# 2014–15 Euroleague

The 2014–15 Turkish Airlines Euroleague was the 15th season of the modern era of EuroLeague basketball and the fifth under the title sponsorship of the Turkish Airlines. Including the competition's previous iteration as the FIBA Europe Champions Cup, this was the 58th season of the premier competition for European men's clubs.
The city of Madrid hosted the Final Four from May 15 to 17, 2015.

## Allocation

There were three routes to participation in the Euroleague:
* The 12 teams with an A-Licence from the 2013–14 Euroleague, based on their Euroleague Club Ranking.
* The 2013–14 Eurocup winner was given a C-Licence.
* The rest of the teams places were allocated from a list of 28 teams given a B-Licence ranked according to their European national basketball league rankings over the last year. 13 teams were given both an A-Licence or C-Licence and a B-Licence. When a country ranking spot had already been assigned to an A-Licence team, the assignation jumped to the next country appearing in the ranking, and their league was not granted an additional place in the competition. At least the first 9 of the remaining 16 teams were given places in the regular-season, and the next 6 were given places in the qualifying competition.
* If the Eurocup champion was qualified by receiving a B licence or some team with it resigned from the competition, a wild card had to be given by the Euroleague.
The Euroleague had the right to cancel an A licence for one of the following reasons:
* The club had the lowest ranking of all clubs with an A Licence, according to the Club Ranking.
* The club had ranked among the clubs placed in the bottom half of the national championship final standings.
* The club had financial problems.
* In Spanish League, when the champion and/or the runner-up of the league were teams without an A licence. In that case, the A licence club with the lowest position would play in Eurocup in the next season. If that happened three times in five years, the A licence of the club would have been cancelled.

### Euroleague allocation criteria
#### A licences

Classification after the 2013–14 Euroleague, including also the 2011–12 and the 2012–13 seasons.
| Rank | Team | Points |
| 1. | CSKA Moscow | 164 |
| 2. | FC Barcelona | 163 |
| 3. | Olympiacos | 154 |
| 4. | Real Madrid | 148 |
| 5. | Maccabi Electra | 141 |
| 6. | Panathinaikos | 139 |
| Rank | Team | Points |
| 7. | Anadolu Efes | 105 |
| 8. | Unicaja | 100 |
| 9. | Fenerbahçe Ülker | 99 |
| 10. | Laboral Kutxa | 97 |
| 11. | Žalgiris | 95 |
| 12. | EA7 Milano | 86 |
* The A licence of EA7 Milano expired in June 2014, but Euroleague confirmed it as an A licensed team.
* Montepaschi Siena did not play in the Euroleague, due to financial troubles.

#### B licences

B licences could be given to every team without an A licence. If in the allocation appeared a team with A licence, the next team in the criteria would receive the B licence, which qualified directly to the Regular Season.
Key to colors :
* A licensed teams
* B licensed teams
* Wild cards
* Teams qualified for the Qualifying Round
| Team | Team | Pos. |
| 1. | FC Barcelona | 1st |
| 2. | CSKA Moscow | 1st |
| 3. | EA7 Milano | 1st |
| 4. | Fenerbahçe Ülker | 1st |
| 5. | Žalgiris | 1st |
| 6. | Panathinaikos | 1st |
| 7. | Limoges | 1st |
| 8. | Bayern Munich | 1st |
| 9. | Cibona (withdrew) | 1st |
| 10. | PGE Turów Zgorzelec | 1st |
| 11. | Cedevita | 2nd |
| 12. | Real Madrid | 2nd |
| 13. | Nizhny Novgorod | 2nd |
| 14. | Montepaschi Siena (withdrew) | 2nd |
| Team | Team | Pos. |
| 15. | Galatasaray | 2nd |
| 16. | Neptūnas | 2nd |
| 17. | Olympiacos | 2nd |
| 18. | Strasbourg | 2nd |
| 19. | Alba Berlin | 2nd |
| 20. | Crvena Zvezda | 3rd |
| 21. | Budivelnyk (withdrew) | 1st |
| 22. | ČEZ Nymburk | 1st |
| 23. | Telenet Oostende | 1st |
| 24. | Maccabi Electra | 1st |
| 25. | Levski Sofia (rejected) | 1st |
| 26. | Ventspils | 1st |
| 27. | Worcester Wolves | 1st |
| 28. | Stelmet Zielona Góra | 2nd |
* Teams from Serbia and Croatia qualified through ABA League, and not through their national leagues.

#### C licence, replacements and wildcards
##### To the regular season

* Valencia (C licence as 2013–14 Eurocup winner)
* Alba Berlin (one-year wildcard which substituted Asseco Prokom's A-Licence removed in 2013)
* Dinamo Sassari (one-year wildcard which substituted Montepaschi Siena's A-licence, after it resigned in 2014)
* Crvena Zvezda (one-year wildcard which substituted Cibona's B-licence)

##### To the qualifying rounds

* UNICS (as 2013–14 VTB League best qualified without A or B licence)
* Hapoel Jerusalem (wildcard)
* ASVEL (wildcard)
* VEF Rīga (wildcard after the rejection of Levski Sofia)

## Teams

The participating teams for the season were announced on June 25, 2014. The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round (TH: Euroleague title holders):
* A: Qualified through an A–licence
* 1st, 2nd, etc.: League position after Playoffs
* QR: Qualifying rounds
* WC: Wild card
* EC: Champion of the 2013–14 Eurocup
Regular season :
| FC Barcelona (A) | Fenerbahçe Ülker (A) | Bayern Munich (1st) | Žalgiris (A) |
| Real Madrid (A) | Galatasaray Liv Hospital (2nd) | ALBA Berlin (WC) | Neptūnas (2nd) |
| Unicaja (A) | Anadolu Efes (A) | Panathinaikos (A) | Limoges (1st) |
| Caja Laboral (A) | CSKA Moscow (A) | Olympiacos (A) | Maccabi Electra (A) |
| Valencia (EC) | Nizhny Novgorod (2nd) | EA7 Emporio Armani Milano (A) | Crvena zvezda (WC) |
| PGE Turów Zgorzelec (1st) | Cedevita (2nd) | Banco di Sardegna Sassari (WC) | |
| Qualifying rounds ||||
| SIG Strasbourg (2nd) | ČEZ Nymburk (1st) | Telenet Oostende (1st) | UNICS (WC) |
| ASVEL (WC) | Stelmet Zielona Góra (2nd) | VEF Rīga (2nd) | Hapoel Jerusalem (WC) |

## Qualifying rounds

Eight teams participated in a single-venue tournament format that took place in Ostend, Belgium, from 23 to 26 September. The winner advanced to the Euroleague regular season.
| Round 1 | Round 1 | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 2 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 3 | Round 3 |
| 1 | UNICS | 90 | | | | | | |
| 4 | Stelmet Zielona Góra | 86 | | | | | | |
| 4 | Stelmet Zielona Góra | 86 | 1 | UNICS | 82 | | | |
| | | | 2 | Hapoel Jerusalem | 71 | | | |
| 2 | Hapoel Jerusalem | 94 | 2 | Hapoel Jerusalem | 71 | | | |
| 3 | ČEZ Nymburk | 84 | | | | | | |
| 3 | ČEZ Nymburk | 84 | | | | 1 | UNICS | 88 |
| | | | | | | 2 | ASVEL | 79 |
| 2 | ASVEL | 86 | | | | | | | 2 | ASVEL | 79 |
| 3 | Telenet Oostend | 77 | | | | | | |
| 3 | Telenet Oostend | 77 | 2 | ASVEL | 74 | | | |
| | | | 4 | Strasbourg | 65 | | | |
| 1 | VEF Rīga | 53 | 4 | Strasbourg | 65 | | | |
| 4 | Strasbourg | 82 | | | | | | |

## Draw

Teams were seeded into six pots of four teams in accordance with the Club Ranking, based on their performance in European competitions during a three-year period.
Two teams from the same country or league could not be drawn together in the same Regular Season group. In brackets, the points in the Club Ranking. Following the Eurocup bylaws, the lowest possible position that any club from that country or league could occupy in the draw was calculated by adding the results of the worst performing team from each league.
| Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 | Pot 5 | Pot 6 |
| CSKA Moscow FC Barcelona Olympiacos Real Madrid | Maccabi Electra Panathinaikos Valencia Anadolu Efes | Unicaja Fenerbahçe Ülker Laboral Kutxa Žalgiris | Alba Berlin Galatasaray EA7 Milano Nizhny Novgorod † | Crvena Zvezda Cedevita Bayern Munich Dinamo Sassari | PGE Turów † Neptūnas † Limoges † UNICS ^ |
* † indicates teams with points applying the minimum for the league they play.
* ^ indicates team qualified through the qualifying rounds

## Regular season

The regular season was played between October 16 and December 19.
If teams were level on record at the end of the Regular Season, tiebreakers were applied in the following order:
* Head-to-head record.
* Head-to-head point differential.
* Point differential during the Regular Season.
* Points scored during the regular season.
* Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each Regular Season game.
Key to colors :
* Top four places in each group advanced to
* Bottom two teams in each group entered 2014–15 Eurocup Last 32 round

## Top 16

The Top 16 began on December 30 and ended on April 10, 2015.
If teams were level on record at the end of the Top 16, tiebreakers were applied in the following order:
* Head-to-head record between teams still tied.
* Head-to-head point differential.
* Point differential during the Top 16.
* Points scored during the Top 16.
* Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each Top 16 game.
Key to colors :
* Top four places in each group advanced to Playoffs
* Eliminated
See the detailed group stage page for tiebreakers if two or more teams are equal on points.

## Quarterfinals

| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3 | Game 4 |
| Real Madrid | 3–1 | Anadolu Efes | 80–71 | 90–85 | 72–75 | 76–63 |
| CSKA Moscow | 3–1 | Panathinaikos | 93–66 | 100–80 | 85–86 | 74–55 |
| FC Barcelona | 1–3 | Olympiacos | 73–57 | 63–76 | 71–73 | 68–71 |
| Fenerbahçe Ülker | 3–0 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 80–72 | 82–67 | 75–74 |

## Final Four

The Final Four was the last stage of the Euroleague, consisting of the four winners from the quarterfinals. The semifinal games were played on 15 May, while the third place game and championship game were played on 17 May 2015. The Final Four was hosted by the Barclaycard Center in Madrid, Spain.
| Semifinals | Semifinals | Championship game | Championship game |
| 15 May | 15 May |
| Real Madrid | 96 |
| Real Madrid | 96 | 17 May | 17 May |
| Fenerbahçe Ülker | 87 | 17 May | 17 May |
| Fenerbahçe Ülker | 87 | Real Madrid | 78 |
| 15 May | 15 May | | Real Madrid | 78 |
| 15 May | 15 May | Olympiacos | 59 |
| CSKA Moscow | 68 | Olympiacos | 59 |
| Olympiacos | 70 | | |
| Olympiacos | 70 | Third place game | Third place game |
| | | 17 May | 17 May |
| | | Fenerbahçe Ülker | 80 |
| | | CSKA Moscow | 86 |

## Attendances
### Average home attendances

| Pos | Team | GP | Total | High | Low | Average |
| 1 | Crvena Zvezda | 11 | 159,309 | 18,733 | 5,908 | 14,483 |
| 2 | Panathinaikos | 14 | 177,418 | 16,033 | 8,165 | 12,672 |
| 3 | Fenerbahçe | 14 | 164,449 | 13,013 | 8,559 | 11,746 |
| 4 | Maccabi Electra | 13 | 143,780 | 11,060 | 11,060 | 11,060 |
| 5 | Alba Berlin | 12 | 123,561 | 14,133 | 8,226 | 10,296 |
| 6 | Žalgiris | 12 | 121,835 | 14,382 | 4,795 | 10,153 |
| 7 | Laboral Kutxa | 12 | 117,882 | 12,619 | 7,689 | 9,824 |
| 8 | Olympiacos | 14 | 125,907 | 11,653 | 6,039 | 8,993 |
| 9 | Real Madrid | 14 | 123,902 | 12,662 | 7,806 | 8,850 |
| 10 | EA7 Milano | 12 | 98,703 | 10,169 | 6,344 | 8,225 |
| 11 | Galatasaray | 8 | 60,512 | 11,312 | 3,138 | 7,564 |
| 12 | Unicaja | 12 | 87,893 | 8,891 | 5,237 | 7,324 |
| 13 | FC Barcelona | 14 | 94,103 | 8,529 | 5,162 | 6,721 |
| 14 | Anadolu Efes | 14 | 85,495 | 10,174 | 2,529 | 6,106 |
| 15 | Bayern Munich | 5 | 30,135 | 6,688 | 5,047 | 6,027 |
| 16 | Valencia | 5 | 30,069 | 8,500 | 3,005 | 6,014 |
| 17 | Neptūnas | 5 | 27,348 | 5,669 | 5,309 | 5,470 |
| 18 | CSKA Moscow | 14 | 65,509 | 5,349 | 4,369 | 4,679 |
| 19 | Limoges | 5 | 23,292 | 5,080 | 4,356 | 4,658 |
| 20 | Dinamo Sassari | 5 | 18,901 | 4,483 | 3,068 | 3,780 |
| 21 | Cedevita | 5 | 18,811 | 4,091 | 3,288 | 3,762 |
| 22 | UNICS | 5 | 14,490 | 3,876 | 534 | 2,898 |
| 23 | Nizhny Novgorod | 12 | 27,740 | 3,393 | 1,492 | 2,312 |
| 24 | PGE Turów | 5 | 9,744 | 3,217 | 709 | 1,949 |
* Updated on 5 May 2015 (ALL GAMES PLAYED)

### Top 10

| | Round | Game | Home team | Visitor | Attendance |
| 1 | Top 16 | 1 | Crvena Zvezda | Real Madrid | 18,733 |
| 2 | Regular Season | 4 | Crvena Zvezda | Olympiacos | 18,732 |
| 3 | Top 16 | 11 | Crvena Zvezda | FC Barcelona | 18,450 |
| 4 | Top 16 | 6 | Crvena Zvezda | Žalgiris | 18,382 |
| 5 | Top 16 | 3 | Crvena Zvezda | Galatasaray | 17,821 |
| 6 | Regular Season | 1 | Crvena Zvezda | Galatasaray | 16,834 |
| 7 | Top 16 | 9 | Panathinaikos | FC Barcelona | 16,033 |
| 8 | Play Off | 27 | Panathinaikos | CSKA Moscow | 16,000 |
| 9 | Top 16 | 11 | Panathinaikos | Real Madrid | 14,766 |
| 10 | Regular Season | 3 | Panathinaikos | Fenerbahçe Ülker | 14,480 |

## Individual statistics
### Rating

| Rank | Name | Team | Games | Rating | PIR |
| 1. | Boban Marjanović | Crvena Zvezda | 24 | 616 | 25.67 |
| 2. | Taylor Rochestie | Nizhny Novgorod | 21 | 442 | 21.05 |
| 3. | Artsiom Parakhouski | Nizhny Novgorod | 23 | 426 | 18.52 |

### Points

| Rank | Name | Team | Games | Points | PPG |
| 1. | Taylor Rochestie | Nizhny Novgorod | 21 | 397 | 18.90 |
| 2. | Andrew Goudelock | Fenerbahçe Ülker | 29 | 493 | 17.00 |
| 3. | Boban Marjanović | Crvena Zvezda | 24 | 398 | 16.58 |

### Rebounds

| Rank | Name | Team | Games | Rebounds | RPG |
| 1. | Boban Marjanović | Crvena Zvezda | 24 | 256 | 10.67 |
| 2. | Nemanja Bjelica | Fenerbahçe Ülker | 29 | 246 | 8.48 |
| 3. | Trey Thompkins | Nizhny Novgorod | 23 | 187 | 8.13 |

### Assists

| Rank | Name | Team | Games | Assists | APG |
| 1. | Miloš Teodosić | CSKA Moscow | 24 | 168 | 7.00 |
| 2. | Thomas Heurtel | Anadolu Efes | 28 | 179 | 6.39 |
| 3. | Marcus Williams | Crvena Zvezda | 24 | 146 | 6.08 |

### Other statistics

| Category | Name | Team | Games | Stat |
| Steals per game | Tarence Kinsey | Nizhny Novgorod | 17 | 1.59 |
| Blocks per game | Artsiom Parakhouski | Nizhny Novgorod | 23 | 1.96 |
| Turnovers per game | Miloš Teodosić | CSKA Moscow | 24 | 3.67 |
| Fouls drawn per game | Jamel McLean | Alba Berlin | 21 | 5.81 |
| Minutes per game | Jeremy Pargo | Maccabi Electra | 27 | 31:59 |
| 2FG% | Semih Erden | Fenerbahçe Ülker | 25 | 0.758 |
| 3FG% | Demetris Nichols | CSKA Moscow | 27 | 0.575 |
| FT% | Taylor Rochestie | Nizhny Novgorod | 21 | 0.925 |

### Game highs

| Category | Name | Team | Stat |
| Rating | Samardo Samuels | EA7 Milano | 47 |
| Points | Samardo Samuels | EA7 Milano | 36 |
| Rebounds | Boban Marjanović | Crvena Zvezda | 17 |
| Assists | Marcus Williams | Crvena Zvezda | 17 |
| Steals | Yogev Ohayon | Maccabi Electra | 8 |
| Blocks | Alex Tyus | Maccabi Electra | 6 |
| Blocks | Brian Randle | Maccabi Electra | 6 |
| Turnovers | Thomas Heurtel | Anadolu Efes | 8 |
| Turnovers | Taylor Rochestie | Nizhny Novgorod | 8 |
| Fouls Drawn | 3 occasions | 3 occasions | 12 |

## Awards
### Euroleague MVP

* Nemanja Bjelica ( Fenerbahçe Ülker)

### Euroleague Final Four MVP

* Andrés Nocioni ( Real Madrid)

### All-Euroleague Teams

| First Team | First Team | Second Team | Second Team |
| Vassilis Spanoulis | Olympiacos | Nando de Colo | CSKA Moscow |
| Miloš Teodosić | CSKA Moscow | Andrew Goudelock | Fenerbahçe Ülker |
| Nemanja Bjelica | Fenerbahçe Ülker | Rudy Fernández | Real Madrid |
| Felipe Reyes | Real Madrid | Devin Smith | Maccabi Electra |
| Boban Marjanović | Crvena Zvezda | Ante Tomić | FC Barcelona |

### Top Scorer (Alphonso Ford Trophy)

* Taylor Rochestie ( Nizhny Novgorod)

### Best Defender

* Bryant Dunston ( Olympiacos)

### Rising Star

* Bogdan Bogdanović ( Fenerbahçe Ülker)

### Coach of the Year

* Pablo Laso ( Real Madrid)

### MVP of the Week
#### Regular season

| Game | Player | Team | PIR |
| 1 | Boban Marjanović | Crvena Zvezda | 30 |
| 2 | Andrew Goudelock | Fenerbahçe Ülker | 30 |
| 3 | Jaycee Carroll | Real Madrid | 37 |
| 4 | James Anderson | Žalgiris | 38 |
| 5 | Andrew Goudelock (2) | Fenerbahçe Ülker | 40 |
| 6 | Zoran Erceg | Galatasaray | 41 |
| 7 | Boban Marjanović (2) | Crvena Zvezda | 36 |
| 8 | D'or Fischer | UNICS | 43 |
| 9 | Duško Savanović | Bayern Munich | 37 |
| 10 | Ioannis Bourousis | Real Madrid | 31 |

#### Top 16

| Game | Player | Team | PIR |
| 1 | Taylor Rochestie | Nizhny Novgorod | 32 |
| 2 | Felipe Reyes | Real Madrid | 29 |
| 2 | Brian Randle | Maccabi Electra | 29 |
| 3 | Nando de Colo | CSKA Moscow | 34 |
| 4 | Artsiom Parakhouski | Nizhny Novgorod | 37 |
| 5 | Ante Tomić | FC Barcelona | 34 |
| 6 | Rudy Fernández | Real Madrid | 38 |
| 7 | Nando de Colo (2) | CSKA Moscow | 29 |
| 8 | Samardo Samuels | EA7 Milano | 47 |
| 9 | Reggie Redding | Alba Berlin | 36 |
| 10 | Ante Tomić (2) | FC Barcelona | 35 |
| 11 | Bogdan Bogdanović | Fenerbahçe Ülker | 32 |
| 12 | Alessandro Gentile | EA7 Milano | 30 |
| 13 | Alex Renfroe | Alba Berlin | 28 |
| 14 | Devin Smith | Maccabi Electra | 28 |
| 14 | Boban Marjanović (3) | Crvena Zvezda | 28 |

#### Quarter-finals

| Game | Player | Team | PIR |
| 1 | Gustavo Ayón | Real Madrid | 29 |
| 2 | Georgios Printezis | Olympiacos | 34 |
| 3 | Nikos Pappas | Panathinaikos | 31 |
| 4 | Andrei Kirilenko | CSKA Moscow | 27 |

### MVP of the Month

| Month | Player | Team |
| October 2014 | Vassilis Spanoulis | Olympiacos |
| November 2014 | Dario Šarić | Anadolu Efes |
| December 2014 | Devin Smith | Maccabi Electra |
| January 2015 | Nando de Colo | CSKA Moscow |
| February 2015 | Rudy Fernández | Real Madrid |
| March 2015 | Nemanja Bjelica | Fenerbahçe Ülker |
| April 2015 | Georgios Printezis | Olympiacos |