1973 FIBA Korać Cup

1973 FIBA Korać Cup
League	FIBA Korać Cup
Sport	Basketball
Finals
Champions	Forst Cantù
Runners-up	Racing Maes Pils Mechelen

The 1973 FIBA Korać Cup was the second edition of FIBA's new competition, running from 9 January to 27 March 1973. It was contested by 12 teams, four more than in the previous edition.

Forst Cantù defeated Racing Maes Pils Mechelen in the final to become the competition's first Italian champion.

Season teams

Country	Teams	Clubs (ranking in 1971–72 national league)
Belgium	2	Racing Maes Pils Mechelen	Standard Liège
France	2	Berck	Denain-Voltaire
Spain	2	FC Barcelona	Filomatic Picadero
Yugoslavia	2	Lokomotiva	Rabotnički
Greece	1	YMCA Thessaloniki
Italy	1	Forst Cantù
Luxembourg	1	Amicale
West Germany	1	Wolfenbüttel

Round of 12

The round of 12 were played with a round-robin system, in which every Two Game series (TGS) constituted as one game for the record.

Key to colors
	Top place in each group advance to semifinals

Group A

Main article: 1973 FIBA Korać Cup Group A

	Team	Pld	Pts	W	L	PF	PA	PD
1.	Racing Maes Pils Mechelen	2	4	2	0	369	323	+46
2.	Lokomotiva	2	3	1	1	333	326	+7
3.	YMCA Thessaloniki	2	2	0	2	273	326	-53

Group B

Main article: 1973 FIBA Korać Cup Group B

	Team	Pld	Pts	W	L	PF	PA	PD
1.	FC Barcelona	2	4	2	0	229	198	+31
2.	Denain-Voltaire	2	3	1	1	293	270	+23
3.	Amicale	2	2	0	2	189	243	-54

Group C

Main article: 1973 FIBA Korać Cup Group C

	Team	Pld	Pts	W	L	PF	PA	PD
1.	Forst Cantù	2	4	2	0	349	301	+48
2.	Berck	2	3	1	1	342	315	+27
3.	Standard Liège	2	2	0	2	311	386	-75

Group D

Main article: 1973 FIBA Korać Cup Group D

	Team	Pld	Pts	W	L	PF	PA	PD
1.	Filomatic Picadero	2	4	1	1	129	112	+17
2.	Wolfenbüttel	2	2	1	1	112	129	-17
3.	Rabotnički*	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

*Rabotnički originally drawn this group, withdrew before the competition.

Semi finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Racing Maes Pils Mechelen	177–169	FC Barcelona	99–87	78–82
Filomatic Picadero	163–194	Forst Cantù	81–82	82-112

Finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Forst Cantù	191–169	Racing Maes Pils Mechelen	106–75	85–94

1973 FIBA Korać Cup Champions
Forst Cantù 1st title

References

Linguasport

Forst Cantù 1973 FIBA Korać Cup Winners

Marzorati Lienhard Recalcati Farina Beretta Della Fiori Vendemini Meneghel Tombolato Cattini Zonta Coach Taurisano

Korać Cup seasons

1972 1973 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02

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