EuroBasket 1973

The 1973 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 1973, was the eighteenth FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship, held by FIBA Europe.

EuroBasket 1973
XVIII Campeonato Europeo de Baloncesto
Tournament details
CitySpain
Dates27 September – 6 October
Teams12
Venue(s)2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Yugoslavia (1st title)
Runners-up Spain
Third place Soviet Union
Fourth place Czechoslovakia
Tournament statistics
MVPSpain Wayne Brabender
Top scorerBulgaria Atanas Golomeev
(22.3 points per game)

Venues
Barcelona Badalona
Palacio de los Deportes
Capacity 8 000		 Pabellón de Ausias March
Capacity 5 000

Group stage

Group A – Badalona
 Poland Soviet Union83–104
 Czechoslovakia Israel92–89
 Turkey Romania69–84
 Czechoslovakia Soviet Union55–77
 Israel Romania85–80
 Poland Turkey64–65
 Soviet Union Turkey79–53
 Czechoslovakia Romania70–61
 Israel Poland98–84
 Czechoslovakia Turkey66–64
 Soviet Union Israel101–78
 Romania Poland60–66
 Romania Soviet Union84–98
 Czechoslovakia Poland81–79
 Turkey Israel94–93
Pos.TeamMatchesWinsLossesResultsPointsDiff.
1. Soviet Union550459:35310+106
2. Czechoslovakia541364:3708−6
3. Turkey523345:3864−41
4. Israel523443:4514−8
5. Poland514376:4082−32
6. Romania514369:3882−19

Group B – Barcelona
 Bulgaria France89–70
 Spain Yugoslavia59–65
 Greece Italy54–59
 Greece Yugoslavia68–84
 Spain Bulgaria85–69
 Italy France71–63
 Greece France67–62
 Yugoslavia Bulgaria76–65
 Italy Spain65–77
 Greece Bulgaria72–86
 France Spain80–85
 Yugoslavia Italy73–71
 Bulgaria Italy58–69
 Greece Spain74–86
 France Yugoslavia70–80
Pos.TeamMatchesWinsLossesResultsPointsDiff.
1. Yugoslavia550378:33310+45
2. Spain541392:3538+29
3. Italy532335:3256+10
4. Bulgaria523367:3724−5
5. Greece514335:3772−42
6. France505345:3920−47

Knockout stage
 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
 
 
 
  Soviet Union 76
 
 
 
  Spain 80
 
  Spain 67
 
 
 
  Yugoslavia 78
 
  Yugoslavia 96
 
 
  Czechoslovakia 71
 
Third place
 
 
 
 
 
  Soviet Union 90
 
 
  Czechoslovakia 58

5th to 8th place
 
Classification roundFifth place
 
      
 
 
 
 
  Turkey 67
 
 
 
  Bulgaria 76
 
  Bulgaria 71
 
 
 
  Italy 80
 
  Italy 94
 
 
  Israel 73
 
Seventh place
 
 
 
 
 
  Turkey 78
 
 
  Israel 96

9th to 12th place
 
Classification roundNinth place
 
      
 
 
 
 
  Poland 62
 
 
 
  France 67
 
  France 69
 
 
 
  Romania 72
 
  Greece 78
 
 
  Romania 89
 
Eleventh place
 
 
 
 
 
  Poland 64
 
 
  Greece 65
 1973 FIBA EuroBasket champions 

Yugoslavia
1st title

Final standings
  1.  Yugoslavia
  2.  Spain
  3.  Soviet Union
  4.  Czechoslovakia
  5.  Italy
  6.  Bulgaria
  7.  Israel
  8.  Turkey
  9.  Romania
  10.  France
  11.  Greece
  12.  Poland

Awards
1973 FIBA EuroBasket Championship MVP: Wayne Brabender (Spain Spain)
All-Tournament Team[1]
Soviet Union Sergei Belov
Spain Francisco "Nino" Buscato
Spain Wayne Brabender (MVP)
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Krešimir Ćosić
Bulgaria Atanas Golomeev

Team rosters

1. Yugoslavia: Krešimir Ćosić, Dražen Dalipagić, Dragan Kićanović, Zoran Slavnić, Nikola Plećaš, Željko Jerkov, Vinko Jelovac, Damir Šolman, Rato Tvrdić, Milun Marović, Žarko Knežević, Dragi Ivković (Coach: Mirko Novosel)

2. Spain: Clifford Luyk, Wayne Brabender, Francisco "Nino" Buscato, Vicente Ramos, Rafael Rullan, Manuel Flores, Luis Miguel Santillana, Carmelo Cabrera, Gonzalo Sagi-Vela, Jose Luis Sagi-Vela, Miguel Angel Estrada, Enrique Margall (Coach: Antonio Díaz-Miguel)

3. Soviet Union: Sergei Belov, Modestas Paulauskas, Anatoly Myshkin, Ivan Edeshko, Zurab Sakandelidze, Sergei Kovalenko, Valeri Miloserdov, Evgeni Kovalenko, Aleksander Boloshev, Yuri Pavlov, Jaak Salumets, Nikolai Djachenko (Coach: Vladimir Kondrashin)

4. Czechoslovakia: Jiří Zídek Sr., Kamil Brabenec, Zdenek Kos, Jiří Zedníček, Jan Bobrovsky, Jiri Pospisil, Petr Novicky, Jan Blažek, Josef Klima, Vojtech Petr, Jiri Balastik, Gustav Hraska (Coach: Vladimir Heger)

References
  1. Linguasport.com Tournament Team.
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