2009–10 Euroleague


The 2009–10 Euroleague was the 10th season of the professional basketball competition for elite clubs throughout Europe, organised by Euroleague Basketball Company, and it was the 53rd season of the premier competition for European men's clubs overall. The regular season featured 24 teams from 13 different countries.
This season marked the first time in the modern era that a qualifying round was used to determine the last two teams for the regular season. The qualifying round started on September 29, 2009, while the regular season of the Euroleague started on October 15, 2010. The season ended with the Euroleague Final Four, which was hosted at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris, France, with the Final on May 9, 2010.

Format

For the first time in the modern Euroleague era, a preliminary stage was used to determine the last two teams in the regular season. 8 teams competed in qualification rounds, of which the 2 winners advanced to the regular season stage. Those teams joined 22 teams that had qualified directly to the regular season stage.

Allocation

A maximum of three teams could qualify from any one country through their league position. However, 14 clubs held Euroleague Basketball A-linceces, which gave them automatic spots in the Euroleague Regular Season until 2011–12, regardless of their domestic league finish. These licenses were granted via a formula that considers each team's performance in its domestic league and the Euroleague, the television revenues Euroleague Basketball collects from its home country and the team's home attendance.
;A-licence holders
The rest of the field was filled with teams that qualified through their performance in their respective national leagues and wild card invitations.

Teams

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round :

First preliminary round

Games were played on September 29 and October 2. Winners advanced to the second preliminary round, while losers parachuted into the Eurocup.

Second preliminary round

Game 1 of each match was played on October 6. Game 2 of the Benetton Treviso-Entente Orléanaise match was played on October 9, and Game 2 of Maroussi-Alba Berlin was played on October 11. The winners of each match advanced to the Regular Season, with the losers parachuting into the Eurocup.

Regular season

The Regular Season began on October 15, 2009 and concluded on January 14, 2010.
If teams were level on record at the end of the Regular Season, tiebreakers were applied in the following order:
  1. Head-to-head record.
  2. Head-to-head point differential.
  3. Point differential during the Regular Season.
  4. Points scored during the regular season.
  5. Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each Regular Season match.
Top four places in each group advanced to Top 16

Group A

TeamPldWLPFPADiff
1. Regal FC Barcelona10100833625+208
2. Montepaschi Siena1082830689+141
3. Žalgiris1037673739−66
4. Cibona VIP1037637742−105
5. ASVEL1037680749−69
6. Fenerbahçe Ülker1037690799−109

Group B

TeamPldWLPFPADiff
1. Olympiacos1082884787+97
2. Unicaja1073784775+9
3. Partizan1055745757−12
4. Efes Pilsen1046808793+15
5. Lietuvos rytas1046741784−43
6. Entente Orléanaise1028722788−66

Group C

TeamPldWLPFPADiff
1. CSKA Moscow1082730700+30
2. Caja Laboral1073779735+46
3. Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv1064794737+57
4. Maroussi1046744764−20
5. Lottomatica Roma1046713737−24
6. Union Olimpija1019677764−87

Group D

TeamPldWLPFPADiff
1. Real Madrid1082811690+121
2. Panathinaikos1082792697+95
3. Khimki1064740733+7
4. Asseco Prokom1046747810−63
5. Armani Jeans Milano1037724741−17
6. Oldenburg1019657800−143

Top 16

The survivors from the Regular Season advanced to the Top 16, where they were drawn into four groups of four teams each, playing home-and-home from January 27 through March 11. The draw was held at Euroleague headquarters in Barcelona, starting at 13:00 CET on January 18, and was streamed live on the official Euroleague site.
Top two places in each group advanced to quarterfinals

Group E

TeamPldWLPFPADiff
1. Regal FC Barcelona651465396+69
2. Partizan633389422−33
3. Panathinaikos624439442−3
4. Maroussi624419452−33

Group F

TeamPldWLPFPADiff
1. Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv642444423+21
2. Real Madrid633447444+3
3. Montepaschi Siena633481497−16
4. Efes Pilsen624437445−8

Group G

TeamPldWLPFPADiff
1. CSKA Moscow651494448+46
2. Asseco Prokom633471455+16
3. Unicaja624450452−2
4. Žalgiris624454514−60

Group H

TeamPldWLPFPADiff
1. Olympiacos651536504+32
2. Caja Laboral633515521−6
3. Khimki633476487−11
4. Cibona VIP615486501−15

Quarterfinals

Team 1 hosted Games 1 and 2, plus Game 5 if necessary. Team 2 hosted Game 3, and Game 4 if necessary.
Team 1Agg.Team 21st leg2nd leg3rd leg4th leg5th leg
Regal FC Barcelona 3–1 Real Madrid68–6163–7084–7384–78
Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv 1–3 Partizan77–8598–7873–8167–76
CSKA Moscow 3–1 Caja Laboral86–6383–6353–6674–70
Olympiacos 3–1 Asseco Prokom Gdynia83–7990–7378–8186–70

Final four

2009–10 Euroleague Champions

Regal FC Barcelona
2nd title

Individual statistics

Rating

Points

Rebounds

Assists

Other Stats

Game highs

Awards

Euroleague 2009–10 MVP

PositionAll-Euroleague First TeamClub TeamAll-Euroleague Second TeamClub Team
PG
 Miloš Teodosić Olympiacos Bo McCalebb Partizan
SG/SF
Juan Carlos Navarro Regal FC Barcelona Josh Childress Olympiacos
SG/SF
Linas Kleiza Olympiacos Ramūnas Šiškauskas CSKA Moscow
PF/C
Victor Khryapa CSKA Moscow Erazem Lorbek Regal FC Barcelona
PF/C
 Aleks Marić Partizan Tiago Splitter Caja Laboral

Rising Star

Regular season

Top 16

Quarter-finals

MVP of Month

MonthPlayerTeam
October 2009 Bojan Popović Lietuvos rytas
November 2009 Pete Mickeal Regal FC Barcelona
December 2009 Aleks Marić Partizan
January 2010 Miloš Teodosić Olympiacos
February 2010 Alan Anderson Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv
March 2010 Victor Khryapa CSKA Moscow
April 2010 Juan Carlos Navarro Regal FC Barcelona

Attendance figures