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As FIBA had no legal recourse on the usage of the name, it started a new league named the FIBA SuproLeague. The following 2000–2001 season started with two top European professional club basketball competitions: FIBA SuproLeague (renamed from FIBA EuroLeague) and Euroleague.
Prior to the 1991–92 season, the league changed its name from the FIBA European Champions' Cup, to the FIBA European League. It then changed its name again prior to the 1996–97 season , to the FIBA EuroLeague , which marked the first use of the name EuroLeague , in the competition's history.
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ULEB was founded in 1991 from the Italian, Spanish and French leagues in an attempt to promote theirs clubs financial interests within the FIBA competitions. The union was celebrated with the ULEB All-Star Game, held annually for three seasons, featuring stars from the three leagues and also NBA guests like Charles Barkley, Scottie Pippen and Micha...
It was in May 2000 when ULEB under its president Eduardo Portela, representing the richest and most popular European basketball clubs from Spain, [[[Italy]] and Greece, decided to take over the competition under the name of ULEB Euroleague, against FIBA and Borislav Stanković's will. Stanković's stiff stance over the top European clubs' demand seem...
ECA was founded in 2006 and it gradually started limiting ULEB's role in the running of its two competitions. In 2008, when Eduardo Portela stepped down, ULEB became more cooperative with FIBA.As soon as EuroLeague competition was transferred from ULEB to ECA in 2009, ULEB remained a minority shareholder via EuroLeague Basketball, but lost control ...
In June 2015, FIBA announced it would start a new league to compete with EuroLeague Basketball. They also tried to take the helm by convincing eight of the eleven teams with a EuroLeague A-licence to play in a new FIBA competition, Basketball Champions League. This proposal was unanimously rejected by the clubs.The other 8 spots would have remained...
For the 2019 World Cup, FIBA established a new qualification system, using six weekends during the 2017–18 and 2018–19 seasons, when the qualifiers will interrupt the club competitions. In May 2017, the National Basketball Association made a statement that the NBA teams will not loan their players to the national teams. Days later, Euroleague Baske...
In October 2020, ULEB representing 11 major basketball leagues in Europe, and a minority shareholder in Euroleague Basketball asked EU antitrust enforcers to act against organiser Euroleague Commercial Assets (ECA) for allegedly blocking other basketball teams from taking part in Europe’s elite club basketball competition Euroleague. ULEB President...
What happened between EuroLeague and FIBA? The two organizations did start together, with FIBA creating the European Champions Cup in 1958 which eventually became the FIBA Euroleague in 1996.
The Euroleague (or historically called, the European Champions' Cup) was originally established by FIBA and it operated under its umbrella from 1958 until the summer of 2000, including the 1999/2000 season.
The association was founded in Geneva on 18 June 1932, two years after the sport was officially recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Its original name was Fédération Internationale de Basketball Amateur.
League name history. 1957 [+] -1991 [+]: European Champions' Cup. 1991 [+] -1996 [+]: FIBA European League. 1996 [+] -2000 [+]: FIBA EuroLeague. 2000 [+] -2001: ULEB Euroleague. 2001 [+] -2010: Euroleague. 2010 [+] until now: Turkish Airlines Euroleague.
