 2007 MVP GRE Dimitris Diamantidis (Panathinaikos) Individual statistics Rating RankNameTeamGamesRatingPIR1.HRV Nikola VujčićISR Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv2247821.732.GRE Lazaros Papadopoulos RUS Dynamo Moscow1734520.293.USA Eric CampbellFRA Le Mans Sarthe1426619.00 Points RankNameTeamGamesRatingPPG1.ESP Juan Carlos Navarro (Top Scorer) ESP Winterthur FC Barcelona2236916.772.SRB Igor Rakočević (Alphonso Ford Top Scorer Trophy) ESP Tau Cerámica2235716.233.ISR David BluITA Climamio Bologna1422416.00 Rebounds RankNameTeamGamesRatingRPG1.USA Tanoka BeardLTU Žalgiris141389.862.USA James Thomas ITA Climamio Bologna131289.853.USA Brent Wright CRO Cibona VIP141128.00 Assists RankNameTeamGamesRatingAPG1.GRE Theo Papaloukas RUS CSKA Moscow251355.402.ARG Pablo Prigioni ESP Tau Cerámica231084.703.GRE Nikos Zisis ITA Benetton Treviso20864.30 Other stats CategoryNameTeamGamesStatSteals per gameESP Ricky RubioESP DKV Joventut163.19Blocks per gameUSA Marcus HaislipTUR Efes Pilsen201.75Turnovers per gameUSA Brent WrightHRV Cibona VIP143.14Fouls drawn per gameGRE Lazaros PapadopoulosRUS Dynamo Moscow176.06Minutes per gameHRV Davor KusHRV Cibona VIP1434:282FG%GRE Ioannis BourousisGRE Olympiacos190.7643FG%ISR David BluISR Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv140.533FT%USA Trajan LangdonRUS CSKA Moscow250.924 Game highs CategoryNameTeamStatRatingHRV Nikola VujčićISR Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv46PointsHRV Nikola VujčićISR Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv 33USA Marcus HaislipTUR Efes PilsenReboundsGRE Antonis FotsisRUS Dynamo Moscow24AssistsGRE Theo PapaloukasRUS CSKA Moscow12StealsITA Stefano MancinelliITA Climamio Bologna10BlocksUSA Marcus HaislipTUR Efes Pilsen6Turnovers 4 occasions 8Fouls DrawnSRB Kosta PerovićSRB Partizan 12USA Brent WrightHRV Cibona VIP Awards Euroleague 2006–07 MVP GRE Theo Papaloukas, (RUS CSKA Moscow) Euroleague 2006–07 Final Four MVP GRE Dimitris Diamantidis, (GRE Panathinaikos) Euroleague 2006–07 Finals Top Scorer GRE Theo Papaloukas, (RUS CSKA Moscow) All-Euroleague Team 2006–07 http://www.euroleague.net/news/i/12172/180/all-euroleague-team-mvp-announced All-Euroleague team, MVP announced 3 October 2024 Position All-Euroleague First Team Club Team All-Euroleague Second Team Club TeamPGGreece Theo Papaloukas *Greece Dimitris Diamantidis*RUS CSKA Moscow GRE PanathinaikosARG Pablo PrigioniESP Tau CerámicaSG/SFESP Juan Carlos Navarro ESP Winterthur FC BarcelonaSRB Igor RakočevićESP Tau CerámicaSG/SFUSA Trajan LangdonRUS CSKA MoscowLTU Ramūnas ŠiškauskasGRE PanathinaikosPF/CARG Luis ScolaESP Tau CerámicaSVN Matjaž SmodišRUS CSKA MoscowPF/CHRV Nikola VujčićISR Maccabi Elite Tel AvivGRE Lazaros Papadopoulos RUS Dynamo Moscow *A tie resulted in the voting for the best point guard of the season, between Dimitris Diamantidis and Theo Papaloukas. Consequently, the 2006–07 All-Euroleague First Team included six players. Rising Star ESP Rudy Fernández (ESP DKV Joventut) Best Defender GRE Dimitris Diamantidis (GRE Panathinaikos) Top Scorer (Alphonso Ford Trophy) SRB Igor Rakočević (ESP Tau Ceramica) Top Scorer (Points Per Game leader) ESP Juan Carlos Navarro (ESP FC Barcelona) Coach of the Year (Alexander Gomelsky Award) SRB Željko Obradović (GRE Panathinaikos) Club Executive of the Year ESP Juan Manuel Rodríguez (ESP Unicaja) Regular season EuroLeague MVP of the Round GamePlayerTeamRating1ESP Carlos CabezasESP Unicaja412USA Eric CampbellFRA Le Mans Sarthe323ESP Juan Carlos NavarroESP Winterthur FC Barcelona354USA Ronnie Burrell GER RheinEnergie Köln365FIN Teemu Rannikko SVN Union Olimpija336HRV Nikola Vujčić ISR Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv467USA Brent Wright HRV Cibona VIP358GRE Lazaros PapadopoulosRUS Dynamo Moscow389USA Marcus HaislipTUR Efes Pilsen4110HRV Nikola Vujčić (2)ISR Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv4011USA Tanoka BeardLTU Žalgiris3112HRV Nikola Vujčić (3)ISR Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv34USA James ThomasITA Climamio Bologna3413USA Terrell LydayITA Benetton Treviso4014FRA Vassil EvtimovITA Climamio Bologna38 Top 16 GamePlayerTeamPerformance Index Rating PIR1USA Scoonie Penn GRE Olympiacos35USA Marcus GoreeITA Benetton Treviso352USA Jamie ArnoldISR Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv293GRE Savvas IliadisGRE Aris TT Bank304GRE Antonis FotsisRUS Dynamo Moscow385USA Michael WrightFRA Pau-Orthez316GRE Antonis Fotsis (2)RUS Dynamo Moscow39 Playoffs GamePlayerTeamPerformance Index Rating PIR1-2ESP Juan Carlos Navarro (2)ESP Winterthur FC Barcelona233GRE Theo PapaloukasRUS CSKA Moscow27 MVP of the Month EuroLeague MVP of the Month MonthPlayerTeamNovember 2006USA Mike BatisteGRE PanathinaikosDecember 2006ARG Luis ScolaESP Tau CeramicaJanuary 2007GRE Lazaros PapadopoulosRUS Dynamo MoscowFebruary 2007SVN Matjaž SmodišRUS CSKA MoscowMarch 2007PUR Daniel SantiagoESP UnicajaApril 2007LTU Ramūnas ŠiškauskasGRE Panathinaikos References and notes Euroleague Competition Format External links Euroleague.net - Official Euroleague homepage. Eurobasket.com - Popular basketball news site. TalkBasket.net https://web.archive.org/web/20070928102943/http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/ 2007-09-28 - Basketball forum. Category:EuroLeague seasons