1961–62 FIBA European Champions Cup

1961–62 FIBA European Champions Cup
League	FIBA European Champions Cup
Sport	Basketball
Finals
Champions	Dinamo Tbilisi
Runners-up	Real Madrid

The 1961–62 FIBA European Champions Cup season was the fifth season of the European top-tier level professional basketball club competition FIBA European Champions Cup (now called EuroLeague). It was won by Dinamo Tbilisi, after they beat Real Madrid, in the first ever single game EuroLeague Final, by a result of 90–83, in Geneva, Switzerland. For the first time, only one finals game was played, on a neutral court, due to the unstable political situation at the time.

European national domestic league champions, plus the then current FIBA European Champions Cup title holders only, playing in a tournament system. The Final was a single game, played on a neutral court.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Casablancais	84–166	Real Madrid	46–84	38–82
Celtic	122–226	Antwerpse	62-82	60-144
The Wolves Amsterdam	87–113	Alsace de Bagnolet	40-52	47-61
Etzella	110–149	USC Heidelberg	51-66	59-83
Engelmann Wien	141–185	AŠK Olimpija	77-99	64-86
SISU	90–156	Helsingin Kisa-Toverit	57-70	33-86
Hapoel Tel Aviv	166–130	Panathinaikos	82-58	84-72
Wissenschaft Berlin	119–197	Honvéd	58-84	61-113
Benfica	97–174	Ignis Varese	49-73	48-101

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Helsingin Kisa-Toverit	145–179	Legia Warsaw	65-86	80-93
Ignis Varese	144–163	Real Madrid	82–80	62–83
USC Heidelberg	139–192	AŠK Olimpija	81-95	58-97
Hapoel Tel Aviv	139–140	Darüşşafaka	69-65	70-75
Honvéd	148–149	Iskra Svit	90-74	58-75
Steaua București	153–159	Dinamo Tbilisi	76-77	77-82
Antwerpse	137–127	Alsace de Bagnolet	87-61	50-66

Automatically qualified to the quarter-finals

• CSKA Moscow (title holder)

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
CSKA Moscow	140–110	Iskra Svit	85-53	55-57
Darüşşafaka	116–164	Dinamo Tbilisi	67-80	49-84
Antwerpse	143–173	AŠK Olimpija	87-83	56-90
Legia Warsaw	144–162	Real Madrid	73–62	71–100

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
CSKA Moscow	137–152	Dinamo Tbilisi	71-75	66-77
AŠK Olimpija	158–160	Real Madrid	105–91	53–69

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Dinamo Tbilisi	90–83	Real Madrid

Patinoire des Vernets, Geneva, Switzerland. Attendance:5,000^[1]
29 June 1962

1961–62 FIBA European Champions Cup Champions
Dinamo Tbilisi 1st Title

Dynamo after the Final

Match Fact File

• Wayne Hightower ( Real Madrid)

• 1961–62 FIBA European Champions Cup
• 1961–62 FIBA European Champions Cup Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
• 1961–62 FIBA European Champions Cup
• Champions Cup 1961–62 Line-ups and Stats