FIBA EuroCup Challenge

In 2002 FIBA Europe abolished its two main club tournaments, the FIBA Saporta Cup and the FIBA Korac Cup and invited European teams to join their two newly formed competitions, the FIBA Europe Champions Cup and the FIBA Europe Regional Challenge Cup, which would function as FIBA's premium and secondary-tier tournaments, respectively,[1] Champions Cup started as a rival competition to the newly formed EuroLeague, already run by ULEB since 2000. During its first season 15 European champions (including Lietuvos Rytas, BK Ventspils) and 5 runners-up such as UNICS, Prokom participated in the tournament. Only the champions of Russia, Belgium and Netherlands chose to compete in the 2002-03 ULEB Cup which had been snubbed by teams from Greece, Lithuania and Israel. However, the revived Champions Cup never became a true rival to the ULEB Euroleague, and FIBA launched the FIBA Europe League in 2003 as its top competition instead. FIBA renamed the Champions Cup to FIBA Europe Cup which became then the 4th tier in the European pyramid. The competition was played during the 2002–03 to 2006–07 seasons. It was variously known as the FIBA Europe Champions Cup (2002–03), the FIBA Europe Cup (2003–05), and the FIBA EuroCup Challenge (2005–07).

Overall during those five season several historic European clubs played in the competition, such as ASK Riga, Fenerbahçe, KK Split, BC Khimki, Aris B.C., PAOK, Hapoel Jerusalem, Lietuvos Rytas, BK Ventspils, Ural Great Perm, Belenenses, PBC Academic, UNICS, Prokom, Dinamo Bucharest, Benetton Fribourg etc.

FIBA Europe Champions Cup:

• 2002–03 Aris

Willie Solomon, Ryan Stack, Ivan Grgat, Fedor Likholitov, Prodromos Nikolaidis, Ioannis Lappas, Ioannis Gagaloudis, Dimitar Angelov, Miroslav Raičević, Dimitrios Charitopoulos, Nikos Orfanos, Kostas Kakaroudis, Dimitris Merachtsakis (Head Coach: Vangelis Alexandris)

FIBA Europe Cup:

• 2003–04 Mitteldeutscher

Wendell Alexis, Manuchar Markoishvili, Paul Burke, Marijonas Petravičius, Misan Nikagbatse, Sebastian Machowski, Stephen Arigbabu, Jonas Elvikis, Per Ringstrom, Chauncey Leslie, Peter Fehse, Paul Bayer, Michael Krikemans (Head Coach: Henrik Dettmann)

• 2004–05 Asesoft Ploiești

Cătălin Burlacu, Ivan Krasic, Nikola Bulatović, Vladimir Kuzmanović, Paul Helcioiu, Marko Rakočević, Rares Apostol, Antonio Alexe, Levente Szijarto, Predrag Materić, Nicolae Toader, Marko Peković, Adrian Blidaru, Saša Ocokoljić (Head Coach: Mladjen Jojic)

FIBA EuroCup Challenge:

• 2005–06 Ural Great Perm

Derrick Alston, Terrell Lyday, Vasily Karasev, Jurica Golemac, Jasmin Hukić, Andre Hutson, Andrei Trushkin, Egor Vyaltsev, Vadim Panin, Evgeni Kolesnikov, Aleksandr Dedushkin, Arseni Kuchinsky, Vyacheslav Shushakov, Artem Kuzyakin (Head Coach: Sharon Drucker)

• 2006–07 CSK VVS Samara

Nikita Shabalkin, Omar Cook, Georgios Diamantopoulos, Kelvin Gibbs, Evgeni Voronov, Pavel Agapov, Gennadi Zelenskiy, Yaroslav Strelkin, Oleg Baranov, Pavel Ulyanko, Taras Osipov, Anton Glazunov, Alexei Kiryanov, Valeri Likhodey (Head Coach: Valeri Tikhonenko)

• FIBA EuroChallenge
• FIBA Europe Regional Challenge Cup
• FIBA Europe Conference North
• FIBA Europe Conference South

• FIBA EuroCup Challenge Homepage
• linguaspor
• List of Champions on Fiba Europe