Euroleague Basketball - Records

Records

• Real Madrid has been the most successful team, having won the competition a record eight times.
• Panathinaikos is the most successful team since the Euroleague Final Four system introduction, having won 6 out of 25 Final Fours.
• Athens is the only city, from which seven different clubs Panathinaikos, Olympiacos, AEK, Panellinios, Peristeri, Panionios, Maroussi have participated in the Euroleague.
• The highest attendance ever recorded in Euroleague is 22,567, which filled Belgrade Arena on March 5, 2009 for a 2008–09 Top 16 match between Partizan Belgrade and Panathinaikos. The previous record was 18,500 fans, achieved at a Panathinaikos home match at the Olympic Indoor Hall, Athens, against TAU Cerámica on April 12, 2006, for the 2005–06 third quarterfinal playoff game.
• Although Israel is located in the Middle East, its teams play in the Euroleague, as its national federation is a member of FIBA Europe and its top professional league is a member of ULEB. (Similarly, the Israel Football Association is a member of UEFA, enabling its national team and clubs to play in UEFA competitions.)
• In the small area of less than 40 km² in the northern metropolitan area of Milan, there are 3 clubs that have won a total of 10 European Champions' Cups and played a total of 16 finals: Pallacanestro Cantù, Pallacanestro Varese, and Olimpia Milano.
• Record score for a final game was achieved in the 2004 finals in Tel Aviv, where home club Maccabi Tel Aviv defeated Skipper Bologna by a score of 118–74 (44 point difference).