Intercontinental Cup (basketball)

For the international basketball tournament William Jones see William Jones Cup

Intercontinental Cup

Current season or competition: 1996 Intercontinental Cup (basketball)
Sport	Basketball
Founded	1966
Inaugural season	1966
No. of teams	various formation (10, 6, 5, 4, 2)
Country(ies)	FIBA members
Continent	FIBA (International)
Ceased	1996
Last champion(s)	Panathinaikos (1st title)
Most titles	Real Madrid (4 titles)

The World Cup for Champion Clubs, commonly referred to as the Intercontinental Cup, was a basketball competition endorsed by FIBA to gather the best clubs from the federations affiliated to FIBA (excluding the professional NBA teams) and to officially decide the best club of the world, contended mainly by the continents of higher basketball level.

History

The Intercontinental Cup competition was originally organized between the years 1966 and 1987. In 1973, the competition adopted the name Intercontinental Cup William Jones to honor the secretary general of FIBA. FIBA tried to rebirth the competition in 1996 by reorganizing the Intercontinental Cup into a best-of-three playoff tournament between the winners of the FIBA European Championship (known now as the Euroleague) and the winners of the Liga Sudamericana (the champions of all of South America). After that tournament however, the competition was succeeded by the McDonald's Championship, which preexisted and included NBA clubs.

Intercontinental Cup winners

Year	Host City	Champion	2nd place	Final
1966 Details	Madrid	Ignis Varese	S.C. Corinthians	66-59
1967 Details	Varese, Naples, Rome	Akron Goodyear Wingfoots	Ignis Varese	78-72
1968 Details	Philadelphia	Akron Goodyear Wingfoots	Real Madrid	105-73
1969 Details	Macon	Akron Goodyear Wingfoots	Spartak Brno	84-71
1970 Details	Varese	Ignis Varese	Real Madrid	League
1973 Details	São Paulo	Ignis Varese	E.C. Sírio	League
1974 Details	Mexico City	University of Maryland	Ignis Varese	League
1975 Details	Cantù	Forst Cantù	Amazonas Franca	League
1976 Details	Buenos Aires	Real Madrid	Mobilgirgi Varese	League
1977 Details	Madrid	Real Madrid	Mobilgirgi Varese	League
1978 Details	Buenos Aires	Real Madrid	Obras Sanitarias	League
1979 Details	São Paulo	E.C. Sírio	KK Bosna	League
1980 Details	Sarajevo	Maccabi Tel Aviv	A.A. Francana	League
1981 Details	São Paulo	Real Madrid	E.C. Sírio	League
1982 Details	Den Bosch	Ford Cantù	Maccabi Tel Aviv	League
1983 Details	Buenos Aires	Obras Sanitarias	Jollycolombani Cantú	League
1984 Details	São Paulo	Virtus Roma	Obras Sanitarias	League
1985 Details	Barcelona, Girona	FC Barcelona	Monte Líbano	93-89
1986 Details	Buenos Aires	Žalgiris Kaunas	Ferro Carril Oeste	84-78
1987 Details	Milano	Tracer Milán	FC Barcelona	100-84
1996 Details	Venado Tuerto & Athens	Panathinaikos	Olimpia Venado Tuerto	Playoff

Titles by club

Titles	Team	Country
4	Real Madrid	Spain
3	Akron Goodyear Wingfoots	United States
3	Pallacanestro Varese	Italy
2	Pallacanestro Cantù	Italy
1	Olimpia Milano	Italy
1	Virtus Roma	Italy
1	FC Barcelona	Spain
1	University of Maryland	United States
1	Panathinaikos	Greece
1	Maccabi Tel Aviv	Israel
1	Obras Sanitarias	Argentina
1	Esporte Clube Sírio	Brazil
1	Žalgiris Kaunas	Soviet Union / Lithuania

Titles by country

Titles	Country	Teams
7	Italy	Pallacanestro Varese (3), Pallacanestro Cantù (2), Olimpia Milano (1), Virtus Roma (1).
5	Spain	Real Madrid (4), FC Barcelona (1).
4	United States	Akron Goodyear Wingfoots (3), University of Maryland (1).
1	Greece	Panathinaikos (1).
1	Israel	Maccabi Tel Aviv (1).
1	Argentina	Obras Sanitarias (1).
1	Brazil	Esporte Clube Sírio (1).
1	Soviet Union / Lithuania	Žalgiris Kaunas (1).

External links

• FIBA
• linguasport
• Basketpydea.com