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2005–06 Euroleague

Sports season

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title	Euroleague
image	Sazka_Arena_Ozzy.jpg
pixels	300
caption	The Sazka Arena in Prague hosted the Final Four
season	2005–06
champions	RUS CSKA Moscow (5th title)
runners_up	ISR Maccabi Elite
semifinalists	ESP Tau Cerámica
fourth_place	ESP Winterthur FC Barcelona
teams	24
MVP	Anthony Parker	MVP_link = EuroLeague MVP	MVP_n = USA
finals_MVP	Theo Papaloukas	finals_MVP_link = EuroLeague Final Four MVP	finals_MVP_n = GRE
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award6		award6_winner =	award6_link =	award6_n =
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PIR_leader	Anthony Parker	pir =20.5	pir_n = USA
top_scorer	Drew Nicholas	ppg =18.5	ppg_n = USA
rebounds_leader	Mirsad Türkcan	rpg =8.9	rpg_n = TUR
assists_leader	Pablo Prigioni	apg = 6.2	apg_n = ARG

The 2005–06 Euroleague was the 6th season of the professional basketball competition for elite clubs throughout Europe, organised by Euroleague Basketball Company, and it was the 49th season of the premier competition for European men's clubs overall.

The 2005–06 season featured 24 competing teams from 13 countries. The Final Four was held at the Sazka Arena in Prague, Czech Republic on April 30, 2006. CSKA Moscow defeat the defending champions, Maccabi Elite by a score of 73–69 in the final.

Team allocation

Distribution

The table below shows the default access list.

Teams entering in this round	Regular season
(24 teams)	Top 16
(16 teams)	Quarterfinals
(8 teams)

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
ESP Real Madrid (1st)
ESP Tau Cerámica (2nd)
ESP Unicaja Málaga (3rd)
ESP Winterthur Barcelona ([5th](2004-05-acb-season))LC
ITA Climamio Bologna (1st)
ITA Armani Jeans Milano (2nd)

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:

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 were not in the same group)
Points scored in all group matches
Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each group match 3–5 are used to break ties between 6th place teams

	Top five places in each group, plus highest-ranked sixth-place team, advanced to Top 16

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	ESP Tau Cerámica	14	11	3	1130	976
2.	ITA Climamio Bologna	14	10	4	1114	989
3.	LTU Žalgiris	14	9	5	1065	1037
4.	ITA Benetton Treviso	14	8	6	1042	1134
5.	GER CHP Bamberg	14	7	7	975	1023
6.	SLO Union Olimpija	14	5	9	1059	1080
7.	FRA Strasbourg	14	3	11	972	1058
8.	GRE AEK	14	3	11	940	1100

Group B

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	ISR Maccabi Elite	14	9	5	1220	1135
2.	TUR Efes Pilsen	14	9	5	1025	995
3.	LTU Lietuvos Rytas	14	8	6	1068	1012
4.	ESP Winterthur FC Barcelona	14	8	6	1079	1021
5.	GRE Olympiacos	14	7	7	1085	1059
6.	CRO Cibona VIP	14	6	8	917	1054
7.	POL Prokom Trefl Sopot	14	5	9	997	1066
8.	ITA Armani Jeans Milano	14	5	9	1036	1085

Group C

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	ESP Unicaja Málaga	14	12	2	1100	1015
2.	GRE Panathinaikos	14	12	2	1219	1063
3.	RUS CSKA Moscow	14	10	4	1116	950
4.	ESP Real Madrid	14	7	7	1012	1004
5.	TUR Ülker	14	5	9	1000	1055
6.	ITA Montepaschi Siena	14	4	10	1001	1055
7.	FRA Pau-Orthez	14	4	10	971	1103
8.	SCG Partizan Pivara MB	14	2	12	978	1152

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

Unicaja Málaga, Tau Cerámica, Maccabi Elite, Panathinaikos Level 2: The remaining second-place teams, plus the top two third-place teams
Climamio Bologna, Efes Pilsen, CSKA Moscow, Žalgiris Level 3: The remaining third-place team, plus the three fourth-place teams
Lietuvos Rytas, Benetton Treviso, FC Barcelona, Real Madrid Level 4: The fifth-place teams, plus the top ranked sixth-place team
Olympiacos, Brose Bamberg, Ülker, Cibona

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

No more than two teams from the same Regular Season group could be placed in the same Top 16 group.
No more than two teams from the same country could be placed in the same Top 16 group.
If there was 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.

	Top two places in each group advanced to quarterfinals

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	ESP Winterthur FC Barcelona	6	5	1	448	434
2.	GRE Olympiacos	6	4	2	490	450
3.	ESP Unicaja Málaga	6	3	3	447	435
4.	LIT Žalgiris	6	0	6	425	491

Group E

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	ISR Maccabi Elite	6	5	1	491	448
2.	ESP Real Madrid	6	4	2	446	412
3.	ITA Climamio Bologna	6	2	4	469	477
4.	TUR Ülker	6	1	5	415	484

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	RUS CSKA Moscow	6	5	1	441	391
2.	ESP Tau Cerámica	6	4	2	453	422
3.	LIT Lietuvos Rytas	6	3	3	422	427
4.	GER CHP Bamberg	6	0	6	374	450

Group G

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	GRE Panathinaikos	6	3	3	447	419
2.	TUR Efes Pilsen	6	3	3	446	447
3.	ITA Benetton Treviso	6	3	3	476	488
4.	CRO Cibona VIP	6	3	3	458	473

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.

Final four

Main article: 2005–06 Euroleague Final Four

Semifinals

April 28, Sazka Arena, Prague |}

3rd place game

April 30, Sazka Arena, Prague |}

Final

April 30, Sazka Arena, Prague |}

2005–06 Euroleague
Champions
RUS
CSKA Moscow
5th Title

Final standings

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

Final Four 2006 MVP

GRE Theodoros Papaloukas (CSKA Moscow)

Individual statistics

Rating

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rating	PIR
1.	USA Anthony Parker	ISR Maccabi Elite	25	513	20.52
2.	ESP Jorge Garbajosa	ESP Unicaja Málaga	18	348	19.33
3.	ARG Luis Scola	ESP Tau Cerámica	25	470	18.80

Points

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rating	PPG
1.	USA Drew Nicholas	ITA Benetton Treviso	20	369	18.45
2.	USA Scoonie Penn	CRO Cibona	20	341	17.05
3.	USA Louis Bullock	ESP Real Madrid	20	316	15.80

Rebounds

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rating	RPG
1.	TUR Mirsad Türkcan	TUR Ülker	16	143	8.94
2.	LIT Darjuš Lavrinovič	LTU Žalgiris	20	166	8.30
3.	LIT Robertas Javtokas	LTU Lietuvos Rytas	20	164	8.20

Assists

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rating	APG
1.	ARG Pablo Prigioni	ESP Tau Cerámica	25	156	6.24
2.	USA Tyus Edney	GRE Olympiacos	23	103	4.48
3.	GEO Shammond Williams	ESP Winterthur FC Barcelona	25	107	4.28

Other Stats

FT%	GRE Nikos Chatzis	GRE Olympiacos	20	0.969

Game highs

Fouls Drawn	SLO Jaka Lakovič	GRE Panathinaikos	15

Awards

Euroleague MVP

USA Anthony Parker (ISR Maccabi Elite)

Final Four MVP

GRE Theodoros Papaloukas (RUS CSKA Moscow)

Finals Top Scorer

USA Will Solomon (ISR Maccabi Tel Aviv)

All-Euroleague Team 2005–06

All-Euroleague First Team	Club Team	All-Euroleague Second Team	Club team
GRE Theodoros Papaloukas	RUS CSKA Moscow	ARG Pablo Prigioni	ESP Tau Cerámica
ESP Juan Carlos Navarro	ESP Winterthur FC Barcelona	GRE Vassilis Spanoulis	GRE Panathinaikos
USA Anthony Parker	ISR Maccabi Elite	USA Trajan Langdon	RUS CSKA Moscow
ARG Luis Scola	ESP Tau Cerámica	ESP Jorge Garbajosa	ESP Unicaja Málaga
CRO Nikola Vujčić	ISR Maccabi Elite	LIT Darjuš Lavrinovič	LIT Žalgiris

Best Defender

GRE Dimitris Diamantidis (GRE Panathinaikos)

Rising Star

ITA Andrea Bargnani (ITA Benetton Treviso)

Alphonso Ford Top Scorer

USA Drew Nicholas (ITA Benetton Treviso)

Alexander Gomelsky Coach of the Year

ITA Ettore Messina (RUS CSKA Moscow)

Club Executive of the Year

RUS Sergey Kushchenko (RUS CSKA Moscow)

Regular season

Main article: EuroLeague MVP of the Round

Game	Player	Team	Rating
1	SCG Dejan Milojević	SCG Partizan	33
CRO Nikola Vujčić	ISR Maccabi Elite	33
2	GRE Vassilis Spanoulis	GRE Panathinaikos	32
3	CRO Marko Popović	TUR Efes Pilsen	31
4	USA Maceo Baston	ISR Maccabi Elite	35
5	SCG Dejan Milojević (2)	SCG Partizan	33
USA Lynn Greer	FRA Strasbourg	33
6	BIH Haris Mujezinović	LTU Lietuvos Rytas	36
USA Anthony Parker	ISR Maccabi Elite	36
7	USA Scoonie Penn	CRO Cibona	36
8	USA Spencer Nelson	GER Brose Bamberg	48
9	CRO Andrija Zizić	GRE Olympiacos	41
10	USA Mike Batiste	GRE Panathinaikos	33
11	USA Louis Bullock	ESP Real Madrid	34
12	CRO Marko Popović (2)	TUR Efes Pilsen	40
13	USA Tyus Edney	GRE Olympiacos	38
ESP Felipe Reyes	ESP Real Madrid	38
14	USA Scoonie Penn (2)	CRO Cibona	37

Top 16

Game	Player	Team
1	USA Anthony Parker (2)	ISR Maccabi Elite
2	SCG Igor Rakočević	ESP Real Madrid
GRE Sofoklis Schortsanitis	GRE Olympiacos	32
3	ESP Jorge Garbajosa	ESP Unicaja Málaga
4	USA Maceo Baston (2)	ISR Maccabi Elite
CRO Nikola Prkacin	TUR Efes Pilsen	28
USA Antonio Granger	TUR Efes Pilsen	28
5	SCG Igor Rakočević (2)	ESP Real Madrid
6	BIH Henry Domercant	TUR Efes Pilsen
USA Maceo Baston (3)	ISR Maccabi Elite	29

Playoffs

Game	Player	Team
1-2	GRE Vassilis Spanoulis (2)	GRE Panathinaikos
3	GRE Michalis Kakiouzis	ESP Winterthur FC Barcelona

MVP of the Month

Main article: EuroLeague MVP of the Month

Month	Player	Team
November 2005	TUR Kaya Peker	TUR Efes Pilsen
December 2005	ESP Jorge Garbajosa	ESP Unicaja Málaga
January 2006	ESP Juan Carlos Navarro	ESP Winterthur FC Barcelona
February 2006	USA Tyus Edney	GRE Olympiacos
March 2006	USA Maceo Baston	ISR Maccabi Elite
April 2006	USA Trajan Langdon	RUS CSKA Moscow

References and notes

Euroleague Competition Format

References

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