2013–14 Euroleague
The 2013–14 Turkish Airlines Euroleague was the 14th season of the modern era of Euroleague Basketball and the fourth under the title sponsorship of the Turkish Airlines. Including the competition's previous incarnation as the FIBA Europe Champions Cup, this was the 57th season of the premier competition for European men's clubs. Euroleague Basketball Company, in its annual meeting in Barcelona, determined the site of the season's Euroleague Final Four venue. London was originally supposed to host the Final Four, but it was decided that the 2014 Euroleague Final Four be held at the Mediolanum Forum , in Milan. In the championship final game, Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv defeated the previous season's runners-up, Real Madrid, by a score of 98-86 after overtime, and won its sixth Euroleague title in the club's history. Allocation. There were three routes to participation in the Euroleague: The Euroleague had the right to cancel an A license for one of the following reasons: Euroleague allocation criteria. A licenses. Classification after the 2012–13 season, including also the 2010–11 and the 2011–12 seasons. B licenses. B licenses could be given to every team without an A license. If in the  allocation appeared a team with an A license, the next team in the criteria would receive the B license, which qualified directly to the Regular Season. Finally, both organizations agreed that if the team that was in the first position after the Regular Season met all of the B-licence minimum requirements, it would qualify to Euroleague. In that case, Igokea did not meet the required criteria, so Euroleague Basketball applied the 2012–13 Euroleague Bylaws, by which the 2013 ABA Final Four champion and the runner-up, would take the first two Adriatic positions in that order, whilst the next  highest regular season team would take the final Adriatic position. Vacant C license of Lokomotiv Kuban (2012–13 Eurocup champion), qualified with a B license, Asseco Prokom's lost A license, and the B license rejected by Acea Roma converted to a wild card: Competition format changes. As new, for this Euroleague season, the eliminated teams in the Regular Season, were dropped to the Eurocup. Teams. The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round (TH: Euroleague title holders): Qualifying rounds. The eight teams participated in a single-venue tournament format, from October  1 until October 4, 2013. All games were played in the Siemens Arena in Vilnius, Lithuania. Draw. The draws for the 2013–14 Turkish Airlines Euroleague were held on Thursday, 4 July. 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 could not be drawn together in the same Regular Season group. Regular season. The regular season was played between October 17 and December 20. If teams were level on record at the end of the Regular  Season, tiebreakers were applied in the following order: Top 16. The Top 16 began on January 2 and ended on April 11, 2014. If teams were level on record at the end of the Top 16, tiebreakers were applied in the following order: See the detailed group stage page for tiebreakers if two or more teams were equal on points. </onlyinclude> Group F. <onlyinclude> Quarterfinals. Team 1 hosted Games 1 and 2, plus Game 5 if necessary. Team 2 hosted Game 3, and Game 4 if necessary. Final Four. The Final Four was the last phase  of the season and was held over a weekend. The semifinal games were played on 16 May, while the third place game and championship game were played on 18 May. The Final Four was held at the Mediolanum Forum in Milan, Italy. Source: Euroleague Basketball