# EuroBasket 1973

The 1973 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 1973, was the eighteenth FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship, held by FIBA Europe.

## Venues

| Barcelona | Badalona |
| Palacio de los Deportes Capacity 8 000 | Pabellón de Ausias March Capacity 5 000 |

## Group stage
### Group A – Badalona

| Poland | Soviet Union | 83–104 |
| Czechoslovakia | Israel | 92–89 |
| Turkey | Romania | 69–84 |
| Czechoslovakia | Soviet Union | 55–77 |
| Israel | Romania | 85–80 |
| Poland | Turkey | 64–65 |
| Soviet Union | Turkey | 79–53 |
| Czechoslovakia | Romania | 70–61 |
| Israel | Poland | 98–84 |
| Czechoslovakia | Turkey | 66–64 |
| Soviet Union | Israel | 101–78 |
| Romania | Poland | 60–66 |
| Romania | Soviet Union | 84–98 |
| Czechoslovakia | Poland | 81–79 |
| Turkey | Israel | 94–93 |
| Pos. | Team | Matches | Wins | Losses | Results | Points | Diff. |
| 1. | Soviet Union | 5 | 5 | 0 | 459:353 | 10 | +106 |
| 2. | Czechoslovakia | 5 | 4 | 1 | 364:370 | 8 | −6 |
| 3. | Turkey | 5 | 2 | 3 | 345:386 | 4 | −41 |
| 4. | Israel | 5 | 2 | 3 | 443:451 | 4 | −8 |
| 5. | Poland | 5 | 1 | 4 | 376:408 | 2 | −32 |
| 6. | Romania | 5 | 1 | 4 | 369:388 | 2 | −19 |

### Group B – Barcelona

| Bulgaria | France | 89–70 |
| Spain | Yugoslavia | 59–65 |
| Greece | Italy | 54–59 |
| Greece | Yugoslavia | 68–84 |
| Spain | Bulgaria | 85–69 |
| Italy | France | 71–63 |
| Greece | France | 67–62 |
| Yugoslavia | Bulgaria | 76–65 |
| Italy | Spain | 65–77 |
| Greece | Bulgaria | 72–86 |
| France | Spain | 80–85 |
| Yugoslavia | Italy | 73–71 |
| Bulgaria | Italy | 58–69 |
| Greece | Spain | 74–86 |
| France | Yugoslavia | 70–80 |
| Pos. | Team | Matches | Wins | Losses | Results | Points | Diff. |
| 1. | Yugoslavia | 5 | 5 | 0 | 378:333 | 10 | +45 |
| 2. | Spain | 5 | 4 | 1 | 392:353 | 8 | +29 |
| 3. | Italy | 5 | 3 | 2 | 335:325 | 6 | +10 |
| 4. | Bulgaria | 5 | 2 | 3 | 367:372 | 4 | −5 |
| 5. | Greece | 5 | 1 | 4 | 335:377 | 2 | −42 |
| 6. | France | 5 | 0 | 5 | 345:392 | 0 | −47 |

## Knockout stage

| Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final |
| Soviet Union | 76 |
| Spain | 80 | | |
| Spain | 80 | Spain | 67 |
| | | Yugoslavia | 78 |
| Yugoslavia | 96 | Yugoslavia | 78 |
| Czechoslovakia | 71 | | |
| Czechoslovakia | 71 | Third place | Third place |
| | | Soviet Union | 90 |
| | | Czechoslovakia | 58 |

### 5th to 8th place

| Classification round | Classification round | Fifth place | Fifth place |
| Turkey | 67 |
| Bulgaria | 76 | | |
| Bulgaria | 76 | Bulgaria | 71 |
| | | Italy | 80 |
| Italy | 94 | Italy | 80 |
| Israel | 73 | | |
| Israel | 73 | Seventh place | Seventh place |
| | | Turkey | 78 |
| | | Israel | 96 |

### 9th to 12th place

| Classification round | Classification round | Ninth place | Ninth place |
| Poland | 62 |
| France | 67 | | |
| France | 67 | France | 69 |
| | | Romania | 72 |
| Greece | 78 | Romania | 72 |
| Romania | 89 | | |
| Romania | 89 | Eleventh place | Eleventh place |
| | | Poland | 64 |
| | | Greece | 65 |
* 1973 FIBA EuroBasket champions
* Yugoslavia 1st title

## Final standings

* Yugoslavia
* Spain
* Soviet Union
* Czechoslovakia
* Italy
* Bulgaria
* Israel
* Turkey
* Romania
* France
* Greece
* Poland

## Awards

* 1973 FIBA EuroBasket Championship MVP: Wayne Brabender ( Spain)
* All-Tournament Team
* Sergei Belov
* Francisco "Nino" Buscato
* Wayne Brabender (MVP)
* Krešimir Ćosić
* Atanas Golomeev

## Team rosters

1. Yugoslavia: Krešimir Ćosić, Dražen Dalipagić, Dragan Kićanović, Zoran Slavnić, Nikola Plećaš, Željko Jerkov, Vinko Jelovac, Damir Šolman, Rato Tvrdić, Milun Marović, Žarko Knežević, Dragi Ivković (Coach: Mirko Novosel)
2. Spain: Clifford Luyk, Wayne Brabender, Francisco "Nino" Buscato, Vicente Ramos, Rafael Rullan, Manuel Flores, Luis Miguel Santillana, Carmelo Cabrera, Gonzalo Sagi-Vela, Jose Luis Sagi-Vela, Miguel Angel Estrada, Enrique Margall (Coach: Antonio Díaz-Miguel)
3. Soviet Union: Sergei Belov, Modestas Paulauskas, Anatoly Myshkin, Ivan Edeshko, Zurab Sakandelidze, Sergei Kovalenko, Valeri Miloserdov, Evgeni Kovalenko, Aleksander Boloshev, Yuri Pavlov, Jaak Salumets, Nikolai Djachenko (Coach: Vladimir Kondrashin)
4. Czechoslovakia: Jiří Zídek Sr., Kamil Brabenec, Zdenek Kos, Jiří Zedníček, Jan Bobrovsky, Jiri Pospisil, Petr Novicky, Jan Blažek, Josef Klima, Vojtech Petr, Jiri Balastik, Gustav Hraska (Coach: Vladimir Heger)