1973 FIBA Korać Cup

1973 FIBA Korać Cup
1973 FIBA Korać Cup
League	FIBA Korać Cup
Sport	Basketball
Finals
Champions	Birra Forst Cantù
Runners-up	Maes Pils
FIBA Korać Cup seasons
	← 1972 1973–74 →

The 1973 FIBA Korać Cup was the second edition of FIBA's competition, running from 9 January to 27 March 1973. It was contested by 12 teams, four more than in the previous edition.

Birra Forst Cantù defeated Maes Pils in the final to become the competition's first Italian champion.

Season teams

Country	Teams	Clubs (ranking in 1971–72 national league)
Belgium	2	Maes Pils	Standard Liège
France	2	Berck	Denain Voltaire
Spain	2	CF Barcelona	Filomatic Picadero
Yugoslavia	2	Lokomotiva	Rabotnički
Greece	1	YMCA Thessaloniki
Italy	1	Birra Forst Cantù
Luxembourg	1	Amicale
West Germany	1	Wolfenbüttel

Round of 12

The round of 12 were played with a round-robin system, in which every Two Game series (TGS) constituted as one game for the record.

Key to colors
	Top place in each group advance to semifinals

Group A

	1st leg	2nd leg	Agg.
YMCA Thessaloniki – Maes Pils	73–76	71–96	144–172
Lokomotiva – YMCA Thessaloniki	81–61	73–68	154–129
Maes Pils – Lokomotiva	115–92	82–87	197–179

	Team	Pld	Pts	W	L	PF	PA	PD
1.	Maes Pils	2	4	2	0	369	323	+46
2.	Lokomotiva	2	3	1	1	333	326	+7
3.	YMCA Thessaloniki	2	2	0	2	273	326	−53

Group B

	1st leg	2nd leg	Agg.
CF Barcelona – Amicale	87–61	cancelled	87–61
Amicale – Denain Voltaire	62–69	66–87	128–156
Denain Voltaire – CF Barcelona	73–61	67–81	140–142

	Team	Pld	Pts	W	L	PF	PA	PD
1.	CF Barcelona	2	4	2	0	229	198	+31
2.	Denain Voltaire	2	3	1	1	293	270	+23
3.	Amicale	2	2	0	2	189	243	−54

Group C

	1st leg	2nd leg	Agg.
Berck – Birra Forst Cantù	85–75	67–78	152–153
Standard Liège – Berck	87–90	75–100	162–190
Birra Forst Cantù – Standard Liège	90–56	106–93	196–149

	Team	Pld	Pts	W	L	PF	PA	PD
1.	Birra Forst Cantù	2	4	2	0	349	301	+48
2.	Berck	2	3	1	1	342	315	+27
3.	Standard Liège	2	2	0	2	311	386	−75

Group D

	1st leg	2nd leg	Agg.
Wolfenbüttel – Filomatic Picadero	60–58	52–71	112–129

	Team	Pld	Pts	W	L	PF	PA	PD
1.	Filomatic Picadero	2	4	1	1	129	112	+17
2.	Wolfenbüttel	2	2	1	1	112	129	−17
3.	Rabotnički*	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

*Rabotnički originally drawn this group, withdrew before the competition.

Semi finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Maes Pils	177–169	CF Barcelona	99–87	78–82
Filomatic Picadero	163–194	Birra Forst Cantù	81–82	82–112

Finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Birra Forst Cantù	191–169	Maes Pils	106–75	85–94

1973 FIBA Korać Cup Champions
Birra Forst Cantù 1st title

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