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1995–96 FIBA European League

Field	Value
title	1995–96 FIBA European League
league	FIBA European League
sport	Basketball
season	Regular Season
MVP_link	Euroleague MVP
top_scorer	USA Joe Arlauckas (Real Madrid)
top_scorer_link	Alphonso Ford Trophy
finals	Final Four
finals_link	1996 FIBA European League Final Four
finals_champ	GRE Panathinaikos
finals_runner-up	ESP FC Barcelona Banca Catalana
final_four_MVP	USA Dominique Wilkins (Panathinaikos)
final_four_MVP_link	Euroleague Final Four MVP
seasonslistnames	FIBA European League
prevseason_link	1994–95 FIBA European League
prevseason_year	1994–95
nextseason_year	1996–97
nextseason_link	1996–97 FIBA EuroLeague

| finals_runner-up = ESP FC Barcelona Banca Catalana The 1995–96 FIBA European League, also shortened to 1995–96 FIBA EuroLeague, was the 39th installment of the European top-tier level professional club competition for basketball clubs (now called EuroLeague). It began on September 7, 1995, and ended on April 11, 1996. Panathinaikos B.C. became the first Greek team to lift the FIBA European League championship after beating FC Barcelona Banca Catalana by one point in the final match of the competition's Final Four, which was held at Paris.

The 1995–96 season saw the return of 1991-92 European League champion Partizan on the international scene, after three years ban of Yugoslav clubs due to UN embargo. However, Partizan was eliminated in the qualifying rounds.

It was the last season of the competition that took place under the name of FIBA European League, as the competition was renamed to FIBA EuroLeague, starting with the next season.

Competition system

42 teams (the cup title holder, national domestic league champions, and a variable number of other clubs from the most important national domestic leagues) played knock-out rounds on a home and away basis. The aggregate score of both games decided the winner.
The sixteen remaining teams after the knock-out rounds entered the Regular Season Group Stage, divided into two groups of eight teams, playing a round-robin. The final standing was based on individual wins and defeats. In the case of a tie between two or more teams after the group stage, the following criteria were used to decide the final classification: 1) number of wins in one-to-one games between the teams; 2) basket average between the teams; 3) general basket average within the group.
The top four teams from each group after the Regular Season Group Stage qualified for a quarterfinal playoff (X-pairings, best of 3 games).
The four winners of the quarterfinal playoff qualified for the final stage (Final Four), which was played at a predetermined venue.

Country ranking

For the 1995–1996 FIBA European League, the countries are allocated places according to their place on the FIBA country rankings, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1992–93 to 1994–95.

Rank	Country	1992-93	1993-94	1994-95
	212	340	300	284,00
	253	322	249,375	274,79
	363	173	260	265,33
	219	123	179	173,67
	62,86	70	68	66,95
	58,33	73	69	66,78
	37	45	103	61,67
	66	48	61	58,33
	24	72,5	27,5	41,33
	51	37	24	37,33
	12	10	59	27,00
	9	21	25,83	18,61
	15,33	13	27	18,44
	13	13	11	12,33
	5,33	7,5	18	10,28
	4,5	4	18,33	8,94
Macedonia	0	20	6	8,67
	6	9	8,5	7,83
	0	10	8,33	6,11
	11	2	4,67	5,89
	3	2	12	5,67
	6	2	9	5,67

Rank	Country	1992-93	1993-94	1994-95
	7,5	5,67	1,33	4,83
	5,33	5,33	3	4,55
	1	6	4,67	3,89
	4	2	2	2,67
	0,37	1	6	2,46
	3,5	1,67	2	2,39
	0,67	4,17	2	2,28
	1,67	2,33	2,5	2,17
	2	0	3,33	1,78
	1	0,67	2	1,22
	0,33	2,5	0,2	1,01
	1	0,33	1,67	1,00
	0	0	2	0,67
	0,4	0,5	0	0,30
	0,4	0	0	0,13
	0	0,2	0,2	0,13
	0	0	0,2	0,07
	0	0,2	0	0,07
	0	0,2	0	0,07
	0,2	0	0	0,07
(banned)	0	0	0	0

Team allocation

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:

TH: Title holder.
1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.: League position after Playoffs.

Group stage	Second round	First round
ESP FCB Banca Catalana ([1st](1994-95-acb-season))	GRE Olympiacos (1st)	FRA Olympique Antibes (1st)
ESP Unicaja ([2nd](1994-95-acb-season))	ITA Buckler Beer Bologna (1st)	GER Bayer 04 Leverkusen (1st)
ESP Real Madrid Teka ([3rd](1994-95-acb-season))TH	ITA Benetton Treviso (2nd)	ISR Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv (1st)
GRE Panathinaikos (2nd)	CRO Cibona (1st)	SVN Smelt Olimpija ([1st](1994-95-slovenian-basketball-league))
GRE Iraklis Aspis Pronoia (3rd)	TUR Ülker Genclik (1st)	RUS CSKA Moscow (1st)
FRA Pau-Orthez (2nd)	POL Mazowzanka (1st)	CYP APOEL (1st)
CRO Zrinjevac (2nd)	MKD Rabotnički (1st)	AUT UKJ SUBA Sankt Pölten (1st)
ISR Hapoel Galil Elyon (2nd)	SUI Fidefinanz Bellinzona (1st)	LUX Résidence (1st)
BEL Sunair Oostende (1st)	SVK Baník Cígeľ Prievidza (1st)	SWE Alvik (1st)
UKR Budivelnyk (1st)	ROM CSU Forest Sibiu (1st)	FIN Kouvot (1st)
CZE Stavex Brno (1st)	LIT Žalgiris (1st)	ENG Sheffield Sharks ([1st](1994-95-british-basketball-league-season))
HUN Danone-Honvéd (1st)	BGR Plama Pleven (1st)	NED Rene Coltof Den Helder (1st)

First round

Second round

Group stage

If one or more clubs are level on won-lost record, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:

Head-to-head record in matches between the tied clubs
Overall point difference in games between the tied clubs
Overall point difference in all group matches (first tiebreaker if tied clubs are not in the same group)
Points scored in all group matches
Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each group match

	Eliminated

Team	Pld	Pts	W	L	PF	PA	PD
1.	RUS CSKA Moscow	14	24	10	4	1162	1081
2.	ITA Benetton Treviso	14	24	10	4	1157	1096
3.	GRE Olympiacos	14	24	10	4	1132	1046
4.	TUR Ülker	14	20	6	8	1078	1104
5.	ESP Unicaja	14	20	6	8	1104	1081
6.	FRA Olympique Antibes	14	20	6	8	1108	1169
7.	GER Bayer 04 Leverkusen	14	19	5	9	1067	1112
8.	GRE Iraklis Aspis Pronoia	14	17	3	11	945	1064

Group B

Team	Pld	Pts	W	L	PF	PA	PD
1.	ESP FC Barcelona Banca Catalana	14	24	10	4	1145	1077
2.	ESP Real Madrid Teka	14	23	9	5	1108	1079
3.	GRE Panathinaikos	14	23	9	5	1035	1007
4.	FRA Pau-Orthez	14	22	8	6	1127	1092
5.	ITA Buckler Beer Bologna	14	20	6	8	1181	1149
6.	ISR Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv	14	20	6	8	1105	1143
7.	CRO Cibona	14	20	6	8	1011	1052
8.	POR Benfica	14	16	2	12	1046	1159

Quarterfinals

Final four

Main article: 1996 FIBA European League Final Four

Semifinals

April 9, Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, Paris |}

3rd place game

April 11, Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, Paris |}

Final

April 11, Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, Paris |}

1995–96 FIBA European League Champions
	GRE
Panathinaikos
1st Title

Final standings

Team
[[File:Coppa_del_Campionato_di_Pallacanestro.png	15px]]

Awards

[[EuroLeague Top Scorer|FIBA European League Top Scorer]]

USA Joe Arlauckas (ESP Real Madrid Teka)

[[EuroLeague Final Four MVP|FIBA European League Final Four MVP]]

USA Dominique Wilkins (GRE Panathinaikos)

[[EuroLeague Finals Top Scorer|FIBA European League Finals Top Scorer]]

LTU Artūras Karnišovas (ESP FC Barcelona Banca Catalana)

[[EuroLeague All-Final Four Team|FIBA European League All-Final Four Team]]

Player	Team	Ref.
Russia Vasily Karasev	CSKA Moscow
Greece Fragiskos Alvertis	Panathinaikos
Lithuania Artūras Karnišovas	FC Barcelona Banca Catalana
USA Dominique Wilkins (MVP)	Panathinaikos
Croatia Stojko Vranković	Panathinaikos

References

(2009-11-21). "FIBA Ranking System".
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