The 1999–2000 FIBA EuroLeague was the 43rd installment of the European top-tier level professional club competition for basketball clubs (now called simply EuroLeague). It began on September 23, 1999, and ended on April 20, 2000. The competition's Final Four was held at PAOK Sports Arena, Thessaloniki, with Panathinaikos defeating Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv in the EuroLeague Final, in front of 8,500 spectators.
Efes Pilsen finished in the third position, and FC Barcelona finished fourth.
Contents
Competition system
24 teams (the national domestic league champions from the best leagues, and a variable number of other clubs from the most important national domestic leagues). The competition culminated in a Final Four.
Country ranking
For the 1999–2000 EuroLeague, the countries are allocated places according to their place on the FIBA country rankings, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1996–97 to 1998–99.
Note
Team allocation
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.: League position after Playoffs
WC: Wild card
Preliminary round
Qualification round
(The individual scores and standings of the First stage were accumulated in the Second stage)
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
Play Offs
Bracket
Teams in bold advanced to the next round. The numbers to the left of each team indicate the team's seeding, the numbers to the right indicate the result of games including result in bold of the team that won in that game, and the numbers furthest to the right indicate the number of games the team won in that round.
Final Four
Semifinals
April 18, PAOK Sports Arena, Thessaloniki
Third place game
April 20, PAOK Sports Arena, Thessaloniki
Final
April 20, PAOK Sports Arena, Thessaloniki
Awards
All official awards of the 1999–2000 FIBA EuroLeague.
FIBA EuroLeague Final Four MVP
Željko Rebrača ( Panathinaikos)
FIBA EuroLeague Top Scorer
Miljan Goljović ( Pivovarna Laško)
FIBA EuroLeague Finals Top Scorer
Nate Huffman ( Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv)
Statistics
Individual statistics
Source: FIBAEurope
Source: FIBAEurope
Source: FIBAEurope
Source: FIBAEurope