2003–04 Euroleague

Team allocation

Distribution

The table below shows the default access list.

Teams

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round (TH: EuroLeague title holders)

• 1st, 2nd, etc.: League position after Playoffs
• LC: 3-year licence
• WC: Wild card

Regular season

The first phase was a regular season, in which the competing teams were drawn into three groups, each containing eight teams. Each team played every other team in its group at home and away, resulting in 14 games for each team in the first stage. The top 5 teams in each group and the best sixth-placed team advanced to the next round. The complete list of tiebreakers was provided in the lead-in to the Regular Season results.

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

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

Group B

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Group C

Top 16

The surviving teams were divided into four groups of four teams each, and again a round robin system was adopted resulting in 6 games each, with the top team advancing to the Final Four. Tiebreakers were identical to those used in the Regular Season.

This was the last season in which teams advanced directly from the Top 16 to the Final Four. A quarterfinal round was introduced in the 2004–05 season.

The draw was held in accordance with Euroleague rules.

The teams were placed into four pools, as follows:

Level 1: The three group winners, plus the top-ranked second-place team

• CSKA Moscow, FC Barcelona, Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv, Efes Pilsen Level 2: The remaining second-place teams, plus the top two third-place teams
• Skipper Bologna, Pamesa Valencia, Benetton Treviso, Cibona Level 3: The remaining third-place team, plus the three fourth-place teams
• Union Olimpija, Ülker, Montepaschi Siena, Tau Cerámica Level 4: The fifth-place teams, plus the top ranked sixth-place team
• Pau-Orthez, Panathinaikos, Olympiacos, Žalgiris

Each Top 16 group included one team from each pool. The draw was conducted under the following restrictions:

1. No more than two teams from the same Regular Season group could be placed in the same Top 16 group.
2. No more than two teams from the same country could be placed in the same Top 16 group.
3. If there is a conflict between these two restrictions, (1) would receive priority.

Another draw was held to determine the order of fixtures. In the case of two teams from the same city in the Top 16 (Panathinaikos and Olympiacos, Efes Pilsen and Ülker) they were scheduled so that every week only one team would be at home.

Group E

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Group G

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Final four

Main article: 2003–04 Euroleague Final Four

Semifinals

April 29, Nokia Arena, Tel Aviv |}

3rd place game

May 1, Nokia Arena, Tel Aviv |}

Final

May 1, Nokia Arena, Tel Aviv |}

Final standings

Awards

Top Scorer

• USA Lynn Greer (POL Śląsk Wrocław)

Regular Season MVP

• LIT Arvydas Sabonis (LIT Žalgiris)

Top 16 MVP

• LIT Arvydas Sabonis (LIT Žalgiris)

Final Four MVP

• USA Anthony Parker (ISR Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv)

Finals Top Scorer

• USA Anthony Parker (ISR Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv) & SCG Miloš Vujanić (ITA Skipper Bologna)

All-Euroleague First Team

• LIT Šarūnas Jasikevičius (ISR Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv)
• USA Marcus Brown (RUS CSKA Moscow)
• SCG Dejan Bodiroga (ESP FC Barcelona)
• TUR Mirsad Türkcan (RUS CSKA Moscow)
• LIT Arvydas Sabonis (LIT Žalgiris)

All-Euroleague Second Team

• SCG Miloš Vujanić (ITA Skipper Bologna)
• USA Lynn Greer (POL Śląsk Wrocław)
• BEL David Vanterpool (ITA Montepaschi Siena)
• ARG Andrés Nocioni (ESP Tau Cerámica)
• CRO Nikola Vujčić (ISR Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv)

References and notes

References

1. The venue for each year's Final Four is determined before the previous year's Final Four, before it can possibly be known who will advance.