2004–05 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
• WC: Wild card
• LC: 3-year licence
• TH: title holder

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 two top teams advancing to the quarterfinals. Tiebreakers were identical to those used in the Regular 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, Climamio Bologna, Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv, Efes Pilsen Level 2: The remaining second-place teams, plus the top two third-place teams
• FC Barcelona, Panathinaikos, Benetton Treviso, Cibona Level 3: The remaining third-place team, plus the three fourth-place teams
• Žalgiris, Ülker, Real Madrid, AEK Level 4: The fifth-place teams, plus the top ranked sixth-place team
• Tau Cerámica, Montepaschi Siena, Prokom Trefl Sopot, Scavolini Pesaro

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 was a conflict between these two restrictions, (1) would receive priority.

Group E

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Group G

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Quarterfinals

Each quarterfinal was a best-of-three series between a first-place team in the Top 16 and a second-place team from a different group, with the first-place team receiving home advantage.

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Final four

Main article: 2005 Euroleague Final Four

Individual statistics

Rating

Points

Rebounds

Assists

Other Stats

Awards

Euroleague MVP

• USA Anthony Parker (ISR Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv)

Final Four MVP

• LIT Šarūnas Jasikevičius (ISR Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv)

Finals Top Scorer

• LIT Šarūnas Jasikevičius (ISR Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv)

All-Euroleague First Team

• LIT Šarūnas Jasikevičius (ISR Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv)
• LIT Arvydas Macijauskas (ESP Tau Cerámica)
• USA Anthony Parker (ISR Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv)
• AUS David Andersen (RUS CSKA Moscow)
• CRO Nikola Vujčić (ISR Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv)

All-Euroleague Second Team

• SLO Jaka Lakovič (GRE Panathinaikos)
• USA Marcus Brown (RUS CSKA Moscow)
• USA Charles Smith (ITA Scavolini Pesaro)
• ARG Luis Scola (ESP Tau Cerámica)
• USA Tanoka Beard (LIT Žalgiris)

Rising Star

• SLO Erazem Lorbek (ITA Climamio Bologna)

Best Defender

• GRE Dimitris Diamantidis (GRE Panathinaikos)

[[Alphonso Ford]] Top Scorer

• USA Charles Smith (ITA Scavolini Pesaro)

[[Alexander Gomelsky]] Coach of the Year

• ISR Pini Gershon (ISR Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv)

Club Executive of the Year

• ESP Jose Antonio Querejeta (ESP Tau Cerámica)

References and notes

Euroleague Competition Format