The 2011–12 Turkish Airlines Euroleague was the 12th season of the modern era of Euroleague and the second under the title sponsorship of Turkish Airlines. Including the competition's previous incarnation as the FIBA Europe Champions Cup, this was the 55th season of the premier competition for European men's clubs. The Final Four was held at the Sinan Erdem Dome in Istanbul, in 11–13 May 2012. It was won by the Piraeus club Olympiacos (2nd title), who defeated CSKA Moscow in the championship game. It was the 5th final involving a Greek club in the last six seasons, and 4th Greek win in that time.
On 20 June 2011 the teams for this season were announced.[1]
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round (TH: Euroleague title holders):
The draws for the 2011–12 Turkish Airlines Euroleague was held on Monday, 4 July. The draws determined the qualifying-round matchups and regular-season groups for the Euroleague, as well as the qualifying rounds for the Eurocup and the regular-season for the EuroChallenge.
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.[2]
Two teams from the same country cannot coincide in the same Regular Season group, except for Spain that has five teams participating in the competition.
FC Barcelona Olympiacos Panathinaikos Real Madrid
Montepaschi Siena Caja Laboral Maccabi Electra CSKA Moscow
Partizan UNICS Unicaja Málaga Fenerbahçe Ülker
Žalgiris Asseco Prokom Gescrap Bizkaia Anadolu Efes
EA7 Milano Union Olimpija Brose Bamberg Bennet Cantù
Nancy Zagreb Galatasaray Belgacom Spirou
A total number of sixteen teams participated in the qualifying rounds. The qualifying rounds consisted of two final eight knock-out tournaments. The two winning teams advance to the regular season.
Games in Bracket A were played at the Siemens Arena in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Games in Bracket B were played at the Spiroudome in Charleroi, Belgium.
The regular season began on 19 October 2011. If teams were level on record at the end of the regular season, tiebreakers were applied in the following order:
The draw took place in Barcelona, Spain on 28 December 2011 at 13:00 CET.[3][4] The sixteen qualified teams were divided into four seeds based on their final standings in the regular season. Teams coming from the same regular season group were kept from coinciding in the same Top 16 group and an effort was made to keep teams from the same country from coinciding as well. Teams from the same city, Anadolu Efes, Fenerbahçe Ülker and Galatasaray Medical Park from Istanbul; Olympiacos and Panathinaikos from Greater Athens, or teams playing in the same arena were prevented from playing both at home in the same matchday.[5]
Team 1 hosted Games 1 and 2, plus Game 5 if necessary. Team 2 hosted Game 3, and Game 4 if necessary.
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