The 2014–15 Turkish Airlines Euroleague was the 15th season of the modern era of EuroLeague basketball and the fifth under the title sponsorship of the Turkish Airlines. Including the competition's previous iteration as the FIBA Europe Champions Cup, this was the 58th season of the premier competition for European men's clubs.

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Euroleague
The Barclaycard Center in Madrid hosted the Final Four
Season	2014–15
Duration	16 October 2014 – 17 May 2015
Number of games	251
Number of teams	24
Regular season
Season MVP	Nemanja Bjelica
Finals
Champions	Real Madrid (9th title)
Runners-up	Olympiacos
Third place	CSKA Moscow
Fourth place	Fenerbahçe Ülker
Final Four MVP	Andrés Nocioni
Awards
Best Defender	Bryant Dunston
Rising Star	Bogdan Bogdanović
Statistical leaders
Points Taylor Rochestie 18.9 Rebounds Boban Marjanović 10.6 Assists Miloš Teodosić 7.0 Index Rating Boban Marjanović 25.7
Records
Biggest home win	Valencia 103–65 Neptūnas
Biggest away win	PGE Turów 65–104 Barcelona
Highest scoring	Galatasaray 110–103 Crvena Zvezda
Highest attendance	18,733 (Crvena Zvezda 72–79 Real Madrid)
Lowest attendance	534 (UNICS 85–62 Dinamo Sassari)
Total attendance	2,013,305
Average attendance	8,184
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The city of Madrid hosted the Final Four from May 15 to 17, 2015.^[1]

There were three routes to participation in the Euroleague:

• The 12 teams with an A-Licence from the 2013–14 Euroleague, based on their Euroleague Club Ranking.^[2]
• The 2013–14 Eurocup winner was given a C-Licence.
• The rest of the teams places were allocated from a list of 28 teams given a B-Licence ranked according to their European national basketball league rankings over the last year. 13 teams were given both an A-Licence or C-Licence and a B-Licence. When a country ranking spot had already been assigned to an A-Licence team, the assignation jumped to the next country appearing in the ranking, and their league was not granted an additional place in the competition. At least the first 9 of the remaining 16 teams were given places in the regular-season, and the next 6 were given places in the qualifying competition.
• If the Eurocup champion was qualified by receiving a B licence or some team with it resigned from the competition, a wild card had to be given by the Euroleague.

The Euroleague had the right to cancel an A licence for one of the following reasons:^[3]

• The club had the lowest ranking of all clubs with an A Licence, according to the Club Ranking.
• The club had ranked among the clubs placed in the bottom half of the national championship final standings.
• The club had financial problems.
• In Spanish League, when the champion and/or the runner-up of the league were teams without an A licence. In that case, the A licence club with the lowest position would play in Eurocup in the next season. If that happened three times in five years, the A licence of the club would have been cancelled.

Euroleague allocation criteria

A licences

Classification after the 2013–14 Euroleague, including also the 2011–12 and the 2012–13 seasons.^[4]

More information Rank, Team ...

Rank Team Points 1. CSKA Moscow 164 2. FC Barcelona 163 3. Olympiacos 154 4. Real Madrid 148 5. Maccabi Electra 141 6. Panathinaikos 139

Rank Team Points 7. Anadolu Efes 105 8. Unicaja 100 9. Fenerbahçe Ülker 99 10. Laboral Kutxa 97 11. Žalgiris 95 12. EA7 Milano 86

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• The A licence of EA7 Milano expired in June 2014, but Euroleague confirmed it as an A licensed team.^[5]
• Montepaschi Siena did not play in the Euroleague, due to financial troubles.^[6]

B licences

B licences could be given to every team without an A licence. If in the allocation appeared a team with A licence, the next team in the criteria would receive the B licence, which qualified directly to the Regular Season.^[7]

Key to colors

	A licensed teams
	B licensed teams
	Wild cards
	Teams qualified for the Qualifying Round

More information Team, Pos. ...

Team Pos. 1. FC Barcelona 1st 2. CSKA Moscow 1st 3. EA7 Milano 1st 4. Fenerbahçe Ülker 1st 5. Žalgiris 1st 6. Panathinaikos 1st 7. Limoges 1st 8. Bayern Munich 1st 9. Cibona (withdrew)[8] 1st 10. PGE Turów Zgorzelec 1st 11. Cedevita 2nd 12. Real Madrid 2nd 13. Nizhny Novgorod 2nd 14. Montepaschi Siena (withdrew) 2nd

Team Pos. 15. Galatasaray[9][10] 2nd 16. Neptūnas[11] 2nd 17. Olympiacos 2nd 18. Strasbourg 2nd 19. Alba Berlin 2nd 20. Crvena Zvezda 3rd 21. Budivelnyk (withdrew) 1st 22. ČEZ Nymburk 1st 23. Telenet Oostende 1st 24. Maccabi Electra 1st 25. Levski Sofia (rejected)[12] 1st 26. Ventspils 1st 27. Worcester Wolves 1st 28. Stelmet Zielona Góra 2nd

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Notes:

• Teams from Serbia and Croatia qualified through ABA League, and not through their national leagues.

C licence, replacements and wildcards

To the regular season

• Valencia (C licence as 2013–14 Eurocup winner)
• Alba Berlin (one-year wildcard which substituted Asseco Prokom's A-Licence removed in 2013)
• Dinamo Sassari (one-year wildcard which substituted Montepaschi Siena's A-licence, after it resigned in 2014)
• Crvena Zvezda (one-year wildcard which substituted Cibona's B-licence)

To the qualifying rounds

• UNICS (as 2013–14 VTB League best qualified without A or B licence)
• Hapoel Jerusalem (wildcard)
• ASVEL (wildcard)
• VEF Rīga (wildcard after the rejection of Levski Sofia)

The participating teams for the season were announced on June 25, 2014.^[13] The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round (TH: Euroleague title holders):

• A: Qualified through an A–licence
• 1st, 2nd, etc.: League position after Playoffs
• QR: Qualifying rounds
• WC: Wild card
• EC: Champion of the 2013–14 Eurocup

More information Regular season, Qualifying rounds ...

Regular season
FC Barcelona (A)	Fenerbahçe Ülker (A)	Bayern Munich (1st)	Žalgiris (A)
Real Madrid (A)	Galatasaray Liv Hospital (2nd)	ALBA Berlin (WC)	Neptūnas (2nd)
Unicaja (A)	Anadolu Efes (A)	Panathinaikos (A)	Limoges (1st)
Caja Laboral (A)	CSKA Moscow (A)	Olympiacos (A)	Maccabi ElectraTH (A)
Valencia (EC)	Nizhny Novgorod (2nd)	EA7 Emporio Armani Milano (A)	Crvena zvezda (WC)
PGE Turów Zgorzelec (1st)	Cedevita (2nd)	Banco di Sardegna Sassari (WC)
Qualifying rounds
SIG Strasbourg (2nd)	ČEZ Nymburk (1st)	Telenet Oostende (1st)	UNICS (WC)
ASVEL (WC)	Stelmet Zielona Góra (2nd)	VEF Rīga (2nd)	Hapoel Jerusalem (WC)

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Eight teams participated in a single-venue tournament format that took place in Ostend, Belgium, from 23 to 26 September.^[14] The winner advanced to the Euroleague regular season.^[15]

	Round 1					Round 2					Round 3
	1	UNICS	90
	4	Stelmet Zielona Góra	86
						1	UNICS	82
						2	Hapoel Jerusalem	71
	2	Hapoel Jerusalem	94
	3	ČEZ Nymburk	84
											1	UNICS	88
											2	ASVEL	79
	2	ASVEL	86
	3	Telenet Oostend	77
						2	ASVEL	74
						4	Strasbourg	65
	1	VEF Rīga	53
	4	Strasbourg	82

Teams were seeded into six pots of four teams in accordance with the Club Ranking, based on their performance in European competitions during a three-year period.

Two teams from the same country or league could not be drawn together in the same Regular Season group. In brackets, the points in the Club Ranking. Following the Eurocup bylaws, the lowest possible position that any club from that country or league could occupy in the draw was calculated by adding the results of the worst performing team from each league.

FC Barcelona

Real Madrid

Laboral Kutxa

Unicaja

Valencia

EA7 Milano

Dinamo Sassari

Anadolu Efes

Galatasaray

Fenerbahçe Ülker

Olympiacos

Panathinaikos

Žalgiris

Neptūnas

CSKA Moscow

Nizhny Novgorod

Alba Berlin

Bayern Munich

Maccabi Electra

Crvena Zvezda

Cedevita

Turów Zgorzelec

Limoges

UNICS

Location of teams of the 2014–15 Euroleague group stage.
Red: Group A; Green: Group B; Blue: Group C; Yellow: Group D.

The regular season was played between October 16 and December 19.

If teams were level on record at the end of the Regular Season, tiebreakers were applied in the following order:

1. Head-to-head record.
2. Head-to-head point differential.
3. Point differential during the Regular Season.
4. Points scored during the regular season.
5. Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each Regular Season game.

More information Pos, Pld ...

Group A Main article: 2014–15 Euroleague Regular Season Group A Pos Team v t e Pld W L PF PA PD 1 Real Madrid (A) 10 8 2 873 775 +98 2 Anadolu Efes (A) 10 6 4 723 696 +27 3 Žalgiris (A) 10 5[lower-alpha 1] 5 714 709 +5 4 Nizhny Novgorod (A) 10 5[lower-alpha 2] 5 764 823 −59 5 UNICS (E) 10 5[lower-alpha 3] 5 751 721 +30 6 Dinamo Sassari (E) 10 1 9 758 859 −101 Source: [citation needed] (A) Advance to Top 16; (E) Enter 2014–15 Eurocup Basketball last 32 round Notes: Tie breaker: 3–1 Tie breaker: 2–2 Tie breaker: 1–3

Group B Main article: 2014–15 Euroleague Regular Season Group B Pos Team v t e Pld W L PF PA PD 1 CSKA Moscow (A) 10 10 0 880 718 +162 2 Maccabi Tel Aviv (A) 10 7 3 797 783 +14 3 Unicaja (A) 10 4[lower-alpha 1] 6 763 757 +6 4 Alba Berlin (A) 10 4[lower-alpha 2] 6 762 791 −29 5 Cedevita (E) 10 3 7 740 789 −49 6 Limoges (E) 10 2 8 702 806 −104 Source: [citation needed] (A) Advance to Top 16; (E) Enter 2014–15 Eurocup Basketball last 32 round Notes: Tiebreaker: 1–1 (+2) Tiebreaker: 1–1 (–2)

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Group C Main article: 2014–15 Euroleague Regular Season Group C Pos Team v t e Pld W L PF PA PD 1 FC Barcelona (A) 10 9 1 861 738 +123 2 Fenerbahçe Ülker (A) 10 8 2 843 787 +56 3 Panathinaikos (A) 10 5[lower-alpha 1] 5 768 743 +25 4 EA7 Milano (A) 10 5[lower-alpha 2] 5 775 795 −20 5 Bayern Munich (E) 10 2 8 806 866 −60 6 PGE Turów (E) 10 1 9 773 897 −124 Source: [citation needed] (A) Advance to Top 16; (E) Enter 2014–15 Eurocup Basketball last 32 round Notes: Tiebreaker: 1–1 (+25) Tiebreaker: 1–1 (–25)

Group D Main article: 2014–15 Euroleague Regular Season Group D Pos Team v t e Pld W L PF PA PD 1 Olympiacos (A) 10 8 2 748 711 +37 2 Crvena Zvezda (A) 10 6 4 784 728 +56 3 Laboral Kutxa (A) 10 5 5 803 798 +5 4 Galatasaray Liv Hospital (A) 10 4[lower-alpha 1] 6 803 818 −15 5 Neptūnas (E) 10 4[lower-alpha 2] 6 763 857 −94 6 Valencia (E) 10 3 7 775 764 +11 Source: [citation needed] (A) Advance to Top 16; (E) Enter 2014–15 Eurocup Basketball last 32 round Notes: Tiebreaker: 1–1 (+16) Tiebreaker: 1–1 (–16)

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The Top 16 began on December 30 and ended on April 10, 2015.

If teams were level on record at the end of the Top 16, tiebreakers were applied in the following order:

1. Head-to-head record between teams still tied.
2. Head-to-head point differential.
3. Point differential during the Top 16.
4. Points scored during the Top 16.
5. Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each Top 16 game.

See the detailed group stage page for tiebreakers if two or more teams are equal on points.

More information Pos, Pld ...

Group E Main article: 2014–15 Euroleague Top 16 Group E Pos Team v t e Pld W L PF PA PD 1 Real Madrid (A) 14 11[lower-alpha 1] 3 1224 1032 +192 2 FC Barcelona (A) 14 11[lower-alpha 2] 3 1149 1062 +87 3 Maccabi Tel Aviv (A) 14 9 5 1071 1072 −1 4 Panathinaikos (A) 14 7[lower-alpha 3] 7 1048 1022 +26 5 Alba Berlin (E) 14 7[lower-alpha 4] 7 976 1031 −55 6 Žalgiris (E) 14 5 9 1004 1075 −71 7 Crvena Zvezda (E) 14 4 10 1025 1059 −34 8 Galatasaray (E) 14 2 12 1023 1167 −144 Source: [citation needed] (A) Advance to Playoffs; (E) Eliminated Notes: Tiebreaker: 1–1 (+19) Tiebreaker: 1–1 (–19) Tiebreaker: 1–1 (+4) Tiebreaker: 1–1 (–4)

Group F Main article: 2014–15 Euroleague Top 16 Group F Pos Team v t e Pld W D L PF PA PD 1 CSKA Moscow (A) 14 12 0 2 1227 1114 +113 2 Fenerbahçe Ülker (A) 14 11 0 3 1126 1033 +93 3 Olympiacos (A) 14 10 0 4 1075 1007 +68 4 Anadolu Efes (A) 14 6[lower-alpha 1] 0 8 1102 1132 −30 5 Laboral Kutxa (E) 14 6[lower-alpha 2] 0 8 1155 1164 −9 6 EA7 Milano (E) 14 4[lower-alpha 3] 0 10 1083 1193 −110 7 Unicaja (E) 14 4[lower-alpha 4] 0 10 1079 1140 −61 8 Nizhny Novgorod (E) 14 3 0 11 1121 1185 −64 Source: [citation needed] (A) Advance to Playoffs; (E) Eliminated Notes: Tiebreaker: 1–1 (+2) Tiebreaker: 1–1 (–2) Tiebreaker: 2–0 Tiebreaker: 0–2

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The Final Four was the last stage of the Euroleague, consisting of the four winners from the quarterfinals. The semifinal games were played on 15 May, while the third place game and championship game were played on 17 May 2015. The Final Four was hosted by the Barclaycard Center in Madrid, Spain.

	Semifinals				Championship game
	15 May
	Real Madrid	96
					17 May
	Fenerbahçe Ülker	87
					Real Madrid	78
	15 May
					Olympiacos	59
	CSKA Moscow	68
	Olympiacos	70
					Third place game
					17 May
					Fenerbahçe Ülker	80
					CSKA Moscow	86

• 2014–15 Eurocup Basketball
• 2014–15 EuroChallenge